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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I've never found either realism or challenge to be integral to a good game. If it is a Bill suggested and this is reserved only for the higher difficulty settings, then I cannot argue against it, but I am most decidedly AGAINST making the core, base game any more challenging than it is right now.

Originally Posted by Sentry4

thugs/pain is an easy button. I've seen total noobs make them and kill everyone. They do not require skill and it proves nothing when you kill someone.

Bots/pain takes a bit more skill, it's not as easy as thugs/pains, and i've seen bots/pain die if they didn't know what they were doing.

It all depends if you want respect and a challenge, or possibly a few more recipes and some more rep.

Originally Posted by Fireheart

Even if you had 200%, the game is hard-coded to give your enemy a 5% chance to hurt you - 1 in 20 attacks WILL get through.

Be Well!
Fireheart

Originally Posted by Robot_Lawyer

Oh, that's very good to know. What would you suggest then? I don't want to respec into acrobatics but i will if i have too. Also, I know about the KB protection from the Unique IO. Is that enough protection by itself, in your opinion?

Any other options?

Originally Posted by DaveMebs

It doesnt matter how large the range is with -75% range stacked at least 8 times constantly the range is gonna be like a few feet. And since they cant hit you, the secondary really doesnt matter (for the AVs at least). Only thing though is that you would need to pull the AVs seperately to remain completely unscathed

Originally Posted by JeetKuneDo

I have to disagree with you here.

"A lot of the players" seems a little sketchy. If you make the game harder at level 50 (i.e. "balance around IO's") you change that to "all the players will have to use IOs".

It's pretty hard to have sympathy for someone that works that hard to make their character powerful and then complains that the game is too easy. Do they not realize it's optional and they decided to do it?

Currently I have options. Some characters I frankly don't invest as much into and just randomly throw enhancements at. SO's still work fine and that's nice. But if I do decide I want to "uber" it up a bit, I have the option to start shopping and crafting to achieve some better capability. It's like a different (and more time consuming) version of the difficulty slider.

And there isn't any set "level" I have to get to either. I can go from SO's to generic IO's and get better performance or start with set IO's for dozens of other combinations. I can start throwing serious money at a character if I want and make it into a mini god (purples and such). It's my option...and I love options. A "harder game at lvl 50" takes away the more casual options.

So which of the levels I just described do we balance around? How many of the options get taken away?

Originally Posted by Tokyo

I would really like to see a patron similar to hoarfrost for Doms. Doms currently have no other option for a self heal other than taking med or hibernating, which puts them out of the game. If Doms are the Blasters of villainside, they could really use a patron power similar to hoarfrost. The patron pool most suitable for a hoarfrost like patron power would most likely be Leviathan. Replacing Bile SPray with Hoarfrost or perhaps the pet would be perfect.

Would this be too broken or would it be appropriate?

Originally Posted by Catwhoorg

At 50 for TF's you missed
Faathim
Justin Augustine
Sara Moore
Rikti Respec

Under the new system you also get your full powers on Doc Quaterfield. And lose only your level 49 power on the Freakspec.

just sayin'

Originally Posted by Twisted Toon

They do? Funny, I didn't notice. I have just as much fun playing my level 1s as I do my level 50s, and all the levels in between. I didn't realize I had to have a reason to get to 50 other than I get experience for beating up the bad/good guys and foiling their plots. I must be doing it wrong.

Originally Posted by GreenPiranha

This is weird to hear this, I play my 50's WAY more than my lower toons. I feel this MMO has more end game content than any in existence. And with the abundance of TF/SF it's really amazing.

Originally Posted by NetMinder

Like the costume codes they are giving out via Twitter right now?

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.....if it wasnt held on the coast?

Originally Posted by Rodion

This is great news. I'm glad to serious how serious Paragon is about making MA better. There's been a rough patch, but problems are steadily getting fixed.

What I'm hoping to see in the future:

• A lot more maps to choose from (the ability to use arbitrary sections of the city would be great -- there are all kinds of really cool places in the game).
  
• More scripting type options where NPCs can conduct "soliloquies" (more kinds of triggered behavior).
  
• Some kind of decision making in missions (where player choices affect mission outcomes more directly than just killing/not killing something)
  
• PvP-oriented missions (where two or more teams can enter the same map)
  
• A "Game Master" feature, where one player "runs" the mission, able to control NPCs the way Masterminds control their pets. It would be like having a computerized tabletop RPG.

The last two features would make CoX the premiere role-playing system out there. Nothing else would come close for making customized missions and allowing players to tell and run their own stories.

Originally Posted by FallenHero

wow.

Originally Posted by Supermax

Good point. It definitely would not. In fact, even if it was an option, I think new players would still keep the customization on, just because it's available.

You guys seem to think it's not a big deal, but wait a few months. I think this will affect PvE too, making PUGs even more horrible with clueless players. How do new people learn the game? From repetition. They see the same green radiation on their targets over and over...and eventually they learn that the green radiation debuffs their target in certain ways. Now instead of that, each time they see the radiation, it's a different color...sometimes the color of a completely different powerset, like dark miasma. Of course they can still learn things. It'll just take a lot longer, since there is no repetition.

Lastly, Hyperstrike, if "I can't adapt because the power customizations make it tough for me to tell what I'm being hit with and adapt" is what you got from my post, you need to learn to read. Because it personally doesn't affect me at all, as I clearly mentioned in the OP.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

There was a player event held a while back (Whack-a-Snake) that was a contest to see who could get the Mongoose badge first using nothing but the baseball bat.