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The same way not being able to spell "you" does?

No, probably not.

Sir or madam, I most certainly did read the post to which I responded. I chose extreme sarcasm to emphasize the point about how poor the suggestion was and why it was a poor suggestion. It was a stopgap measure in order to avoid having to dig up Psyonico and his link to my previously outlined explanation why game-wide PvP is not welcome in this game, regardless of how it is proposed.

Try using that gray stuff between your ears as more than a windbreak. Is that too much to ask?

It buffs Fly speed so you can move during the Hover period, and it can also be used to maintain your altitude, regain control of a fall or maneuver around (somewhat) after the Hover period ends.

The Dev Digest will function again, properly, or they'll be e-mailing me updates manually when Castle posts.

Infermashuns. I needs dem.

And on the subject of "is anyone else bothered by"... look at Stateman's eyes. They're... crooked, or something. It's like... the inner corners of his eyes are... wrong... It's creepy! O_O

A couple of people does not constitute "endless threads".

Third time, are you going to show me those "endless threads" of people complaining about defender soloability, or are you going to continue to weakly insist that "they're there, you just have to find them"?

Put

Up

Or

Shut

Up.

Okay, let's see how common these complaints are.

First page of the defender forums, I see this thread. Scrolling down, I see a second thread, but by the 9th post of that thread, the OP's complaint was already proven to be dramatization on his part. Nothing else on the first page.

Second page... nope, no-one insisting that defenders suck solo.

Third page... first post, someone demanding a damage scale increase for defenders, but not because of solo concerns, no, it's a Going Rogue "no-one will team with me because corruptors are teh betarer!" panic attack. One more post complaining about defender damage, but as before, it's entirely focused on teams, not solo.

If I keep going, is this mythical "common complaint" going to manifest? No, because no matter how many times you insist that it's happening, it isn't.

So once again, your hyperbole and ranting has been proven to be just that, hyperbole and ranting. Just like every other time you've done this. You provide no evidence when asked. You offer nothing but personal opinion backed by "facts" invented on the spot. And when pushed, you insist that everyone else is wrong and tell us all to go find the proof ourselves.

But we all sit here, trying to explain things to you, trying to reason with you, and you ignore us, then tell us that we're being dismissive because we don't accept your statements without question or stop asking you to provide proof of your statements. I am dismissive because I refuse to acknowledge another one of your blatantly deceitful attempts to get an AT buffed after seeing you do it over and over again dozens of times in the past. Yes, that must be it, I'm the one who's not being reasonable here.

You know, you're about one step away from portraying yourself as a paranoid raving drama queen. Might want to back up a bit before you go completely over the edge. Take it from me, crazy isn't as fun as it looks on television.

You didn't deliberately skip key powers in your FF/Energy build, then argue with everyone who tried to help you improve it?

Bull doody.

Others were given advice, the advice was followed and there was happiness in defenderland again. Except for the handful of people, like you, who simply cannot abide by the thought of the game not changing to suit their whims.

Neither the game nor Mids' lists Tough above 15% for any AT.

Neither the game nor Mids' shows TA defenders having "around 25%" -Res. And you can't even say that you might have had some enhancements skewing this because -Res is not enhanceable, so there goes your only weasel hole.

Do you really think tens of thousands of players who use Mids, or over one hundred thousand who play the game, wouldn't notice these things? Especially after many, including myself, have tested these numbers and verified them so often?

How stupid do you think we are?

No, Ultimo, I don't try to dispute it, I absolutely laugh in the face of it because it's based on the Ultimo Play Style theory of skipping primary and secondary powers which [b]would bring the player up to par[/i].

No, there is nothing to dispute because your entire foundation for the statement is in error. YOU skip key powers and complain about the solo capabilities of your defenders, and YOU see that as a flaw in the AT or game. I don't do that. Talen_Lee doesn't do that. Uberguy doesn't do that. Almost no-one else does that, and of the few who do, they ask for help and we help them by telling them what those skipped powers do and why they're worth taking.

But you keep doing it, and coming back here to fuss about it because you do not want to accept that the game is not City of Ultimo.

