Black Zot

That's kind of a thing across all MM powers. Up until recently, you needed at least one blue candy to fully summon and buff your pet complement, because the pet and upgrade skills literally added up to more than a full blue bar even after end reduction IOs.

Good to know. Watching the tier 1 pets effectively bounce off enemies at the difficulty settings most groups run at is demoralizing. I don't envy you that to-do list, but on the bright side removing the level shifts will should make the math involved in future balance efforts a shade easier. EDIT: Should, not will. Standard Code Rant and all that.

If there's even a miniscule chance for an EB to pop out and eat my face with no recourse on my part, I'm not touching that door. I don't care if there's 3 full leagues locked and loaded, I'm not stepping on that landmine.

Well that's the last time I click ToT doors on a pet class of any stripe.

I find various ways to skip story missions (usually MSR) because every time I try to play story stuff, I'm reminded of why I don't play the story stuff. Very few arcs in this game have writing worth the space it takes up in the text boxes, and if it was shit the first time, subsequent times are going to suck even harder. So really, why bother?

That's what happens when you gate RP-centric goodies behind a grind aimed at hardcore minmaxers.

That's 1.5x (or more) the max hp of most ATs. And it clearly bypasses the oneshot protection. I stand by what I said. Never running it again. If putting up with that bullshit would save the world, the world can burn.

Who do we blame for the attack doing enough damage to oneshot people right through an active Ambrosia buff?

Lucky you. I dreamed of playing Dr Mario, only the game was cheating - changing the color of pills after they land, refusing to vanish matches even when six or eight of a color got lined up, dropping pills super fast. Kinda like what the "challenge" people want to do to this game, really.

Yes.

Irrelevant. There's no point in even giving the PC an HP bar if you're going to circumvent it with oneshot mechanics. Even HAMIDON doesn't instagib people. I'm not dealing with that shit. Period. I don't care what excuses you offer, it's a bullshit mechanic that should not exist in any game and I will not run that trial ever again.

That's not what I've seen. Everyone was airborne including the taunter, I landed my controller just long enough to drop an acid mortar - IMMEDIATE Foot Stomp. Dead in one shot, right through Ambrosia. I am never running that bullshit again.

You could say the same thing about them deciding to break Rage way back when.

Mag 1 protection stops knockdown effects and that's all. Anything that was actually going to toss you before still will.

Well if you want to be REALLY pedantic about the whole thing, the popular refrain of "devs are players too" would indicate that those are player ideas as well.

Presumably it's the difference between "gah, that's bright!" and actual eye damage.

Hard proof right here that dissent is deliberately getting snuffed.

You'd have to rebuild the game from scratch; the pre-issue 24 code no longer exists so far as I know.

I'm wondering where they got the idea to give Fire Melee of all sets defense debuffs. That feels like "This set needs a buff, get out the hat".

Damn, they went full anime on that.

My opinions on the devs' trustworthiness (comma lack of) aside, my only real complaint about page 5 itself is the number of characters I'm gonna have to basically rebuild from scratch if I ever want to play them again. MOST of the changes look pretty good, especially compared to the fiasco of page 4. But that respec interface is just ...UGH. Half the time I spend in Mids is for the sole purpose of NEVER DEALING WITH THAT SHITSHOW AGAIN. In a lot of cases I find it easier to start over from the creation screen than endure the respec UI.

Personally, I'm not testing anything because my current work schedule makes playing CoH at all impossible, nevermind the extra time and energy to get onto a whole different server. Considering the devs' track record, by the time I get a chance to make any feedback the self-appointed forum police would call valid, the chance for it to be considered will be long gone.

Thematically speaking, Necro pets should have some lethal resist anyway. They're fucking dead, what's "lethal" even mean at that point? And because some people around here either can't grasp context or have the reading comprehension of a cinderblock: yes, I am joking.

Where you saw a few small wiggles, I saw a whole lot of "yeah, we'll look at that" followed by pushing it live as-is. They could at least be honest about their intentions with the threads and call them "Bug Testing: X Change". Because that's clearly the only feedback they're actually interested in.

You mean the same threads they ignored last page? Don't be dense.