ClawsandEffect

Fixed that for you. With little or no defense in the build, you are going to find yourself eating pavement with alarming regularity. I get using RotP to it's full potential, but with no defense you're goig to find yourself dying while it's still recharging quite a bit.

Oppressive Gloom uses endurance, just not very much. It's end cost is extremely low, but it's balanced by the fact that it damages you.

Other powers that use no end include: Conductive Aura in Electric Control, and the self rez in any set that has one (can't use end if you don't have any, and your end bar empties when you die)

Out of the several hundred powers in the game, there are fewer than 10 that don't cost endurance to use.

Puttng these words in the OP of a thread in the S&I section is just ASKING for it.

No.

Regen is a perfectly viable PvE set. It's more click heavy than other sets, but it can be built to perform just as well as any other set.

There are videos floating around of things like: Regens soloing multiple AVs at once, a Regen doing the RWZ Challenge* using nothing but the tier 1 attack, and several other examples of insane achievements.

*If you're not sure what the RWZ Challenge is, it goes like this:

Go to the Rikti War Zone and find a group of level 54 Rikti that contains a minimum of 3 bosses. Engage said group and defeat all of them without dying. You are not allowed to break agro or use any inspirations or temp powers. Iggy Kamakaze's Claws/Regen pulled it off while using no attacks other than Swipe (which is an insane accomplishment, it took him 3 times as long to kill them and he survived the whole time with no inspiration use)

It is just as casual friendly as anything else in the game. It has tiers that range from "casual" to "hardcore".

Lets look at another thing that works much the same way: Enhancements

SOs are completely casual.
Generic IOs and some frankenslotting are less casual.
Set IO builds are not really casual.
Fully optimized purpled out builds are hardcore.

Incarnate slotting works the same way, the further you delve into it, the less casual it becomes. As follows:

Common Alpha slot is casual.
Uncommon Alpha slot is less casual.
Rare Alpha slot is not really casual.
Very Rare Alpha slot is hardcore.

Getting all the Incarnate slots to common or uncommon levels is a fairly casual activity, and the effort expended to get there reflects it. When you start getting into the Rare and Very Rare levels, you are leaving the realm of casual play behind and the effort expended reflects that as well.

Saying that the Incarnate system needs to be more casual friendly isn't really any different than saying we should be able to get a fully optimized purpled out build just as easily as buying SOs. It just doesn't work like that, if you want more out of the system you have to put more into it.

Truth.

The reason I'm guessing is because on the lower population servers they earn a reputation for being a bad teammate and a large percentage of the population has them one starred or on ignore, so they can't find anyone willing to team with them.

On a high population server the odds of everyone knowing how much of a jerk they are gets slimmer, and they can find some poor saps to treat like crap a little easier.

That's pretty funny.

The Kill Skuls badge was inspired by a player too. Just goes to show you the devs DO pay attention to things like this, and add badges that reference player created stuff.

Also, the "Last line of defense" badge in Talos is on top of the hill everyone gathers on for invasions. If people didn't do that there would have been no reason to put a badge there at all.

Any fight involving a lot of goons with machine guns.

Which covers probably 60% of the enemy groups in the game.

Malta, Crey, Council, 5th Column, Family, and Arachnos have machine gun users at some point in the various levels of the game. Warriors and Tsoo have some mob types that will debuff defense.

There are a LOT of machine guns in the game, and every one of them will debuff your defense.

The flight speed is lower so flyers don't have an unfair advantage over people with other travel powers.

Flight is the only travel power that will let you go anywhere, won't drain your end bar, and doesn't leave you susceptible to attack from enemies. If it were also as fast as other options, it would clearly be the best choice by a wide margin.

It's set up so the travel powers all have advantages and disadvantages to using them, with no one power being clearly superior to the others. I think flight speed is probably about as fast right now as it's ever likely to get.

Because everything else does.

It sucks that it happened, but in my almost 6 years of playing I have found circumstances like you describe to be the exception rather than the norm.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you were playing on Freedom?

Not that there is anything wrong with Freedom in and of itself, just that I've found the odds of running into a jerk on Freedom are a little higher.

To say "the griefing is just awful" implies that this happens to you on a regular basis, and I can assure you that you are having a run of bad luck as far as finding jerkish players is concerned. The vast majority of the players I have ever encountered in the game have been friendly and helpful, and players like you describe here are pretty rare here as opposed to some other MMOs.

I'm also taking into account the larger number of people I have seen playing at a given time.

This time last year PinnBadges (Pinnacle global channel) averaged between 80 and 100 people online at any given time. Currently it averages between 120 and 140, with spikes up over 200 during primetime.

Interestingly enough, a lot of the people contributing to the larger numbers are people who used to play, but I hadn't seen on it a long time.

It doesn't seem so much like we got a lot of NEW players, just a lot of the old players returning to check out the new stuff.

Actually, it's a partial truth.

For years ONE dev said no to inherent fitness: Castle.

And his words were to the effect of: It will never happen as long as I'm working here. I have suspected for a while that being overruled on inherent Fitness is one of the things that prompted his departure. He also said he would get rid of endurance altogether before making Fitness inherent.

I don't recall any other dev saying anything about inherent fitness one way or the other, but I know Castle was against it.

Power customization was a case of them not having the manpower to get it done.

Full respecs are a case of them saying "No, we're not doing this"

HUGE difference between "we can't do it right now" and "We have no intention of EVER doing it"

Every time full respecs are brought up, someone trots out power customization as an example of something we were told no about that we later got. And every time the fact that we were told no for two completely different reasons is glossed over in an attempt to prove a point.

Being told no on power customization and being told no on full respecs are NOT the same thing, regardless of what you want people to believe.

It was also added to help them solo, in response to complaints that their damage is too low.

It's there, but since it was so recently added, the in-game information hasn't been updated yet. It's a 20% resistance debuff proc that has a 100% chance to fire on a given target, and it won't stack with itself.

I wouldn't say I'm a avid user. I have a Facebook, but it's mostly a cheap easy way to keep in touch with my friends and family who are now all 700 miles away from where I currently live.

I don't get Twitter either though. I see no point in updating people with my exact actions at this exact moment.

Others have said it, but it bears repeating:

There's a very good chance the person tasked with adding the NPC costumes to Pocket D has nothing to do with bug fixes. The dev team is split into several distinct departments, and I would wager a guess that the art department is not the department responsible for fixing bugs in the game.

Mako's Bite is ranged defense, you're thinking of Touch of Death and Obliteration. Though in my opinion you shouldn't be using either set on a Willpower.

Or if you die.

I don't always vendor it, but a lot of the time I don't feel like running to WW to sell salvage if I'm in the middle of a task force or something.

Hell, I've been known to delete salvage on occasion if I needed the space. I'll delete recipes a lot of the time too if I'm running level 50 missions and want to keep space free for a potential purple drop.

I'm just not so pressed about cash flow that I feel the need to wring every last inf I can out of the game. And it's not like salvage is such a limited resource that I'm hurting anything by deleting it. There will always be more of it.

By the power of GRAYSKUUUUUUUUULL!!!!!!!!!