You prove nothing, except how inflexible and demanding you are. You certainly don't prove that there's a problem, nor do you prove that any intelligently built defender, regardless of primary or secondary, cannot solo efficiently, safely and easily.

There is no dispute here because you bring nothing but your own personal fantasies to the table.

I quoted you line for line, you started your post discussing options available to defenders for increasing damage output and specifically mentioned Kinetics, Rad and TA, and said "boost damage", "increase damage output" and "boost comparable to what Kinetics provides".

If you don't even know what you're saying at this point, it's a good time to stop saying anything.

"SOME have access to defensive tools"

That implies that others do not.

How far are you going to backpedal? You are aware that everything you've said has been quoted, so even if you try to edit it all out or change it, you're still hoist on your own petard.

And you also utterly ignore all of the other things these defenders can do, or imply that auto-hit powers are not reliable, or that having the same 95% chance to hit that everyone else has is not reliable enough, or that having any kind of "kryptonite" like a foe resistant to KB is somehow utterly debilitating for all time, throughout the entire lifetime of that defender.

You take the most extreme corner cases and try to paint them as the most common situations. Not just once in a while, consistently, and at the same time, you categorically deny that the defender has other tools to deal with those corner cases, you simply say "He's going to do this, then the enemy will do this and the defender is toast! TOAST! DOOMTOAST!". You refuse, absolutely refuse to accept that the defender in question could do something else and sidestep his/her "kryptonite", you just insist that the only solution is to buff the buffing sets.

Don't think or use any other powers, the solution is to change the game!

No.

I suggest you take another look at the planner yourself, because I'm looking at Arctic Fog right now, in Mids', and it's 20% base.

Need some catsup for that foot?

What is 7% Defense plus 10% -ToHit?

What is 7% Defense plus 30% -Damage and 20% +Resistance?

Stop thinking in one dimension.

Don't stand in melee range and let them hit you without doing anything at all to protect yourself. That's the only way you're going to be in a situation where enemies are capable of defeating you faster than fully slotted Regen Aura can bump your HP back up.

Is that really how you play? I doubt it, but I'm starting to wonder, since you're so adamant that the only way to survive as a defender is by relying on one power in your primary.

The occasional boss, EBs and AVs and GMs. KB resistance is even more rare than your mythical "endless threads" about players struggling while soloing defenders.

Force Bolt is 5.2 endurance.

Force Bubble is 0.69 endurance/s. For comparison, Snap Shot (the tier one with the fastest recharge) slotted with ~95% Endurance Reduction and 66% Recharge Reduction costs 0.82 endurance/s if all you do is shoot it repeatedly. It costs more to attack than it does to use Force Bubble.

Your FUD doesn't work here.

You have many, many choices. You can use Force Bubble or Force Bolt to knock them back/down/away from you. You can use Detention Field to give yourself time to recover. You can use your blasts and controls to disable and defeat the enemies.

You turtle up and pretend there's no other option, then come to the forums and insist that FF is horribly broken because you chose to ignore every other tool available.

And that irks you, so you come here to complain and demand changes.

What, you thought no-one saw your thread about making an Iron Man homage and turning down the blaster suggestion because you didn't want to wait until 41 to pick up the Force Mastery APP?

Be honest. If you'd done this character as a blaster, you'd be having this argument over on the blaster forums, insisting that everyone who disagreed with you was just being dismissive, that the AT was broken, that half the powersets were terribly designed, etc.

No it isn't. Go back and read my post where I responded to someone else on this exact point.

It has a base 1.2 accuracy mod. It's more reliable than Archery attacks.

It's auto-hit. The only way it couldn't be reliable is if you were using it against one of those rare foes with KB resistance.

Transference drains endurance from one hostile target and gives endurance to all friendly targets near the hostile target. Slotted for Endurance Modification, it can drain one target completely (as long as that target does not resist endurance drain, like an AV).

Perhaps you'll struggle less if you... read... pay attention...

But you've been implying that Kinetics is not performing acceptably. You complain that it can "only" apply a 25% damage debuff (wrong), you ignored FS completely, saying that it "wasn't something you use frequently", you keep referring to the heal as "unreliable"...

So it's bad, but it's good?

Backpedaling, the new Co* travel power, courtesy of Ultimo.

