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I am certain these threads are made for the OP's own amusement. Snags the same people with the same trap every time.

Devs are commited, development is happening. Good time to jump in with a couple new sets floating around. Enjoy the ride.

Cool costumes. Congrats on 50.

I tried to get into the first one, bought all the DLC's and put about 30 hours into it but it just never grabbed me. When I realized I was making myself play it I decided to stop. Might check out the 2nd one but the backlog of games I already don't have time to play is ridiculous.

That is all well and good to a degree, but the fact of the matter is that it absolves most of the responsibility of the OP for creating questionable content and puts the responsibility on the devs and the community responding. In business and most parts of society people don't get catered to that way and it is a slippery slope to get onto. I'd also like to re-iterate the fact that this community is amazingly patient and if this was any other forum that I follow (be it commerce, sports or politics) shenanigans like that would be dealt with in a much less tolerant way (probably by the moderators). Personally I don't see much harm in it (and I find it amusing) so I don't get involved in a negative way but I can understand how the forum regulars would roll their eyes at a certain stream of threads that seem to crop up.

People used to (and still do, I'd imagine) use it for the kb protection on a squishy. Think some people just fill the gaps with IO's now though.

Stepping up when no one else is, is admirable. That being said, there are people that want attention and in some instances don't care if it's positive or negative when they get it. This forum is among the most cordial I've been on..most of us have been around the block a couple times at this point and I'm honestly surprised (and relieved, of course) it hasn't been less civil.

Lore question (asking here because Hero 1 appears to be somehow involved in this). Did Hero 1 ever come back to his senses or is he still fogged up from the Rikti brainwashing?

Unless you are dying 'a lot' than a p2w rez should do you just fine. Although i've had times messing around with 801 stuff where this would be useful ^^

Blaster is probably your top end AT if you know what you are doing (player skill needed to fully unlock the potential though). Most of the control-centric AT's start to become less relevant as you IO/Incarnate at 50, although I appreciate the playstyle associated with them and wish the niche for control was more broad in the end-game. Rest of it is kind of in the middle (certain combinations not-withstanding), in my opinion.

I'd say this is a question better answered in 30-40 years when one of these games is actually released.

So....a soft control type team? Probably decently fun while levelling but once everyone hits 50 and starts to IO/Incarnate things will be dying too fast to really make much use of the fear component (keeping the team small might help this). But if its fun for you I'd do it. Different strokes for different folks.

Pylons, soloing TF's, specific AE challenges. Off the top of my head. Impressive feats, certainly. But not something that I would say the majority of players are interested in or take part in due to the very specific nature of setting up the attempts. Having a new mode that will be more accessible (hopefully) will bring more people to the table and we can get a much more broad sense of what players are capable of rather than engineered scenario's that may favor certain AT's over others. Personally I am hoping to see effectiveness drawn not only from the pool of damage dealers/damage sponges but also from a solid emp that is diligent in keeping CM on the squishies consistently or a sonic that works to keep all of his teammates (when possible) in their bubble to soak some of those orange numbers. Right now we as a player-base are focused on very specific metrics of success, which is fine, but I'd like to see that expanded outwards and beyond.

Noticed a lot of outlets using things like Twitter and Discord to post relevant information for a game (or anything really) instead of their own actual website. Seems odd, but that is society today, I suppose.

I'm hoping that the new 'hard' mode that is being introduced will start to supercede some of the arbitrary measuring sticks that we use now for effectiveness.