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Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar

Honestly, why play a Force Fielder? ...Because Masterminds don't get Cold Dom. That's the best reason I can give you. My *main* is a Bot/Force and I would NEVER make a Force Field character that wasn't a Mastermind. It's an absolutely inferior choice for the other support archetypes, because they have the option of having their cake and eating it too with Cold.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Saying that shows you have no clue as to what it is and what its purpose is.

The "Cottage rule" was taken from a post Castle made on the Blaster boards where he gave an example of changing Build Up from a power that increased damage and accuracy to one that built a small cottage.

It says, in essence, that whatever changes are made to a power, the basic purpose of that power will remain the same. It has very rarely been "violated" (and the only example I can think of *right* offhand being early in the game, where Fold Space was removed from Gravity, Wormhole moved up and Singularity introduced.)

They learned precisely what player reaction would be when they violated it again in - I forget the issue, but in one issue's beta. You'll note we have *five* powers in our PPPs/APPs now. Know why? To avoid being lynched after they *flat out replaced* what they called the "least popular" powers in the PPPs with "something more useful" - for instance, in one personal example, they replaced the AOE blast in Mace Mastery for Dominators with Personal Force Field - replacing a power I certainly used with one that was 100% useless for me.

Not only did this remove powers people were using, but rendered (sometimes expensive) IOs completely useless and require a respec.

Needless to say, after player reaction and a small mob with pitchforks and torches showing up at the offices, they decided to put in a fifth power instead of replacing them. They went from violating the cottage rule to *not.*

Examples of other things people suggest that, yes, would be violations of the cottage rule:
- Replacing Black Hole/Dimension shift
- Replacing cage powers


Examples of things that did not/do not violate it, but which people misunderstand as doing so:
- Electric Armor - replacing Conserve Power with Energize. The power STILL provides an END discount, but it has a heal attached to it now.
- Energy Aura - adding a heal component to its AOE end drain.
- Adding a fear to Burn.
- Removing the fear from Burn.
- Null the Gull. He does NOT change the powers he affects - he just changes the buff on YOU (similar, essentially, to how a Stone tank/brute running Rooted would counter someone using Group Fly. Just because YOU aren't affected doesn't change the power.)
- Removing/replacing knockback in powers that do it. Wouldn't violate it (unless the power is meant to do knockback and JUST or Primarily do knockback.) it's just generally a bad idea.
- Adding Bruising to tank T1s
- Moving Taunt.

Originally Posted by Auroxis

Phantoms have a lot of fire damage, and Nemesis have those flamethrower attacks.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Hey now. He was too busy being snarky and finding silly pictures to post on the forums. Sheesh.

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

The inherit change to defender's damage pretty much kills any chance of defenders getting more damage.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Beastyle noticed this today when he was tagging along on some Live runs. This is currently being investigated.

Thanks all!

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Did you hate the Trial? It's important to hate it - it makes it more enjoyable.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

It's almost as if they thought that alts were encouraged in the game.