I mentioned it to address your complaint that "The other drawback is the extreme endurance cost. Before Stamina, the endurance cost of running these toggles and attacking is prohibitive." You can access AM at level four. Guess that shoots your theory that Rad struggles before Stamina right out of the water, doesn't it.

"Radiation has multiple debuffs to reduce enemy defense, making them easier to hit. With accuracy a limited problem, this is actually a limited benefit, and doesn't actually increase damage output much."

"Radiation Emission has a small heal, and powers that debuff enemy to-hit and damage, and even a hold. that makes it one of the most effective defensive sets. However, it has limits. RI reduces To-Hit by 48%, which is pretty decent. However, if your foe DOES hit you, you have no defenses. Fortunately, Enervating Field reduces damage by 25%. The other drawback is the extreme endurance cost. Before Stamina, the endurance cost of running these toggles and attacking is prohibitive."

That's your entire commentary on Radiation Emission. Nothing about LR. I'm guessing that you don't even know what LR does, but you're going to look it up as soon as you read this then come back and backpedal around for a while to try to convince everyone that you know what you're talking about. Again.

The same way FS can't be considered a power for regular use?

In other words, you don't want to use those powers and therefore consider the powersets broken and in need of repair, and are willing to crusade for as long as it takes to get them changed despite the fact that tens of thousands of other players are using them successfully.

You can slot for Accuracy, you have a power in the same primary which debuffs Defense, the Stun stacks with other Stuns and your penchant for deciding that you'll never use certain powers without even trying them to find out how they work still doesn't mean the AT or powerset is broken.

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IT HAS A KNOCKDOWN COMPONENT! IT HAS A 70% -RUNSPEED DEBUFF! IT'S IN A POWERSET THAT CAN FLOOR THE MOVEMENT SPEED OF +3 FOES WITHOUT ENHANCEMENTS!

Why do you believe all powers only do one thing and can't be used in conjunction with other powers?

And can also be used to corral critters. KB/Repel management is not particle physics.

Snow Storm has no Avoid component, and it has a lower RunSpeed debuff than Freezing Rain.

If they're being knocked around randomly, then they're not attacking you, and if they're not attacking you, you're not taking damage. Correct? So you have a power which provides damage and damage mitigation, and you don't like it?

Would anything short of Castle's IWIN button make you happy?

Mag 1 is "significant knockback"? It's barely higher than KD, meaning they get knocked back about one foot, and it's "significant knockback"?

I suppose you consider a mag 0.67 KB, which is effectively KD, to be "almost as bad"?

Not

if

you

use

your

other

powers

like

Snow

Storm

or

Freezing

Rain.

Good grief, when will you grasp the concept of using more than one power at a time.

Then you should do something to prevent them from hitting you again. Think.

Do yourself a favor and stop now. You darn well know who you're talking to and you darn well know I can lay you to waste in any argument about TA. You are categorically and undeniably wrong, back down before you get humiliated so badly that your face turns red permanently.

The only problem TA faces, at the severity you describe, is in taking the alpha for a large (5+) team.

Disagree with me. Go ahead. Talk to me like you know TA one hundredth as well as I do. I relish the hilarity that I already know will ensue.

Ultimo, there is a world of difference between a tier 9 with a base recharge time of 1000s and a tier 9 with a base recharge time of 300s. Despite your continued refusal to accept it, a defender can and does use that tier 9 much, much more frequently than the tank uses his tier 9.

And the fact that you've never used those tier 9 powers which you steadfastly deny can be used frequently just betrays how little you know about them, about how they are used, about how they can be used or about how players tend to use them.

Give it a rest already. You're not saving face, you're just making yourself look worse with every sentence.

TT and NF both have 10s base recharge times. TT has a 1.67s animation, NF has a 2s animation. They're two of the fastest animating and recharging cones in the game. Fistful of Arrows is the only cone that I can think of at the moment with a faster animation and recharge time.

So even before any math is considered, you're looking at an improvement over nearly all other cones and AoEs, just based on the time it takes to use TT and NF and the recharge times (cycle time).

Base damage for TT is 33.8 over 8.77s (1.67s animation, 7.10 DoT duration). Slotted for damage, that's ~66.

