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IF we never have to see their version of Starfire again, I'm cool with it going away. Not a race thing either, actually casting all the Tamaraneans was black would have been a cool idea, but if you want to cast Starfire, you cast someone that looks like this: Not this:

I've had a similar idea myself,, but what has always stopped me is that there's always that one guy who will use the P2W vendor, merits, etc. and just "happen" to keep getting great drops. For some reason there's a certain personality type (psychopath) that sees an endeavor like this as way to have a group of people to somehow feel superior to.

I felt like that once. Then I realized that I had an entire other powerset to contribute to the "farming of trashmobs" style of play, so I used that. And when the AV came up to bat, I floored his regen and the others knocked him out of the park.

See, I completely agree, and it's one of the best things about the game. No one "Needs" any AT to just play the content. Now, if you're talking about harder stuff, the high end TFs and Trials, then yes, you need support classes. And Tanks, and damage dealers. There is content where all ATs are necessary. But to try and nerf things to the point where every mission in the whole game is like playing an iTrial seems to be the goal of some. The vast majority of the game shouldn't require any particular combination of ATs to play. Support may not be the most important player on the team...right up until you run into an AV whose regen needs floored, and that's when you get to shine. An ordinary group of minions, Lts. and bosses shouldn't need a debuffer for a group to take care of them.

Typical Cancel Culture nonsense. Just because someone doesn't agree with you and speaks plainly, without regard for emotion, they're "Invalidated" A valid part of any discussion is pointing out that taking the actions being discussed will lead to misery for everyone. I mean seriously...how are the "Support players" gonna be the center of attention when everyone else leaves? You all gonna stand around and heal each other to High Nirvana?

If someone doesn't stamp on threads like this they'll multiply like ants, first one, then another, and pretty soon the picnic's ruined. First one person complains about X powerset being OP, then another person complain about not having every team depend on them...and pretty soon the server admins are responding because they think everyone's unhappy, so the nerf bat starts flying, and a mass exodus ensues. So someone's got to come in here and say what needs to be said without worrying about stepping on people's feelings: If you aren't happy, do what you need to do to solve your problems, stop crying to the admins until they change things to your liking. Because this game can't handle a mass exodus, which is exactly what this stuff leads to.

It literally took one post for you to drop from your "Don't make insults" high horse to doing exactly that. Classic.

There isn't a problem if people are having fun. If you're not having fun, maybe go find something that is fun for you instead of trying to change everything about the place you're in to suit what YOU think is fun. You're like the vocal minority that ruined modern comics. You decide since a bunch of other people are enjoying something, but it isn't all about you and what you want, that you'll force everything to change until things are unrecognizable. So yeah, I'm going to call out that BS for what it is. It's narcissism masquerading as concern. It's people that want everything to revolve around them and their own interests, so they manipulate until they get what they want...of course by that time everyone that liked things the way they were has been chased off, shouted down or cancelled. And pretty soon the whole system collapses, because what was good about it has been warped into unrecognizability, and the people that made it good in the first place are gone, and all that are left are the narcissists trying to get everyone's to fall at their feet. The game does not need to be balanced around team play. It's perfectly find as a game that can be 99% soloable and with the \re being some elements that require a team. Just because Everquest made the game a hardcore grind with certain "essential" classes does not mean that mold has to define every multiplayer game. There are plenty that do though, so rather than try to twist this into one of those, why not just go play one?

So because you want to be essential 100% of the time, on every single fight in a every single mission, instead of just on AV fights, everyone else needs nerfed until they can't live without you. Got it. Maybe instead of acting like your team's crazy Ex, you should just use your other powers, be it Blasts, Assaults, Pets, whatever in order to do damage instead of trying to make everyone dependent on your support abilities.

One thing I don't get is that if this balancing is so important, why aren't Spines/Fire Brutes getting eviscerated? They're by far the most played AT for a reason, and if you want to look at an AT that totally reshaped the landscape of the way players play the game, well that's the one right there.

Basically there are two mindsets. One is those that want to group because they feel like it and it's fun to smash stuff up with other people around. The other is "must have perfect group to play." I personally do NOT want to have to rely on having other specific AT's around in order to complete content. I'd honestly prefer it if CoH were a solo game with some online features where you could smash something up with other people. I'm not looking for a "challenge" from a 16 year old MMO that was in its grave for almost a decade. I'll leave that to all the "games as a service" crap that the industry has turned into. I'd much rather see them focus on creating new stuff than breaking what's fun about the things we already have.

