Dromio

I've run lots of trials on my Ice Tanker, who's got less DEF than your Shield tanker will, even if just from the typed/positional difference. She sits at 45% or so to Smash/Lethal and Energy/NE and hasn't had too many issues on BAF or Lambda. Every once in a while the RNG gets her, but for the most part she's been solid.

For a lot of the trials you're getting buffs on top of what you're providing. With Fitness becoming inherent more people are taking Leadership. VEATS do a lot of stuff with Leadership type powers. The AoE change for things like FF makes buffs easier. And of course a lot of people have their Destiny slot filled with Barrier. I've run BAF/Lambda where I've been at the HARD CAP of defense for a period of time, much less the soft cap.

Overall, I feel that with the most likely available buffs, and with the extremely small amount of content that incarnate cap is relevent to, you're much better off aiming for 45% and then moving to some other stat that will also help you in ALL content, not just those few incarnate missions. Regen, HP, Res, whatever.

MM's get to add a tier 9 blah power on top of all that.

My impression was that each stage of the SSA would be something that would have to be purchased separately, but I'm not sure about that. If it is, then it might be more appropriate to review each stage separately as well. OTOH, if you pay one time to get all the SSA's, then I think it would be better to review them as a whole extended arc.

Happily, both types can leave legitimate feedback.

I didn't like the level 20 thing either. The arc was OK, but very short. Certainly nothing I'd recommend anyone spend actual money on. Villain side was better. The maps were fine. Vigilantes and Rogues get much poorer rewards.

It wasn't "eh", but it wasn't much more than "good".

Heh, for all the grinding that goes into getting Incarnate stuff you can only use it in way less than 1% of the game.

The arc was good, but I didn't like the level 20 thing either. It was short, I sure wouldn't be ponying up any real money for this.

What happens if you repeat the arc? What rewards repeat?

Dark also eclipses Poison, for AV's or not, by about level 10. Darkest Night, Tar Patch, and the Dark heal are pretty much just as effective as all of Poison (never mind adding in the rest of Dark). Plus the Dark stuff is nice big AoE's.

I've got a Poison MM that I like a lot, but I'm really disappointed that when Poison did get some attention because of the proliferation the changes they made, especially to MM's, were so incredibly minor. I'm thinking that was Poison's big chance, and it won't get any more attention for years.

EDIT: Forgot to add, Envenom does stack with itself, but it's only a certain part of it. The -regen part. The rest doesn't stack.

I think the word you're looking for is "midichlorian", but used as an adjective.

Then don't set expectations that a feature "will" be in a product. Or be smart enough to test it in beta.

I've got a ton of tech support experience and setting accurate expectations with customers is one of the most important things to do to keep your customers happy. You're in tech support, you know this.

Paragon set the expectation. If they didn't test in beta, that makes this result even worse, because they might have been able to re-set expectations based on their beta failures.

There's one big thing that I think sets this issue apart from others Paragon has had. In this case their mistake has directly affected their customers' wallets. This isn't about a virtual power, or currency, or PvP, or ED or anything else that's "just a game". These were expectations set that resulted in customers spending real money that they might not have spent otherwise (as seen in this thread and others) only to find out that the reward they were expecting, based on Paragon's statements, wasn't going to happen.

Paragon gets its reward: a nice lump payment. The customer however doesn't get the same consideration back.

When you're dealing with people's money, real world money, you have to be more cautious about setting and fulfilling expectations.

There are always undiscovered bugs or whatever (although I would hope this was tested in beta). The bug here isn't the problem. The mishandled expectations hitting customers right in the wallet are.

Ice Armor too. IMO all the powersets should have low/no effects options.

I would put this stuff at the top of the list too. I would hope that it wouldn't be something we'd have to buy, but honestly, the above is one of the very few things I would consider spending money on over and above my subscription.

Pretty much this.

Maybe some Barbarian pieces, but I'll have to see them first.

Funny how Street Justice seems so popular compared to Beam. I'm not tempted even a little bit by Beam, but I already have a character standing by for StJ (and Titan for that matter). I sure hope it isn't too long before StJ hits the store.

