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3 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said:


Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. The game has ALWAYS been balanced around SOs, even today, because that's what's easily and readily available to everyone at all levels with minimal financial investment. The majority of players don't have a meta endgame build or play hardmore endgame content. Believe it or not they use SOs and/or common IOs, even at level 50. IOs and Incarnates have ALWAYS been advertised as optional features, not required.

I never said I didn't like it so that's an odd take. And yes, I tell new players it is perfectly fine to have a level 25 common IO build even at 50 since that's what I personally did on Live. To say that is the standard now is absolutely delusional. Again, no one is posting asking for end game SO builds at this point. People might want cheap IO set based builds, but they want those builds as those are the standard now. 

 

Here's the thing, if the game is balanced around the idea that SOs are the standard, then support characters don't need to self buff since that standard is so low. Or, the IO set world is the standard and oddly enough no one who wants self buffing to happen can actually show data or builds which show why those builds are missing out compared to other builds due to the lack of self buffing. As previously started, at worst I can make a Cold Defender who is under 7% in any Def stat which would be boosted by their own shields, sans Melee which I don't really care about and is still +30%. The differences between my recent attempts at a Cold/water vs. Dark/dark is incredibly low. I actually need to do more work on the Dark since it has a non-functional amount of end usage vs. recovery so in the end the numbers will likely be even closer, so WTF would a Cold Def need to use their own shields?

 

If SOs are the standard, knock yourself out running teams on old school diff settings and seeing how quickly those teams are filled running level 50 content.

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Top 10 Most Fun 50s.

1. Without Mercy: Claws/ea Scrapper. 2. Outsmart: Fort 3. Sneakers: Stj/ea Stalker. 4. Emma Strange: Ill/dark Controller. 5. Project Next: Ice/stone Brute. 6. Waterpark: Water/temp Blaster. 6. Mighty Matt: Rad/bio Brute. 7. Without Hesitation: Claws/sr Scrapper. 8. Within Reach: Axe/stone Brute. 9. Without Pause: Claws/wp Brute.  10. Chasing Fireworks: Fire/time Controller. 

 

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  • 1 month later
Posted

This thread should be renamed to “tell me you don’t build or regularly play defenders without telling me you don’t”.

 

Anyone thinking defenders wouldn’t be ridiculous with this suggestion has no serious experience with them or corrupters.

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I think it would be awesome if all buff-other powers got the same treatment that powers like stimulant received. It may be confusing to new players but playing a sonic resonance character or similar team buffer always feels a bit restrictive compared to sets that give you more tools to solo if you want. 

 

That doesn't mean that sets like sonic resonance  would receive the full use of their team buffs, but they would have a use for the power picks solo.

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RE: Sonic. Via @Hyperstrike. If you enable Rune of Protection, You are Res capped to all but Psi and that's at 70%. You are still getting an incredible amount of mitigation even if you aren't using it.

 

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Top 10 Most Fun 50s.

1. Without Mercy: Claws/ea Scrapper. 2. Outsmart: Fort 3. Sneakers: Stj/ea Stalker. 4. Emma Strange: Ill/dark Controller. 5. Project Next: Ice/stone Brute. 6. Waterpark: Water/temp Blaster. 6. Mighty Matt: Rad/bio Brute. 7. Without Hesitation: Claws/sr Scrapper. 8. Within Reach: Axe/stone Brute. 9. Without Pause: Claws/wp Brute.  10. Chasing Fireworks: Fire/time Controller. 

 

"Downtime is for mortals. Debt is temporary. Fame is forever."

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