Black Zot

Two clicks with at least one very long animation, plus whatever buffs from your secondary you need to throw out. AT LEAST 4 seconds before the pet's battle ready, not counting summon time. In the middle of a firefight, that's forever. If you've lost more than one pet, you'll have to more-or-less completely disengage from the fight to resummon unless you want the newcomer to die instantly and waste the end.

Put it on the biggest layer cake map you can find and add a strict time limit. Mind you, don't expect anyone but a demented fool to PLAY that mission.

And don't try to pretend THAT'S not an utterly boneheaded piece of design.

First point in the OP is invalid. UV protection offered by cloud cover is trivial; you still need sunblock.

The game becomes more fun.

Never trust any percentage chance any game gives you that's not 100% or 0%. It's ALWAYS lying, one way or the other.

Only reason I have a TV is for console gaming. To hell with paying every month for a "service" consisting mostly of utter dog shit, and that goes for both cable and streams.

Coming from Microsoft, this is extremely rich. Microsoft spent the last 3 decades leading the charge on killing old hardware and software with its endless iterations of Windows, and now they expect us to believe they've done a complete 180? Anyone who doesn't smell a rat is noseblind.

Probably not; the expense to keep it running is less than peanuts because it runs on the same server bank as STO. Basically as long as STO turns a decent profit, CO is free.

Why not just rename the power "Big Fucking Rock" and be done with it?

Yes, it very much is. You're actively choosing to use a power that you know will screw things up for your team. That is griefing. End of discussion.

I'd much rather move 2-3 feet to hit an immob'd target than across the room to chase down the results of some knockback griefer's handiwork. Because ultimately, that's what AoE knockback is - griefing.

Lots of prices would still be more or less hardcapped because the HC market is seeded with salvage and whatnot. Enhancements would probably be more expensive simply because greed is part of human nature, and people will charge whatever they can get away with, ethics be damned.

Inb4 the usual batch of griefers crying that they should have the right to deafen people with a Foot Stomp.

Not from the random small fry between them and the actual villain, they don't.

That's not an oh shit button, that's a "press this to die" button.

You'd have to remove the self-cancelling effect for that change to mean anything.

Edited because that pic turned out way bigger than I thought.

Why settle for plain toast when you can have french toast?

"Edgelord" and "Mary-Sue" are practically identical in this regard. If you just go down a trait checklist or litmus test, pretty much every character worth writing about registers as one or the other. Unironically using either term to describe a character is usually a pretty good indicator that the person talking lacks any sort of argument and just wants to denigrate the target.

Mag 2 anything is basically padding to make a power look better without actually giving it a useful effect. By itself, it does jack.

Mercs is one of the weakest primaries in the game. "Powerful or game breaking" is mutually exclusive with mercs.