Fiery-Enforcer

It's true, that can happen with Hibernate, but it's also not that difficult to figure out when it's safe to use it or not. Phase is good for being able to pop greens against the incoming damage, but a lot of people have Phase now so there's the risk of getting chased down in Phase even though most probably don't wanna 'waste' Phase for that.

Personally, I don't use Hibernate much in the arena. I find myself mostly using it to counter Stalkers.

No, they're referring to the weekly strike target and if it will still be around as an alternative way of obtaining the rare alpha component. Personally, I think they should keep it just for another option.

Well, I believe the people doing stuff that's not very fun to obtain rewards has the idea of having more fun later in result of the rewards. Like for example, farming for influence and recipe drops in order to IO a charcter quickly. Sure, you can play the regular way and have fun although it will take significantly longer and some people may not want to invest that much time so they'll take the quicker route. Or maybe people just have more fun playing with uber builds that the period of having no fun is an acceptable sacrifice in order to have more time having fun.

Now, I don't find farming the most fun thing to do, but I do it anyways. For example I farm and PL PvP toons. Sure I can level up the character the right way and maybe have fun, but you bet I want my shiny lvl 50 now so I can have even more fun with it.

I agree, I like the changes better. I'm just still bitter about the changes to /Psi even though they balanced the set across the board rather than around one power like it was.

It was very entertaining. Back in i13, having my Fire/Psi permanently at the damage cap was so much fun.

I think the statement he's referring to is in a conversation we had many months ago. I said that I didn't use Rage in a specific ambush farm because I used red inspirations to the point the Rage crash started slowing me down. In all other situations where you don't have an endless supply of inspirations to burn, Rage is used. So, I'm guessing I'm the many people he's talking about.

As far as how just SS/Fire goes without an epic powerset, it's still effective and out-damages most combos out there. Just cycling between Foot Stomp and Burn can be devastating. However, since I can take epic powers, why wouldn't I? I'm sure BBJ's Elec/Fire does.

I've heard people have done it with Spore Burst since it's pretty much the same as Mass Hypnosis, but as you know it's very risky to do it without also having a ST sleep because you will most likely miss eventually.

Salt Crystals has double the recharge so I don't think you can do it with that.

I think it definitely would too. I've only done this trial two times and both times it was completed pretty fast. Just did it yesterday actually in about 25 minutes for 29 merits, not bad.

The only real coordination this trial takes is making sure people are at the different generators and to take them down at the same time along with coordinating the temp powers.

This would definitely be powerful. I remember how fast we were taking down DE monsters together, although I think you still had your Sonic/Rad then.

Both. A confused enemy won't attack you, but attack their allies.

You can also Wormhole and TP foe the mito's except for the yellows I think. Used to tp mito's into mobs of rikti, it was neat.

We all know that you want Tanks to be just as survivable as they are now, but surpass the damage of Brutes and Scrappers. In case you didn't know, that is never going to happen. I'm sorry, but I think you're playing the wrong game genre. This is a MMO and it sounds like you don't like them, and you never did and never will.

In the end, yes all the game comes down to is stringing together an attack chain to defeat enemies. However, standing still for every enemy through the entire game repeating the same attack chain can get boring. What's the point of adding new content if it's the same exact thing we've been doing for all of these years with just a new skin? I for one welcome the new direction.