ClawsandEffect

No problem with a balanced ranged/melee damage AT. That by itself is not a tankmage, and is what blasters are supposed to be.

The problem i when you add scrapper level defenses on top of that.

THAT'S the tankmagey part of it. The ranged/melee is fine, just not the ability to softcap all 3 positions, get stupid amounts of resistance, or heal from anything, that's thrown at you. That is what makes it overpowered, not the damage.

Not bad. I have no problem with most of the ideas.

One problem though: The wall running idea for super speed is impossible with the game engine's limitations.

Also, the max speed on Fly is slower compared to other travel powers because otherwise Flight would be the best travel power to have by a wide margin. It is the only power that keeps you completely safe from attack while traveling (unlike SJ and SS) and it won't completely drain your end bar (unlike TP). Fly is also the ONLY power that will let you hit the zone ceiling and stay there as long as you want.

Other than those two points I like your idea.

There's 5.

Stalker Hide is it's own group. It will stack with all 4.

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For Dark Armor paired with either Katana or Broadsword, go with positional. For pretty much any other primary typed will serve you better.

Invuln, Fire, and Electric Armor should usually go with typed as well (Invuln always should), Fire and ElA it depends on your primary much like Dark Armor.

Quite a few actually, now that I think about it: All of Ice Blast, all of Energy Blast, Sonic Blast, Hurl and Hurl Boulder, Propel (actually I think most of Gravity counts), Earth Control's single target powers, Levitate from Mind Control.

The one you will see most often is probably Hurl, Warwolves have it and whole spawns will chuck them at you at once.

It's part of the zone.

Warburg is the only zone in which you can attack a person of the same faction as yourself that is not on your team. It's a coding thing.

In the rest of the game, the CPU sees that you are targeting your teammate and does the calculation to determine that you are trying to attack what they are targeting.

Warburg doesn't have that piece of code in it. Since a team member is the only thing in the zone you CAN'T attack, the CPU simply interprets you clicking an attack while targeting your teammate as an attempt to attack that teammate, which the code of the zone will not allow you to do.

My theory on the reasoning for that is that your teammate can become an enemy at ANY point in time, either by them quitting the team or you kicking them, at which point they become a valid target again. Seems to me like they did it that way to make things easier on the processor by not forcing it to figure out what you're trying to do there. If it DID force it to try and figure it out you would end up with a lot of bugs in which your attempt to attack your teammate's target resulted in an attack on your teammate instead. Which would really suck if you hit your scrapper or brute buddy with a nasty debuff by accident.

Instead of leaving a system in place that would probably have bugs sprouting up every other week they just made it so any attempt to attack while targeting a teammate was considered invalid.

And here I was wondering how you got a red rep meter with so few posts.

Guess that answers my curiosity.

Misunderstood what I was saying.

I was talking about the rep badges and the player defeat badges. THOSE are difficult to get on Pinnacle. I have no difficulty at all getting the exploration badges and plaques, and I have little or no interest in getting the pillbox or heavy badges.

See, I personally have a build that IS affected by the change. I have a Broadsword/Dark Armor that is currently softcapped to all positions by using BotZ in Combat Jumping and Super Jump. Once the change goes live he will no longer be softcapped.

It isn't a huge deal for me on that character, as I will still have 40% defense to those two positions, it's just annoying because I don't really have any reasonable options to replace the lost defense.

But....I'm not complaining about it because I happen to agree with the reasoning for the change. The set provided far too much for the required investment. The thing is, it STILL provides the same thing, just not as much of it.

Why is a free respec not fair?

It lets you take them out of your build and sell them on the market for whatever you can get if you so choose. At no cost to yourself aside from market fees.

What, you want them to give you free influence for the "inconvenience" of it?

What about someone who got all 3 pieces as drops and already had the salvage for them? (Yes, they exist) They get money to replace what they didn't spend on it?

A respec to pull them out o your build and do a you please with them is perfectly fair, asking for more than that is pretty silly.

One simple answer:

Every single machine gun fired at you in the game is flagged as ranged/lethal. You could have 1000% melee defense and it wouldn't mean squat. Gunfire is ALWAYS ranged, even if they're standing right next to you at the time.

Every machine gun attack also debuffs your defense, which regen has ZERO resistance to. Get shot by enough guys and ALL your defense is gone.

The major problem Kat/Regen runs into is it is difficult to build for S/L defense without severely gimping the stuff regen should be slotting for, namely recharge.

The smashing defense isn't especially important, and you get lethal defense from Divine Avalanche, so if you're really concerned about it, slot some Kinetic Combats in something and the melee slotting you're doing anyway should get you a decent amount of lethal defense as well. If you get enough lethal defense built up you should be able to softcap lethal and melee with DA.

So, what you're saying is:

Reduced rewards or increased difficulty on heavily farmed mob types (Family, Behemoths, Freakshow)

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Timers added to heavily farmed missions (Dreck, Shadowhunter, and a couple others I don't recall offhand)

Those things have nothing to do with the devs trying to discourage farming, and are just pure coincidence, right?

You're latching on to something Positron said in regards to AE exploits. The devs' stance has been pretty much from day 1 that they don't like farming, if they were completely okay with it, none of the changes I mentioned would have ever happened.

They can't do much more about people farming standard content than they already do, because it isn't technically breaking any rules. But the evidence speaks for itself that they want to discourage it.

Why else would they have implemented the well-documented nerfs I brought up here?

I was specifically referring to people who stand around in RV all day letting a heavy do all their work while they collect rewards. The only risk those people have is the risk of a PvPer coming along and killing them. Then those people act like the PvPer is somehow wrong for doing the exact thing the zone was put there for in the first place.

