Dispari

Occasionally having a bug with Total Focus using its old (slower) animation instead of the new one. It seems to happen sporadically when I'm flying/hovering, especially when doing a flyby.

Getting a weird bug on my newly made archery/nin blaster. While Shinobi is toggled on she frequently gets interrupted by the present opening animation out of nowhere, which roots her in place. It only happens while Shinobi is on. It was happening every time I trained up at Ms Liberty. Other people saw me opening presents so it wasn't just on my end. And while I'm at it I also support giving Shinobi a move speed component. It's thematic and move buffs are harmless.

Okay cool, good to know. As long as people are aware. 🙂

Oh, Carnival of Light also seems to be missing.

As far as I can tell, some glove options are missing when asymmetrical. At the very least, Talons and Awakened that I was able to find. As you can see, it's hard to tell precisely which ones are missing, because they're not in the same order. I'd have to manually check every single one and compare both lists. But these three at the very least were missing.

This is a very good point.

As far as MMs go: * The reason the pet wouldn't take pet sets is because it doesn't do any damage. Nearly all of the enhancements in the sets wouldn't do anything, so it wouldn't make sense for it to take those sets. The added utility an MM might get out of having another power to slot pet IOs into is eliminated. So really we're just comparing having a pet that uses Discharge to using it yourself. * The new endurance costs are a bit oof, but that's normal for MMs and I'm pretty used to it as a primarily MM player. This makes Energizing Circuit a lot more valuable at least. Discharge is in fact a loooot of endurance, but it's certainly manageable. Certainly not like some of those 60 endurance rez powers or 40 end lightning storm. * I saw a lot of discussion on Discharge vs pet. My opinion? I like Discharge. It's good to pull with. And it's a good debuff to help keep pets from dying. And with Shock I can drop a -33% damage on a boss when and where I want. It's true the pet uses the same power, but he uses it randomly and may end up wasting it on a single target. And his version has a static recharge time that can't be boosted. And our version is stronger than what the pet uses. I still kind of wish these powers (Shock included) did more, like -RES or -DEF, but this is all right. There's certainly some utility to having more pets as an MM. I've played necro/dark, thugs/traps, bots/traps, demons/thermal, (and beast/nature but that doesn't have more pets) to 50, several of those more than once. Necro/dark at least 3 times. Extra pets can add things like more damage, a target that pulls aggro, useful extra mez/debuffs/healing, or an extra power to put IOs into. But critically the sentinel provides... basically none of those things. It just quietly uses a non-damaging debuff power that you get yourself (and better) otherwise. At most I could see using it to alpha by dropping it near some enemies. But that's fairly niche. You can't easily replace the utility of a dark servant, a necro ghost or two that use holds, a bunch of thugs that draw aggro, or the myriad of traps pets that do all kinds of interesting things. Buuuut the sentinel pet is obviously mostly just there to give you a target to bounce powers off of. Since MMs don't need that, the actual utility it offers is minimal. So I'd rather have Discharge. That's just my 2 influence though. Also I just died due to overaggro because I wasn't paying attention while typing this. Whoops.

Good to know. Sounds like "report and move on" then.

It's not a "free speech" issue, and the team already cracks down on reprehensible content, so nobody is asking for anything radical or new here. Offensive and copyrighted names are already disallowed. We're not one of those "totally free" servers where every name is a racial slur. The only question is if this current issue meets that criteria, which I would say it does, considering lots of people have died and will die.

