ScarySai

Noted a pretty harmless post of mine being deleted, can't help but wonder WTF the mods are doing. It's like they are incapable of just letting a conversation play out without taking the worst stance possible.

Lol. Anyway, this thread seems to be beating a dead horse at this point.

Some people getting way too defensive about a passing comment. Toxic positivity is definitely a thing in the CoH community.

No, it's actually a pretty widely accepted term for blind/ignorant positivity to a fault.

There was a lot of it on closed beta. Assume it's still the case.

This is indeed what beta testing a legitimate game from the ground up being developed by a legitimate studio might entail. This is, however, inapplicable to HC and the current state of CoH for the most part.

I'd argue the empathy not sharing the buff sort of goes against the whole empath theming of the set.

It kinda already is.

Empathy was never better than kin.

Yeah, freeze ray is the way it is now to make up for the lack of snipe. It's a change DP was also slated to get but never got, dunno how they were planning to do that.

I'd honestly go the opposite way. Ice has such a strong rotation that a snipe wouldn't really be needed. If you turned bitter into an aoe blast, that would actually give ice something it needs.

Try a stalker if you haven't yet. Stj on them is really smooth.

They've went on record saying they'd basically not have rage, or gut it if scrapper SS ever gets ported.

I'm surprised they haven't fixed that yet, honestly.

Sometimes a group experience is so miserable that quitting is the best option. Unless the guy quitting was carrying group, you'll be fine and penalizing them is pointless.

Half the time I feel like the people asking for this kinda thing don't actually realize what they're asking for.

Gotta love the rare open and shut thread.

Savage does better aoe than spines, lol.

... Strong burst, actually. The build up completely bypasses exhaustion, and can be ignored entirely with proper stack management. Follow up is better than build up. It's sustain is better than a lot of sets due to having a very smooth aoe chain, but one cycle is still bursty. Four mediocre aoes vs two good ones.

Yet, martial, tw, SS, savage, claws, and axe don't make any such trade, and sets like db and katana are well rounded despite an ST focus.

And? You're saying this like spines is some top tier set that would break the game if it's main ST ability wasn't utterly gimped by an atrocious cast.

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=dominator_assault.thorny_assault.impale&at=dominator https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=scrapper_melee.quills.impale&at=scrapper It's an easy fix, and there's no real justification for not making the scrapper one as good as the dom one that isn't complete bullshit. Whether the 'concern' is farmers, or an irrelevant excuse like "they aren't the same power technically" doesn't really serve anyone. @macskull I don't think it's strictly that, because they've used similar broken logic when it came to refusing to buff hurl/hurl boulder to be on par with the dom version too. Nobody is farming with stone melee.

By that metric, you'd think someone swinging a tree around might do more dps than a battle axe or a pair of wrist mounted blades. (TW is only top tier on pylons, before anyone corrects me.) Also, it's incorrect. Bows could very well have more punch than crossbows depending on various circumstances and comparisons, like what type of bow, what type of crossbow, and who's firing it. In a setting where even the 'natural' heroes and villains demonstrate above peak human strength, I could very easily see a bow being absolutely devastating. So tl;dr, it's best to just view the merits of the cosmetic change in and of itself and not getting wrapped in 'realism' unnecessarily.