golstat2003

Yeah my PB doesn't even bother with Light Form. It's . . . just not needed. As for the crashes being removed or edited from the tier 9s, sure I might actually take those tier 9s. It would be an improvement similar to how they improved blaster actually taking their nukes. Cause prior to that a lot of blasters didn't.

I think I've done it to death enough that when I go back to do lower level content once a year I find myself easily noting what the next mission in the chains will be. I was actually recently able to do this with 8 contacts back to back. At that point I just decided I'm . .. just no longer interested in lower level content. But others can have at it if they still enjoy it. Rather than spending time needlessly revamping large parts of the game cause folks like to steam roll newspaper/radios perhaps they could spend time revamping lower level content and modernizing some things. I don't know. . . just seems like a better use of time to me.

I . . . don't consider using threads to T4 for the very reason you stated. Also there is an inf cost with that. LOL

I don't consider newspaper missions/radio missions to be end game. Especially since they grant 0 end game level rewards (incarnete nor merits). Newspaper/radio missions are meant to be quick throwaway missions of no consequence. It's fine if teams breeze through those. Though if they want to buff council IN TFs/SFs/Trials, sure.

/shrug. Still not seeing an issue here. I'm fine with one class of mob being the training wheel mob. There's more important things to worry about.

They're fine for what they are. If a team wants to hop on a quick mission and rush through trash that's fine. That's pretty much COH tradition. Those who want to run harder mobs and missions can.

Nah. Leave the easy missions for the majority of players who like to play COH for 15-30 minutes, then dip out.

Yeah pretty much the ONLY thing I use merits for. Hell if I have extra incarnate emps lying around (that I haven't converted to Trans Merits and sent to other characters) I convert them also. Buying things directly with merits . . . just does not seem all that useful to me. But I'm glad it's there as an option for those who HATE the AH.

The answer to the bolded for me most of the time will be no. If I wanted more of the drastic changes some other servers are doing I'd be playing on them. In fact I'd argue some of the changes the other servers have made are more divergent form CoX than things here. Everyone's Milage May Vary (EMMY)

You guys and ladies have me wanting to act up. (Acting up meaning making a A/TA blaster.) 😉

This . . . doesn't surprise me. Those are the three places I'm least likely to want to go if I'm playing COH most nights. Very rarely do I want to deal with some of the nonsense in missions in those zones. (With the DA missions that give components being the exception). Let's face reality, that a majority of COH players aren't here looking for challenging gameplay. There are other (more modern) games (and in some senses better rpgs) on the market for that.

I . . . don't think incarnates even matter in this convo of who can or can't be mezzed. It's level 50 content, end game. The End Game League you're on is making you better in ALL aspects: Damage, Recharge, Defense, Resistance, etc. Mez Prot being there via Clarion isn't a big deal compared to all the other ways your League is making you overpowered (a good thing, that's one of the major selling points of teaming in COH). If we're talking about mez protection, makes more sense to come at from the 1-50 game, which a majority of players are going to spend their time. Interesting discussion though.

Nothing. The mez system as is fine. I don't think you could actually improve it, but you could make it worse if you make the wrong changes. I say leave it alone, the devs have more important things to focus on. Trying to change a system that old at this time is NOT a good use of dev time. I don't think it would be that big a deal to move mez protection out of domination and onto dominators directly. Do I want them to do that? No. Would I care if they did? I'd just /shrug, say "neat" and keep playing my Doms when I do.

I'm fine with this. If it didn't feel like that I would say they wasted their time gathering that inf. /shrug.

It actually makes AOEing them to death much easier too. lol

I was . . . very happy when that certain Dev was no longer with the game for various reasons accumulated over the years he was there. Will be forever grateful he helped get the game out of beta . . . just as I will be that he left the project well before he could do any further damage to what he created.

Bottom line: The market on HC is 100 times better than what we had on live. A build that cost me 1.3 billion the other day would have cost me several times more that on live. I think all the sinks we have (including the fee) are fine as is. Nice thought experiment though OP. Got us to see how many people in General Chat don't know jack s&(#e about how the Market works. (Which has been proven time and time again, don't ask General chat if you want a serious, thoughtful answer. You're more likely to be mis-informed or trolled to death).

I believe this is exactly why the waves in the Terra Volta Trial were speed/adjusted up. In the old days you'd just be sitting there twiddling your thumbs. Cut at least like 15 minutes from the length of the Respec Trial from what I recall.

Until COH players learn the pattern again, and it's back to "muscle memory". But that's just the nature of adding anything new to mmos. Devs take months to add "it", players beat "it" within 7 hours. 😅

I'm for any and all suggestions that improve how we deal with costumes in COH. Including all the ones posted in this thread, including the OPs. QOL stuff is great. 😀

yeah I don't understand this idea that doing more difficulty content doesn't get you more reward. that's pretty much COH since beta. LOL.

That would be a pretty good experiment. I suspect you would get some. But I suspect it would take far longer than forming a tf/sf with no such requirements . .. cause most people probably don't want to play that way. Which is fine. You form your own teams and just wait if you're asking for something special. Agreed on the last line especially.

I would not mind if all fully crafted Set IOs dropped from killing mobs-- Bosses, AVs. Fully crafted COMMON IOs from minions, Lts. Exclude AE if you have to. If they did this I would be open to rebalancing large parts of the game around IOs.

That middle ground is new difficulty options.

tfs and sfs every single time. Every time recently when I've asked after seeing a comment on LFG, the tf is filled if I wait more than 5 minutes to tell the leader. With itrials filling out over time but always filling. I say again me and some folks are playing a different game. EDiT: And to be fair depending on the time of day pugs may fill up faster. But that is to be expected. I don’t expect most folks to put in the time commitment for a tf if it’s 4 am in the morning. Those folks are gonna do one or two quick council missions and go to bed. LOL Time commitment is also another reason why it’s not a goood idea to compare council missions or PUG missh teams to sfs/tfs