Dispari

That's until your fridge fills to the brim, popping with old rotten leftovers that nobody wants anymore.

More like "We got news but it wasn't what I wanted so it didn't count."

We can call it opinion because that's what it is. Maybe you don't like power customization, but I do. I think it's one of the best things that we've gotten. I think Cimerora itself is pretty bland, but the ITF is one of the most run task forces in the game. RWZ is one of my favorite zones.

I'm sorry if you don't like some of the recent additions. The devs can't please everyone all the time, and there will always be some changes that you don't enjoy. But just because you personally don't think an issue was "good enough" doesn't mean the devs are breaking promises. No dev ever said "We promise that our next issue will please Ryu."

Short Circuit is melee though, so you'll almost assuredly have to get into range where they'll attack you. Mez options like Flashfire and Seeds of Confusion don't have that same drawback. Also, every Controller and Dom primary has some sort of quick-mez they can use, but not every end drain person has access to Power Boost.

Granted, I'm not trying to say that an Elec Blaster should have the same sort of powerful and reliable damage mitigation that a Controller has. Just that comparing end drain to a mez is kind of apples to oranges.

Excuse me, but I believe the public has a right to know the devs' favorite food, pop song, and shoe size. If I can't PM them, how will we know?!

I tend to agree. When I played Ragnarok Online and Guild Wars, the players had virtually zero access to developers. GW didn't even have an official forum. It's a big jump coming from a game like that to this one where devs occasionally pop in to confirm or deny things, or comment on stuff.

I've sent... maybe four or five. I know I've sent:

* A PM to BABs listing all of the emote issues related to flying
* A PM to Castle about how body scale math works (referred me to pohsyb)
* A PM to pohsyb about how body scale math works
* A PM to Positron about a bug that I thought was fairly severe

It doesn't really bug me that BABs is turning off PMs. I don't think in general that there should be that many instances where people would need to contact him personally and privately. Even my own PM to him probably would've fit fine in the animation bug thread.

As long as BABs still drops in occasionally to let us know he loves us, the PM thing is pretty minimal. Though even if he and the other devs are a bit more quiet on the forums for a while, I'm sure it's because they're working on GR.

That's why I pressed him for a more extensive list. I'd say 3 things out of, what, 10 jillion features is a pretty good track record.

The rest of what Ryu said was all opinion-based. Ryu personally not liking a new task force doesn't mean the devs are lying or failing to deliver.

Most mez takes place within about 3 seconds of engaging the spawn, and can even be used to alpha. Things like Flashfire, Seeds of Confusion, or Volcanic Gasses. Outside of long-recharge nukes and such, there aren't really any end drain powers that can do that.

I say good thing you have a helmet!

It's a pretty boring GM too. He's just a big spectral demon. That's it.

Yes please, since two things doesn't constitute "so many," and unless I'm mistaken those were under Jack's reign and not our current leadership.

Broken promises? Such as? I'd like to hear some. You sound like you have a huge list ready.

So far all they've really promised is a new starting zone, ultra mode, two new powersets, and the ability to side-switch.

I have an Elec/Inv Brute, and the end drain is never a factor. I do occasionally drain bosses to empty, right before they die, but anything below that doesn't fall. And if it's an AV or something my drain is insignificant. If I had end drain in my secondary too, or slotted my powers for end mod, it might be different. But I would find those slots wasted.

End drain is very binary. Either you drain all their endurance or it contributes nothing. So you're racing against damage, and if you have to go out of your way to do that, you're just wasting effort.

This is like watching a preview for a movie and saying it's going to be disappointing because it'll only be a couple minutes long.

Or, in other words, we've only seen a glimpse so far, so don't judge it yet.

What I'm saying is it would either:

A) Lack any +DMG like the current accurate sets, or
B) Have DMG, and then have to balance 5 attributes and have to skimp on one or several of them

I never once said we SHOULDN'T have accurate ToHit sets. What I am saying is that they would almost certainly be very disappointing. I don't know how you slot your powers, but I can pretty much guarantee the sets wouldn't do it that way. Probably not even close.

There's actually a problem with that, where you spread yourself too thin on bonuses. Knockback and slows can afford it, since for example, all slows really have to do is:

Slow
Endurance
Recharge

Now take for instance what an accurate ToHit set would need to do:

Accuracy
Damage
Endurance
Recharge
ToHit

Now you can argue that Damage should or should not be present, but that's where the problem lies. Some people won't want to sacrifice +DMG in a power like Follow Up, while others could care less about damage in Soul Drain and wouldn't want +DMG taking away from other essential areas like recharge.

Recharge intensive pet sets suffer from this. To me, "recharge intensive" would mean that the power has a lot of recharge. The sad fact is, a full set doesn't even give +70% recharge. And what's worse, the set doesn't even give a full +95% damage. So it fails to accomplish anything that I would consider worthwhile. After doing a bunch of math and comparisons, I suggested that they make some changes to the set during the open beta after determining that the set doesn't allow you to do anything you can't already do through frankenslotting (except get some set bonuses). But nobody seemed to care. I think the set has too much emphasis on accuracy and endurance myself.

Now, the solution would be to have different versions of sets. One for accurate ToHit that has +DMG and one that doesn't. Or a hold set that doesn't enhance endurance. But they've never really done this in the past for other sets. Though I wish they would.

The other problem would be numbers hitting the values people want. For a power like Follow Up, I would want 95% Damage, 95% Recharge, and enough accuracy to hit things, so around 40-70%. The set would be adding endurance and also ToHit. There's no way those values would all add up to something acceptable. The set would have to skimp on Damage, Recharge, or ToHit, and probably end up being a disappointment all around, and just be frankenslot fodder.

I never said we shouldn't have it. I said I'm curious what people are slotting for. An accurate ToHit set wouldn't have any +DMG in it, so I'm wondering why people actually consider it important to slot for +ToHit in a power like Follow Up, but not damage. Because if an accurate ToHit set came out, you'd still be frankenslotting.

Frankenslot for what? I usually just toss a damage set in there and it gives me what I need. Accuracy, end, recharge, and damage as a bonus. Unless you're trying to squeeze out every bit of ToHit and forfeit the damage entirely? I never really found I needed more ToHit than any of those offer.

It's hard to be in a beta that hasn't started yet.