ClawsandEffect

Drunkenness is practically a requirement to play on Pinnacle.

Oh, I don't know, maybe because they just enjoy playing the character? No, that can't be it, who actually likes playing their characters?

Then skip this one. It's not a race. You aren't going to lose the game because it took you a week longer to kit out all your characters. Let the people who enjoy stuff like this enjoy it, without thinking it has to be all about what you want.

Only if they're a complete dick. You know there IS such a thing as doing something just to have fun with your friends. What is fun about doing only what you absolutely have to do to get your shiny before bailing?

Are you actually SERIOUS here?! "Lasting enmities"? You really think 2 people are going to hate each other forever because their goals differed during a 2 hour TF?

You don't decide what is and isn't acceptable for other people. Personally, if I run Sister Psyche on my Incarnate character, I fully intend on killing as many of them as I can get within reach of my sword. Why? Because they will drop recipes I can't get at 50 (steadfast protection is a 30 capped set), and because everything I kill gives me more cash.

So, you get to decide what is and isn't fun for people now?

Okay, Jack, you just keep thinking that way.

Good, that means there is a 0% chance of you ending up on my team.

Yes, because doing something you find fun is always a waste of time.

Pffft.

And by the way, Steadfast Protection, Regenerative Tissue, and Kismet all fall into that level range, and are either enemy defeat drops, or mission complete drops.

You just go ahead and keep telling everyone how you know what they think is fun.

And we'll just go ahead and keep laughing at you.

The boot from mish idea isn't bad, but this is a horrible idea.

"If there is no response from the team leader, the first requester automatically gets the star"?

Um, no. The way that would work is if someone requests the star and the leader doesn't hand it over the game FORCES them to hand it over?

So if an obnoxious PuG member keeps demanding that you kick someone for no good reason, they can request the star and get it regardless of the leader's wishes?

No, I don't think so. I don't want team leaders to have to bend to every ridiculous demand a teammate makes in order to avoid having the star taken and getting kicked themselves.

He was talking about moving the entrance to the Portal Corp building in PI. The extra security was for the larger entry way.

But that doesn't change the fact that putting a couple tanks in front of the door and a few soldiers isn't going to do a whole lot of good.

Every hero in the game standing at the portal, along with Vanguard, and they know they're going to lose.

And you think a couple tanks is going to help?!?

It is.

It kind of has to be really. You can't buff your accuracy when you're dead, and if it doesn't hit anything you don't get rezzed. It'd be really cheap of the devs to give you a rez power that might not work even when you're surrounded.

Pretty sure Rise of the Phoenix is autohit as well, but at least that one will actually rez you if it doesn't hit anything.

You should be more than fine. That build should be pretty beastly.

Man, the game has changed since I started playing. It was close to a year before my main even hit level 50, let alone hit 50 and got within a single Notice of the highest level of achievement available to us at this point.

When people start complaining about how it takes so long to level I just laugh and shake my head.

Drain Psyche is NOT a heal, it is a regen/recovery boost. If you are taking a lot of damage Drain Psyche isn't going to save you.

Drain Psyche is probably the closest to a self heal power blasters will ever see outside of Aid Self.

I HAVE played Mental Manipulation, and I have never once had Drain Psyche save me from the brink of death while I was taking damage.

Blasters have about as much chance of getting a true self heal as Defenders have of getting full time passive mez protection.

I'm of the opinion that Dark Blast is very unlikely to happen for blasters. You already mentioned the reason why, because Tenebrous Tentacles and Night Fall are available in Soul Mastery. They already gave blasters 2 of the signature powers in Dark Blast. Any version of Dark Blasters get will be just as gutted as Psychic Blast was when they ported it over.

95% is the cap for to-hit. You will ALWAYS have a 5% chance to miss, no matter how much to-hit or accuracy you have, so 95% is the highest it will ever go.

In regards to Khelds getting a travel power for free?

Nah, they're already balanced by the fact that a Kheldian of either type has the Flight and Teleport pools closed to them. Yes, that means a Warshade can't take Hover to make their inherent teleportng easier. And a Peacebringer can never bring an ally to where they are. And neither one can take Air Superiority, because it's not just the travel powers, the entire pool is closed to them.

Worth noting: Drain Psyche will not wake them up if you hit them with Siren's Song first.

The city is populated by superbeings that can teleport there at a moment's notice, how much more security do you need?

