Bill Z Bubba

On this bit, those people are dumb. They should be allowed to start and fail miserably at said 40-man raid but the raid should NEVER be dumbed down to allow solo success. I'm honestly happy that every solo attempt I've made at the MLTF has failed. Gives me something to keep shooting for.

The damage comes from the preference. It comes from creating a hostile environment to those that, while soloing 99% of the time, might just sometimes enjoy hopping on a team, but if pushed out of the game by asshats, even that won't happen. I team a lot these days. Most of my game time, actually, but that's because I chose to hang out with an SG and they've given me absolutely no reason to regret that choice. If they were pushy about rules, times to be on, etc, I'd be back to my soloing ways in a heartbeat. But there's absolutely no reason to slant the game toward one playstyle or the other as doing so only causes bullshit. It has never and will never make things better for everyone. That's where the harm comes from. And I'm all about one rule: Harm no other and do as ye will.

I'm certainly in the camp that everything should be *attemptable* solo. Meaning I should be allowed to start an iTrial just as I can a TF without anyone else. Whether I can ever accomplish it solo is completely up to me and at no time should the devs ever water down existing content to help soloists out on that front. I've run the MLTF solo many times and have never succeeded and that's a good thing. But there are still people that think even being able to start TFs solo was a bad move even though getting TFC solo is a walk in the park. And, yes, given any thread on the topic, someone will pipe in with the aforementioned "this is an MMO, you're not supposed to solo" as if choosing to do so was some crime against humanity while forgetting just how much soloing was done in the comics from where this game originated.

Nah, I've seen the posts. Same folks here as from before the snap. "It's an MMO. That means you team. If you want to solo, go play another game." It's a mindset that has caused a lot of damage over the years. Thankfully, a concern I had regarding the how the devs were going to move forward was recently alleviated so I'm in a happy place around here at the moment on that front.

Always?

Considering how ridiculously OP my shield/em/soul tank is... yea, this.

Yuuuuup. Edit: I find it very interesting that your times are so close on average. 10 second spread? Nice.

/puts on argument hat //checks characters ///takes argument hat off Alpha Musc Core Inter Degen Core ... sometimes Reactive Core if fire is called for Hybrid Assault Core for scrappers/stalkers/blasters and Radial for everything else. Lore Carnie Radials cuz Dark Ring Mistresses Judgement Pyro on 90% of them. Min/Maxers do what they do. As for the system's difficulty? Ummmm... it ain't rocket surgery.

Like this?

Oh c'mon, what would the CoH forums be without constant tirades against farming and soloing? ... Oh. They might be far more pleasant.

I don't care because I know it won't make any difference at all. Farmers will farm, soloists will solo and the people that hate one or the other or both will continue whining on the forums that they can't find teams. Or that the teams aren't playing like they want. Or whatever. It would save me time on new alts, thus giving me more reason to make more alts and keep me interested longer, and would give me something worthwhile to do with the vast amount of threads my many already T4ed alts have rather than dumping them on inspirations I never use beyond selling them for inf that I don't need.

Then make the conversion rate something silly. 200 threads per emp sounds good.

That's a ridiculous reason not to do this. My characters get most of their incarnate garbage from farming Heather's arc in DA at the highest diff they can handle while clearing it solo. Me being able to convert threads to emps is NOT going to change your inability to get on a team one way or the other.

Someone else likes Tenacious D. This is good.

And this is why we need Shield Melee!

I prefer to fly my freak flag all day long.

... Maybe if you're bouncing between icy bastion and shadowmeld it's tolerable. Other than that, I put ice armor right above regen.

This ^ Spent part of the day runnin my nrg/bio/soul scrapper and between barrier, shadowmeld and all the absorption, she's damn hard to kill in normal content. ITF will still kick her ass with her current build, though.

I'm guessin it's the normal +damage is more beneficial to scrappers and tanks since, especially in your case, the +dam from offensive mode is drowned out by fury and rage. You're not getting nearly the same usefulness from it. However, a brute can say screw that, and run in defensive mode, be tougher by far than the scrapper and fury/rage will counter the -damage quite well.

Figured this would be the best place for this question. Do the debuffs from the Achilles Heel Chance for DR Debuff stack or do they just refresh the duration? Say, if I had them slotted in all of Rad Melee's ST attacks...

I'd be quite happy to turn on player debuffed, enemies buffed and no insps far more regularly... if it improved rewards at all.

A fair argument for the current dev team to embrace any free/freak work done to the game.

Not surprised. But local client mods don't have OTHERS seeing your awesomeness.

Because sometimes it takes 70 of the #*&#$*#&$*&s until I get what I want.

Still waiting on my fishnets for men and leather straps/nipple rings for women. EQUALITY NOW!!!