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It's not moot. From what we've been told, it seems it'll be very possible to permanently move a Brute over to blueside long before getting to 40. Would he then have no epics available at all?

MMs too. MMs also share RES/DEF debuff values. But they have a weaker DMG/ToHit debuff value. Not totally sure of the logic there, but that's how it is. So any powers that do -speed, -recharge, -DEF, or -RES should be the same for MMs. Otherwise, it's just reducing the overall ability of TA for MMs only.

Something being a non-impacting game with no real point or goal should be removed? You can't win or lose. All it's for is entertainment. What you get out of it is up to you. There are no consequences for having low rep. No rewards for having high rep. It does nothing.

CoH doesn't contribute anything meaningful to the world outside of entertainment. Good reason to get rid of it, eh?

Was it ever not a joke? I mean, it's never done anything and never held any weight. It's not like it used to be something important but suddenly, because of abuse, it's now a big joke. I don't think anyone's mourning the rep days of old before it got nerfed.

I've been trying to earn mine "legitimately," but in the end it's pretty much all just irrelevant.

Most "hard" enemies I don't find hard or challenging. Just annoying. It's not exactly "challenging" to have to put up with -40% ToHit or -50% max endurance or floored move speed or enemies that ignore stealth. Most of that just makes things take way longer and it becomes frustrating. I don't think something is "challenging" if there's basically no way to cope with it. And things like floored speed, I don't see how that could ever be considered anything but annoying. What's challenging about walking slow? Unless you're trying to escape and die as a result. But again, there's no way to cope with it, so it's not a challenge so much as a situation you ultimately just deal with.

Yeah, no idea how that happened, except that the forum crashed and burned while I was making the post. I know better than to go back and resubmit, so I just navigated to my CP once it seemed to respond again. It's possible the forum hiccup did it, or maybe I really submitted it twice without realizing.

You must carry a lot of yellows. Five of them would give you +37.5% which would ALMOST recover you from one grenade. You'd need more if you were fighting +1s or +2s.

Is that anything like telekinetic lightsaber combat?

For me and the people I know at least, I think people will be pulling back from the "pure" ATs and focusing more on hybrid ones. We've already seen from the AT analysis that Tanks and Defenders are pretty unpopular ATs. They fulfill specific roles which redside has shown aren't that needed.

People will begin to notice that Corruptors can buff/debuff AND do damage. Brutes can tank AND do damage. The only thing stopping Scrappers from overtaking Tanks right now is their general inability to hold aggro due to the simple fact that they don't taunt.

I still take those ATs along from time to time, but if I had the choice, I'd much rather take a Brute over a Tank and a Corruptor over a Defender. Simple reason being both of those ATs do their job well enough that extra isn't needed. I have 3 Brutes who can handle spawns of 6 to 8 by themselves. If you add in a dash of support, 8 all the way. There's no reason I need to sacrifice damage to have extra inherent survival unless I'm for some reason planning for a team that has no support at all. And as long as Brutes and Corrs are doing tanking/supporting well enough, the other thing they bring is damage. And the best defense is a good offense.

My teams will be filled with Brutes, Scrappers, Corruptors, Controllers, Blasters, Dominators, and VEATs if I can get them. The other ATs will do in a pinch, but I find them to be too specialized to have the same sort of general contribution to a team that the ones I named offer. I'm not trying to claim that all blue ATs will be replaced with red ones, or all red ones will be replaced by blue ones. What I think will happen is that certain ATs, like Tanks, Defenders, and Stalkers will be shown to be too niche-y to be asked for regularly. Though, there will always be people who are stuck in their ways and insist on taking a Granite Tank to do newspapers.

Are you sure about that? I put together a regen build that had both regen uniques, quite a few regen bonuses thanks to Numina, and Health/Physical Perfection. It rounded out at about 770% passive regen. I don't think it's "not uncommon" to find another 30% over expensive uniques, Numina bonuses, and a power that has only existed since last issue. I think 600% might be a more reasonable figure. But even that would require some regen bonuses. Or PP at the very least.

Plus, 771% regen with 1792 HP is 57.7 HP/sec.

