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I understand, and I didn't understand that there's a "damage formula" or derivation between AoE range and damage. Although if we're being completely straight, it could be changed to have a larger aoe and still retain it's damage and number of targets, which I STILL think is reasonable. Especially considering the servers are slightly laggy and I have to sit in place for half a second before using a cone skill, or else it registers I used it from a different position and i only hit one enemy. But that might be a personal problem.

Okay. I was ignorant to the aoe-range-to-damage formula that is apparently going on behind the scenes. If widening the cone would reduce the damage, I can't say I'd hate that, but now I at least understand the reasoning. I appreciate the discussion and insight.

WHY should I think of it as a single target attack when it is by definition narrow cone with a max of three targets? How would it open a can of worms on what people call an underpowered power set? If the 3 target limit remains, what's the issue? It still can't hit more than 3 people, which is what the developers intended a decade ago.

So I've been maining a DP/Sonic Corruptor and been having a blast. Very team oriented and I love when the tank pulls a group and I get to use my AoE cones on groups before Scourging down the stragglers. My issue is that for a set with FOUR AoE abilities, this one functions essentially as a single target skill. I'm not sure I understand the point of having it be BOTH a NARROW cone (may as well be a straight line for all the times I've used it) and it's limited to only hitting THREE enemies. My suggestion is simple: Widen the cone but keep the limit at three enemies. This means that we will actually get use out of its intended multi-target effect and it will actually hit more than one unit. I've seen several people mention on the forums that DP is an underpowered ranged damage set, I will admit I don't have the experience or know-how to say if this is true. I do think this slight change would fit the playstyle a little more.

Right? Unless these numbers are all derived from some sort of global magic number the original devs introduced, that would mess with EVERYTHING, then this is quite the simple change.

Noticed that some of the longer replies when talking to NPCs will be truncated at the end of my mission box rather than wrapping to a new line. Not a game breaker but sometimes I can only read half of my reply to the NPC. Running 1920x1080 I believe.

So after returning, it has the tab-target lock on system that's prevalent in other MMOs like WoW and FFXIV, but for some reason it doesn't FEEL like it, right? I get that I'm targeting, but I'm bouncing/hovering all over the place. Running past an enemy and letting a melee attack go is pretty fun, too. The combat + your rotation just ends up feeling very active and fun and actiony. Also the AI pathing in this game is surprisingly good. Was street sweeping in Perez Park with my girl, and a Hellion was trying to run. This dude JUMPED into a TREE. Then he jumped from the TREE onto the TOP OF THE PARK'S WALL and jumped over! I can't remember the last time I saw anything like that in any MMO. This dude was really trying to escape.

The paragon city equivalent of trading up from a paper clip eh

This is super useful for me! Thank you so much! Also, I love the sprites of the characters in your signature/avi. Did you make them yourself?

Found the whisper nazi

Two instances. Wow, what a pervasive problem... Your sarcastic quip is very much appreciated. I encountered both of these issues in a total of 6 hours of gameplay. I figured I would share my experience to hear what the community thought of the issue and maybe hear any other related anecdotes. Which I have. Didn’t even realize people called them whisper nazis. So far this is something I’ve ONLY encountered on this game, and I’ve played a lot of MMOs.

I have encountered two instances since yesterday. The first, someone calling someone names in LFG because they didn’t respond to a tell. I told them to calm down and game on. They sent me a tell letting me know that CoX is all about the community and you HAVE to respond to tells. I asked if they were exemplifying this idea of community by name calling in a server wide chat. I got cussed out and told I didn’t deserve this game lol. Second, tonight, I was posting for Positron 1 TF. I had two spots left, 5 people messaged me at once. THREE of them asking if I would wait while they switch to an alt and 2 asking to join immediately. My chat moves too fast to get back to replying to them while also managing a team. Someone then messaged me and said “Global ignore for ignorant people too dumb to respond to tells”. I thought we were mostly adults here.

IDK about you but I love throwing up an AoE and seeing "SCOURGE" show up all over my screen

I don't think I've seen a private server MMO vote-ranking list since before 2010. I can't handle all the nostalgia lately

I rolled a dual pistols/sonic resonance corruptor in Praetoria yesterday. I was soloing content when I got sent on a mission to fight through a massive horde of ghouls, to defeat two ghouls at the end. At level 5. Like 50+ ghouls easily. This is the first character I took flight on. You best believe I flew over all those ghouls just to kill the bosses. I was even satisfied with myself. Balanced? Nope. What my character would have done? Yep.