Solarverse

It might be worth it too. 😄

Citadel anyone?

Shhh, you are going to get my eye candy nerfed from the game...

Isn't the foot stomp animation the default? I know mine was...on both my Brute and my Tank.

Trust me, I have said, "Let's just rock with whatever we get" several times. Like I said, it's rare when I try to build well rounded teams. Most of the time I rock with whatever. When I do try to build well rounded teams, it's mostly because of the nostalgia I get when I see a team with a Controller, a couple Defenders, a couple Blasters, a Scrapper and a Tank. It's a lot of fun for me. As said before, has nothing to do with "need."

I never have requested specific roles...not normally. It's rare. But I don't think that players who do are bad. That's a badly generalized assumption. I have no issues joining teams who are looking for specific roles. I don't recall them ever being bad teams any more than I experience bad teams on any other aspect of the game. That's just from my perspective.

Then you are playing the wrong game, lol. All kidding aside, this game has not been like that since IOs came out. Even then it was fairly easy. I just *try* to keep in mind, this game was never my favorite because of the difficulty, it is my favorite because it promotes teaming like no other, the friendly players and, POWAH!!!!

The introduction of the Freak sappers. They were never needed. Freak were one of the few mobs that gave you a breather from the difficult mobs, now Freaks have sappers too. Freaks went from my favorite to one of the most loathed. Next thing you know they will add sappers to Council...

This I feel is the primary issue. Mobs melting before you can even pull off a long animated AoE. Even worse as you have mentioned, the mobs are destroyed before you can even cast your primary debuff. This IMHO is the primary and root foundation for the cause of threads popping up like this one.

I picked up Surveillance on my Blaster and scoped a ton of them out. All of them have zero buffs running except for an accuracy bonus, at 1.15x with a To Hit Bonus of 50%. Perception is at 50 ft. No other buffs at all, with exception to resistance, 33% for energy and Cold, with a -20% resist to Negative and Psionic. They also get a 10% To Hit Resist. So why they are seeing Invis + Stealth IO is beyond me. You have to have Superior Invis or better for them to not be able to see you...and based on this information put together, I can only come to the conclusion that this is a bug specific to Cabal.

Meh, I don't see it that way. Sometimes players, especially like myself prefer a well rounded team. Has nothing to do with what we need. I guess each will look in to it what they will, but I simply don't agree.

I can well enough imagine the facepalming there, heh. I don't see it as an epidemic or anything, IMO the game could continue as is and be just fine...however, games constantly change, and if it's going to change I would like to see it change for the better. I simply don't want to see classes become alienated in the future. Like I said, it's not much of an issue now (not that it has never been an issue, just saying not much of one) I just would like to see the game go in a direction that makes all classes equally desired...if that is even possible. At this point we get in to balancing...and as we all know, balancing in an MMO has always been the most tricky thing to do. CoH felt way more balanced back in the day, but even so, it still remains the most balanced MMO I have ever played even as it stands today. So having said that, I just hope it stays that way, or even more so.

Ah okay, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

Ah okay, I see now. I do agree.

Huh? I think you have read something way wrong, that's not what I said...not even close to what I said.

Experience. People aren't making these observations up.

Not how I meant it, what I am saying is that as of right now, this could not be further from the truth.

Mainly, because if it can be done with relative ease, people will have no reason to purposely look for Healers or Trollers. As it stands now, when I currently build teams for TF or the likes, I don't even bother checking people's classes because I have no real reason to. This was not the case at one time. It's clear content in this game is too easy from what I can see. So I tossed out the idea of creating more challenging end game content as a slight suggestion....it kind of spiraled from there.

Wait, didn't you say that wasn't "fair?" Isn't that exactly what I asked for? More challenging content? If they make more challenging content, that would require players to build well balanced teams. I'm seeing a sort of an unintended contradiction here on your part.

But you think it's fair that all content in game can be done without certain classes? Where does this leave those classes? As I see it, it is currently only "fair" to people who see it your way. If you want to say my idea isn't fair, then fair enough, I can respect that, but at least give me an alternative to consider, because right now, as it stands, there are other classes that are poor underdogs, where as at one time, those classes were very much needed and respected. It would seem people are perfectly happy kicking them down in to the dirt, which is essentially exactly what we have done...and then keeping them there. So alternatives are needed. This is an MMO, that was originally designed to make ALL classes needed and respected on teams. Now we have a Just Us Club going on, which this game was not originally designed for. Something needs to change and keeping the lacking and under-performing classes in the dirt is not the answer. So far, every suggestion made to make it "fair" has been shot down by the players who want to be able to solo everything in game. I don't see a single thing "fair" about that.

@Snopes and I (@Solarverse) have created an SG that is U.S. themed. It's not considered a primary SG, but an SG intended for America Patriot themed characters. The idea behind it is, to have a bunch of players who have American themed characters to be able to play with other American themed characters and have a home to place them in that makes it easier for them to do so. We are recruiting. If there is already another American themed SG out there, please let us know, we are willing to join before we get too large. Better to have all of us in pne place rather than spread out throughout the server. PST to either me or @Snopes if you are interested. Edit: We now have a channel for anyone who may have an American themed character but do not wish to take them out of your primary SG. Since we are not just for Americans, we have decided all Allies are also welcomed. This goes for Canadian, German, French, Mexican, Australian, or any other nation that is allied with the United States. The name of the chat channel if you wish to join with like-themed characters is called United Nations. Please join us! And as always, we are still looking for Patriotic themed or Allied to America themed characters to join our SG. Thanks for lending an ear and hope to hear from you!

Yeah, would probably be better if there were end game content created that simply could not be done without a well rounded team. Probably the fairest way to go about it.

Calm down fellas, I got the answer from Golstat. He doesn't agree. Although I do not agree with Golstat, I respect that he doesn't agree. No need to make a fuss about it, he has a right to disagree without being hammered over it. I think every AT should feel like they contribute greatly to a team, rather than, "meh, I can do it without them, but okay" type of game. He believe you should be able to run with all melee DPS and do just fine. He has his reasons, I have mine, they conflict, but no reason to argue about it. Some agree with him like Omega, some agree with me like AWOL. In other words, my question was answered so no need to beat each other up over a miscommunication or misunderstanding. Let it ride, my fine super powered heroes.

And that is why it is so damn confusing, lol. Thanks for that clear-up.

Not true, Ship of Heroes just had Beta testing that went far beyond costume designing. Ship of Heroes looks most promising.