Everyone is already a tank mage once they slot IOs and basically turn into gods once they get their Incarnate abilities. My stalker can solo 8/+4. In the same mission, my Brute can just stand there with his one pbaoe on auto while I go afk and when I come back everything willl be dead. People already don't play the content and at least half just want to door sit until 50 while a Spines/Fire (by far the most common AT according to the released stats) does all the work alone. That's what the majority is here for...to be super and self sufficient. They aren't looking to have to form the perfect team, play with the Holy Trinity or whatever. the people that want that are the ones that stayed. Go ahead and nerf away...take away the little bit of investment people have in a character and those people won't stay wither, and HC will be as dead as the live servers.

This is a 16 year old game with a few thousand player, run on a private server surviving on donations. The game is used as a sandbox for people to play superheroes...the idea that this is some AAA live service game that needs balancing, nerfing, etc. is laughable. Stuff should be left alone. Want to make new stuff? Great. Want to f\get caught up in fiddling with the old stuff? all it will do is drive people away...it's not like new people are showing up or ever going to show up, just look at concurrent user numbers, account numbers, etc. There's been a 65% drop since HC went live. Nerfs in 16 year old cancelled MMO.../smdh.

My only concern with Dr. Strange, and that is that they fired the original director over the horror aspects of the sequel...so it's probably going to be extremely MCU formulaic. Of course, he also totally wasted Mads Mikkelsen, who really should have been saved to play Dr. Doom, so I guess there's that.

For a long time I didn't read any comics regularly, would just pick up trades every once in a while. I don't think I've read any superhero comics published after 2011 or so, when I checked out whatever DC reboot was current at the time. From what I've seen of comics today...I don't think I could stomach most of the garbage being put out by the big 2. The MCU was great while it lasted, but looking at what they've got slated ahead doesn't thrill me. I might check out the next Spider Man movie, and maybe watch Dr. Strange at some point. But losing their main characters/actors and the blatant infusing of politics into the movies leaves me pretty uninterested. One pleasant surprise I got a couple of years ago was finding out George RR Martin had picked Wild Cards back up, not that he does a ton of the writing in it himself, but between a bunch of new books and free stories online by both new and old members of the writing team has kept my superhero needs filled.

I've played and GM'd an absolute TON of Masks: The New Generation, mainly online of Roll 20. Not only is the game fun and well designed, but as far as universal RPG systems go, PBTA is my favorite, favoring the character and emotion of Roleplaying rather than number crunching. Probably my favorite line from one of my players trying to explain the game to a newcomer..."You aren't fighting with your fists, you're fighting with your feelings". This works especially well for Masks, which is centered on teen supers like Teen Titans, Young Justice, LSH, New Warriors, etc.

Travel Powers I'd make them inherent at level 1, and widely increase the variety of looks and methods.. This is one place where CO and even DCUO have it miles head of CoX. Swinging, wall running up buildings with SS, flying carpets (That don't shut off your powers), etc.

Except that there's no one really playing red side, so getting the SFs done is difficult on all servers and near impossible on some. Honestly, all the nay saying is just nay saying for the sake of "don't make any changes to the game!" There is no reason not to do it other than technical or resource limitations.

I don't think people will "Go to red side" either. But I believe there are a lot of people that would do the SFs for badges and variety.

LOL @ the idea of getting people in this game to switch to red side to do a Strikeforce. People can barely manage to get to Faultline during Posi 2, or get to Striga for Moonfire. I had to explain to someone for 5 minutes how to just use the train to get to Croatoa for Katie because they "Forgot to add their character to their SG" and didn't know how to get around without using a base transporter. It's not a matter of me wanting a group to go do red side. If I want to do red, I'll go red and solo it. I wouldn't even play blue side regular story arcs with a group, it's too much of a hassle. SF/TFs are another matter. I was really just wondering of there were an easy way of using some assets that are essentially just sitting there by adding a barrier free way to have the average player be able to access a little more content. It was a suggestion to help the health of the game, not something that would in any way benefit me personally or enrich my own particular playstyle.

If they're going to tie a large reward to them, it should only be given to those that have completed the entire story arc. The idea shouldn't be to hand them out to anyone that door sits on the final mission.

They need to be attached to Souvenirs...make playing the content actually have a benefit.

City of Heroes. Also, Asheron's call. These games were not built with the Holy Trinity in mind. They don't work that way. You're like a tourist visiting another country and screaming "They don't do it that way in MY country, you backwards buffoons." I can and have done entire +4 TFs with a mix of scrapper and blasters. I've even done them with all blasters. Not all MMOs were originally WoW or EQ Clones.

Just get rid of Null the Gull, leave tips fpr people that want to play them, but just open up red, blue and gold to all players of all levels without restriction. Almost no one plays Gold at all, very few people play Red...all that content that's just going to waste because 90% of the people stick to blue

What makes you think that they aren't having fun?