Shin Magmus

I actually really like Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

Incredible bug, incredible find. Making enemies invincible is pretty bad, hope the fix gets pushed soon.

Over the last 2 days I've been on more than one ApeMage (The correct naming for how people run TinPex) where the Apex TF worked as normal but the Tin Mage TF has inspirations disabled: including the accompanying icon under your health bars / self buffs. In all cases, the leaders of these TFs were confused and swear they didn't intentionally toggle this option on. This begs the question of how it is happening: if the TF start window is checking options by default or something. I started a few myself to try to replicate it, but everything behaves as normal on my end. It could just be a bunch of coincidences, but has anyone else been on some TFs where inspirations were mysteriously disabled recently?

This is the kind of comment you write that will get deleted by a GM/Mod imminently. You just can't help yourself.

Snarky, this reads almost exactly like a MTG card. Are you a vampire duel master?

It *is* going "la la la I can't hear you", but some people deserve that. Healthy discussion requires healthy active moderation, otherwise anyone can derail the discussion single-handedly. Jranger is just a meme with inertia from the olden days... I thought someone explained it in the thread already but it's the laziest possible brief shorthand for "you're wrong and dumb."

GOAT costume editor and power customization: you can make yourself look really cool.

I don't have a Thermal to test it on now, but they keep changing a power that sends ExecutePower calls to other sub-powers by changing the self-revives "Rise of the Phoenix/Phoenix Rising": similar but different from "Power of the Phoenix". It's extremely possible that this is a bug and you found it. See if you can recreate it and make sure you note the Archetype (I assume Defender), because sometimes these bugs are only on one AT.

Even if you did disable reactions, known contrarian trolls could still respond to all of your comments and posts with ragebait memes and "feels fine to me" regardless. I recommend using the block function for this reason, and that leads to a logically correct deduction. If you block someone (so you can't see them post "Beanbag is core to my build, feels fine to me /jranger"), that should also hide all of their reactions from you. It shouldn't prevent them from commenting or reacting, but it should hide both 100% of their comments and reactions from you. That seems completely reasonable, and helpful. If I choose not to engage with a contrarian anymore because there is no benefit for me seeing their thoughts, ultimately that's my right.

My threads have gotten locked because contrarians showed up to do nothing but reply with every single point with "nu uh, feels fine to me." If you think I haven't been there with you, I have. But moderation on this forum in general is incredibly uneven, so my advice is to just give up hope.

You guys don't have private conversations with GMs? Guess it's just me then...

As a Shin Grambulax Master I feel this thread has run its course and will now be locking it to further replies. There is a startling lack of being excellent to each other, despite GM GooglyMoogly's efforts. However, we will be addressing the very valid and correct concern about Dominator Sonic Assault having incorrect debuff values and durations relative to the same powers in Sonic Attack. Good day.

Real time energy -> matter conversion huh?

I thought your mass remained constant, just density changed. You're a shapeshifter but you follow the rules of Envy from Full Metal Alchemist.

The main set that has Fearsome Stare also has Tar Patch so.... and the second set with Fearsome Stare has an AoE Immob so...

Just to clarify since some people are talking in circles and still don't get it. In-game, some powers are called Fears but the in-game name of the status they inflict is Terrorize. It has always been Terrorize, although Fear is sometimes used interchangeably which is confusing. When you inspect the detailed info of a power like Caltrops or Tornado, you will see Fear instead of Terrorize: that Fear is what will be listed as Afraid on City of Data. Terrorize is an actual Mez, that can be enhanced and that directly disrupts the enemy's ability to attack you: Good. Fear/Afraid is an enemy-only AI effect, that cannot be enhanced and that makes enemies run like cowardly fuckheads: Bad.

It used to be about 3x as rewarding, on this server. People ran it because it was rewarding. Now we have this shit... so...

Yep, Dominator Elec Assault deserves to at least get the buffed Voltaic Sentinel and Shock dmg mechanics. Additionally, Dominator Sonic Assault should just logically match the way every other Sonic power works, not only numerically, but also in the power description with the outdated (and needlessly confusing) "Sonic Vibrations" text. These are mistakes. Dominators are examples of powers being weirdly undertuned or not matching the rest of the game, despite a large push across all of their Assault sets to fix this exact issue by the HC devs in the past (it was the focus of a patch). A good way to sum this up would be "you missed a spot"; I just pointed out one of the missed spots.

This does still need to be fixed. It legitimately is not balanced correctly.

Mods, lock this thread. We can skip to the end, we know how Ultimo threads go. If someone could be made of concentrated Wrongium...

Yeah no.

Maelwys's post shows builds that are nearly identical to the leveling build I'm running on my new alt. It's a Stone/Ice Brute and, at lv22, I can slot a bunch of attuned stuff including both the procs in Stamina and all the Heal set uniques except for Numina's which has a minimum level of 27. My attacks don't have Endredux in them even though I know it's effective, because I don't need it and I loaded them up with dmg procs instead. Generic spots still use lv25 SO's cus I don't like to replace them with generic IOs until lv30s: slottable at lv27. That's the first level where they are stronger than SO's instead of weaker. What you're seeing is a visual representation of how and why we don't have Endurance issues.

I reiterate what I said earlier but more briefly: if you learn and grow you will find many options to mitigate or completely fix endurance issues even available at lv1, from the first actions you take. Keep in mind that instead of starting with 0 Inf, you may want to email your new lowbie 10-20 mil Inf to facilitate this. That teensy sum can be earned by any lv50 just doing some radio mishes for a few hours, and much faster in other ways. Ultimo, we've tried to help you build characters as well but it seems like you really don't want to learn and instead want the game to hand you a victory no matter how weak your build is. The RPG part of MMORPG does imply some level of "gear" and "building", stats getting bigger and whatnot, so that's just how this game works.

Woe be upon thee, the misfortune to stub thine toe then stagger backwards stepping upon a LEGO block of annihilation!

I recommend learning the basics of how to build, learning the EXTREMELY efficient core few IOs that dramatically help Endurance, learning how to get Recovery Boosting temp buffs from DfB and DiB right away on a new character, learning how to purchase Survival Amplifier and Recovery Serum from the S.T.A.R.T. Vendor, and running some easy low-level TFs or other Reward Merit content in order to acquire some basic sources of inf to start purchasing these things. Endurance is not only one of the easiest things to fix by engaging with game mechanics at all, but also something that is **even easier to fix** for various Support ATs via their buffs: and those ATs deserve to be able to feel powerful and useful by casting Speed Boost on you for example.