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That sounds too much like purposely gimping yourself which is something I completely disagree with.

It's called making sacrifices in one aspect of the game to achieve a goal in another. I have no choice since most ideas put out there were shot down...so it caused me to look in to other avenues. Besides, I also made the suggest that this only activate during Incarnate Trials.

Ugh...pvp has changed so much I can't even get in to it anymore. I even noticed slows or -recharge is a joke in PvP now. That counted my Ice/Cold out. Yet back in the day my Ice/Cold was no joke.

I understand your frustration. What I try to do in order to hit as many as possible is I target the center back furthest NPC, that way I know I will hit as many of them as possible. Frost Breath and Fire Breath has the same issue. So until the Devs add to the Range, that will be the best we can hope for I think.

I took my level 35 Beam Rifle Blaster to PI and shot at a level 50 CoT and it indeed showed miss.

I did not realize that was an issue that you were having. It was not mentioned before. I'll check it out and see if I can't at least figure out why it does that.

I would agree, however, toggles that survival depends upon such as Will Power's RttC or Invuln's Invincibility should be an exception. Toggles that only serve to damage on the other hand would not be the exception.

You should try out the mod I mentioned. It will make a bit more sense then. 😉

Or give it some slight aura rather than the purple shields.

I love mine the way it is. In fact, using my Terminator Plasma Rifle Mod with this makes sense to the way it looks. If nothing else, make it a pulse full auto beam instead of a constant beam and give it similar mechanics to full auto, just less damage and I think it's golden.

I ditto this.

It's just something in case of power creep being a further issue and trying to cover that point before it's made an issue. Either way. I would have zero issues with any of these.

Power Creep probably wouldn't be such an issue if we confined the use of extra Enhancement Slots to Incarnate content.

No, people keep going back to that and I am just trying to keep things updated. Don't take offense to it, no offense is intentional. To be quite honest, I like you as a forum poster, we usually agree on things and see eye to eye, it just so happens we have bumped heads a bit in this thread. And to answer your question on how I am reading this thread, I just woke up and had a LOT of posts to read through, I have just been responding to them as I read them so that I don't lose track of which post I last read.

Or if we even grey out those enhancement slots and they only unlock when playing Incarnate Task Forces? There are ways around the balancing issues I think.

Now we're on to something!

I stand corrected.

Okay, I'll meet you half way there and say it was harder then, but not hard core. I agree with your point.

What about new enhancement slots?

I thought we have moved past the costumes as being an option for gated items? Pretty sure we have moved on from that and are now seeking alternatives.

Nobody said that...

I think he is referring to me. He has been trying to engage in to conversation with me over the past couple of weeks now and I simply won't respond to him no matter what he says about me, even if it means that I do not defend myself against his false claims. I just let him say whatever and ignore him. He has a bad habit of making false accusations and argues with strawman tactics. I have learned that I simply cannot hold a conversation of any kind with him because of this, so now I let him say whatever he pleases about me and simply refuse to respond. He has a bad reputation of doing this on these forums and his opinion of our community and the HC Devs have been made clear. Simply put, I have absolutely nothing to say to the guy.

This right here. Well said, Lockpick. Another option for progression could be that every so many Vet Levels we unlock 1 new Enhancement Slot. Or even perhaps tie an Enhancement Slot to a Task Force, or a New Task Force. There are many ways to help us feel rewarded and achieving something, it does not have to be costumes. If players are willing to compromise but want costumes a no-go zone, I am okay with this, there are other ways we can go about it.

Scroll back through the conversations and you will see how this was covered and why that is just a horrible solution.

Not just the gated content, you have to remember the Debt system basically getting removed, it's so pathetic now I am not even sure why we even have a Debt system anymore. It's so trivial now it's pointless. I can't say for certain it had anything to do with unlocking costume pieces, but just how the game was made easier and easier over time. For an example, let's take a look at Star Wars Galaxies....remember what happened after CU? Here, let this ring a bit of what happened and then what the company said after they had lost a good portion of their playerbase after making the game easier. Media outlets criticized the changes of the "Combat Upgrade"while subscription cancellations rose. After the New Game Enhancements were implemented in November 2005, sparking huge demonstrations in-game from the majority of players, various media outlets criticized the reduced depth and complexity of the game, but John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, defended the decision claiming it necessary to revamp the game in order to reverse the deterioration they were seeing in the subscriber base. SOE offered refunds on the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion due to it being released two days before the New Game Enhancement was announced. The development team affirmed this was their desired direction for the game and that they would modify parameters to address player's concerns. Features such as expertise trees were later added to the game to add complexity and differentiation to characters. After the announcement that SOE had acquired the game Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Smedley addressed that game's players about the perceived threat of major changes to the game: "We've learned a thing or two with our experiences with the NGE and don't plan on repeating mistakes from the past and not listening to the players." This all happened because this game was not meant for the causal player. Sure, a casual player could play the game, but a casual player was not going to progress in the game as fast as the dedicated player would. This game was made for the hard core player who wanted a challenge, who wanted a game that challenged them in many various different ways. This is what MMOs were all about in those days. Casual player seen the games, loved the concept of them, but did not like the difficulty of them, so they took to the forums and became very loud about wanting the games changed to be made for the casual players. The players who loved the game as is fought back, but sadly lost that battle. SOE caved in to the casual player and added CU, which caused a lot of players to leave the game. It hurt them, it hurt them bad. However, SOE thought that in time, they would get enough casual players to try the game out and in time would cover the loss from the players leaving in mass droves. Then SOE once again ignored their hard core playerbase and came out with NGE. After that, they lost more players than they bargained for and it hit them hard in the wallet after those players left in mass exodus. They never recovered after that and was forced to shut down. In the end, the developers finally admitted that they made a huge mistake listening to the casual player and alienating their hard core fan base and said they would never do that again. With City of Heroes, I cannot pin it all on one change, it was many negative changes (for the hard core fan base) that caused the hard cores to leave the game. However, I don't think the changes to costumes had anything to do with that. I am just saying adding new costumes to gated content (at least for a short period of time) could give players like me that sense of working toward a goal...and it doesn't have to be costumes, it can be anything really.