Slotted with three standard damage procs (Posi's Blast, Trap of the Hunter and Clouded Senses) instead of damage, the average damage output becomes ~77 (20% chance for each proc to activate, 71.75 damage per proc, so average would 71.75 * 0.20 = 14.35. (14.35 * 3) + 33.8 = 76.85).

Realistically speaking, though, you're not seeing averaged damage output in the game, you're seeing the full effects of the procs when they trigger. Nice, pretty 72s floating over the critters' heads. Do you know what else deals ~72 damage?

Dark Blast slotted for 95% +Damage.

Now imagine hitting a critter with Dark Blast three times simultaneously.

Then twice more (the procs in NF).

While still delivering the full DoT damage from NF and the unenhanced DoT damage from TT.

Statistically unlikely, getting all five to trigger on a single critter, but it can and does happen occasionally. More often, it'll be one to three. But that "more often" is the typical situation for every critter in the spawn.

You'll hit dry spells, of course. Some nights, it feels like I'm not getting any procs on some spawns. And on other nights, I'm literally melting entire spawns in 3.67s (the total animation time of TT + NF).

Yes, I'm absolutely serious. TT with three damage procs (and NF with two) is just... brokenly good. The average damage output is better than slotting TT for damage, the spike damage is just ridiculous... and the damage 40-80% -Res on the target(s) will make you want to take a shower.

Relax, Fury. At this point, what's really going on has been obvious to everyone. Turbo_Ski saw the title and fired off a reply without reading the first post, and isn't adult enough to simply say "Sorry, I overreacted, I was wrong". Instead of behaving like an adult, he/she tried to cover by derailing the thread with complaints, accusations and random commentary about how we should all be playing.

Don't let one person's immaturity affect you. It isn't worth it. Save it for grown-up arguments.

Single-target, Sonic Blast.

AoE without IOs, Archery or Rad, depending on the player's skill. Archery is a late bloomer, though.

AoE with IOs, Dark Blast with three damage procs and two Range IOs in TT, two damage procs in NF. Chain spam cones with matched range, watch the procs devastate your enemies, laugh maniacally.

So you can't produce a list of those "endless" threads by defenders claiming that they're having horrible experiences with soloing?

I'll remind you once again that I am a frequent poster in this forum, I do read the vast majority of threads in this forum and I do know what the general sentiment is in this forum, and if you can't provide proof that I've sorely mistaken what I've read or missed every one of those "endless" threads, I will continue to call your claims into question.

No, I'm telling you that you're making things up, that you have no idea what you're talking about and that when you do try to back up your statements, you typically do so with deliberately skewed or simply wrong data.

I don't have to attack you and I'm not the one in the weak position here. I don't invent problems and demand solutions, I don't make up numbers to bolster erroneous idealistic beliefs about how I want the game to work and I don't tell other players to go find the proof for themselves when I insist that something's wrong.

Either put up or shut up, it's that simple. Let's see that list of "endless" threads of players saying that defenders complaining about the solo experience.

And they compensate for that lower damage output with higher damage mitigation. That's balance. Safer = lower damage output. Less safe = higher damage output.

Yes, I know, scrappers and brutes don't follow that rule exactly. But take another look, and you'll see that in a way, they do. Ranged sets typically have more and better AoE/cone options than melee sets. So while the scrapper or brute is safer than the blaster, and may be safer than some defenders, they're also more limited in how many foes they can affect at once and they're forced to function in melee range, where they take correspondingly more damage on each successful hit than someone fighting outside of melee range typically has to endure. The ranged ATs deal damage to more foes at a time and they take less damage due to the lower damage output of critter ranged attacks, and they pay for that overall increase in damage output with a small sacrifice in personal safety.

Balance.

Kins can cap their damage.

Kins can cap their damage solo.

Rad has a very powerful Resistance debuff.

TA debuffs Resistance by 40%, and can debuff resistance by 60% if Disruption is double-stacked or 80% if the Achilles' Heel proc is used.

You also missed Dark Miasma's Tar Patch (30% -Res), Cold Domination's Sleet and Heat Loss (30% -Res apiece), Sonic's Sonic Siphon (30% -Res), Storm's Freezing Rain (35% -Res)... and that's not addressing -Def, which is also available in many primaries.