The Shivans and Warburg nukes are rewards for participating in a zone event. If no one's in there when you go to get them, cool, you get a free pass this time. But, if someone IS there and they stop you from getting them, that is the zone event playing out how it is supposed to play out.

The fact that almost no one does the event in the zone the way it was designed is NOT the point. The point is, you have no right to complain when someone actually does.

As I said before, which I note that you completely ignored, both sides in the zone are supposed to be trying to collect meteor shards, and both sides are supposed to be stopping the other side from doing so.

In collecting the shards, you are doing one part of that. When someone comes along and kills you, they are doing the other part of that. That's how the zone was designed to be played in. If you get butthurt and leave the zone because you got killed, it is YOU who aren't playing the zone event as intended, NOT the PvPer who killed you. The PvPer is doing exactly what he is supposed to do according to the zone's design.

Because people want to get their PVP REWARDS without PvPing, the zone's design falls apart. Shivans, nukes, Siren's Call temp powers, those things are ALL PvP rewards. You are supposed to get them as a reward for engaging in PvP.

It's a simple case of entitlement. People seem to think they should be allowed to obtain something without doing the thing that it is a reward for doing. Shivans and nukes are the most powerful temp powers in the game, the fact that you have to expose yourself to PvP to get them is WHY they are that powerful. They would be extremely overpowered as a PvE reward with no real risk involved.

The purpose in both of those two zones is the same.

You are there to do 2 things:

Collect meteor shards or launch codes. This is what the PvEers are doing.

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Prevent the other side from collecting meteor shards or launch codes. This is what the PvPers are doing.

The point of the zone's very existence is the meteor shards and launch codes. BOTH sides are supposed to be doing BOTH things, that is the idea behind the minigame found in those zones.

If you have 3 meteor pieces and someone comes along and kills you, you know what you can do then? You can chase them down, kill THEM, and take the pieces back.

You actually have an advantage over that person: Since they were your pieces to begin with, you know exactly where they need to go to complete the collection, and you can lay in wait for them to show up at the last one. If you wait for them to collect that last piece before attacking, you get your revenge, AND you get all 6 pieces. That's how the zone is designed to work, heroes and villains fighting over the shards.

BUT....the PvE players decided that they didn't want to PvP in order to get their shards. And furthermore, they decreed that the PvPers were WRONG for playing the minigame in the zone exactly how it is supposed to be played.

The PvE players that scream bloody murder when their shards are stolen are completely failing to realize that the zone is designed that way on purpose. If you weren't supposed to kill other players to steal their shards, it wouldn't be possible to do it in the first place. The person that just killed you and took your shards is the one using the zone correctly, what YOU are supposed to be doing is trying to get them back.

Every PvP zone is set up with the same kind of thing in mind, and they are all designed to give people something to fight over. Complaining that someone is playing the zone's minigame correctly is really.....well, lame.

Well, let's see.

On one side, you have some shinies. Temp powers and badges count as shinies. My definition of "shinies" is: "Things you want to acquire for your character, but are not required to play the game"

On the same side, you have farmers. Farmers are usually the most vocal complainers when they get attacked.

The devs don't condone farming, and they are NOT okay with it, in spite of what the farmers would have us believe. They just don't enforce it. It's like jaywalking, just because you aren't given a ticket for it doesn't mean it is okay. It is still illegal, just not enforced. The lack of enforcement is pretty much the same in both cases, way too many people do it to make enforcing it worth it. But....if you get hit by a car while jaywalking, it is YOUR fault, not the driver's. PvP zones are not meant for farming, they never were meant for farming, and I can state with a reasonable amount of certainty that they never WILL be ment for farming. They are meant for PvP, hence the name "PvP zone". If they were there for farming they'd be called "Farming zones"


On the other side, you have the people that are there to PvP. They are using the zone for the thing it was put there for. The farmer who complains that he is attacked actually has no right to complain about it. He is not using the zone for what it was meant for, the PvPer IS.

All the shinies that you can acquire in PvP zones are part of the reason the zones were created.

In Bloody Bay, heroes and villains are fighting over chunks of the meteors. The person who killed you while you had a meteor shard? Yeah, that's what you're SUPPOSED to do.

In Siren's Call, heroes and villains are battling over control of the zone. If you're in there farming Warrior bosses for the Legionaire badge and get killed by an opposing player? Yep, again, that is the point of the mini game for that zone.

In Warburg, everyone is fighting over the missiles in the zone. If you have launch codes and get killed? Yup, you guessed it, that's what is supposed to be happening in there.

In Recluse's Victory, heroes and villains are fighting over the fate of the future. That involves controlling the pillboxes in order to control the zone. Killing someone that is fighting a pillbox is what you're supposed to do, because that's how you play the mini game for that zone.

Complaining that you aren't permitted to do those things in peace is, essentially, complaining that you aren't allowed to use the zone for something it wasn't intended for. The people complaining that they aren't allowed to make exploitive AE missions? Same thing. The only difference is the devs are unlikely to ban someone for farming in a PvP zone, because it isn't worth their time to enforce it.....since the PvPers seem to be enforcing it FOR them.

Anyone who says "You aren't supposed to use AE for farming, because that's what the devs said" and then says "Why do people keep attacking me in PvP zones?" is competely missing the point, and probably has no idea that they're being a hypocrite when they say it.

The people attacking you are doing exactly what they're supposed to do in that zone. Almost 100% of the time, the people doing the complaining are NOT doing what they're supposed to do in there.