Leo_G

Because you're still getting other stuff? You're not getting nothing and just because you're not getting what you specifically want *now* doesn't mean you *can't*.

Is someone getting all the parts with 10 packs vs someone getting them over 100 fair? Well, it's not *unfair* because the guy with the 100 packs will have a slew of other great stuff too. I'd just say it's *unlucky*, but hey, I wasn't all that lucky last night so life is life.

Well the status quo isn't changing, is all I'm saying. You can complain all the live long day but in the end, what do you get? Stalkers had to go years being laughing stocks, got the butt end of proliferation practically every round, got skipped over for one of the newer cooler melee sets when it was released. What do those players get over the status quo? A change that minces what little difference the AT had with other melees? Hardly enough for all the other crap the AT waded through and little for the hardcore fan of how the AT played. I could complain, but then it's only for being unlucky that their issues took so long to be addressed.

You still have fun with it, and I very much like how the Super Packs are. Besides, unlocking one piece increases the chance of unlocking another.

That's your problem.

All the other stuff in the packs are worth what you pay for it and the costume bits are a nice bit of incentive to unlock on your way to getting ATOs or what have you.

But then, I don't feel entitled to everything being released how I want it (again Celestial/Fire&Ice) so having some exclusivity in how things are obtained is basically keeping the status quo.

Why should you be able to just unlock costumes in a poof while others have to wait or spend a sizable wad of points (haha Celestial/Fire&Ice again)? Because you're VIP? Pfft, entitlement much? I bet a lot of Prems spend more on this game than I do currently as a VIP so share in the struggle to get cool stuff

PS: I like the Elemental Order set to (mainly just the belt and gloves) but see no difference in locking them in SPs vs locking other sets behind incarnate content which is itself locked behind being a VIP. I say, tuff cookies to you and the rest. At least SPs come with other stuff my lowbies can use.

Because turning into a regular Coyote isn't specific enough, amirite?

For them, there'd be a need for a dramatic pause where you think they're too injured to get back up but then they do with a smirk on their face.

The meat of the difference is about as far apart as a Smoke Shield and a Dirt Forcefield would be...

*nods knowingly*

Of course it has to do with the User Interface, that's why it's taking so long and adding insult to injury, the more extra stuff they add the harder making an all encompassing UI gets. So, as time moves forward, more pools added, more options wanted, more staff join and leave Paragon Studios, it's not going to get easier, that's for sure...

Unless they discover a genius to hire that comes up with a solution that basically makes all that "It's hard! And it'll be a lot of work" talk into hogwash like what happened with Power Customization 0.5 (and not saying PC was easy, but the solution they used ended up being a lot less work than they initially explained)...We can only hope.




Well since one wouldn't be spending $ on the new PSOTM (powerset of the month), one has to make money somewhere. As is, I only buy costume pieces on a need-to basis anyway. Even if I see a piece I'd like to try in a costume, I can wait (Celestial and Fire&Ice?). It's only an issue for those with a selfish 'I want NAO!' attitude...even the 'must have everything' people really aren't a problem as they'd be buying the super packs for every extra goodie the market dishes out anyway.

*Shakes finger at TA*

I'd suggest just embracing the Super Packs. I quite like them myself. I've been needing something to spend my extra points on besides costumes and powersets that's actually worth the expense.

Not particularly. Even a player character is rather limited within the game environment but at least they can control their body, use emotes, sit down when they want to, *WALK* when they don't want to run, and use gifts that they were born with/perfected/learned/obtained in their life.

I'm pretty sure a coyote does more than run, jump, scratch itself and sit. Hell, even just some minute control of your actions would have been preferred.

Your counter-argument about the super packs, while noted, still don't hold water in my book. It's a delivery system that, by no means, is ineffective (because effective and desirable aren't the same thing). They can deliver a variety of different rewards as well as occasionally a one-oft costume unlock. Just because you *WANT* the costumes out of it doesn't mean that is what the devs intent was by adding such costumes to the table of Super Packs. Besides, the things you get from the gamble, none of them are undesirable and are all great prizes. The coyote travel power leaves much to be desired.

I truly hope the devs step up and do something about this eventually. I hear, when people bring up long asked changes like pool/APP/PPP and Epic AT customization, it's always the same answer. Same with pet customization and the like. I really *really* hope they get their head in the game and make some use of all this money they're (probably) getting from the stuff they release.

