Bill Z Bubba

My only problem with AR is that I can't run a Full Auto, repeat attack chain.

Kill most ITFs but kill most MCs are fun, too.

Lying again. What is wrong with you? I have stated repeatedly that it's ALL about balance. Finding performance midlines, nerfing overperformers, buffing underperformers. What you seem to be latched onto is me stating all pools should be standardized and if that means making all T3/T4 powers available at 14 so be it. If it meant allowing all T3 powers to be available at lvl 4, as with movement powers, it would be a case of some pretty global power creep. That's a far cry from rolling back global changes out of nostalgia. Liar.

How do you sustain that against hard targets? Ageless Core? Do you use different builds for exemplaring or just never exemplar or use that +end temp from P2W?

Wrong again, liar. An opinion would be BIG EDIT: "I like vanilla ice cream. I hate nerfs. I love buffs." Instead, you categorically stated as fact my motivations while being hysterically wrong making you a liar. I could pretend that you're just misguided and not flagrantly spreading falsehood because you have no ability to defend your arguments but then I'd also be a liar and we can't have that.

If anyone is completely lost, buffing underperforming powersets up to a midline isn't power creep. It's just game balance. Nerfing overperforming powersets to a midline is also just game balance. Why people freak the fuck out at nerfs is something I don't understand and never will as long as the nerfs make sense numerically in comparison to what's being nerfed. Buffing everything to a single outlying overperforming powerset/power/AT WOULD be power creep. This ain't rocket surgery.

Yup. The following statement is a lie. It came from you making you a liar. You seem to have a problem with people calling you a liar when you lie. Perhaps you should stop that.

Yes on the tone of my reply. I won't deny that regen and bio are both very clicky powersets. I would argue that neither bio is regen perfected, it's just a better set, just as shield isn't SR perfected, it's just a better set. Edit: And in both cases, almost entirely due to the +damage. Imagine that.

More lying. Is that all you're capable of?

Correction noted. You're WRONG! 🙂 So you want hover at 4 and fly at 6 as an example? And I want hover at 4 and fly at 14. That's only an 8 level difference!

I got my ass kicked by a platoon mate for being an asshole and he bought me a case of beer for not ratting him out. I don't understand how that's relevant here. I don't want everyone to play or build as I do. They'd end up with some shitty builds and inefficient play-styles if they do as per what I see going down on these forums. I can absolutely agree that not everyone is seeking out the bleeding edge because I'm no longer in that group. If I was, I'd have multiple builds, procmonster builds, builds made specifically for exemplaring, etc, etc. I get it. I don't get making a ridiculously easy game that's losing population left and right easier as the goal of getting more players when we've tried that and it's failed.

Wrong again and you're not the first person today to accuse me of such. I want buffs as much as I want nerfs. Regen should be buffed. Broadsword and Battleaxe should be buffed. Devices should be buffed. Kheldians should be buffed. Again, quit with your lying, liar.

Of my 60+ characters, every single one of them would be able to increase DPS if they didn't have to choose existing prereqs for pool powers. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Quit your damn lying.

I ran a swipe-only/invul scrapper from 1 to 50 without AE. We can all play this game as we see fit. We can all refuse to follow common knowledge. Those asking for builds *could* make the builds themselves. They *could* read about builds and test them on their own and come up with their own plans and read and understand everything about this game's mechanics. There is NO system in place blocking knowledge and advancement in this game to anyone. To put it another way, there's nothing I can do in this game that you can't do and more. And I've seen the more countless times over and over because I *choose* to limit my builds in my way. So, no... I'm not swayed that there's some mass of players that actually need this change or even needed movement powers at level 4. That was a poorly thought out change and should be reverted. I'm with Rudra... standardize the pools, yes, all of them, and make T3-T4 powers available at 14.

I don't disagree that it would benefit the casual player more but I have to disagree that it'd be an overall benefit to the game and the player population on the whole. Mostly because I seriously doubt the majority of us playing this game now can be considered casuals as was defined in the olden days, the before the snap time. Edit: casual not causal

That isn't being utilized especially by the "more casual players." So why introduce more power creep, not just with this suggestion but with every balance question, when the majority aren't using said power creep for the heightened difficulty content? Edit: And if we're wondering, yes, the devs could datamine this to determine how often the new diff levels are being used when folks choose to run the Aeon SF and even how often it's run at all.

I get it. I honestly do get it. My 1st D&D campaign was at around 10 yrs old in the early 80s. I was GMing by 12. I played the Champions PnP. And Gamma World. And Vamp t Masq. Fun is important but I wasn't going to let my D&D players use Wish to bypass the entire campaign I spent months designing.

There's the rub. None of us can agree. It would be helpful to us all if this game's devs would decide where the balance point should be so that we can all assist them in getting there but even they can't decide where it is.

This is a good post. My only answer is that game design should take everything into account. It should nerf when nerfs are warranted, it should buff the same. It should rid itself of bad decisions in the past and make better decisions in the future. It should avoid the pitfalls that the history of game design has taught us and utilize that which we've learned along the way. It's a TALL damn order and I don't envy the folks that have taken it on.

Dodge it is. Got it. What's irrelevant to you is irrelevant to me.

What's really bizarre is I know this and still have only done it once. I never said I was smart.

When I'm going for the TFC badge, I usually run the TFs at +0/x1 and solo them after finalizing the lvl 50 build and exemplaring down. Almost always takes less time than dealing with teams. Manticore with 3 AVs to take down being a possible exception.

Pylon performance shows performance against AVs, EBs, Monsters and GMs. It's not like figuring out and building for one's pylon time is useless. Regardless, as much as you'd obviously like to dodge the facts, given the OP's request, if I can skip boxing/tough, I can choose a power to replace it that will improve my DPS. Do you have a valid counterpoint or will you continue dodging the facts?

Semi-fair. But backed by 280% recharge (110 global, 70 hasten, 100 rounded enhancement) you're down to 23, 23 and 71 seconds. And then tack on any other mitigation clicks you might take on. Vs, say, SR where I click PB once every 120 seconds when hasten recycles. Edit: I should really notate some things here. I obviously dig bio but when I'm playing it, (damn, forgot my fire/bio sent and he's one of my mains!!!) I click Ablative as soon as it's up, DNA Siphon every time I'm low on health (or end in the Sent's case) and if Parasitic Aura is up for a fresh spawn, it's my alpha absorb. The set is VERY clicky for me. Your mileage may vary.

Come to think on it over a smoke, were I able to drop Box/Kick, I'd also drop CJ and then take Maneuvers/Assault. End cost of those 2 is .07 less than CJ/FA for more defense and a more constant damage buff. Edit: And buff the entire team should I choose to team. Edit2: But no power creep here, folks!