Making a suggestion and giving no reasoning as to why it should be done wil lead to it not even being considered. Glad someone else posted the why. In the future I suggest the OP post it themselves if they intend for the devs to take a suggestion seriously.
I have no opinion either way now that they “why” is known. Up to the devs at this point.
This thread should be renamed to “tell me you don’t build or regularly play defenders without telling me you don’t”.
Anyone thinking defenders wouldn’t be ridiculous with this suggestion has no serious experience with them or corrupters.
The game never had a trinity.
Even back in issue 2 when I started playing folks were already figuring out that the tank, healer, dps model was stupid to use in COH, not when Defenders and Controllers existed.
As others have stated, you could form teams where not a single heal or taunt was needed ever.
To me, that's all you need to know.
*raises hand*
I haven't run Hami for HOs since live. Once Purples and other advanced IOs became a thing I stopped caring about HOs. Even on the SF/TFs that give them, I always go for the merits.
EDIT: To explain further:
I can make more money off merits by converting them in to enhancement converters. Give me 800 converters (rought 6-7 hami runs) and I can make a billion in a week on the AH using converters. I've done it on multiple chracters multiple times. HOs became pointless to me once merits could be converted into converters. I can just convert, make the inf and just outright buy the HOs I need on the market.
Yeah bothering with Uncommon Salvage is pointless. The amount of time to bid creep on that I could spent in a mission and might have had a purple drop.
I've done level 50 charaters with best of the best builds (800 mil + builds) found on the fourms (or made myself after playing with MIDs for an hour) and I've made level 50 builes with min maxing sets and the game plays fine either way. Agreed.
COH is not that difficult that you need to always squeeze the best performance out of EVERY build / character you make.
And again disagree. Luckily it's not up to you or me. If the devs feel like adding more power creep by adding more sets with +recharge then that's up to them. Adding more +recharge is not more options. It's the same stale options they have had on purples for a decade. I would prefer something new.
Protip - Disagree we need more of the same + recharge. If we want options then lets as for new and varied options for new purples. Not the same old same old. It's really that simple.