golstat2003

Where's the "It was me Dio!!!" meme when you need it?

Cause they'd probably be as expensive as Luck Charms were on Live. A few marketer folks on here will get the joke. LOL

Wait . . . is anyone actually farming with regularity with TW? That would seem . . . extremely painful to me. lol

The acquisition rate on live was cancer. The market prices compared to HC were ridic in hindsight. Folks who complain about having to play the market here, should have felt how long it took on live. The acquisition of IOs and relative ease of the market is one thing I think they got right. IOs can make you stupidly powerful. But that's not an HC change. We were well towards that on live. But as you alluded to I can't see a massive IO rebalance anytime soon. Well . . . if you think soon is 2060 😛

Meh, at that point I would just say the set is not for me. But that would be fine for those who would enjoy that.

Ehhh no really. Other games and media have done GIANT weapons and it does take going out to get you dry cleaning, fixing your car, and coming back home before the next swing is done. (:p joking ofcourse).

Yeah no. Well unless the thematically appropriate feel is slow as molasses. Momentum is just terrible. There are better mechanics out there that can be used.

Apparently some folks think there is something wrong with this play style. That the teams should just move from group to group as one. all the time. I find that boring.

LMAO! Captures what it's like to play TW perfectly! You forgot go out and get coffee though. 😛

The main change to easier acquisition of IOs were the seeding of the market, enhancement converters. (Though I think converts came at the end of live, so folks didn't really get to take full advantage of them.) Enhancement converters make it stupidly easy to make inf. Also the costs on merit vendors were reduced I believe.

We're IOs waaay before the blaster changes though? And devs still datamind that they they underperformed? My memory may be off on that. Some others who remember can chime in. It's been a while.

Yeah no. I'm always going for recharge over + damage. Recharge helps EVERYTHING. on a build. I'd bet if you took a poll most would find +Recharge more valuable than + damage.

Doms are godly. Some of them can farm better than Fire Farmers. And we all know what IOs lead to for those who focus on recharge for doms. lol Kheldians can be pretty good, but they do need some help in some areas. IOs and Incarnates have helped some holes for them. A few targetted buffs would help them more.

At lower levels it's actually one of the most painful sets to level. And the momentum mechanic is absolute TRASH. Glad it's getting updated soon. EDIT: To be clear I couldn't care less how much damage TW does, mine is shelved as playing her feels like I'm moving in molasses, especially after playing faster weapon-based sets.

That's only telling part of the story. But others can dispute that, I'm leaving that alone for now. I'd trust the devs over the players on the forums. This thread alone shows there is no consensus on where the difficulty of the game should be. When I start seeing things on the forums like "debuffers are less wanted/powerful nowadays" is when I start to not take the opinions of the forums in general as a balance point. Forum feedback should be read and listened to . . . but only to a point.

Yeah I'm not getting the sentiment at all that support sets are less wanted on HC.

Nerfs and buffs should always be on the table. But they should be targetted and from a balance perspective based on what the devs see. Not some one's "feeling" of their individual powerset not being needed as much on teams today as back in the so-called "old days".

Yeah we have supports feeling useful TODAY on HC. Again, some folks and I are playing a completely different game.

And again for the people in the back: I believe any 8 heroes being able to clear anything in the game is a key strength. It's NOT something I would want to see changed. I would hope we don't EVER get to a point where teams are "waiting for defender or corrupter" to get going. That's never been a part of the history of this game, even in the so-called "good ol days" I keep seeing spoutted. Let's not start now.

It wasn't second thoughts. The devs on live datamined that folks simply were not picking them as power pick. The crash was trash.

I've only seen door sitting allowed on Farms. Not actual TFs or content. I won't discount the rest though as each person has their own experience. One suggestion I would make is trying to form your own teams. I believe any 8 heroes clearing anything in the game is a key strength. It's NOT something I would want to see changed.

You mean incendiary rockets out of your butt, right, RIGHT?

Yeah, also expect that everything they posted on page 1 may end up not making it out in page 6, or all of it will, or parts of it will. As long as folks keep their expectations realistic then we're gucci, as the kids say nowadays.

Having something other than DPS today, DOES make the content easier. That's the point I just made. I'm not sure where this idea is coming from. Some people and I are playing an entirely different game. EDIT: To be clear I jump for joy internally when team leaders pull in Doms, Controllers, Defenders to a team when that scrapper or blaster leaves. Why? Cause I know the power of force multiplication. When I form teams I'm not primarily looking for DPS. And I've not seen a majority of folks in LFG ever turn away non-dps ATs.

True. I just don't think a repeated idea coming off in this thread that certain ATs as a whole aren't seen as valuable is factual. That's not what I see when playing on pugs, iTrials, and tfs.