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I don't think that far fashion foward.

Supported doom is great, as is supported celebration.

On the other end of the spectrum I don't personally see your depiction of the "tinfoil crowd" as any different than blind allegiance. Neither is very admirable to me.

*I've been guilty of being a member of the tinfoil crowd and the blind allegiance group in this very game. It gets ugly on both sides of the fence.

This is my feeling too. The amount of redraw on my BS/shield has worn me down and it is a fraction of what any DP combo would experience. I've repeatedly tried archery blasters and they just end up frustrating me it is so clunky feeling. I know the bane I'm building will end up pretty bad in that regard, but I'm hopeful the performance it produces will override that.

Probably no Dual Pistols for me unless the performance is extraordinary enough to compensate.

Strangely, I knew that acid arrow worked that way as I have an ill/ta and an earth/ta. Not entirely sure what I was thinking with my above comment. Well it was probably the absence of thought haha.

Thx for the correction.

aww comeon, trash talking shark spammers... that "sounds fishy". I'm giving you guys gold here!

tough crowd.

This sounds like the old pvp system to me. Toggle management under the new system is about as easy as it can get.

See the problem is that the assumption is being made that the unveiling of more information will inherently be positive.

I'm part of the doom-callers (not so secret) society of players that think GR is going to come with some very major game altercations like diminished returns implemented into the pve side. They could announce another 15 new powersets and DR would overpower it with negativity (for me).

It's logically unreasonable to wholesale accept or reject GR based on the limited amount of information. But it is entirely reasonable to point out that you like or dislike certain aspects relative to what we do know.

A person may indeed be very satisfied with what has been announced. If that was the release they would be happy. However, they have indicated there is "more". The more can (and probably will) be convincing in both a positive and negative way.

Therefore saying "I love GR" is just as illogical as saying "I hate GR". If someone tacks "so far" onto either statement they are fine, but I'm seeing a lot of people guilty of speaking in absolutes and actually getting upset at the other group speaking in absolutes. They are both wrong

I do in fact disagree. I cried doom about sideswitching earlier. People immediately spoke up and corrected the misinformation I was going on. Had I not voiced my concern I probably would have continued to believe what I believe and been upset about the game in general and that probably would have spilled over into other areas.

A more tangible example would be how the doom horn was sounded about the epic changes that went through where they removed powers. If everyone had been happy and nice about it nothing would have been corrected. Drop rates is another "doom" thread that got us an important game change.

Generally though the voice of doom is considerably smaller than the supporting voice. A single doom calling ranting about server mergers (for instance) can unite a whole group of people together to dispel that notion. All you have to do is look to the Matrix to understand that societies need discord to function

I try not to hold it against the pve community.

Doesn't this same logic dictate that it is also unfair to judge it so early and cry praise?

This. s/l coves the vast majority of melee range attacks (and more), but leaves you open to a decent number of ranged mezzes that have no s/l component. So ranged def covers most of them.

It might not be quite as good as melee and ranged def in some situations, but s/l does protect against a good number of aoe's too so in other situations it is better. Besides s/l + ranged softcap is a realistic (if difficult) goal to attain, whereas softcap melee and ranged probably isn't on a blaster.

Personally I'd just aim for 32.5%+ on a blaster and use a small def insp to cover me when facing more difficult stuff. That way you can don't have to sacrifice any of the blastery goodness to gain more def.

depends on your personal tolerance for attack chain gaps. Some people (I fall in this category) can't stand them, others don't mind them.

Whether the expensive IO needed to address the issue is worth it is a personal matter.

I'm not very familar with Kat, but the question I'd ask is that with that gap is the next best chain a better option or is the best Kat chain still better even with the pause?

Reminds me of the old impale spamming stalkers that could only use that one power and they could only kill people that didn't have a self heal or were out of inspirations.

Ya no doubt, I get that a dark concept would seem strange if it was missing from stalkers, but the way dark armor is implemented in the game just doesn't fit with how the AT plays.

They really should have heavily modified dark for them. Like pulling the auras and adding powers like shadow meld (before it was put in a ppp of course).

I mean dark armor has 4 enemy based powers, 3 of which are auras . You can only remove 1 for hide...

They were pretty quick to remove ice/ice from brutes, but dark armor is rife with AT issues that eclipse that combo on stalkers.