In fact, almost every primary has one or more powers which improve damage output.

Please name which defender primary or primaries cannot use any damage mitigation powers solo. You said "SOME", so you must have a specific powerset or powersets in mind.

Cold Domination has Sleet, which offers the same Knockdown chance that Ice Slick, Oil Slick and similar powers provide, 5% chance every 0.2s. Powers which are proven to be highly effective damage mitigation tools. Sleet is on a 60s recharge with a 30s duration, so it can be used in every fight by a solo Cold/*.

Oh, look more Ultimo numbers.

Tough is 15% Resistance to Smashing and Lethal.

And why are you using some enhanced values and some values without enhancements? Your numbers in your little rantparison are all over the place. Gosh, if I didn't know better, I'd believe you might be deliberately trying to downplay various defender abilities in an attempt to shore up an argument that you lost before you made the original post.

It has a Fear and a Hold. It doesn't have "a couple of Fear-type holds", there's no such thing as "Fear-type" Holds. A Hold is a Hold, a Fear is a Fear, they're different types of control.

The math for hit rolls doesn't work like you seem to think it does. That 7% +Def is added to all of the -ToHit, it's not calculated separately. It's 7% base ON TOP OF the cumulative -ToHit that the Dark/* applies with the other powers in Dark Miasma.

Yes, Ultimo, a Dark/* can cap his/her own defense using only Shadow Fall. Against everything below +3s or AVs.

And that 31% Resistance is applied after the -Damage is calculated, too. So that Dark/* has, solo, the equivalent of 50% resistance to Smashing, Lethal, Fire, Cold, Toxic, Special and Unique, and 81% Res to Energy, Negative and Psi.

I don't think any Darks are going to be crying into their drinks over taking a hit or two.

Uh... Twilight Grasp not only heals, it also reduces damage by 12.5%. Doing nothing but keeping Darkest Night active and using Twilight Grasp allows a Dark/* to reduce enemy damage output by 50%, and again, that's discounting the ridiculously good base heal in Twilight Grasp.

And Howling Twilight applies a mag 2 Stun (15s base) and 62.5% -Recharge.

Regen Aura, slotted with three +0 SOs, provides ~975% +Regen. Including the base 100% Regen, this results in a regeneration rate of ~1075%.

That translates to one tick of 5% health regenerated every 1.115s.

Survive 5s and you've recovered 25% of your HP.

Oh, hey, look at that, there's a self-affecting heal available which can be slotted up to ~25%, animates in 2.03s and has a base 8s recharge. That means an Emp/* who has slotted his/her PBAoE heal for Heal and Recharge Reduction can heal him/herself for ~25% every ~6.1s.

Hm... 6.1s with 5% HP regenerated every 1.115s and 25% HP restored by the heal... 6s, over 50% HP recovered. Somehow, I'm not convinced by your claim that Emps can't take a few hits.

Yeah, some critters are resistant to KB/Repel. And sometimes a power misses. And that's not really going to slow down a FF defender the way you think it will, because critters with resistance to KB/Repel aren't common and most players do slot their powers appropriately, such as adding Accuracy to powers with hit checks.

And that FF defender gets something that only one other type of defender gets, protection from Holds and Stuns, in exchange for having lower personal protection than some other primaries.

Play a defender without any status protection, play it to 50 solo, and you'll have some clue just how much of a difference that makes and why it makes FF not just tolerable, but very, very good solo.

And Hold/Stun protection, which is more valuable than you appear to understand.

No defender is in any real danger, regardless of primary, unless he/she is taken out of the fight by a status effect. FF sidesteps that for two of the three most common and debilitating status effects. It does matter. It does make a difference.

50% -Damage, the most powerful AoE heal in the game, auto-hit Repel, the ability to completely drain a target's endurance, 20% -Recharge...

Accelerate Metabolism. Lingering Radiation. EM Pulse.

Sonic Cage. Sonic Repulsion (auto-hit). Liquefy.

