JD_Gumby

Just because it's an MMO does NOT mean that you should have to team for your character's progression.

Showing a mag 3.0 sleep here, with 5% chance for an extra mag 1.0...

Play the game with teams more often and you'll find that light speed is definitely too slow for far too many players.

And that's one of the benefits of Illusion/Force Field. He stays alive a LOT longer. Of course, that comes at the price of teammates whining at you for being a little slower at shielding them, but.. *shrug* :P

Even though there is no logical or defensible reason for making it take any longer or making it more difficult for solo/small team players.

I highly doubt it would take more than a day's work for a competant coder to copy and paste (and then modify) the reward table code into an if(weekly_mission=this mission && start_from_crystal && team_size <= 4), adjusted for the standards of whatever language their scripts are in, of course, on a half-dozen or so select level 46-50 missions from each side. [ie, the reward table comes up instead of standard if it's the weekly target, was started from an Ouro crystal, and the team size is 4 or less to allow for those who wish to solo or run in small teams]

It would still take longer, though, via that method thanks to the shard requirement, but at least that might help appease the vocal "Suck it up and team!" crowd we have here.

It's not lag or anything like that. It's the irritating, pulsing visuals and those godsdamned tier 2 demons that WON'T SHUT THE <BLEEP> UP. Plus pets completely obscuring the auctioneer so that you have to waste time trying to find an angle from which you can click.

And that means they can't take one second to click their pulsing toggle off and then click it again before re-entering he mission? For MM pets, a simple /macro Goto "petcom all goto" and then placing off to the side is no effort at all (I know I do it). For Controllers, just desummon. The recharge is fast enough that you can have a new pet when you enter the mission.

I don't buy the excuses for not doing such simple things. It's either abject stupidity or deliberate rudeness on their part. Neither is acceptable.

Gun Drone does suck, yes. That's why my AR/Dev Blaster didn't take it, and doesn't miss it, when he I19 respec'd for Inherent Fitness.

Strange. I use Time Bomb pretty much every time it's up - especially on Boss spawns. But I mostly solo and am not part of the Go! Go! Go! Brigade and therefore don't mind taking a little extra time time to stealth into the middle of a spawn and set it up (backing up to set a Trip Mine at the spot I plan to start fighting from, then using Surveillance on a Boss or LT or Sapper or Communications Officer or whatever, and following up with an LRM Rocket or a Sniper Rifle shot at about the time the Time Bomb's about to go off).

Probably because it's the least used, especially solo.

Location AoEs are awkward to use and position properly in the middle of combat, especially in team combat where you have little to no visibility, and especially when the AoE is so tiny (4ft radius). Does a bind like LSHIFT+LBUTTON "powexec_name Ignite" work like it does for teleports? That'd actually help a bit... (EDIT: And it does; tested it on my unused 3rd build and also found out that it *doesn't* work with MBUTTON or RBUTTON, just using the power instead of using-and-placing in those cases)

Lasts only 10 seconds with a 4s cast time (plus a couple of seconds to place it), so odds are most immobilizations/holds are going to be ending quite quickly by the time it's placed (especially if you're relying on one of your own). And when it does end, that mag 50.0 fear means the target is out of there after having taken very little damage.

Overall, not that great a power, even if the damage numbers under optimal circumstances are very good (27.8 damage per second according to City of Data?).

My bad. :P Haven't played FF to that point (not the buffing type) in a long while (had a FF Defender back in '09 that I dumped very soon after getting it since I wasn't teaming enough), so I'd forgotten and the name made me misremember... (ie, that it was a Trip Mine/Time Bomb/Poison Gas Trap type deal)

Dunno why Force Bolt wouldn't, but I'd assume that Repulsion Bomb's a (pseudo-)pet and thus, like all pets, doesn't trigger Containment.