Black Zot

Hard to 'arrest' anyone after most weapon sets get done with them. What's one more?

I have this mental image of a guy at an invention table literally mashing two gadgets together to make one.

About time someone pointed out the family of elephants playing cards around the coffee table. Without farmers, trying to make a decent IO build would be a lost cause, because the supply of goods to make said build from either would exist but cost half the inf cap to buy, or wouldn't exist at all. Hell, even with the rampant farming on live, good luck getting more than the most dirt-cheap stuff without a farmer toon of your own. CoX's economy is currently in a better state than I've ever seen ANY game economy, and farmers are a big part of why it stays that way. Take your nerfs and shove them.

You do realize there was a 3-page argument upthread refuting this "choose not to be affected" bullshit, right?

This would ALMOST be viable as a support character if resistance debuffs weren't resisted by the very stat they're targeting - which means the more you need that debuff to make up for your weak damage, the less effect it's going to have. That combined -58% number will only happen versus targets with base 0 resist.

Was this game made by Cryptic or Dilbert's office?

Ladies and gentlemen, an evil genius displays his talents.

I don't even use converters and I support this. Good common sense QoL tweak.

Oh HELL no. This would be a huge nerf to matter how many zones you expanded it to. Why should my Warshade have to download an addon and follow it all over hell's half-acre just to get one of her native powers to work properly?

I play CoH at 10-15 with my computer volume at 30. Any other game on my machine would be inaudible at those settings, but CoH STILL forces me to turn my speaker down as well.

I'm not sure what aggravates me more, the snowballing sound effects or the people that get together to shout down this suggestion every time someone brings it up.

Or maybe you should take a look at what Castle did and realize you got your analogy backward. He took a situation where all but a small handful of pet powers were working properly (the majority of MM sets, plus all Controller/Dominator pets, plus the SoA and patron pets) and basically reversed it, so that ONLY the two previously-broken pet sets were properly functional and everyone else got stuck with a bunch of suicidal muppets. That would be the equivalent of tearing parts out of every working plane in the hanger to get Rob Bird airborne again. Tell me again how Castle did anything right here.

If Castle were as good at his job as Steampunkette is shilling him, he wouldn't have broken ranged pets to begin with. You don't break something to fix something else. Period.

People were actually dumb enough to do that?

When I took my computer hardware course, the first thing they taught me to check was that everything was plugged in.

Only someone who has never dealt with legit mental health issues can possibly make that bullshit claim.

You mean besides lack of organizational skill, social anxieties, the extra time investment involved in forming as opposed to joining any group, the fact that most people are not leaders in any way shape or form ... Give your head a shake.

No. It doesn't. In any group that moves faster than the drone, which is to say ANY GROUP AT ALL, the only time it's in range is when you summon it mid-battle. And then it dies to splash damage because it's only marginally tougher than the P2W pets.

I've already seen this happen. Twice. I'm only on this game two or three days a week because of RL issues. Having my ability to raid cut off simply because the overflow league is no longer a thing in any meaningful way is NOT fun. People who think this change is positive, simply haven't been screwed by it yet.

I don't know if it's possible to implement here, but WoW gives pets a massive damage resist buff versus AoE specifically. In any event, pets need way more damage resistance or hp or both than they've got right now. Summoning them versus purples is a waste of a click. And yeah, stop assuming pets are in bodyguard when they're getting one-shotted. Anything with a big AoE, I'm not standing anywhere NEAR that, thanks much.

I don't buy that no Brawl breaks MM pet AI. There are already ranged pets in the game with no brawl that work just fine. The Lich, the Protector Bots ... AI breaking is not an excuse when you've got two working templates to copy-paste from.

Unlikely. It's crystal clear from how fragile pets are (dying at the same rate they get aggro or the boss's PBAoE recharges, whichever comes first) that the original devs wanted MMs to be resummoning pets on cooldown. Running into melee pointlessly works in service to that goal.

In other words, a completely worthless power. Don't insult people's intelligence by claiming PFF even qualifies as a band-aid solution for this issue. As to chatter around IO sets: once again, this game is balanced around SOs. Such-and-such a set being capable of X while IO'ed out is irrelevant to balance discussions. Period.

If it were possible to outrun projectiles in this game, you might have a point. It's not.