Storm can also floor recharge times, has the single best KD patch power in the game (yes, i rate it above OSA, as much as that may surprise some people), has a PBAoE Stun (mag 2) and has a couple of powers which significantly contribute to damage output on their own, without even taking Freezing Rain's -Def and -Res into account. So a Storm doesn't have to scatter foes when playing solo, even if that's the only thing you imagine happening.

Then it's fortunate, isn't it, that TA also has 45% -Recharge, the best AoE Hold in the game, a 66% chance for mag 2 Sleep and a KD patch which is capable of defeating +1 minions by itself.

Defenders do have lower base damage output than blasters. And they do have lower HP. Everything else you've said, even many of the numbers you claim to have quoted directly from Mids, has been wrong.

You missed more than a few, and you understood none of them.

BAB said that redraw can be "up to" 2/3rds of a second. He didn't specify which powers or powersets, just that little bit of information, "up to 0.66s delay" after the weapon powers were changed to remove the "baked in" redraw time.

I've never bothered timing it, despite having multiple TA/*, */TA and Archery/* characters, because I usually only see redraw once or twice in a fight, and then only if I've done something wrong, like Hovered too close to the ground with my Archery/Energy blaster, or I'm doing something like fighting an EB with my TA/Dark and have to reapply debuffs.

The one time redraw has ever bothered me was when I was trying out Pulse Rifle attacks on my Bots/TA. Didn't much care for having to redraw two weapons, it did feel distinctly slower than I expected. But with a single weapon, I don't even notice it.

How fast were you running before you slotted them? All movement bonuses are added to the base, so if you already had a high movement speed, an extra 15% probably won't be distinguishable. Some players can spot the difference (i can immediately tell when my Jump Speed has dropped by even the slightest amount), but most tend to ignore or miss small differences.

Potentially more relevant, how tall is your character? How fast you feel like you're moving is very much a matter of perspective in this game. Short characters feel like they're moving at a greater clip than larger characters, even when the actual speed of movement is exactly the same for both. My Fire/TA is a very small woman, under 5', and at ~24 mph RunSpeed, she feels disturbingly fast, but on the other hand, my main character, my TA/Dark, stands a bit over 5'6", and running at ~24 mph, she just doesn't feel nearly as fast as the Fire/TA.

That is, incidentally, why Fly also feels like it's so slow. Perspective. When you're 300' above the ground, your visual reference points are passing below you very slowly, so you feel like you're moving slowly even if you're at the Fly cap. If you fly down close to the ground, it feels like you're moving much more quickly.

Which is, also incidentally, a big part of why I adore Hurdle + CJ so very much. I'm typically bouncing along at almost exactly the same speed I would be if I'd taken Fly, but it feels like it's faster because I have the perspective of buildings, NPCs, trees and various other things giving me visual reference points which are closer, and therefore delivering that feeling of moving along very quickly.

I haven't had any issues escorting regular NPCs while using a Stealth IO or Superior Invisibility since the AI change. But I also don't use Sprint, or a travel power, when I'm escorting, so that may be why.

Well, except for the one who simply wouldn't move at all even though I'd cleared the entire map, wasn't using any Stealth/Invis and had "acquired" him (the -Stealth power was applied, indicating that he was supposed to be following me). Had to get a GM to TP him to the mission door. >.<

Delightful. Thank you.

Good. It's really not fun the way it's working now. Being guaranteed to get your block knocked off no matter what you do is pootastic.

Might be for controllers (i keep meaning to respec into it on my Fire/TA so i can test it, but also keep forgetting... those silly dancing fire monkeys keep distracting me with bad puns), but not for defenders.

I brought this to Castle's attention two or three (or maybe four... i forget) weeks ago, he forwarded it to the appropriate people to get it fixed (again). When, I don't know, but I do know that they know, and that they know that I know that they know, and I know that they know that I know that they know, so... *shrug* I don't know when it'll be fixed, but I'm certain they'll fix it as soon as they can.

Perhaps, but if that were the case, they wouldn't have altered the AI to make NPCs follow Stealthed/Invis players reliably even when the player's character was at the Stealth cap.

+Movement applies to +RunSpeed, +JumpSpeed, +JumpHeight and +FlySpeed.