Two weeks ago I bought a vacuum cleaner. In the online literature, on the floor model, and in the salesman's pitch it was presented to me that the vacuum cleaner had a hose attachment. Not something I'd use very much, not integral to the performance of the vacuum cleaner, additional functionality but not necessary. I bought the vacuum, presented my credit card, and they ordered one for me because they didn't have one in stock. If that vacuum cleaner shows up and it doesn't have a hose attachment, is it beyond understanding that I might ask where it is? If they tell me that their ads, floor model, and salesman were all incorrect and I don't get that attachment, what do you feel would be an understandable and logical reaction on my part? Should I pay them for the attachment in the hopes that my money will go to them providing the attachment for free in the future?

I go to buy a minivan. The dealership's ad says that I can get a free DVD player if I buy it. The salesman says I can get a free DVD player if I buy it. So I buy it, only to find, on delivery (or say, the day before delivery) that the minivan doesn't have the DVD player. Now, that's a luxury item, it's not integral at all to the purpose of the car. What do you feel would be an understandable reaction on my part in that case? Paying them to install a DVD player so that they can maybe have the resources to install that DVD for someone else in the future?

As a customer it is not wrong to expect a company to live up to the expectations that they themselves put forth. It is completely understandable. In the same way that I would expect that Sears would provide the hose attachment (I really did buy a new vacuum, my man card is already in the mail back to HQ ), or my mythical car dealership to provide the DVD player, I expect that Paragon will live up to the expectations that again, they themselves set.

Quite honestly, from the tone and text of Z's posts, he at least (and I suspect a lot of the Paragon crew) feels very badly about this last minute and mismanaged setting of customer expecatations. That's to their credit. No one has any cause to complain about my investment in the game, I've been here forever and I've bought all but one of the boosters. I've put my resources toward helping.

This isn't a world ending thing. It's not a ragequit, or even a rage. It's not something that has cost me any money, as I didn't extend my subscription yet. I think I'm reacting in a very understandable way. I'm not going to reward Paragon, much as I may love them, for failing to fulfull the expections that they set. I'm going to do what I would do at Sears or the car dealership. Well, not exactly, because in those cases I would be asking for my money back. In this case I'm simply going to hold off on giving Paragon more money.

Errr... what? She/he is certainly qualified to make their own decisions. There's no right or wrong or should.

Personally, I was going to do a year subscription tomorrow. Now I'm not. The expectation set by the company I was going to give the money to turned out to be false, and admitted as such by that company. I think that's a valid reason to withhold any larger investment and approach further investment cautiously. And, since it's my money, I'm the one that gets to decide, and my reasons are valid. Whether you think so or not is completely and utterly irrelevant.

Read the Announcement. Z says straight out in there:

This is poor. If Paragon didn't KNOW that was the way it was going to work, then they shouldn't have been "sharing" it as a certainty with players. This is real money stuff here, not virtual currencies, and anything dealing with subscribers' wallets should be treated cautiously. I hope anyone that changed their sub to get those tokens can still change back, or get refunded.

This is me as well. I'll stick with my current subscription.

Hmmm, the launcher has been keeping my beta client up to date, is it just that easy? I just copy the .piggs and start it up?

Hello Nurse!

I'm not totally sure I understand the question but hey, this is the internet, I can still try to answer!



A defense debuff will subtract from your total defense. So if you get hit with a 5% defense debuff and your total melee defense is 48% then your resulting defense will be 43%. The extra defense above 45% is counted.

Note that SR has awesome defense debuff resistance. Right up to around 95% at level 50. That means that for SR defense debuffs have to be significant and stacking to really have a large effect.

Hope that helps!

Personally I don't think it is. There's so many buffs flying around on the trials that I've hit the defense hardcap without running any of my defense toggles. The 59%, at this point, applies to so little of the content in the game that I think it's much more effective to concentrate on things that do apply over a wider area, like regen, damage, HP, etc.