Bill Z Bubba

So out of 252555 members, only 1601 are in game and only 164 are currently reading the forums. I fail to see how 10% of the playing population is a "small fraction." I also fail to see how anything the devs have done has been beneficial to the playing population. Perhaps it's entirely out of their hands.

You provided an incredibly narrow view of powerset balance. Another view would be time from 1 to 50 solo on SOs. Another would be time from 1 to 50 solo on basic IOs. Another would be time from 1 to 50 solo on IO sets. Each run pushing difficulty to the no faceplant range. Adjusting for these performance ranges wouldn't involved rewriting the entire game. It would only involve altering the base AT damage mods.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Citation needed.

It appears you fail to understand the baser form of human interaction. Passion when backed by ignorance is an incredibly powerful thing. One needs only look at American politics to see the truth of that. Passion negates logic. This is a bad thing.

I would but I have to stay clean in case of piss tests for a new job. And that's with living in a state with legal pot. Damnit.

Neither of you are wrong and I'm fully aware I've added to the crap as well. Sometimes we have to. Sometimes we should. Some opinions (that usually aren't opinions and are rather factually untrue statements) are so ridiculously stupid that they must be called out and mocked. As they say, evil wins when good humans do nothing.

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topmembers/ Hail Satan.

You'd think but if anything the vitriol across the entire forum has only seemed to increase over time. And that's WITH me posting less and less.

20 maps (might have become 21 maps, something went wonky once,) from 1 to 50. 6 mins per map. 120 mins. 2 hours. But that's trucking it with only one or two quicky smoke breaks. That was my standard for leveling an alt for ages. I'm sure maps with large numbers of helper NPCs probably goes faster. I'm sure that better farmers than my fire/claws are also faster. 2 hours to 50 seems very normal.

That's what mine is.

Theft of Essence Chance for +End in Dark Regeneration Miracle +Rec, Numina +Regen/Rec, Panacea +HP/End, PrevMed Chance for +Absorb in Health 4 Perf Shifters in Stamina 2 Perf Shifters (Endmod and Chance for +End,) Regen Tissue +Regen in Physical Perfection 2 50+5 Recred in Conserve Power And I STILL had to take Alpha Cardiac Core Paragon Why Mids is showing my KB protection at 7.33 when I have both the Steadfast and Blessing of the Zephyr +KB IOs is unknown to me. Should be 8pts. Soooo, yea.

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Did you mean for this to be in the Dominator sub-section? My earth/earth dom is in my top 5 favorite characters.

I don't really think they could stop it at this point. Cat's out of the bag. Even I have the code to crank up an instance. Would be nice if HC would share their code every time they do an update, of course...

We'll notice. If we're around to notice.

These days, when I'm just shooting for fun, it's teaming with either my Earth/Earth Dom, my Time/Fire Defender or my Arch/TA Blaster.

Aye. So as a balance point to removing the emps to reward merits conversion, the devs should add a threads to emp conversion.

Even after staring at the option to do so many a time, I had to be reminded that one could convert emps to reward merits because I had never done it. When reminded, my first response was, "well that's dumb and should be removed." Lo and behold... Leave 'em account locked. Leave 'em in AE because XP/iLevels/Unlocks should happen regardless of where the XP comes from. Keep on with the removal of the emps to reward conversion.

Maybe if you team all the time and have constant buffers around you. I absolutely did NOT find it on par with any other secondary while I was leveling that fire/regen brute. It was only AFTER I went to test and grabbed RoP on top of MoG on top of Hybrid Melee that it became tolerable and I certainly don't need any of that on other brutes.

"Massive" Checks logins, 1690 across 5 shards. Bzzzt. "Multiplayer" Yup, there are other people playing it. "Online" Yup, can't log in without an internet connection. "where teaming with others is not only encouraged, but expected." Bzzzt. Wrong. It has always meant you CAN team not that you HAVE to. If you want to force a team environment, there are other games out there that are more suited to it than this one.

Except when it's gone brown everywhere.

That's because they're designing builds in a way that forces the use of incarnate powers to fix end woes. Back before incarnates, we'd build specifically to handle the endurance cost. Now it's "to hell with build balance before 50, just grab ageless and use a different build for exemplaring or just never do it."

Any chance on that data refresh?

It's a powerset/AT comparison tool. It also gives a good idea on how well one can chew through hard targets like AVs and GMs. If you don't spend much time soloing, it's probably not all that useful to ya.