+Movement is separate from each of the independent bonuses, so you can stack five 4% +Movement with five +4% JumpSpeed/Height, or five 5% +Movement with five 5% +RunSpeed, etc.

*starts a new character, skips Outbreak, zones into Atlas Park*

Oh, hey, contact waypoint. I'll just meander o-*gank*

Um... okay... *goes to hospital*

Let's try that again. *exits hospital*

Now, let's see... ah, my contact is that wa-*gank*

Ha ha, very funny. You guys! *waves finger and smiles, clicks hospital button*

Now, time to get that mission! *exits hospital*

I'm going to make it this ti-*gank*

...

Come on, guys, I just want to get to my contact so I can pick up a mission. Why don't you go fight that higher level character standing AFK over there? *goes to hospital again*

*exits hospital*

*ultra-ganked before the screen changes*

-_-

Seriously, it's not amusing any more. Let me get to my contact, please.

*insta-gank*

*gank-a-tron*

*lol-gank*

*wedgie-gank*

*gank gank gank gank gank*

/quit

It can't. That's why we have specific zones and the Arena.

If you mean "result in enough subscription cancellations to make the economic recession look like a happy Christmas memory by comparison" when you say "neat", I agree.

During the I9 beta, players were slotting +Stealth IOs into Swift and Hurdle. This made it abnormally difficult to complete escort/hostage/rescue missions because the AI would "lose" Stealthed/Invisible players very easily. The developers attempted to compensate for this problem by adding a power to the escort/hostage/rescue NPCs, a -Stealth power, but this solution proved to be even worse for stalkers (it completely shut down their Hide powers), so the decision was made to remove the ability to slot any IO sets in Swift or Hurdle (and the -Stealth power set to 0... not removed, and i have no idea why).

The AI has been improved, but the decision not to allow Swift or Hurdle to accept IO sets stands for various reasons. For the specific case of Universal Travel sets, the developers felt that it would be problematic if players were permitted to slot multiple copies of the sets, such as one in Swift, one in Hurdle, one in Sprint, one in each of the veteran reward Sprints, one in Prestige Power Slide... could add up to a tremendous advantage for practically no investment (in terms of powers/slots), so for balance purposes, none of those powers accept Universal Travel sets.

BS called back, left a message. It said, "No."

Of course it was still running. It has to be available in the background in order to restore the DWM settings after you exit game mode.

But that's all it does, sit in the background. When you're running Co*, DWM disables all of the advanced window elements and graphical effects, and it doesn't reactivate them until you exit the game. It doesn't sneak around behind your back, turning settings back on when you're not watching it, it just sits there and waits for the game to send the "I'm done, your turn" command.

When I'm logged in to Co*, I spend half my time tabbing out to read the forums. I wish DWM would remain active when Co* was running, but it doesn't.

Manoa, I love you. I love you so much. You just made the transition so much easier for me.

No, there are threads by Emp/* "healers" who skip everything but the first attack in their secondary and complain about how difficult it is to solo. There are threads by blasters who come over to defenderland, skip almost the entire primary and complain about how hard it is to solo. There are threads by dishonest people who deliberately misrepresent their experiences (such as willfully playing a defender poorly in order to make a skewed comparison to a well slotted and played scrapper) in order to generate complaints about how hard it is to solo.

Legitimate, realistic complaints about difficulty soloing are rare, and when they do crop up, they're typically because it's a new player who knows nothing about the game, or how to slot/use enhancements.

Unlike you, I do read the defender forums frequently, and I do pay attention to what's being posted, and I do see more than my own personal agenda. And unlike you, I'm not seeing "endless" complaints about defender solo performance. But go ahead and prove that I'm wrong, post a list of those "endless" threads.

And they also have more access to damage improvement tools, and the highest modifiers on those tools.

And they also have wider access to defensive tools and the highest modifiers on those tools.

What numbers? Yours? Yours have been proven time and again to be fabrications designed specifically to show defenders in a poor light.

Go ahead, roll out some numbers for us. Show us some more of that "proof" you've become so famous for.

More Ultimo FUD. How shocking.

You're not even reading this thread, you just noted the title and came in to vent.

Go back to the first post and read. Stop ***** posting, you're not an *****.