Shin Magmus

Oh you...

Yes please, moar pets. I renew my Shivan Shard quite often.

It will be perma if you just touch an enemy once every 120s.

You know me Googles the Moogles, I love following da rulez. My issue is with people who knowingly antagonize others right along the line outside da rulez, abusing the system for protection while very clearly engaging in bad faith. I think some people who have a history of this behavior are also the same people that OP thinks of as the "Idea Police." But I know better than anyone, even you, that this situation isn't going to change. That's why I gave my actual relevant advice to this thread: give up hope, nothing will happen, status quo.

Finally, a good suggestion. Well it makes sense, since the long-standing rule is to allow contrarians to start arguments, but punish people for responding to what amounts to "obvious bait" with valid criticism of that bait and/or factual correction.

Unfortunately THAT is WAI and won't be changed. This is because of the interaction with the Theft of Essence proc in Cauterizing Aura and similar powers. When you are target saturated, that +End proc actually goes crazy and is basically as strong as slotting Endmod to directly boost the Recovery. As long as you get within range of an enemy every 120s minimum, then stuff like Numina's unique should still be working fine with no downtime.

For reference, after playing Live for a few years (I started right as Issue 5 dropped) I just stopped tolerating Troll Blast A.K.A. Energy Blast. It was kick-on-sight, but more usually me just deliberately not inviting them to whatever I was forming in the first place. Troll Blast was on my banlist and I was a much happier person because of it. Random chances (40%, 60%) of AoE Knockback are genuinely the worst effects a power can have. It ruins everyone else's fun when the enemies are scattered randomly and half are out of the Tar Patch, out of the Caltrops, out of range of Radiation Infection or Disruption Field, etc. etc. The "KB tax" is real, and it is paid voluntarily by players who are considerate of others. 1 person's fun isn't more important than denying that same fun to 7 others. OwF and Sudden Acceleration IOs enable the average player to be able to tolerate the Blenergy Gablooster on their team. I'm against making OwF become slottable multiple times though, and for an alternative solution: such as mutually exclusive power picks where you can take an alternate version of Explosive Blast that ONLY knocks down, or has a 100% chance of KB.

Google this guy's Moogles.

..... I feel like people did, 10 pages ago in this thread. Ultimately, nothing will change, and the GMs will not suddenly start moderating these mythical "idea police" differently. My advice was to give up hope on anything changing. That wasn't a joke, it was my actual advice.

I'm impressed by GM Widower's restraint to not immediately lock the thread after that sick burn. Leaving that comment as the final comment would've been absolutely iconic.

Just be as popular with the GMs as me.

To further clarify this point, Blasters and Dominators both have access to the same power in their sets Sonic Manipulation and Sonic Assault: "Disruption Aura." This is like a sidegrade of Disruption Field from the support powerset except weaker in effect, and centered on yourself. Dominator Disruption Aura: -15% Res Blaster Disruption Aura: -14% Res These powers are functionally identical (as they should be) so they reflect different debuff values based on the AT scalars, correctly showing a slightly higher number for Dominators than for Blasters. The HC devs created both of these sets, and they know that Dominators are better at debuffing than Blasters. So... I guess we're fixing this right?

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?