EvilGeko

THIS!!

I actually don't mind Hand Clap. I don't take it, but to me, it's a nice comic-booky power. Solar Flare is evil.

Psi Blast will never beat Ice Blast for safety. And personally, I tend to think that Mental and Ice are stronger than Devices for defense.

I think we should remember that any combo in this game can be effective. The point of my request was to judge relative performance. I hope to make Psi/Devices work. I just don't want it to be as easy as most other combos in the game to do so.

heh heh...

The complaints about Blaster psi blast did figure into my decision.

Pretty well. I got what I wanted out of the combo which was requiring more care than other combos. Certainly more than my other newbie, Staff/Ice stalker which is OP.

Don't assume you know what a State Attorney General or U.S. Attorney would do in regards to a video game. I don't. I don't think this is a crime either, but then there are people in prison right now for things that don't seem to be fraud on their face.

^^^

Very happy to hear this. You just made some sales today. Will deal with specifics once it's in beta.

You don't need to be at the soft-cap to mitigate a goodly amount of damage. Shield does more than fine.

Wanting Peacebringers to be in shooting distance of Warshades and SoA isn't advocating for them to be overpowered. They have a LONG way to go there.

lol

No one has countered any factual statement I've made. I said Kheldians do less damage than SoA. Are you suggesting that is untrue? No. You're just using insult like you all are. Hell, Joe admitted one of the central contentions I made, that Kheldian powers lack synergy.

You guys are fun. You don't deny that Kheldians have problems, but anyone who disagrees with you what those problems are must be wrong.

Researched without the 'ing'. And Grey Pilgrim's post from just after I22 went on beta showed up. While many folks here (Pilgrim, Joe, Two headed) did in fact argue for this, there were plenty of folks telling them they were wrong.

So I acknowledge that my statement was overly broad and apologize. Not all of you would have been complaining, just a lot of you!

Illusion has been rocking it since Issue 1 Bill. And sure, most of the playerbase doesn't min/max. But if you're going to be talking about performance, then we need to consider the numbers. Everything can solo on SOs. If that's the standard then nothing needed to change and this current buff on test should be reverted.

If other ATs are head and shoulders better then you have a problem. That has been the basis for just about every change so far. It's the reason that people (with no small amount of justification) tore into the current threads about giving Scrappers something.

Stamping your feet doesn't make it so.

So it's OK to insult me, to say I don't know what I'm talking about, but I make a tongue in cheek response and I'm the bad guy? Come on man.

I don't seek validation. Just because something is controversial doesn't make it wrong. People often fight major change. It's to be expected. I'm always more concerned when everyone agrees with me than when I have detractors.

I did make such a search. I searched 'form shifting'. Found nothing of the sort.

Horse-poo. I know it as well, if not better than anyone else here. You don't min-max by your own admission Bill. You don't play for performance. I do. Saying this is just plain wrong. I do know the AT. Very well. We can disagree without resorting to inanity like this.

This is true. But I've never understood insanity. I should have paid more attention in my low level psych classes.

No. I don't mind when you say crazy things like you don't want Illusion on Dominators. That's your opinion. It's loony, but you have a right to say it. As I have a right to ask for whatever I want.

What is this AT? It's a poor collection of powers. Kheldians were intended to able to fill in for other AT roles like tanking, damage dealing, etc. But the AT is remarkably poor at doing so. You can tank much better with any Scrapper with a taunt aura. They are beat on DPS, by about half of the other ATs. SO what is this AT supposed to be?

SoA are damage dealers, and support and they do darn well at both.

So when I say, I would like Kheldians to be more like SoA, I mean that they should be good at their intended roles. I don't know how that's controversial.

On SOs Bill. The SoA do more damage. That's not an opinion. That's a fact. They have a higher damage mod, and their powers have higher DPAs. What's difficult to understand here?

As for survivability, the Kheldians do better here, especially after the last round of changes.

You're right. I don't like how Peacebringers play. And I would like them to change. You are perfectly reasonable in saying that you don't want them to change. What you are not reasonable in saying is that I have no right to ask.

I will ask. I didn't spend any time concerning myself with the folks who said the old Moment of Glory was fun and they liked it. I wanted it to change and so I argued for it. When it did change many of the same people who opposed me loved that it changed. So would it be here too.

You would probably hate what I would do to Peacebringers, but then you somehow think Illusion isn't a great set so we know you're crazy!

Yeah OK.

But they don't solo as well as SoA. Anything can solo. That's not the point.

• I was at ComicCon in 2010 and I was talking Ghost Falcon who said emphatically that we would NEVER be able to start villain ATs in Paragon or hero ATs in the Rogue Isles. Instead we would always have to use the alignment shift or start in Praetoria.
  
• Positron said long ago, that he would rather remove endurance from the game than make Stamina an inherent power.
  
• Positron again stated in no uncertain terms than merging the hero and villain markets was considered and would never happen.

How did that work out I wonder?

What the devs say today is what they say today. Again, having the perspective of being here since launch means I've seen multiple examples of the devs saying something would 'never' happen, only to see it actually happen to much fanfare later. Likewise, one day the developers might actually realize that Kheldians (mostly Peacebringers) need to be relieved of Geko's idiotic design and made into something that actually works in this game.

No my points weren't wrong. And in a couple of weeks after Issue 23 when people are still clamoring for more Peacebringer changes that will be clear.

You see, you're wrong. That's why there have had to be so many changes. You all keep looking in the wrong direction for changes. The fundamental design is broken. It was broken when I was first playing with Kheldians on Issue 3 test and they are still broken now.

I don't say that out of any hatred of Kheldians. I say that from having the perspective that many of you seem to lack. I've been here from the very beginning and I've seen how the game has developed. Despite what many of you claim, Kheldians are the least versatile AT in the game. Yes, they have a lot of tools. But so many of those tools are so laughably weak that they aren't even real choices.

If you don't like what I write, put me on ignore. Otherwise piss off.