EvilGeko

Yeah I wasn't counting conversions. And probably my best characters can do 5-6 tips in 30 min. But not all. I see your point though.

Depends on what you want.

However, I don't really care what the price is so long as it isn't more than what I suggest though.

No.

Even if you're booking it takes about 2-3 hours to get 1 A-merit. Multiply that by ten and you're looking at 20-30 hours to get one SHO.

Hamidon takes about an hour, the STF/LRSF around that time as well or shorter. Plus, you can do BOTH and get more chances at loot. This just provides more options.

Folks like this is exactly why I didn't suggest removing it entirely. However, the KB in Solar Flare is a bit much. I suggested 1.4 as the magnitude because that's where Shockwave is and it seems to be reasonable most times to me. While I would prefer nothing, I'm not trying to take away anyone's fun.

This.

GO. HUNT. KIL. BOSS(es).

I'm happy with Hamidon, have been raiding him regularly for five years. I primarily do Hamidon for the reward. Most times I'm barely aware that there are 40+ other people around doing the same thing. So your ridiculous premise fails.

The set the reward low for two reasons most likely: 1) they have this inane idea that time should have the strongest correlations with reward; 2) they punish the first people who do new content with purposefully lower rewards so they don't have to "nerf" later. That's a shabby reason to not reward content properly, but there you go.

Who said it was a bad thing?

This is the very reason why using time to complete as a metric is completely asinine. When content first releases, it's hard because people are learning the encounters. When they get better at it, they get it on farm status. The difficulty hasn't changed, the players got better. This should be what most game developers want, people to work together and get better.

The rewards should not change because people got better. However in the time=reward nonsense, that's exactly what happens.

Raids aren't everyone's cup of tea. Personally, I've done the CoP, we were successful, and if this raid were rewarded properly it would probably see a lot more use over on Justice. Hamidon, for example, is run at least once a week, oftentimes several.

The CoP takes time to learn and get the strategy down and optimized, but if the rewards were there, people would take the time to learn it. But as it stands right now, I'm taking my successful run and going home. Because it's not worth doing the trial anymore.

This trial is the perfect example of why basing rewards primarily on time is problematic.

By contrast, Force Field Defenders are a myth, like unicorns.

Yes, it's great for those .05% of situations. Still would prefer something that's useful the other 99.95% of the time.

Fair enough. I'm open to any change, but the ranged attack chain for Peacebringers right now is atrocious. Not enough damage without using multiple procs in Gleaming Bolt and barely even then.

It must have because you're correct. Psi Dart is .84 damage not 1.32. Ah well, no hope of that change.

Considering Cold offers more overall mitigation (considering Frostworks/slows/resistance) I don't see why this would be necessary.

I think the bigger problem for Castle is the famed Cottage Rule. Because Force Bubble is a prime target IMO to turn completely into something else.

Untrue:

If you Snow Storm the guy, he and everyone he runs past is cycling their attacks at a snail's pace;

If you Infrigidate the guy, everyone is hitting him with no problem and if he has Fire attacks you'll lol at them.

If you just run into things and fire off Sleet/Heat Loss then the mobs will be drained, easier to hit and hit harder, slowed, and perhaps flopping on their butt.

It's beautiful terror and it most certainly helps the team.

I hardly ever just pull numbers out of my reptilian bottom (they scuff the scales ). I lifted this change from Dom's Psi Assault. Psi Dart had the same issues that Gleaming Bolt does and I believe the same fix will work. Why? Because Luminous Blast is designed VERY similarly to a Dominator Assault set. A mix of range/melee/utility.

Issue 15 Release Notes

I think it's a legitimate target because Force Field, while providing great protection should be brought up to its fellows in other areas such as debuffs.

Let's say a boss is coming near my Cold/Cold Defender. Infrigidate, Snow Storm, Ice Storm, then start cycling my attacks. That boss will take a long time to get into melee if he makes it at all. I've literally gotten a boss held because they were so slowed they couldn't reach me in time.

And besides my defense, I have 43% Sm, Le resistance, 31% Fire, Cold Resistance, and 62% Energy Resists with Charged Armor. It's not so bad.

No tank can self-HP cap. What he gets is resistance to Fire, Cold, Energy, Toxic, +Health, and a significant amount of extra recharge/slow debuff protection.

Psi defense (which will not be soft-capped on an Invul), positional defenses to go along with his typed defense, endurance drain resistance.

I have a 50 of both and this simply isn't true. Force Field doesn't have the tools that Cold Domination does. I say that with no bias whatsoever. I live both sets a lot.

The insurgents get some folks by appealing to their shared ideals. There are some people who while sitting on the fence before, will not take the government's side in the inevitable crackdown. Remember the crackdown tends to prove the insurgents right. A just government only attempts to punish the insurgents. This shows the people that the government is serious about the rule of law. However, an oppressive state will tend towards collective punishment. When the government is punishing everyone whether they did anything or not, some folks will come to the conclusion that the insurgents were right all along.

The insurgents will cower some other folks. Some people will never move off the "default state". They'll never take sides. EITHER SIDE. They won't seek to lobby for the destruction of the insurgents or the government. They'll just live in fear and hope to ride out the violence.

Others will take the government's side. They'll speak out, get active. Only problem with that for them is that it makes them a "legitimate" target.

So no, you don't get everyone, but you get some. There are plenty of current examples I can think of to illustrate these points, but I don't want to get modsmacked.