Solarverse

I have a thread on this in the suggestion forums. If you want that sound back, I suggest you support that thread. It's listed in my Sig.

Because of the really cool title name of the thread? 😄

I just remember them being icons above the heads of players. You could right click on a player's name in your team list, then there would be an option to ad a marker above their head, and then there would be another drop down that let you choose which marker you wanted there. So if it was the Tank you wanted to keep track of, you would place the Shield marker. If it was the blaster, you would place the Blaster icon. There there were other random symbols as well. Like a diamond, or a circle, or a square, so on. Like I said, it did not even last a solid two weeks from what I can remember, the Devs removed the function almost as fast as they added it. I was kind of ticked that players couldn't be responsible with it, because it was a huge help...when done by responsible players that is, heh. The only other MMOs that I have played are Age of Conan, Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars The Old Republic (Hmmmmm....maybe it was that game and I am just getting it confused with this one. That is a huge possibility...but dammit, my brain won't stop telling me that it was this one) World or Warcraft, Asheron's Call, Lord of the Rings, DC Universe, Champions Online, Black Desert and Star Trek Online. But...the more I am thinking of it, I am starting to think my brain is confusing that option from Star Wars The Old Republic for this game. The mystery might have been solved. And if so, I am very sorry for sending everyone on this wild goose chase. If I am right, then maybe some day, somebody can find this thread and confirm.

Now granted, this is if my memories are correct about it even being in this game to begin with, however, it would have been before the re-work in the Hollows. Since I didn't go to Hollows much after the rework. I preferred the original Hollows and when it changed I stopped going there...until the game came back that is.

What would be helpful is if I knew what it was called (if it was even this game) that would be extremely helpful. I could then at least do a google search. It would be even more helpful if an original Dev played this game and they could confirm...even if they did not say they were an Original Dev, heh.

No, but I have on occasion gotten lost in the Chantry a time or two, lol

It might have been another game then. But i seem to recall running Frostfire and team mates kept changing the icon above the Tank's head, he ended up getting ticked off and quit the team because it was driving him insane. It was not long after that, the option was removed. I seem to recall that option only lasting maybe 2 weeks tops before the Devs took it away because players were abusing the hell out of it. If it was this game, it wouldn't have lasted any longer than a couple of weeks before it was removed. I believe it was being done on a trial basis to begin with, just to see if people would be responsible with it or if they would abuse it. Well...you know...people. Again, it might not have been this game, but my memory of it being this game is so strong it's driving me crazy.

If it was any other game, it would have possibly been DCUO, mayyyybe CO...but I am almost positive it was this game.

I remember a time (maybe even a short time) where we could place a marker above a player's head on our team so that we could keep track of the Tank, or the Healer, or so forth. You could choose between a shield or a cross or any other symbol that represented a specific class. However, if memory serves, it was really upsetting players because they did not like having the marker above their heads so this was eventually removed as an option. Now, this is what I remember. However, anyone I have tried talking to about this has no memory of this whatsoever. Am I experiencing a Mandela Effect here, am I remembering something that most people have forgotten, I just have a better memory, or am I thinking of a different game and confusing it for this game?

I think Energy Aura would have the same problems that Ice Tanks have; issues with Resistance. I'm thinking it won't be all what it's cracked up to be.

@The Philotic Knight might want to add to this discussion, since Force Fields are (to my knowledge) one of his favorite powersets. Me personally, I don't know what they need, but I would most certainly like to see them improved...somehow.

I'm not very hip to Absorbs, but do Defenses and Resists calculate *before* the Absorb Shield takes a hit?

My Ice Tank plays fine for the most part. It's the end game content that sets it behind the others. I mean, look at the stats posted. Warface has some really great stats. However, vs LR or vs some of the tougher end game content, he is a hell of a lot more work to sustain than any of the other Tanks that I play in general. The lack of Energy Resist, the less than maxed out S/L Resist, the lesser Regen, the very poor Psi Resist or Defense really hurts the set. And against LR. Obviously I am not going to say the set is impossible, but I do tend to grow tired of the, "Ah man, an Ice Tank? Can you get another Tank for this TF?" comments. Those comments are not just made for no reason. Furthermore an Ice Tank is extremely tough to build...and this build is Min/Maxed to its fullest potential. You need to keep in mind that most people simply are not going to be min/maxing the way I have mine....and I still feel the gaping holes in the build. If nothing changes, I will live, but I sure as hell won't complain if the set is re-balanced.

Here you go, I don't like making statements without backing them up with some type of evidence. Here are my stats from Mids since they mimic what I see in game. I am using Mids to show evidence because it's a lot cleaner and easier to see. However, I can assure you they mimic my stats in game. Take a look at these Min/Maxed builds for Ice, Invuln and WP. You may or may ot still feel Ice is fine as is which is perfectly okay, I just wanted to give the stats to you so that you could see for yourself.

I can tell you this much. Out of all my Tanks who are fully geared and have been min maxed to Death, my Ice Tank has the weakest stats of all of them. My WP Tank out classes the Ice Tank in almost every way. My Elec Tank does the same as well as my Invuln Tank. This is the only reason I am in favor of giving some love to Ice Tanks. I won't argue in favor too much, I just wanted to get that out there though in response to your question.

Original post has been updated to reflect on what has transpired in this thread.

The main hole in Ice (even as a Tank) is the Energy/Negative Energy and Psionic Resistances. Because the set is primarily a Defensive Set that covers damage types rather than distance types. So you end up spending more focus on building defense to your lacking defense or you end up trying to split it up to bring up your resistance to compensate for the severe lack of resistance in the set. The set could use some love...much needed love.

And even worse, some people are so hell bent on nothing changing, they will even go to lengths to use character assassination attempts instead of logically discussing the idea. Suggestion forums has a way of bringing out the worst in people...and I believe it's because people feel personally attacked if you request to change something they don't want changed. The suggestion forums can be very tricky sometimes.

His position on what exactly? Surely not the part where Omega thinks I am being dishonest and deceiving?

LOL! My Tank does not fart!!! 😄

To the OP This is my Stalker's Stats. His stats are about as good as you are going to get on a Stalker. Capped Resist to all but Psi, Negative and Toxic, Psi is near cap missing the mark by less than 1%, Negative is 15% from Cap. Defense is soft capped to Melee and Regen is at 441% and that is without Melee Core which brings it up to 713% Regen. I stood Zero chance.

Ah yes, I covered that in my OP, so I thought maybe he was talking about something else.

I was unaware of an issue with that. @The Philotic Knight, is this something you are aware of?

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To add to this, +4/8 and Solo. And trust me when I say, most Tank's can't even pull this off.