ivanhedgehog

The only problem I can see is I dont know if the devs have the tools, desire or manpower to make the new costume pieces, but I would love it if they could. That and phase 3 aoe needs to be a longer timer. That would sideline melee players. But numbers can be adjusted, so thats just tuning.

Then it is a good thing we dont balance around level 50 fully IOd incarnates. there are 49 other levels playing the game too, using SO's.

The relevance is if you insist that agro caps should be the same, why shouldnt other caps be the same? You have yet to offer a reason that they should be the same for all at's. agro specialists should have larger agro caps due to their job of controlling agro. Just like blasters have higher aoe caps due to their ob of damaging things. Controllers have higher mag hold due to their jobs. etc. allowing tanks/brutes to have a somewhat higher agro cap allows them to pull overflow mobs off of squishies. Not all groups are limited to 17.

explain why? and why shouldnt aoe caps be the same for all also? and why shouldnt hold mag be the same also?

there is a lot of room between herding maps and mass chaos. I like having a tank that can compact groups and control the flow

there are a few places that "need" things. mito taunting in hami raids comes to mind. the tank/brute needs taunt. auras dont do it properly. currently, building a team to steamroll, given the choice of a equipped DPS or an equipped tank, the DPS is the better choice.

If it were for everyone, dps would have to be more in control of what they agro, no more leroy jenkins if you want to live, especially at lower levels. They could make a null the gull setting with the default being 17 to make it more of a choice. I could see soloing lower/midlevel defenders setting it lower even to help them. That would be a side benefit of the changes. By making the changes just for tank/brutes they could allow them to have their niche to increase their utility. And contrary to the anti herders out there, it would allow your team agro specialists to taunt mobs off of their squishier compatriots in those "oh shoot" moments. This benefits teams quite a bit. you dont have to herd to get a benefit from this.

It was boring for YOU. Not for others. Go ahead and make your teams of 8 soloers if you want, no one is stopping you. Other people want coordinated teams that actually work together. There is plenty of room in this game for all sorts of play styles.

increasing the cap for tanks/brutes would give them a mechanic to control the flow of battle. which makes them desirable for many people. That is the point.

They dont dictate, but people might want to play with their friends here. It is just discussion. the changes to em were great, should they not have done them because someone else did them too? we have been playing cox again for well over a year now and we have experience(if we wish) on servers with different changes. discussing what we liked and what we didnt like is a good thing. Right now there is little team coordination, the tank/brute runs in and the controllers/doms lock everything down wherever it happens to be. People complain about herding but it maximized dps damage and made for orderly progression, as opposed to everyone soloing in a team.

right now there is less reason to invite a second tank or brute. they do less damage. It would make teams that coordinate easier, which is as it should be. there are some roles that you wouldnt want multiples of on a team. empath or rad are good examples. you sont need an empath, rad or tank right now, but they do come in handy.

If tanks have a raised agro cap, say 25 or 34, they would have increased utility in teams. Making them more useful instead of more powerful. It would be worth a teams time to let their agro management experts control the flow of battle. There is a lot of space between current agro cap and no agro cap, it isnt one or the other. Maybe letting null the gull set the cap at set points, 16,24,34,40. The numbers arent important, that would be for the devs to decide. But it would give tanks/brutes a reason to be.

you seem determined to derail this thread . why is it so important to you that you need to rudely talk over people? Who died and elected you to crusade about this?

I solod Dr Q. with therapy and a lot of help I can once again be a productive member of society.

I am against scaling. part of the fun is dealing with enemies at the level they are. how do you deal with them with only the powers of that level? That is part of the fun. not having your full kit adds to it. I tend to do lower level tfs with a toon about the appropriate levl. I have to agree with the kill alls in nearly identical missions. gets boring fast. Dr Q I am looking at you.

You have a limit. unslot the incarnate when doing such content. Problem solved.

If you dont know what doesnt give xp, you dont play the game. communications officers dont give rewards and neither do their summons. As for the devs time, I am just as right to give my 2 cents worth as to what I would like the devs to spend or not spend as you are to be suggesting nerfs to rewards. Commentors do NOT have to make their own threads just so you can claim ownership rights to this part of the forum turf. Pretty much all of us can claim times we have been asshats, I dont find it appropriate for anyone here to make a thread calling somone one I know I am that way at times, that is why I quit PVP.

people that want incarnates removed from use can form tfs/raids etc that advertise "no incarnates" everyone can unslot their incarnates at no cost and go to town. If there arent enough people that want that, well that speaks for itself.

you must not play the game. There are a number of mobs that give zero rewards. They shouldnt spend time on it because it does the player base zero benefit. New content and new zones/ats/power sets give us new and exciting things to do. nerfing our rewards, not so much.

it makes up for all the places that have risk and zero reward. Or do you want the devs to spend a bunch of time reworking those? Generally, when someone complains about wanting to increase difficulty, they want to increase other people difficulty, as they can do their own easily. The main reason that hami goes down easily is that people have been doing it a long time. they know exactly what to do to defeat him. The devs dont need to spend time to satisfy your OCD difficulty problem.

I agree. If you dont want incarnate powers, dont use them Things that you can do.. 1. sponsor an all no incarnate Hami raid. everyone remove their slotted powers. This can work for any TF also. 2. Sponsor a no pet Hami. 3. Sponsor a lower max person Hami. This way you dont effect anyone elses game experience and dont take any of our volunteer devs time. One of the reasons this game is so awesome is the ability to customize your own game play experience.

I have a question. Could we set it up with one badge per character unlocks for that character but every badge in every zone unlocks for the account? Maybe badges for getting all of paragon city, all of red side, all of praetoria? Kind of like loremaster in wow. Those would be worthwhile even without the unlock.

How about it if they made you unlock it with pvp kills? would you understand people not wanting to have to do a game mode they dont enjoy that way?

No class owns a mechanic. Do blasters own ranged damage? No. That being said, I like the new EM, I mained one on live until they butchered it.

The structure of the change was decided before we were even told what was happening. We were pretty pointedly told that our feedback wasnt wanted if it was anything else than polish of the already decided changes. Many stopped giving feedback at that point. The change to the game has made travel quite a bit slower. People will get over it eventually but it was not an improvement to the game. ps:I shouldnt have to have a spreadsheet with all my characters to figure out what zones they have unlocked. Once you are on the tf and realize that you havent gotten that zone, its too late to fix.