I also feel like the reward should be there as long as you're "just a hero" or "just a villain," and you aren't exempt the moment you go vigilante/rogue. I say that because I feel like unless the rewards are compelling, there'd be almost no reason to not be vigilante/rogue over hero/villain, because you'd be missing out on tons of zones, content, and badges. But if I can make my mastermind turn into a hero and KEEP her as a hero, and get the rewards, that might be worthwhile. I'd just lose them if I go vigilante... but gain them back if I go pure hero.

Does that make sense?

As far as I'm aware, this is pretty much how all units with increased "perception" work. There are Nemesis snipers with an ACTUAL increased perception which allows them to aggro from farther away. This generally only applies to snipers.

But most units, like drones, knives, and overseers have normal "perception radius," yet will still see you even if you exceed that value. In other words, they can't see from farther away and won't aggro from farther away (unlike snipers), but once you come in range they'll still attack you. Rikti drones have normal perception radius, and it can be reduced with smoke grenade. But if I come near them with 70 stealth, they see me anyway.

Or to make it easier, pretty much all units have normal perception. Snipers have extra, which allows them to see farther and aggro from farther away. Then there are units like drones and such that flat out ignore stealth and will see you anyway.

I don't have a job with CoH. And I don't want one. For one, I never applied for one. And two, I'm not qualified. Sure, it'd be a dream job to wake up every morning and get paid to improve the game I spend most of my free time on, but just because I like the game doesn't mean it's a good idea for me to be working on it. Really, if I was to be employed, my area of study is programming, so I'd be sitting in the background doing the boring, thankless stuff with pohsyb and friends.

The devs didn't hire Fearghas because he's a player. They didn't hire him because he makes cute AE arcs. They hired him because he's qualified to do the job they hired him to do. Not only would it be a bad idea to hire people just because the devs "like him," it would put the new employee in a bad place.

Besides the fact that I disagree and I'd PREFER that all the people who joined the game as devs have played it before, this could be true of any person who works on the game.

The powers team could have a bias toward stuff their friends want to see. The people implementing new stories could be inclined to give a shout-out to their amigos. Jay could be only making costume parts that his busom-buddies have been asking for. Heck, we already know various devs have personal bias on some decisions. Know why we don't have Clown Summoning, more options for ice/earth customization, and no redside Empathy? Because the devs want it that way. There's no spreadsheet to show why, it's just how they feel it should be.

And as long as we don't reach "screw you guys, I'm doing this" levels of bias like with Mister Jack, we're fine. As long as it's not a hindrance for players and causes an actual issue, there's no reason to skip over hiring a qualified person because they "might" bring bias.

As I said above, I'd rather they DO hire people who have played this game. All experience and no passion is just as bad as all passion and no experience. If you join a game you've never heard of or cared about, you have no inspiration to please the fans and make things entertaining. You don't know what they enjoy or what would be cool. You fall into "What do you mean the set's no fun? I have a spreadsheet here with all the numbers showing it's a good set."

I'd rather our devs play and enjoy the game they work on. As far as I'm aware, all (most?) of them do. I don't see any good reason to hire people who DON'T play the game. I want our AE dev to be someone who makes AE arcs and plays with the system to know where it lacks. I want our PvP dev to be someone who frequently PvPs and knows what players hate and what needs fixing. What I don't want is for our devs to be all number-crunchers and trying to fix things without having a hands-on view of the situation. I want all of our devs to be experts in their field, and the only way to be an expert at "that one part of that one video game," is to actually play the game.

Dr. Aeon is in the running for my favorite dev now.

That doesn't stop people from trying to do it in this game anyway.

And Clown Summoning.

Two of my Brutes can handle +2/x8 solo without support. A team with two Tanks should be able to handle stuff without needing someone to have the medicine pool. Bonus points if one of those many melees is Shield.

Oh, I agree on Scrappers. The thing with them is they don't have any gimmicks to do damage. A Brute who can't build fury does pretty crappy damage, as I can attest having played many non-lead Brutes. I got tired of playing "Scrapper" Brutes and started playing "Tank" Brutes a long time ago, so all my higher level ones are built to withstand high damage from lots of foes while maintaining high aggro. I have some nice WP, Inv, and Shield Brutes.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, once you have one or two Brutes, adding more just means there's a bunch of guys running around with 0.75 damage modifier who don't have any fury. At that point I'd MUCH rather have a Scrapper along.