Shin Magmus

Saying "lol" is also "perceived toxic" behavior. On this forum, it is verboten to say "lol". This comment will be deleted even though I'm only making it to agree with you and warn the rest of you guys. That's the reality of our community.

Toxic is also the most resisted damage type on average in the entire game. Since it didn't originally exist within the game, there are basically no enemies that are weak to Toxic. There's a misconception that enemies don't resist it either, but they actually do because many enemy powers had Toxic resistance added just like the player powers did. In descending order the 4 worst damage types in the game, on average, are: Toxic, Lethal, Smashing, Psy. Amusingly, the situation is inverted when you have 1 or more Spiders on your team because all versions of Venom Grenade inflict a self-stacking, no-cap debuff of -20% resistance to 7 types and -40% specifically only to Toxic.

Another bug for the pile; Great write-up. I'd love to see a patch that just bugfixes a bunch of enhancements, covering well-documented bugs like the minimum levels and the ATO procs which still incorrectly grant a variable effect instead of the static effect they say they should, entirely because they lack the ignores purple patch "unaffected by enemy level" flag (such as Brute +Fury ATO proc). Bugfix patch!

I have nothing to add because Snarky already stated it. This is one of the most Toxic Blast online spaces I've ever seen.

You guys scared OP away, just FYI.

Char and GFS are GOATed picks after the patch that rebalanced Epic powers. Not sure why someone deleted my comment about that for no reason, but yeah you'll have a strong character with Fire/Dark/Fire. Whether you actually enjoy the powersets is a question only you'll be able to answer though.

Cobalt is busy making every single cool thing in the game and being the absolute best Dev. He doesn't have time to fritter away with us here.

False hope is one of the least excellent things I can think of. As a concept, it is almost intrinsically guaranteed to do more harm than good, in basically any and all contexts. I agree with you, but I embrace the rigidity of logic and fact: free of wishy-washy non-answers. The nice thing about real objective answers is that they also preempt the creation of more threads which lead nowhere and end up locked... but now we're discussing a solution to prevent the same thread from re-appearing 2 months later... and again and again in a cycle of time-wasting despair.

You think transparency looks bad; I do not. We will have to agree to disagree... EXCELLENTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about a pinned post of "Never Gonna Happen" suggestions? You know, like a bulleted (and editable) quick reference list of things that were suggested but are confirmed shot down and never happening? Such a post would be easy enough to edit with links to the other threads (cite your sources). As the most helpful person here, it was easy for me to think up this excellent idea. I even have 2 nominations for the first things that should go onto the "Never Gonna Happen" list. 1 - Bugfixing the broken Brute +Fury ATO (it's clear that Brutes getting less Fury from hitting enemies higher level than them, and more Fury from hitting enemies lower level than them, is intelligent game design and WAI). 2 - The in-game memorial suggestions (just link to the closed threads and make it be totally clear).

What about a conference? I suggest they have a little meet-up and drink tea and eat cookies, but also become unified on policy in a manner of much excellence.

My best friend GM would never follow your account... but this comment will disappear when your comment disappears. I agree with you about agreeing, but I don't agree about that other thing. It's not being excellent.

The best I was able to find for you was a Heart of Fire. Hopefully it helps:

You don't need "heart" or "fire", you just need to agree. Become one with the excellence. Join us...

I agree with the GMs about everything.

We will unshackle your soul from its mortal account coils. Say unto the admins The Words Of Power... and by that I mean just put in a Support ticket here on the forum and request deletion.

Check your PC for Clockwork tampering.

Everything in moderation. (Get it?)

5 more years! 5 more years!

No you haven't made friends, nu uh.

...I get that you still are hopeful for anything about this place to improve OP, but it's a lost cause. The GMs have literally shielded the most vile shit-stirring contrarian trolls ad infinitum here for as long as this forum has been active. It is 100% okay for someone to respond with "nu uh, [the opposite of what you said], feels fine to me" to any point you make, even if that point was "the Earth orbits around the sun." In fact, being a contrarian shithead is an easy way to get threads locked! You don't need to come from a place of kindness or communicate in good-faith, just "nu uh" until you bait enough people into disproving your "nu uhs" and presto changeo: Threadicus Lockicus!

Why ask questions you already know the answer to? Just skip right to locking the thread, it's clear what will happen.

This was a teachable moment, and teaching occurred: everyone did great.

Snarky, they aren't worth it. I do not need to elaborate.