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Fixed. Devs never cared about regular farming. They did however care about people going from level 1 to 50 in a couple hours, with zero risk.

This is no different than any other tool. You can pick up a gun, or hop in a tank, or grab a katana and technically be able to use it in some fashion, but to be able to use it expertly requires training. The degree of training required can't be a factor in whether or not something is technology, because using something as low tech as possible like a knife or even a staff (or heck, your FIST) requires training to be able to use it on what you call a "hero level."

Requiring training to be able to be all Matrix with dual pistols doesn't make pistols technology, because you'd have to undergo training to be able to do that with any weapon. And although you could swing it the other way and say a super-advanced mech suit or jetpack that requires NO training to use makes it technology because it's so advanced, that would also mean a jetpack that DOES require training to use doesn't qualify as technology.

1) You still have to travel to the missions, even if it doesn't take very long, which it definitely doesn't in Saint Martial. Travel time with AE is zero, and fully predictable.

2) You still have to kill at least the enemies in the final room, which for some maps is 3-5 spawns, out of the player's control.

3) You can LITERALLY create AE missions that complete as soon as you step in the door. You could make a 5-mission arc where all you have to do is zone in and out 5 times. You wouldn't even have to MOVE.

Pfft, are you saying my characters don't look good? Cause I'd rather see them than a bright white/red/orange/purple/green glow.

It's not that they "didn't put work into its appearance," the minimal graphics is intentional because it's a "natural" set that uses the character's willpower and not supernatural powers. In fact it was also because all other sets have that huge visual appearance that they wanted something to give natural characters who didn't want to glow like the sun.

Two of my WP toons even run with with NoFX these days.

Steadfast is like 10m tops on either side (unless you're a buy-it-now person). It's very affordable for anyone bothering to get any sort of IOs. In fact it's one of the best IOs in the game for cost/benefit.

So basically you want it to be essentially as bad as it is now, but also help the enemies kill you faster. Got it.

I feel this way too. I take a different approach when I do IOs. I have a sort of system I go through:

1) First step, I pick the powersets and travel power I plan to use first without any consideration into IOs. For instance, I made an Elec/Invuln Brute with Fly. I can't even use Hover/Fly in combat because of LR, but I have them anyway because it's the character concept that matters, and that character flies.

2) Then, I plot out a non-IO build that has basic slotting for everything which includes about 5 slots for attacks and anything else I need. If I have spare slots they go into things like Stamina, extra slots for long recharge attacks, or miscellaneous things. If the build is too weak on slots, I can it. If it has lots of extra slots, I put heavy thought into actually making it. Thankfully, /Pain, /Traps, /WP, and /Invuln are all fairly friendly.

3) Within those parameters, I work out IOs and shoot for meaningful bonuses. All of the powers I chose still have to perform their intended role, meaning attacks still have to hit 95% damage, armors still have to be slotted, and any other power picks I made have to do what I got them for. I also have some requirements on powers, like powers need to have at least 130% accuracy after all is considered, and toggles need to have at least 70% end reduction. That's just personal preference though.

I don't make builds where I have unslotted Tough or Jab, or HPT that has no +RES slotted into it. As such, most of the builds I see posted sicken me. My builds maybe aren't the most efficient out there, but I have a soft-cap Invuln Brute, a super-powerful Widow, and a Blaster with 35% ranged DEF, and I like all three of them. Also for that reason I don't usually post my builds, because I don't like to explain or justify my decisions. I build for concept, then powers, THEN IOs.

That's the stun/fear aura. Part of the psi melee set allows you to shock and frighten people with concentrated nudity.

Technically the opposite of Fold Space would be to teleport allies near you to random places on the map.

...Now THAT would be an awesome tier 9 power!

Hey, it sums up my thoughts.

I'm happy with the game, in general, the way it is. Not that I don't have a few comments here and there. And although I love new stuff, I don't expect the devs to work through Christmas. We're getting a new holiday event, which is enough for me. Personally, I don't have "expectations" of devs so much as an enjoyment when we do get stuff. So less like they're obligated to give me things, and more that I play what we already have and am just happy the game is going on six years and we're still getting quality updates.

So here's to five more years of CoH! \/

Did you know that if you get sidekicked by someone 40 levels over you, you end up -4 to their level?

Pfft. Honestly? The damage is really high, it autohits, and he never turns it off. I had a lot of trouble fighting him with a Crab because his CotN would wipe out my pets almost as soon as they were spawned. I also had to joust because standing near him not only meant high damage tics of dark damage that never missed, but also my ToHit was reduced by an insane amount.

All the other stuff compounded makes him crazy, but just the CotN is enough to make him a huge pain in the butt.

Out of curiosity, what makes you think farmers need experience?

I hope you came up with that, because I just gave you +rep for it.

Can you really gain meaning or context with numbers like:

"There are a total of 192^524,288 costume combinations."

We can't possibly fathom a number like that, or even have a name for it. It's just "a really really huge number okay" which may as well be infinite. My computer calculator can't even process it.

Actually, shooting for S/L DEF is pretty amazing on WP. It has low S/L DEF compared to other stuff, but you should be able to work up a good 10-20% depending on what you wanna do. Even possible to soft-cap a Tank on it, and maybe a Brute/Scrap with enough work. S/L DEF covers practically every attack in the game, so stacking that on top of your HP, RES, and regen is just hilariously powerful. And does more to help you take alphas than +regen does.

My WP Scrap build has 32.5% S/L DEF, up from the basic 4%. CJ + Weave + Steadfast + various other bonuses.

Every single Energy Blast and Energy Melee attack has a smash component. Meaning beefing up your S/L would allow you to dodge every Energy attack there is.

Cremate, Fire Ball, and Inferno have smash components. Fire Sword, Fire Sword Circle, and Greater Fire Sword have a lethal component. So maybe about 50-66% of the fire attacks would still go through.

But I don't understand your argument anyway because if you actually cared about Fire damage like you say, you would have Invincibility, because it gives you defense against Fire attacks.

Having bought all my KCs recently, they're more like 20-50m each. And you only need 4, as opposed to 6 for ToD. 20-50 x 4 = 80-200m; 20 x 6 = 120m, so yeah it's not that much more expensive. And saves on slots.

You're not a different playstyle, you're a worse. There's no advantage to not having Invincibility. Maybe if you were comparing a /Dark to a /Kin you'd have a point. But you're comparing Invuln to Invuln with less mitigation. We're not comparing apples to oranges. We're comparing an apple to half an apple.

And for the record, most Energy and Fire powers have S/L components.