Not to be a jerk about it, but as fun as the character sounds to you to play, I don't think I'd want him on my team if I'm actually looking for someone to tank. At least not as a main tank. If there was another tank on the team I'd be okay with it though, since you wouldn't be as crucial that way.

Getting knocked all over the place isn't exactly conducive to holding agro, since you can do literally nothing while you're flying through the air or getting back up. Can't taunt, can't attack, can't draw enemies to a different spot. If you have no knockback protection and run into an enemy group that does a lot of knockback, your teammates will not be happy with you if you are important to their survival.

If you still want to do it, don't let me stop you, but make sure you warn any teams you join that you have no KB protection for concept so they can find a main tank if it's needed for what they are doing.

I like the concept, it does sound like a cool character, but with the way the game mechanics work he would be poorly suited to the job a tank is supposed to do.

Mu do pure energy. If you skimp on Energy defense when you don't necessarily have to you'll find yourself getting drained with alarming frequency.

It's not so much the damage that is the issue, a WP heals fast enough you'd have to have 6 or 7 hitting you at once to really be a threat. It's the secondary effects that concern me. WP doesn't have any end drain resistance, a couple Mu hitting you will hit your blue bar pretty hard if you're not in a position to take them out right away.

Clockwork and Freakshow use pure energy attacks too. As well as anything using Radiation Blast, that will not only suck, but it'll strip away the REST of your defenses too.

I don't really bother with recharge on a Claws/WP. Only one power in the secondary is even affected by it, and if you need it back any faster your build has bigger problems. And Claws doesn't need a whole lot of recharge unless you're dead set on running the top DPS chain.

Not so mythical, I've seen it numerous times. It's not as common as the Emp with all 4 powers from the Medicine pool though.

I've also seen an Emp with the Presence pool, that one confused me a little. I could maybe see it on all Defender TFs where the Empath tanks....but it was level 17 at the time and didn't have the badges from Posi or Synapse.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the Trials are how we "should" be getting them, and the WTF is a freebie they threw us so we didn't have to wait until i20 came out to get the rest of the Alpha slot pieces.

Rare and Very rare were ready to go, Trials weren't. They decided to be nice and let us get them early via another means. Kind of like how GR pre-orders got to play with 2 of the 4 power sets early because the rest of it wasn't ready to go yet.

But, for the record, I have nothing other than logic backing that up. Running a random TF seems a little too arbitrary to be the originally intended method of acquiring the Notice.

Not really. I've never seen a standard IO build played by a halfway competent player that I wouldn't invite on a second team if I had run with them before. I feel the same about SO builds, in fact I still use SOs myself while I'm leveling jus for the convenience of being able to hop down to the vendor and pick some up rather than deal with craftng time or none being available at the moment.

I really only maximize level 50 characters that I enjoy playing more than the others. To that end I have 2 scrappers, a brute, a defender, and a blaster that vary from a few IO sets to heavily IOed. And I never IO them all at once, I do it gradually as I feel like spending the time on it.

So, no, I don't feel that you need to be completely IOed to the gills to participate in end game stuff.

With the downside of turning a Controller on a team into basically just a buffer/debuffer, because an entire spawn of EBs will be largely immune to most of their primary powers. You'd need to have a perma-dom along to have any kind of reasonable crowd control.

All boss or all EB spawns would be okay for damage dealers and debuffers, but anyone who relies on control powers will feel pretty useless. So, just upping the rank of enemies will probably prevent people who prefer playing controllers from feeling like they're really contributing much.

Besides, after they cracked down on all-boss AE missions, it'd be pretty hypocritical if they turned around and did it themselves.

Doesn't seem to have made the ITF much more difficult than it would be without them. With the amount of debuffs your average team can throw around even the EBs in the ITF tend to get neutered and destroyed pretty rapidly.

I use the ITF as an example because it's the only thing I can think of offhand that actually has EBs regularly spawning in normal mobs.

There is a difference between voicing your concern and reacting as though the devs' design decisions are deliberately intended to ruin the entire game for you personally.

The people I was referring to are largely doing the latter.

I wasn't attempting to rephrase you.

When you said that the STF and LRSF shouldn't be the baseline for new content, you are in effect saying that our enemies should not be getting any stronger, while it is quite clear that we ARE getting stronger.

Given your documented history of not liking to turn your difficulty settings up, and being upset that you occasionally get +1 enemies in your missions, it is entirely logical to come to the conclusion that you want players to get stronger while enemies remain the same.

I wasn't rephrasing so much as I was interpreting what was said, and taking into account the previously stated stances of the person who said them in my interpretation.