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I've done +4/x8 without Granite Armor. So like I said.

Not even fully T4ed or have likely a maxed out build as I was involved in making it, but my /stone Brute isn't saddled with any of these crippling drawbacks you speak of. On a tank? (snickers)

I just want to point out there's no valid reason for Tanks to not have EA.

+1 on wondering what Scrapper you are using. Elec blasts has been improved in terms of damage, but end drain still remains a bit of "It is what it is." EA is one of the better primaries. I know it gets mentioned as one of the more ideal sets for doing some of the harder things in CoH. It is active as all can get out though. Like, I ODed on Kin and admit EA can be a lot of button smashing.

Claws Scrapper and anything which has fast cast times. or lower recharge times. Recharge can easily be added outside of Hasten and more so with Incarnates. It's mostly for long recharges, waiting to perma something, or specific attack chains.

Physical server location matters. This is why when one is dealing with AWS(Amazon Web Services) it is recommended the region you pick for the servers you use are closest to you. You might not think of it mattering, but data does truly take longer to go from let's say from me in MI to Chicago than say from me to the Far East.

Or just see if you can coalition with another SG so you are connected while having your own base. There are limits to the number of coalitions, but I can't recall the number.

It loses Rib Cracker for AS. How the hell does that lower DPS?

Stalkers often, not always, lose out in AoE in their primary. The ones which don't by default win out as being better as a Stalker, see StJ, Ice, Elec, etc.

An influx of players when peak users on a server right now is just over 1k at best. If a new server is added, how much is that is going in the news to actually attract new players? How many new players are you expecting? You do realize if 200 new players came to the server it would still make that server a rather small one? What if people left based on the removal over servers? Are the new players worth the loss? You do realize some people actually actively avoid high population servers? Or that you simply can't always keep a character's name by default when transferring to a new server? Or that people spend many many many hours building bases which can't be simply copy/pasted into a different server?

That's creating an absolute mess. It isn't like you can simply copy/paste one server to another.

To add, the overall population is decreasing so that doesn't help generating a need to add another shard.

i5 was around the time I came in. I can't recall if I was in just before it hit or not. I *think* before. I just remember seeing Croatoa previews and getting excited.

I think I log onto Discord about once a quarter. I tried to get some people in my board game group to start using Discord, and it essentially went nowhere.

I don't think I have bought yellow salvage for more than 1k, like ever.

Zero reason for the cast time.

All I'm saying is I used Fly/hover on a Kin.

Unai Kemen's missions are farm ready as just about anything in AE.

So get caught taking alpha strike while stuck in a 3 second cast time? There are also times where a map layout would make this difficult if not impossible. There's simply no justifiable reason for a set's standard AoE mezz to take that long. Sure, it is Earth control, but that takes all of 1 sec.

Storm is better. Wormhole's 3.0 cast time is abysmal.

You wrote this around noon Eastern time on a Friday. Considering how much of traffic for this game is driven by the US, I can't imagine numbers being all that high during that time period.

I still think the primary issue is adding in devs from where ever that might be. More so when we know one of the devs has already left.

The proc and the basic End Mod for Performance Shifter is likely enough. I can't imagine needing LotG +Recharge to make Claws function properly on a /sr.

Huh. I always thought that was done by Mumford and Sons.

I remember being on a team which would have loved added support because we had so little and Statesman simply was not going down until we got the Jade Spider involved. I kid you not in saying we spent roughly 30 minutes on Statesman alone. And no, this was not a TF. Just a normal red side arc.