ivanhedgehog

The biggest problem in synapse is the players that act like 3 year olds on a sugar rush. They insist on playing like they are incarnate 50's with a 500 million. build. They will not let the tank gather any agro, they run ahead and refuse to act like they are actually on a team. and it slows them down. a lot. just like the last mission on posi 1 that has the scrapper beeline to the door instead of cleaning and wipes the team. If you dont know how the tf works, maybe listening to the instructions might help. It cant hurt.

I like Dr Q so much I solo'd it

Thats not the game that I remember. Maybe I was just better at picking teams.

I made a tank on we have cake and no agro was a lot of fun. Not saying it was a good idea and Im thinking it wouldnt be fun for someone that doesnt have a 500million IO build. just saying it was a blast on that particular character. I will continue to run sometimes on cake because I enjoyed that. My mains will remain on HC. its not a mutually exclusive thing.

my wife and I play from the same house. will we risk being punished because we are off of the same cable modem?

thats crazy talk. I play my tanks because I want to play my tanks, others play their brutes because thats what they find fun. I would like a tank buff so they can contribute almost as much as a brute. That simple. If they had equal damage and mitigation, neither would disappear because they each have their fans because of their different play style.

underperforming sets just wont get invited. What you will find are teams of 8 kitted out brutes still running just as fast as they can, now for even higher rewards. they need to fix the broken sets before even thinking about this sort of thing. Look at energy melee for tanks/brutes. when was the last time you saw one played?

To be fair, the 50+1 is because of the level shift that is part of the incarnate system.

They need to fix the underperforming power sets first. Here you want to increase the challenge for the high performing, fully kitted out brutes but the solo defender with lower performing power sets that doesnt have a 500mill inf build will be out of luck. which is why difficulty is set do SO's. So many brutes/tanks not even taking taunt and letting the support toons take it on the chin. There already is challenge if you choose to look for it. This was never a hard core game, it doesnt need to be made into one.

So are the tank buffs going to happen?

it isnt a demand. just stating that buffing class a, then tearing down those buffs while buffing the class that you were trying to bring class a in parity too does nothing for the base reason you started in the first place. at the end of the day, will it be worth taking tanks in a tf or are they still sub standard brutes? If you have to hold back the rest of the tank specs just to stop SS from being OP, maybe deal with SS and not leave the rest of tankers in the dustbin? I appreciate what they have been doing, they are left with years of devs balancing for pvp. It looks like they should make a moderate buff for most specs and make it not effect SS.

then stop wasting time and go on to something that will actually be useful. 2 months and the tank buffs were better for brutes than they were for tanks. why bother?

so will it still be a good increse for non SS tankers? it seems they are letting the outlier dictate changes to stop them from being overpowered. these changes dont seem to do any good for em for example.

so how much of a nerf compared to what was on test? By the time they finish debuffung the buff, will they have actually accomplished anything or will it just be an exercise in futility?

summer wanted the brutes to keep their dps role with higher dps than tanks, and wanted a clear delineation between the two. the best way is to make tanks better at tanking and brutes better at dps. This is the simplest way of accomplishing that.

you are right, brutes should have a lower resist/defense cap. that would make an obvious difference between them.

brutes have a lot bigger chance to live to move to other victims, a dead blaster does no damage.

which blaster primary/secondary approaches the levels of protection that an SO'd out brute or tank has? Because we balance with so's. Blasters should have a lot higher damage than they do currently to make up for their lack of defense. Glass canon, remember that?

level as a solo empath. that should do it for ya.

then I am a happy camper

I have known someone playing wow that bought gold all the time. He was a RW lawyer and dint want to spend time grinding for gold. His time was worth a LOT more than what he spent with gold sellers. He had a separate credit card he used just for this purpose and never had a problem. He felt that it didnt effect the economy of the game because he was transferring already existing gold to himself from another character. it didnt creat gold out of nothing. right or wrong, that was his logic.

I agree, I hope there is more than just someone giving some one else some inf

you dont have to wait, but if I am tanking, dont expect me to save your bacon if you over pull and get in over your head. If I am on a healer, I will be perfectly fine letting you go suicide. Many times pulling helps mitigate awkward rooms, helps maximize aoe attacks and helps blasters not faceplant when they use their damage to the fullest. If you run in front and cause a team wipe because you forgot your add meds, you arent being a team player anyway, so why would a team support you? If I am on a debuffer or buffer, and I keep pulling agro because the tank/brute wont taunt? I stop buffing/debuffing and stick to dps.

how nice that we have you to dictate how others run their own raids. The devs removed the restriction for a reason. Stop trying to run everyone elses experience and deal with your own. If you are the raid leader, you decide who to invite. We dont need self elected autocrats ruining other experiences. let raid leaders determine who joins their raid.

You seem to obsess about this leeching, but a leech can be lvl 50 and you seem to have no problem with that. Any league leader can remove anyone of whatever level they dont want, they dont need you dictating that for them. Level restriction is not needed for a lfg raid, because they do have a leader that has removal power, adding a level barrier is just trying to restrict how others play.