EvilGeko

It would be about the same amount of work as the Fire Embrace change. Basically all powers that have KB now would have to look for the flag. It could work, Castle already verified to me that something very similar could work. But the devs don't want to do that for a variety of reasons.

The devs made it so that killing lots of minions quickly was the most productive use of players time. It did not need to be so and shouldn't be so. Superheroes have a multitude of means to accomplish their goals, as we used to here.

But several nerfs, to phase, stealth, personal force field, and others to ensure that you can't finish a mission without opening yourself to attack means that killing is the highest order activity.

Making it so that the best way to get purple inventions is to murder thousands of minions instead of AVs, creates even more incentives to efficiently leveraging AoEs.

Knockback would have problems even if the above wasn't true. But this just makes it worse.

Insanity can be treated my friend. Please seek help immediately.

Pugs are paragons of cuteness villain.

FYI the thread is about 90% for laughs, but I probably would buy a Pug if there was one. Was kinda shocked when someone posted that picture from WoW. Didn't think a mainstream game would actually do it.

I wish I didn't find WOW so boring.

If the first bird pet is anything but this:

What game is that?

Let's help our fellow poster out!

If you're going to start with a dog, start with a cute dog.

When the game went F2P, the NCSoft was well within its rights to set ANY conditions for free access it wished. My premium account has 8 slots and I'm darn happy about that. Saying that we paid for 8 slots when we bought CoH, is mangling the language and I'm not sure the baloney is coming from the devs' way.

Have had both happen to me. I can't lie and says this happens a lot, it doesn't. But it happens enough to really make KB a drag sometimes.

Most of the time, I really don't care. I don't bother to chase individual targets. You knock 'em they're yours, have fun. But let me just share a few anecdotes.

My DM/EA Brute moves into the middle of a spawn and hits Soul Drain. No buff icons come up because they just got knocked out of range. That's just plain annoying.

My Invul/Stone Tank is plugging along with 30%+ defense feeling all warm and fuzzy when suddenly I start taking a lot more damage because mobs have been knocked out of the range of Invincibility.

My Fire/Shield Scrapper teleports into a spawn greatly harming ten of them with Shield Charge, with Fire Sword Circle and Fireball to clean up anything that has the gall to still be alive. I get that tingly feeling that Scrapperlock causes. I have run well ahead of the Energy Blaster and Storm Defender. That denies them an additional off-tank, but hey they got Knockback!

Not sure how simple that is. I'm not aware of any other modifiers to buff/debuff duration. I get your point. I'm just mystified that folks are willing to put this much energy into something that most people are going to ignore either way.

If they change it, it's going to be something small and generally useless. It's pretty useless now. About 8 points in Healing Aura, 13 in Heal Other. So I guess if folks want to stack an additional +7-9% accuracy (or whatever the change it to), I guess that's cool.

I would prefer to have the healing bonus for the characters that can use it.

OK so if they change it to the boring and useless 7-9% accuracy that the other sets have, would that make everyone happy? Because, they aren't going to give it much more of a benefit than that. And then everyone can feel that the bonus is useless.

Of my three defenders, my main Cold/Ice doesn't benefit at all. My Kin and Time benefit to varying degrees, but I'm not even looking at the set for that. There are dozens of set bonuses that are useless. This one isn't even necessarily useless because everyone can have a heal if they want one.

Wait what?

I'm counting 5 for both, where are you getting one?

KnockUp is just Knockback aimed at a different angle (i.e. UP).

This is the long and the short of it. Regen is actually better at handling burst damage than it was in the bad old days of toggle IH. And that's its one and only weakness really.

Under the conditions that most players here expect melees to deal with (no temps, no inspirations) yes Regen underperforms. Personally, I use all tools available to me, and I have no problems. My SS/Regen Brute tanks, my BS/Regen Scrapper solos grenades and acid containers on Lambda. Is it as effortless as it is for my Fire/Shield Scrapper...no. Sometimes, my timing is off and I go squish. But heck, that really doesn't cause that much of a problem in this game.