Herotu

I hate active defenses. I realise that in the years since this game we've had a push towards twitchy e-sports active defense gameplay such as guild wars 2, but I think it's bullshit and am looking forward to the death of this shitty trend. Will it disappear entirely? Not on your nelly, but I believe that an ageing gamerbase will should broaden the perspectives of developers and help them to embrace older players in a way that they've refused to do for too long now.

I wonder how difficult it would be to provide players with the ability to make missions that seem more integrated into the game, rather than stuck in the AE. I mean, the content is there (obviously you should have some vetting procedure - I wouldn't want to be sent to a farm map by a contact).

Hello there! Back on live I had a fire/dark scrappy that I quite enjoyed playing. People always said it had endurance problems, but some prudent toggle switching could mititgate them quite handily. I'm wondering if anybody has a Fire/Dark build, please? Let's say that inf isn't a problem.

Yep. Well since I slowed down the amount I play, I noticed that my niche dropped down to 1k for recipe. Madness! Opportunities exist. Also, the massive swing between US primetime and non-US primetime is VERY exploitable. Be patient and don't blink when they call your bluff.

Ah. That makes sense.

Good choice! I loved my Pets/Dark MM on live, I think it's one of very few sets that heals in that way!

Okay we're off-topic here, but this is definitely a bugbear of mine. I really wonder what they're thinking... this game is ALL about the exemplaring down - why on earth would I take taunt near the end? It's not like I can just do level 50 content!

This! I love the 2000s. It really hits hard when you see CRT monitors. Holy shit moly! I think they did an astonishing job of capturing the dreariness of this "real world" and "world of work", drudgery and routine that eats people's souls. The original textures make me think of boring, austere concrete eastern european soviet-era buildings. In later years you get to see how (real) architects have worked hard to make city spaces and offices seem more friendly and organic, with sweeping arcs, open spaces and wood. The development of these (in-game) art pieces reflects what happened in reality. The game gives us an amazing snap shot of changing times, that we probably won't experience anywhere else. For that reason alone the game should be archived as a reflection of how our (real) world has changed.

Can you make this a ranged character?

I find that I play this game underpowered most of the time and then become insanely OP once I redo my entire build at level 50. I'm interested in trying something different ... I would like to build a character from level 1 with endgame enhancements (where possible - obviously you can't slot purples as they are level 50). So the notion is that when you get 2 slots at level 3 or whatever, you put attuned enhancements in them. How feasible is this (assume I have infinite inf)? The reasons for doing this are; 1. I want to feel like I've made a natural progression and not some enormous artificial BUMP once I hit 50. 2. I want to get a taste of that level 50 OPness when I need it - i.e. while levelling,

Many thanks! 😄

Hasten is good enough to be top tier, rather than a starter power ... just saying.

Wha?!! I really dislike these not-secret secrets -this info should be in-your-face in-game, imho. I need to go and get more hyphens....

Are you using your Mental powers a lot (in other words are you a blapper)?

Ooh a Hyperstrike build, nice! Nom nom nom.... copying it now. [edit] hmm... not sure about this one... the previous one I "borrowed" didn't use weapons at all and used the medic pool. Ye... why do you need scorpion shield? That's some strange playstyle where you're tanking for the pets and not the other way around ... I guess it's soloer style?

... or... "Hey! That drone is the most dangerous thing on the battlefield, take it out first!". It seems a neat way to add a little AI to a game in dire need of it.

Yes it is! Oh...

The best response to this would be a tonne of challenging new content but without a huge studio to produce it, we're in a quandry! A veritable pickle, right? A jar of pickles... a truckload of pickles that has spilled onto the highway/freeway/motorway/autobahn and are being sqashed by all and sundry, oh the humanity! On a note of some kind, we're supposed to be superheroes, so obliterating waves of minions SHOULD be easy peasy and commonplace, but then the BOSS should be challenging (but where do you draw the line between a bag of hitpoints and a stupid dancing raid-like fiasco?) - I've gone off topic. Oh I started off topic and then went more off topic. Amazing.

You would! Pff, *rollseyes* ooh! *gets double six" Snakeyes! jk ofc

Will it be better after the tank buffs that are in beta, though hmm? HMM??? HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM???????!!!!!

Ones, at the very least!

I think the mission "engine" doesn't really give the devs much choice. Look at the architect.. have players been given loads of choice in the architect? Are we so smart that we've overcome the lack of choice inherent in the engine? Perhaps the best thing they could do (could they?) is give us a choice of contact, and taking one contact, locks off one (or more) others. That would provide us with choice, I guess. Remember that in doing so you get this "redundant content" issue which would be expensive in dev terms if this game wasn't so much about rolling a zillion alts.

I don't know what you're on about. Twinshot's missions are some of the best in the game. Added late in the game's development, they actually knew what they were doing when they designed them, instead of all the grindy crap that constitutes the vast majority of the missions designed early in the game's life.

Is it possible to get asymetrical patterns?

PvP? It's a geniune question, I don't know the answer.