Black Zot

This right here is my problem regarding this whole thing. CURRENTLY Aethers are only used for what amounts to permanent Halloween costumes. If you believe that's going to last, I have a bridge to sell you. Nobody, but nobody, goes to the trouble of creating and implementing a new currency in a game without the intent to force people to grind for it. What else is going to get buried behind these particles that're being handed out with a clogged eyedropper? New costume pieces that should've been on the character creator? Enhancements or inspirations that don't drop normally? The door's been opened. What's coming through?

Lorewise, Prae-Hami is more than strong enough to solo the Magisterium iTrial with ease. In fact he was on his way to do exactly that, but we beat him to it. Seeds are plausible for a TF. An Avatar might be plausible for a hardmode TF, with some shenanigans to weaken it beforehand. Prae-Hami himself? Short of an epic asspull, he's beyond even a full league unless more incarnate slots get opened up.

Sooooo ... just like the rest of the game? 😉

What is that, an organized competition to see who loves foam footballs the most?

Korean corporate culture. It makes the company look bad when someone else makes bank on an IP you couldn't handle.

Standard Code Rant, and all that. But if it's feasible, I'd love to see this.

Lots of folks at Point Du Hoc on Everlasting would LOVE this.

In the forums, as in real life, no action ever gets taken against the one punching down.

Especially when the devs of said game actually dared to question or even argue with the higher-ups. You never, ever question authority in Korean corporate culture.

Never forgotten. Never forgiven.

I specifically said "Pushes the game TOWARDS City of Dark Souls", Captain Misrepresentation. And a change so significant many powersets needed buffs to compensate is hardly "minor". The one that gutted basically every non-positional defense build. The one they immediately had to buff a number of armor sets for to stop them getting eviscerated by enemies they used to be able to cope with. The one whose cheerleaders constantly gaslight about it being a "minor change" despite those facts. And before you bring up that "just adjust lol" canard, I HAVE adjusted. I no longer play anything that can't stack significant positional defense, seeing as that's the only thing that still works properly.

Was there anything optional about the defense nerf?

Would you prefer I called it Kingdom Hearts instead? Because it's not like it's possible to go a week without someone howling about how it's so awful that people have access to (and dare to use) tools that make the game playable for people who don't have superhuman skills. EDIT: And don't lie to me, those are both changes that objectively make the entire game harder, otherwise there wouldn't be any "adjustments" needed.

As pointed out above, "you don't like losing this so we'll gut that instead" is not a compromise. It's a concession. You can't meet someone halfway when they're walking away from you. The devs claimed when they started working on hardmode stuff that they weren't going to move the whole game toward City of Dark Souls. Page 4 has made it clear they were lying.

See also - basically EVERY "nerf this" post.

So much for the canard that adding harder content would appease the Dark Souls people.

People's inability to let go of the (terribly-written) lore around all this appears to be the root of a lot of the "issues" regarding incarnate stuff. Seriously, it's just a collection of extra powers that unlock themselves as you keep playing a level 50 character. It can come from Crazy Eddie's Super Novelty Shop for all that it matters. The writing around power origins in this game has always been a bad joke. Just write your own origin story and go kill some Skulls already. Unless you're roleplaying a Skull, in which case go kill some Hellions instead.

Doesn't matter how high your resists are, if your defense gets floored by debuffs you're going to die. Period. Resists alone do not and cannot keep a character on his feet under sustained attack. Especially with the aggro changes potentially multiplying the incoming damage you're up against. EVERYONE needs DDR. No exceptions.

Frankly I care a lot less about which version of Romulus I fight than I care about STOP RUNNING LIKE A LITTLE BITCH YOU SPARTACUS WANNABE!

Rikti got bored and stole them.

If all you've got to support your side is "I don't have a problem, therefore nobody has a problem" ... you don't have an argument and never did. I have told you before, repeatedly, that I play this game at volume settings I wouldn't be able to hear any other game at. Pretty much everyone here has acknowledged at some point that City of Heroes is a very fucking loud game. Not that you've ever given a shit for the people you're physically hurting by spamming stacking noise-pollution effects. And since you've made such a big deal about pulling up stakes and moving if your ability to noise-troll gets "nerfed" ... Buh-bye.

There never was an AE building in Atlas.

My understanding is that ranged weapons have some wonky-ass code they're trying to untangle. Hence this being melee-only so far.

So were the eardrum-blasting effects of Foot Stomp and Howling Twilight ACTUALLY fixed, or was that hot air?

Even with the synergy boosts, the blaster's own native attack powers will outperform Cross Punch hands down.