I set up a level 28 beast/elec MM to try some things out. I only used common (level 25) IOs and two of the pet uniques (for RES and DEF). Here are my thoughts: 1) Galvanic Sentinel feels useless for an MM, and ultimately I skipped it. This may just be a uniquely MM problem of course, but MMs have tons of pets to bounce powers off of starting at level 1. I think I'd feel happier if MMs just had the power the sentinel uses (Discharge). Being able to use it at will, where you want, would feel more useful to me. For MM at least. There's precedent for sets being slightly different across ATs like this, Darkness Affinity for controllers being the best example, but the tier 9 power for Traps is also uniquely changed for MMs as another. 2) Energizing Circuit is okay, but I feel like it's not as useful for an MM. MM pets usually don't run out of endurance, and the +recharge buff doesn't work on them at all. I put this power off for a while, and I mostly just used it to refill my own endurance, though my dire wolf did occasionally need it. Useful but... could be better. 3) Insulating Circuit comes waaaaaaaaaay too late in set. This was kind of an issue on Defender but it's much more noticeable on other ATs where it doesn't come until 35. As an absorb power, I'd consider it one of the basic "keep people alive" powers in the set. Most other sets get all those powers on the table by about level 16-20. Time and Pain are some of the latest those comes at (28 for Farsight and World of Pain). So I think IC needs to be bumped up at least 1 tier, if not 2. Energizing Circuit and Defribrillate are two powers I wouldn't mind seeing moved down if it meant I could put absorb on people (pets) earlier. 4) Can I just point out that two of the powers are abbreviated "EC" and that could be cleared up so referring to powers is slightly less confusing? Positive feedback... 1) Overall the set feels solid on MM. Pets are fairly durable thanks to the +RES and they don't get thrown around a lot, which is a fairly unique bonus for a support set. The +damage is also useful, and I didn't have trouble keeping my pets alive even when I accidentally got more than one group. 2) Shock feels good as something for my MM to do. I have less powers to use so it feels useful to pick out tougher guys and lower their damage. Having Discharge like I mentioned above would be nice. 3) I thought the target cap would be an issue, but with how chaining works now, it's trivial to get at least one stack of Static which lets a power hit all your pets and you. So I didn't mind this at all. Targeting through badguys even worked for me most of the time (since they're usually attacking a pet), so I didn't even feel the need to switch targets often. 4) The duration on EC (see? You don't know which one I mean) feels much nicer, I don't feel the need to spam it to upkeep the damage buff anymore. Set is feeling good overall, keep up the good work!

Where are you looking? All the powers that used to consume static now say in green text "No longer consumes static"

Not true at all, no powers consume Static anymore. Another bit of feedback: Faraday Cage is still quite noisy. Considering it's meant to be up basically all the time, it would be nice if the audio was much lower (or entirely gone).

Small bug for Galvanic Sentinel. When doing right click - Info - detailed info (or looking at detailed info in enhancements), there's no information about what power the pet uses. Normally when you view any other pet, you can see what powers they have and what they use. That gives you a better impression of what's worth slotting in them. As-is, I'm not sure what I should put in the pet, if anything.

This might be a low importance thing, but like... Carrion Creepers used to shriek, right? I'm not just imagining that? I feel like I recall on live that they'd be silent if recolored, but now they're silent all the time, no matter what settings I use (even opting to not use colors on the whole set). Did some change make it so they don't make noise? Because I miss that part!

I imagine we'll see more changes with the next patch. This one looks to be mostly fixing bugs and tweaking small things that arose from feedback. I'm okay with that.

I mean, that was kind of my original feedback. Building Static is a hassle, there's nothing I really want to spend it on, and the set is weak if it has low Static and can only hit a couple targets. My first option would just be to drop it entirely. The set doesn't NEED it.

I said before that I don't like Static as a resource because it feels like you're constantly chasing it just to make your powers good, making the set spammy. I still mostly believe that, although I did have a thought that might make Static less annoying and more unique. I noticed it already lasts longer than most similar stacking bonuses, so what if it just lasted forever until used? Or at least something like "10 minutes or until you zone." That way I don't have to constantly work to keep it up, and I can simply discharge it when I want to use it for a specific effect. Just food for thought.

