Bionic_Flea

If you are solo, taunting is practically useless whether you're a tanker, brute, blaster, or anything else. You'll have all the aggro. And, as you pointed out, since there is an aggro cap, there may be critters that are ignoring the tank anyway. My suggested anti-taunt critter would be one that the team would want to prioritize. It's OK if you don't like my idea or have a different opinion. But if you are going to give reasons the reasons should at least make sense.

I remember way back in live . . . maybe around issue 6 . . . a friend introduced me to an add on that substituted certain skins for others. If you had it installed, you would see yourself (and anyone else that chose the identical costume) wearing things the game didn't allow. One of the options was a little more detailed naked option. That lead me to uninstall since at that time my kids were young and watching me play. All that to say, if it is feasible to do those sorts of costume swaps locally, then Billy Bob can drape himself in the confederate flag and Otto can plaster swastikas on his forehead and no one but them would know. But it would also allow anyone to import the flag of their country or whatever flag they wanted.

I haven't suggested increased HP. Others have though. My ideas were to add optional new bosses with different abilities and AI.

I'm in the no group on this one, sorry.

why would you want to neuter a tanker from being able to hold aggro? just my 2 inf, the idea of just making everything bosses or EBs sounds incredibly boring. People are quitting TFs that take too long as it is. Why make them longer? 1) Having ONE single mob that ignores a tanker's grunt is not "neutering" a tanker's role. They can have all the other aggro. 2) I, along with others in the thread, are spitballing ideas to add some variety or complexity beyond "everyone steamroll with AoEs" 3) Maybe people are quitting TFs that are taking too long . . . because they're taking too long? Another crazy idea, right?

Here's another crazy idea. Have a sniper boss that's immune to taunt but is exceptionally aggravated by buffs and debuffs. You'd want CC to lock that guy down quick.

Each zone, mission, base, AE farm, etc. is one map instance. The closer the ratio of players : instances is equal to one, the more soloing (or solo afk) is going on.

Didn't we have this conversation already?

Each server has a set of channels that include "Server name", "Server name" Badges, "Server name" Monsters, "Server name" TFs, "Server name" PvP. Plug in your Excelsior or any other server name. However, at least on Excelsior it seems to me that most of the chatting goes on in Help, LFG, and General. I would advertise on LFG what badge you were going for and wait for the tells to come in. You could certainly say the same thing in Excelsior Badges and Excelsior PvP but you'll get less response.

Most people in this game don't really want to be challenged. They like face-rolling. Difficult enemies and difficulty settings already exist in the game. People are happy to do +4/x8 Council or even the slightly harder Romans in the ITF. But rarely do you see players advertising for +4/x8 Arachnos missions or using any of the other difficulty settings other than once for an Ouro Badge or for a Master Run. There's a reason people don't play redside and goldside as much. It's harder. Yes, I know that there are many players that do enjoy a challenge and solo +4/x8 ITFs and try to get single digit times speed running stuff. You crazy people are the exception . . . or should I say we crazy people. And when you get a character that can solo +4/x8 and add another 7 bodies to add damage and buffs and debuffs things melt. If all 8 of those bodies can solo +4/x8 then you'd better not blink or you'll just see a pile of NPCs on the floor. I do want to have extra difficulty added but it has to be optional. Perhaps an extra setting that adds random elite bosses with a full complement of player powers. Think of what would happen if you suddenly ran into a Gravity/Time controller surrounded by friends . . . or a Force Field/Water defender . . .etc. Maybe make it a clone or shadow of someone on the team.

Check in the Pet damage channel.

Vanilla Ice approves . . .

Fire. Dead is better than sapped.

I enjoyed my Thugs/EA, although I find it busier than other MM secondaries.

I would consider keeping the ice theme and going with cold/ice defender. That can give her 30% defense to all but psi, capped hitpoints, 30% resistance to fire/cold, 20% resist to toxic. Supplement that with pools that further support her: either Medicine pool for mez resistance and some heals, Experimentation pool for mez resist plus regen and recovery, and/or leadership, concealment, sorcery, etc. And all that is supplemented by impressive debuffs to regen, defense, resistance, movement, recovery, recharge, and damage as well as your own holds and rains to stack with your wife's attacks.

I'll take that as a "yes" then. Fun to you is making a certain amount of influence in a certain period of time. Thanks for responding. That helps me understand your point of view.

Is the fun in playing the game (whatever that means to you) or is the fun in generating a certain amount of influence? It sounds like you (Captain Yesterday. et. al.) are saying you can't have fun unless you get 250 million every 3 days . . . 3 hours . . . whatever amount of influence in whatever period of time. Am I reading that right or am I misunderstanding something?

With regard to many people being solo: I am frequently solo in a mission or in my base. I am self employed and love to play, but have to answer the phone and periodically check and respond to e-mails. As such, I may have to pause anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours depending on what is going on. I can't subject a team to that kind of inconsistent play. Now with the pandemic, I imagine that many are in the same position. But from time to time I also may have an hour or so to team or run a TF. It just depends on the day and what's going on.

How do you feel about ego herding and/or cat runs?

Thanks!

Ah. Cool. Thanks for the update and congrats on winning the challenge!

Was there a video?

Rad/Dark melee is an amazing combo for tanks and brutes. Lots of +damage, endless endurance, and 2 heals as part of your attack chain to keep your HP topped off form whatever little bit gets through defense and resistance.