-Coyote Travel Power (and dog vanity pets): a cheap way to help this power? Do the same thing as with the vet buff pets; you have an e-mail that you claim the pet, a prompt window pops up asking which one you want out of a list of various colors (brown, white, black, blue, green, yellow, orange, red...simple) and then you're granted a power that swaps your skeleton for one of the specified color. Asking for stealth now is probably out of the question as the power is already fast enough.

-Pets/Granite/Epic ATs: they really need to add, instead of customizable models, just alternate themes to add variety. If you can make a power activate a different effect just by use of some kind of 'mode' (see: Titan Weapon's Momentum), you should be able to 'perma' put someone in a different mode and call up alternate models when activating a certain power. Or they can just get on the ball and add it properly to the costume creator instead of trying a work around...but ya know, if doing that is taking years, maybe they should just buck up and use that work around...

-Pool Customization: You know? I don't give a crap about Staff Melee or even Darkness Control. I mean, yeah they're cool but...I haven't even gotten around to playing Street Justice or making a concept for Time Manipulation yet. I'd have rather the devs drop all these new set non-sense, added all the costumes to super packs (so you'd gamble for the costumes) and actually *FINISH* power customization. Because, on this time line, it'll never get done. Might as well never to expect pool customization at all unless you still plan to be playing 4+ years down the line...

...but then, I'm usually wrong about these kind of things so who knows...

Lol you guys can't be this clueless...

Stalkers/Scrappers have access to THREE snipes.

Inherent power: Vorpal Judgement?

But Super Strength isn't good, Rage is. And AFAIC, having 'rage' (in the thematic sense) has nothing to do with having Super Strength. And yet, Rage is what makes this set *good*...and that makes no sense to me.

It's not like Dark Melee or Kinetic Melee, where their self-buff makes conceptual sense in some fashion, dark absorbs strength from 'souls' or 'life-energy' or what have you and kinetic absorbs force/energy from the foes you hit (or that hit you, as their damage is sapped resulting in weaker attacks) and transfers it to your attacks.

Rage? That's for Brutes, and they get that inherently as Fury. There's other ways to conceptualize having Super Strength without needing to draw off endurance and survivability...it makes little sense.

Heh, you speak as if you were the dev doing the changes


As for me, I think the primary problem of some of the crashing nukes is that, they offer more of the same mitigation, often times more than is what's necessary.

So Power Surge will practically cap all your resistances but has a big crash at the end. Right, well, for some characters with only a 75% cap, a lot of the power goes to waste and even if you have a higher cap, some of it will still go to waste unless you decided to cut off all your other armor powers.

That said, I still take and use a lot of the crashing nukes (even Elude), but they don't provide the utility or mitigation they're meant to. I wouldn't mind the main +stat being adjusted downward is another different +stat were added to make the powers more attractive for mitigation. Heck, keep the crash. But it's pretty messed up that I'd sooner use Elude as a means to run Focused Accuracy (it's a concept decision. FA is slotted for +ToHit and a BU proc...he doesn't run it all the time if only for the illusion of a higher ceiling of capability outside of using incarnate powers...which he simply has unlocked but none crafted) than for the extra +def since he's soft capped...and even if he wasn't, he could just carry a few purples to jump in and out of 'god mode'.

I'd settle for a good deal of +debuff resist in exchange for a quarter or so of the +stat of a crashing godmode. That'd be a lot more applicable in a variety of fights.

The most competent *PLAYER* will be the most competent Tanker in *ANY* situation, taunt or not. That's the whole idea of being 'most competent'...being better than anyone even under non-ideal circumstances...so technically, the most competent Player is the tanker without Taunt and cannot be out tanked by any Tanker that does use Taunt.

The only thing for this 'most competent' Tanker to shoot for is being more competent than himself at its most effective state and under specific circumstances...at which point, you're probably a Mastermind or an Illusion controller.

Don't hate the playa, hate the game....except in this case, hate the player because they're annoying and they won't shut up.

For some reason, I always miss that 2nd n when I say or read that name. Half-mistakenly said/spelled it Numia even though I've heard it said correctly before.

Your foot falls 6 inches resulting in .0004 fall damage. Not much, but when you only have 1/100000000 of a point of HP, that's alot of damage