Okay, just did some testing with a few people (up to 5 at one point) in PI radios fighting all kinds of baddies. So we had time to test more stuff and get a feel for the set. I'm going to go through all the powers and basically just break down everything I feel and think. Some of it might be crazy or controversial, who knows. * SHOCK. I don't really have many problems with this power, but it could be better. It does have a good -DMG debuff. It's reasonably comparable to other t1 powers like Infrigidate and Corrosive Enzymes. However, I think it's weaker than both of those. Both of those have strong numbers and the whole debuff is useful (-DMG/-DEF or -RES/-DMG). And Infrigidate's -DMG is higher. I don't think the rather small (even slotted to +95%) -END is as good. It'd take 3 or more applications to fully drain a minion, and by that time the guy is definitely dead. Maybe if it did -regen, -DEF, -RES, or something else? Though it does also build Static so that's something. * REJUVENATING CIRCUIT. This power is fine, I don't really have anything to say about it. I'm okay with it and how it works. * GALVANIC SENTINEL. Okay, I do have several problems here. Besides the stuff I said above about how names don't stick, I found that in a team setting I just stopped using it. It seems great for solo or small teams, but the hassle of having to resummon it constantly is a real distraction. Even spending Static on it to extend the duration just feels bad, because I'm spending all my time building Static just so I don't have to summon the pet as often. I would MUCH rather it just last forever, with a longer recharge. Alternatively it could just be like Dark Servant where you only have to resummon it every 4 minutes or so. Having to click it every 30 seconds? I get to a point where I don't feel like it. What it provides other than a target to bounce things off (which isn't needed once you're not solo) just isn't worth that much effort. * ENERGIZING CIRCUIT. This power is good, though I'm not sure it needs to be tier 4. Something comparable like Speed Boost is tier 6. Though I guess AM is tier 3. * FARADAY CAGE. Love this power, nothing I really want to see changed about it. Since the bug with the +RES is fixed, it's probably great. * EMPOWERING CIRCUIT. First off, small 'probably doesn't matter' comment here, it has the same acronym as Energizing Circuit (EC) so when we were discussing powers in chat we were tripping over some of the names. Anyway. I don't like this power. I feel like it should work more like Fortitude or Forge. It recharges in 15s base and only lasts 25s. This leads to me using it constantly. All the time. Every few seconds. Because I feel like I'm wasting it if I don't. Reflexively, I want this to be a power that I use every minute or so, not every 5 seconds. It chains and can hit multiple people, so maybe it could have a base recharge time of 120 or even 240? And obviously it should last more like 90s, not 25s. This is one of the powers that contributes to the overall "oh man I have to spam powers as fast as I can" problem that I'll touch on more below. Also final note, while testing it seemed like this power wouldn't stack from multiple casters? It was hard to confirm but maybe it should be checked. * DEFIBRILLATE. Love this power, love the animation, no complaints here. * INSULATING CIRCUIT. This power is good. Maybe too good, if I'm being honest? It's a lot of absorb you can spam on a really short timer. I can give almost half of my max HP as absorb every 6 seconds? Really? Dang. Maybe it should have a longer recharge. I think the only real comparable power to this one is Wild Bastion, and that starts at 240s. This has less benefits and hits fewer targets, so maybe 60s? 120s? 15s is really short. And of course this also contributes to the spammy playstyle the set has. * AMP UP. I like this power. I don't think the benefit stacks from multiple casters? But I suppose that's okay. * STATIC. Okay, this might be the most controversial opinion I have. Does this set even need a mechanic like this? Static only does a few things. One is make the pet last longer which, like I said, just isn't fun or rewarding and probably shouldn't need to be done in the first place. It boosts the rez which, okay neat but how often are you using that? It boosts Amp Up which is probably the one place you'd want to actually spend it. And it ups how many targets your powers chain to, which... okay let's talk about this. Your powers constantly changing how many targets they can hit? Not fun. It's confusing, it's hard to keep track of, and it's unreliable. I don't like having to check my Static to think about how many people I can heal. Other support sets don't have to deal with that. It's like a tax on the set. And leaves me feeling like I need to spam powers to keep my Static up. This resulted in me using powers I don't really need to use, just to gain Static. Just in case I need it. And that didn't leave me much time to use my blast powers. As a heal/suport set, I felt like I was lagging behind and needed to work especially hard just so I could actually conceivably heal the whole team if I need to. The fact that the whole set has tons of powers that don't last very long, and recharge very fast, means I have tons of powers I can use all the time. And you need to keep your Static up, so of course you use powers fast. It becomes very spammy very fast. Using a heal even when people are full on HP. Using Shock on a minion for no reason other than you want Static. As-is, it's a very demanding set, leaving you little time to use your secondary set. Or you just end up ignoring a lot of your powers, which isn't really better. That said, I like the set! I actually do. I know I was pretty hard on it, but it just needs some improvements. It's very unique, I like Faraday Cage, I like the idea of having a pet, I like the unique buffs it gives like Amp Up. But there are certain aspects that are a bit much to deal with, and I feel like I'm constantly struggling to catch up to where basically any other support set would be. Whew, I think that's everything. Feel free to tell me how wrong I am about everything. Thanks!

