Shin Magmus

Hey, I think the idea of using TF settings to disable Temps and Insps is very forward-thinking to prevent cheese and promote fairness of the competition.

"What the F is Wet?"

The Orange Circle must be fed.

Generally patch notes will show the numbers or at least the damage scales, but one of the powers devs in particular has a habit of only posting the new/changed numbers and not the full list of the old numbers prior to the change. This obfuscates the data and often hides the portion of the power that was nerfed, or the part that is severely out of line with comparable powers and the rest of the game (ex. Epic Tar Patch requires a tohit check for its -Res but no other version of the power does). Not only would we like some statements of intent as per the OP, but I'd also like the devs to post an actual full snapshot of before and after for any change, that shows the full extent of what is different now. Then at least players have the all necessary information to form an opinion and to begin testing.

That's a good article since Gwyneth "Goop" Paltrow is #1, peddling her snake oil and scamming uninformed women. Definitely the worst actor.

PROTECT THE EARTH, huah!

Hey I went ahead and took the name "Be Axecellent to EO", in honor of my turning over a new leaf and becoming a bastion of peace. I just wanted you to know. You helped me finally think up a concept to make an Axe Scrapper after the reworks.

It's a problem because this type of interaction literally summons GMs and then locks threads, ending all possibility of further communication. Arcane is a bad actor who is abusing the nature of these systems to basically scream "nu uh, the sky is actually green, not blue" and then bait people into pivoting from talking about the topic of the thread, into debating why what Arcane said is wrong. This exact scenario has played out a hundred times before, and anyone paying attention can predict how it ends. Since Arcane is never making any arguments in good faith, and instead deliberately just starting fights and locking threads... maybe they shouldn't be allowed to post? A time-out period and reviewal of the rules may be in order. We as a community can never get anything done because of a small handful of posters here who do this shit and abuse the systems and the nature of the moderators/GMs. One solution is to stop taking the bait. The other solution is for these people to finally face some just punishment for their actions.

I can log in just fine! 😀

I tried to prevent this...

The Carnie phase mechanic feels random (and it effectively is) and this dramatically punishes builds with a strong single attack that they build around, or a debuff they need to hit in order to soften up targets. Say for example you use Melt Armor on your Thermal on the Carnie group but that stupid boss phase dodges it: you've been robbed of your -Res and won't get it till the next fight. Now say you're on an Energy Melee character and your TF gets phase dodged: welp your whole set doesn't work now and you don't get any Fast ETs until it recovers. The problem is glaring and that is an enemy group that people really don't like. Compared to that, nuCoT and nuCouncil are still not as annoying. Gosh I hate fighting Carnies so much.

It's a shame that Arcane's disruptive, contrarian comments caused even this thread to devolve into a fight. This is why I actually ignored them (like the devs ignore feedback) and don't engage. We could be much more productive, and have way less infighting, if other people would simply not take the bait and just not get involved in these arguments. We're supposed to discuss the merits of each other's arguments and points, not sink to personal attacks against individual posters... but it's tiring seeing threads get derailed by fights like this over and over. Enough fighting and a GM shows up, more fighting then the thread gets locked. This essentially allows a sufficiently disruptive contrarian to inadvertently lock any thread that they want silenced... so long as you all continue to take the bait. Get back on topic, ignore Arcane.

I'd love any new about the devs addressing the 50 or so bugs we've reported since this post, including but not limited to: Absorb powers not stacking correctly, Wet text remaining in-game and confusing new players, multiple ATO procs (especially Brute) being erroneously affected by the Purple Patch and causing their self-granted values to be lower than intended vs higher level enemies, etc. I literally see no valid reason why a bugfix patch can't come out ahead of the next content patch. Making the game work correctly > adding shiny new things. Where's that communication?

Imagine if the devs spent that time and energy buffing dogshit sets up to par: like Empathy, Broadsword, Staff Fighting, Empathy, Kinetic Melee, Archery, Empathy, and finally Empathy. Making the weakest sets in the game be less awful would have actually improved player enjoyment instead of spawning 16 page topics like this one...

NO PUSHING! Be excellent to each other.

Tell me you don't know what Defense does. Fortitude already does this.

It's just nice to get to see more info about the game, and some stories/opinions from outside the narrow band of the Homecoming dev team.

It's more like a reverse Disruption Field: instead a toggle that debuffs all around an ally, it's a toggle that buffs all around an ally. The nice thing is that I don't think the power needs to be renamed in this case, nor have its numbers adjusted much at all. It's just now a toggle AoE on someone. This change, plus merging the RA's, plus adding a new power in the new slot, is at least enough to make Empathy basic and relevant finally.

You won the thread, issue solved.

This sounds awesome. Cloaked Robots should be a feature.

I think Flea's gonna win this one guys. Real talk, the gauntlet has been thrown and the actual rules of how to win these contests have been solved and codified. If you want to beat this Crabbermind challenge, you gotta do completely normal stuff like take Enflame for no reason, and pick pets/extra powers solely for their uptime on Achilles Heel procs.

I detect nothing wrong with your statement. I've said before that the only way that the result of a Pylon Test is worthwhile and useful data at all: is if it's on the same build you run the Trapdoor/Mission sim tests with and is the same build you actually play in the real game, on real content. The second you swap from your real build to make a Pylon-only build: the time and the data have become worthless. It's Koopak's contest and he will make some arguments as to how this worthless data still matters to him, but I wouldn't use any of it for any real comparisons. I play the video game: when I run into other players they are never running one of these Pylon-only builds. The only testing data that would matter, is data using their builds as they are when I encounter them in-game.

It's beautiful.

Saturday Night Special is a great name for a power but it's a bit too long in terms of feasibility on all of the windows. I mean it'll work most of the time, but it's just too wordy. The concept behind this set is awesome though. I think "Common Defense" will confuse players into thinking it's an armorset or buff set though, so you might want to give it a more eloquent name like "Street Smarts" or the trope "Combat Pragmaticism".

I don't know who's actually in charge of fixing MIDs, just that there exists a Discord for it. Anyways, here you go, as requested: Mrs Meltdown - Brute Rad-Fire NO Phoenix.mbd