Eva Destruction

They're all vigilantes. The Punisher is a Blaster, Wolverine is a Scrapper, Rorschach is probably a Scrapper too....all heroic ATs gone vigilante. I don't see what the problem is.

Batman or Electra could be considered heroic/vigilante Stalkers. Definition of "stalk" from dictionary.com: to pursue or approach prey, quarry, etc., stealthily. There is nothing inherently villainous about that.

As for Corruptors, now that mine is a Rogue in Paragon the AT name finally makes sense. Think about it, there is nobody to corrupt in the Rogue Isles, they are already corrupt. It's a dumb name for an AT, always has been.

The XP is worse but the inf/XP ratio is far better. Of course if you're going for maximum inf your best bet is just to farm [insert enemy group your farming character of choice does well against] on the Steel Canyon map. And of course most players probably don't realize that ticket rolls can net you ludicrous amounts of inf. And of course they probably don't care, they just want to get to 50 as fast as possible so they can complain stuff costs too much.

No matter how badges were re-introduced into AE, the badgers would just farm them, and pretty much everybody else just wouldn't care.

I honestly don't see how they can add any reward-based incentive to play AE that would cause more good than harm. The incentive is the ability to level up/play your 50s with new content instead of the same old stuff you've done over and over again. Content needs to be the focus. The search engine needs to be revamped to spotlight the good content (subjective as that is, I think most of us can agree on at least a few things that define "good content.") Good content needs to be promoted, in places other than this forum.

In an ideal world a casual player who wanted to run content could look at their contact list, unable to decide what contact they wanted to run, glance toward the AE building and think, "hmm, maybe I'll run an AE arc." Then they'd be able to walk into the building, click a few buttons (without having to search the forums to find out what buttons to click) and find a page of arcs with no "kill stuffz," no gameplay issues due to patches, no contortions with the search engine required.

I'd also like a publicly viewable favorites list because I'm lazy sometimes so if someone else has already found some good arcs for me that saves me the trouble of finding them myself. It also means you don't have to keep tabbing out to the forums to find people's recommendations, which is especially helpful for people who don't read the forums.

Did the roomful of Nazis TF get its rewards reduced? Or is that one balanced out by the need to be able to kill Nosferatu?

Everybody loves Hypnotoad.

Except horses can't talk, or type, so they can't go to the forums to complain that they're thirsty and can't afford to purple out their Warshades.

But umlauts make everything metal.

The one thing non-DH allies don't use and should IMO is self-only buffs and heals, such as Practiced Brawler and Reconstruction. It's still better than the initial implementation in which they didn't use their armor toggles either.

Well it is the board with what essentially comes down to a "who can kill faster" thread. When you're making those kinds of comparisons it's pretty obvious where the outliers are.

They would grandfather in existing characters, like they did when they moved Taunt to level 10.

This too.

Yeah, the problem is there's no point in bringing toons that can't solo most of it. Of course the speed runners want you to bring that debuffer...they just don't care if you die as long as you're there to help with the AV.

And LOL at turning up difficulty. Trying to get most teams to do that is like pulling teeth.

Just replying to what I'm being given.

Yep, because average players all spend billions on a character right? The very fact that we're willing and able to do that puts us outside the realm of "average."

Unless you're Electric, or Sonic, or Ice, or Energy....then it's not so much a case of being incapable of using your AoEs, as not having a lot of AoE to use (except in the case of Energy, where using your AoEs might actually interfere with using your AoEs). The whole "Blasters have superior AoE" argument falls apart when you start looking at sets that don't.

Oh. Do purple inspirations not drop from those enemies? Do you not monitor your defense so if it starts dropping you can eat one to stop the cascade?

Here's a shocking revelation: I play /SD without capped DDR. I fight all kinds of enemies. I haven't had my defense drop to the point where I might as well not have a secondary in...I don't even remember. Learn to play.

What about the min/maxers who love SD and love some other set as well? What do your amazing mind reading powers tell you about them?

I used Comm Officers. Minimal risk, endless stream of fodder to replace what you kill. If you factored in the time spent collecting such precise fodder those top DM/SD times start to look a lot less impressive.

Of course in normal play, outside of these specific extreme situations, fully saturating AAO requires simply jumping into a x8 spawn. Takes about three seconds. I don't need to global mail you reasonably unthreatening minions because the game does it for me.

That depends on how it's done. If only the high end is reduced, either by lowering the target cap or putting the buff on some kind of diminishing scale, then probably not much.

I honestly don't think the low end needs to be touched at all. AAO is fine until you start surrounding yourself with scads of guys.

If you do that at all you end up gimping everybody who hasn't poured a billion inf into their toon, or who isn't melee. You start giving everything to-hit buffs, you not only make life more difficult for the softcapped Scrappers, you make it more difficult for the Blaster who pops a purple to get through a tough fight, and the team bubbler gets to feel useless.

We all had fun playing with our overpowered Shield Charge, now get over it.

As a Blaster player I find her an affront to the AT. She makes the rest of us look bad.