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You also don't get as much benefit from the Heal side of it as a WP does either.

I don't think it's the Shield set itself as much as it is the fact that there's hundreds of them it's calculating Grant Cover and Phalanx Fighting for all at once.

Well, I'm poor, and my builds aren't as good as they could be, but I'm not angry about prices.

Sometimes I have a moment of "Seriously? That thing is THAT much now?", but usually I follow that up with "I guess I'll pick that one up later then"

The variety of things to do in the game did not all happen in one single issue. That's the point I was making.

This has been (so far) 2 issues worth of content, and you're unhappy that it isn't as diverse as 18 issues of content. Or at least that's how I read it.

Also, i10 didn't introduce an entirely new system to the game. But of course they should be expected to add a new system and just as much content as previous issues.

Amount of content does not necessarily equal the amount of work put into it.

The funny thing is: Gambler's Cut is actually the better attack in Katana.

It's not always about how much damage it does in one hit, it is quite frequently how much damage it does in how much time.

True.

And if the supply dries up, the only ones available will be the ones the marketeers bought for resale.

In either case the end result is the same, whether it is intentional market cornering, or simply people buying them to use.

To clarify: I sell items well under their "going rate" and quite frequently get lowballed by a marketeer looking to flip whatever it is.

The point being I don't really care if I make money off the market, I play the game to be a superhero, not a stockbroker.

Most of the time the item in question nets me quite a bit more than vendoring it would, so I'm more or less happy with it.

I put my builds together a little bit at a time. It takes me about 30 levels before I really decide if I'm going to go all out on IOing a given character, so I start planning ahead when I get to that point. That way I don't find myself in the situation of "Wow, I need to get a billion influence worth of stuff right away to finish my build", because chances are I've been sitting on the stuff I need for a while already.

It probably IS because of the difference between Synapse and Tarikoss.

Tarikoss can be run in 30 minutes by a PuG, Synapse run by the same PuG will frequently take nearly 3 hours, simply because of the sheer number of defeat all missions that are strewn all over the city.

Or maybe they just don't want 30 Babbages wandering around Skyway when all the level 50 teams skip the fight to get finished faster.

This is largely my approach to it as well.

A lot of the people who are perceiving it as a grind also seem to be perceiving that they can't do anything else while they're doing it.

I plan on running the Incarnate stuff a little bit here and there with my 50s, and when I get tired of doing that, I will play some lower level characters, or run a non-WST TF because I can.

You don't HAVE to achieve everything in the Incarnate system as quickly as possible. If you run the trials over and over again because you're too impatient to wait for your Incarnate slot, of course it's going to feel grindy.

If you do the same thing you've always done, play end game content and intersperse some lower level stuff as well, it will feel a lot less grindy.

Basically, if it's a grind, your approach to it is what is making it one.

So you're upset that the brand new content isn't as diverse as the rest of the game...which has SEVEN YEARS worth of content?

That's kind of silly there. There's no way you can realistically expect the devs to release something all at once that has the same amount of variety as the rest of the game combined. It's just not possible to do. Of course there isn't very much of the brand new stuff, the brand new stuff hasn't had seven years of stuff added to it yet.

I'm with Silver Gale on this one.

I'm not going to make any kind of judgments about this thing until I've experienced it for myself.

And there is another valid point in that post as well. Simply getting to level 50 can be considered a grind as well, seeing as how you are basically running the same types of mission over and over with different enemies in them all the way to 50.

Important note: You have to have purchased the Going Rogue expansion in order to do this. If you do not have it, you cannot gain Incarnate abilities.

On the plus side, your dominator was buffed in the time since you've been gone. No longer will you be doing crap damage outside of Domination. They removed the damage buff from Domination and buffed the damage of Dominator attacks across the board.

Also, you are no longer stuck with Mako as your patron. They changed it so you can respec into a different patron pool as long as you've done the arc. You also have access to hero APPs now as well, some of which might be better for you than patrons.

Since you've been gone so long, I highly suggest starting a new character and re-learning the game to save yourself the frustration of not being as good as you remembered. Once you get back into the swing of things you can start playing your main again.

MA is already pretty close to the top in single target damage, especially after it got buffed a little while back. Any set designed to be slower but harder hitting would end up being overpowered, especially in today's game where you can get ridiculous levels of recharge to the point the slower recharge of the powers isn't an issue.

Katana and Broadsword actually USED to be identical. It was the same set with different swords, because back then they hadn't even considered weapon customization yet. Katana was given a set of entirely different animations because a lot of people complained that it wasn't at all like a real katana would be used.

The faster/harder-hitting difference didn't exist until they changed it.

I've seen many, many basement stairs that were set up exactly like the picture. Door swinging out over a flight of stairs directly under it. Particularly in older houses that needed to have basement access, but didn't have room for a landing.

Yes, you'd have an unkillable tank.....that couldn't hold agro to save his life.

Energy Aura has no taunt aura in it. You'd only ever be able to hold agro on 5 enemies at a time.

This isn't going to happen.

Before he left I PMed Castle about something very similar (an IO that does the same thing when you are dealt damage)

His reply was that it was not something the devs would allow because it would take up way too many CPU cycles for it to function.

Basically, this power would make everyone around you lag horribly when the server's CPU is forced to calculate the results of a bunch of enemies attacking you at once. Now, imagine if there is more than one person using it, like at a ship raid for example.

Even though Castle isn't here anymore, I have no reason to believe the devs who took over his position would not take the exact same stance on it from a game mechanics standpoint. I mean, why would the devs introduce a power that they know will hurt the gameplay of anyone in the vicinity of the person using it?

Scorpion Shield is the only reason to go with Mace over Soul for a cones build. Soul Tentacles is functionally the same as Tenebrous Tentacles. As long as you aren't applying any KB they will stay right where they are.

So, if the OP wants to lead with Soul Tentacles instead, they can lock them down and shred them with the rest of the AoEs.

This is exactly why you don't see very many of this combo.

The synergy here is just horrible.

You have one set that specializes in knocking things OUT of melee range, paired with another set that specializes in killing large groups IN melee range.

Your primary and secondary will be working against each other most of the time. You want sets that will work well together.

Edit: I'm not trying to talk you out of playing it, just want you to be aware that your primary and secondary will not work very well together.

This would be new. But, it would be functionally identical to Thunder Kick. An alternate animation for it could achieve this exact effect.

Alternate animation for Crippling Axe Kick, already in the game. It also has an immobilize component to it.

Alternate animation for Storm Kick, also already in the game. It's even called "Gut Punch". Or if you really want the stun effect, this is also a perfect description of Boxing.

No matter what you call it, it's still the same power.

Sounds like Air Superiority to me.

Same as Focus Fury, same power, different name.

These would be new. I'm not sure the first is doable, but the second sounds remarkably like an alternate animation for Dragon's Tail.

This pretty much perfectly describes the alternate animation for Eagle's Claw.


5 out of 9 powers are already available as alternate animations for Martial Arts. One is pretty much exactly Air Superiority. One is just Dragon's Tail with a different animation.

Only the headbutt would be in any way different from what Martial Arts already does. The devs are not going to make an entirely new powerset that is functionally identical to an already existing one, especially when more than half of it already exists as alternate animations to the pre-existing set.