EC definitely doesn't chain back to the caster. Whether solo or with a couple people around, 0 or 5 Static. I noticed this very fast because I'm having end problems (not using any IOs right now)

Haven't had much time to play around but: * The new pet is simple and doesn't do a lot, but I definitely understand why it exists. It's so your powers can chain back to yourself while by yourself. Suddenly, FOUR of your powers that weren't usable on yourself can now be used. That's a useful change. That said, all my feedback for this pet below. 1) The duration is too short. Like obnoxiously short. The duration is 30 seconds, and I know it's longer for each stack of Static, but that seems like a bad use of Static, frankly? It's hard to tell, but it seems like each stack gives an extra 10 seconds to the duration, just from playing and guessing. I'm not sure what suggestion I have here for the -Static, but duration is... well, annoying. I don't want to spend a quarter of my time just resummoning the pet. 2) The pet doesn't have any base resists, so it's likely to get killed since it's targetable. High resist to S/L/E/P/T would make a lot of sense. 3) Currently, the pet doesn't "take" name changes. On resummoning, the name is always wiped. Its faction is "Pseudopets" and rank is "Defender." That may not be a problem, but it's worth mentioning. 4) It does... very little. All it does is one single power that does a single target -End/-Dmg. And the -End it does is very small. Is there anything else it could do that would make it more worth summoning when you don't need it for the extra target? * New Faraday Cage is really good, although it still doesn't pass on the +RES to the pseudopet, so it's stuck at 15% RES all. I almost feel like 15% RES all is a bit too much? But it does really carry the set and makes it a lot more useful. The size is larger, it sticks around more, it's quicker to cast. All good adjustments. * Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure Energizing Circuit is that important a power to be bumped up to a high slot. All it does is +End, which is neat, but like, am I really gonna be spamming this all the time? I feel like it should do something else too, or just weakened and combined with the heal. I dunno, I'm not sure how I feel about having a power just to give people endurance. Maybe others have a different opinion. I'm going to go test the set in a more team-focused setting to give more feedback.

That I won't deny, Faraday Cage is one of the most unique and valuable powers in the set (although it needs to be fixed for how it doesn't position itself properly in the air). The rest of the set however can't be carried by one power. If it worked like Lifegiving Spores, it could only be placed on the ground. I'm not sure I'd want that limitation.

So 0.1 second duration mag 12 stun?

To add to what I was saying earlier, soloing with this set is REALLY hard. It offers almost no benefits of any kind. I can't heal myself, don't have any DEF or RES (except to a couple exotic damage types, and only in Faraday Cage). The only thing it offers is the -end/-DMG from the two enemy target powers, which definitely isn't enough.

Faraday Cage recharges pretty fast by default, and it has a very distinct visual effect. As an anchor power (like Lifegiving Spores), it's probably one of the better ones. And if you decide not to stand in it... I guess it's your own fault you died, dude.

Oh! I forgot to mention this earlier. Empowering Circuit and Amp Up have a +ToHit component but they can't take ToHit enhancements.