PrincessDarkstar

Oh damn and on my part too

I just wish it would go in boxing then I would be a very happy bunny.

Where is it specifically stated that not having a temp power makes it harder but not impossible. Which proves my point because you still win with regular tactics assuming you have a decent team (IE: The first time I ran this I don't think half the team even realised we had temp powers since they didn't appear in the trays for everyone) and we still won.

I have never said nothing can be failed, just that lack of prior knowledge won't cause an inexperienced person to always fail. In the case of the other thread the first time I MO anything I make sure I have a team capable of buffing, debuffing and destroying anything just in case there are things like that we miss (Buffing, debuffing and destroying being the standard tactic for the rest of the game).

That progresses you even if you fail ...

Badge missions with a specific goal of doing the same thing everyone knows how to do in a fast time. I know you are replying to a specific point made about lack of timed missions, but these missions still follow the same tried and tested formula, all the timer does is make you hurry up, there are no new tactics needed.

You know what you can do with that type of arguement.

But not having them never stopped you from taking part in any other content. Now if you don't have incarnate powers you are locked out of the newer content, so you are forced to either accept never reaching the max level (Levelling being the main reason a lot of people play MMO's in the first place) or to run these trials. They are in that sense not optional.

But just like IO's if you didn't have HO's you could still do everything in the game. That is the difference you are missing. But you are missing a lot of things so that is ok.

I mentioned main tanking a hami raid, so I didn't organise it but wasn't exactly sat there leeching. And nice way to claim you know what I have done in game.

Take your own advise son.

I assume that is for level 50 though?

Giving blasters a discount at WW would have done more for ST damage at level 50. It is the mid levels that need the largest improvement and they aren't going to see that from a not very often usable snipe. Especially when they may need to pick their powers carefully and can't afford a luxury situational power.

First I don't care about Hami raids, they seemed nothing more than a failed experiment to me until incarnates came around and brought the idea back. And on top of that the rewards did not prevent you from progressing though the game.

Except in other content the team might wipe but then get to have another go. Trials actually allow you to fail different sections because of time limits, some of which require a leader to direct people properly in order to accomplish. That is not something people have to deal with in the rest of the game.

And it doesn't matter how many times you can fail badges, the fact is it happens and is poor design. They were introduced as a bonus, but it is now more like a penalty when they are failed.

All those are hard because the enemies are difficult, but they all generally follow the standard rules and require no additional knowledge other than AV's hurt. As for failing most of those TF's that is probably through poor team composition (Which is the same for the entire game and not special to the TF's) than lack of knowledge.

Some might have tricks to speed them up, but you can't fail just because the ambushes appear in the 'Cuda TF. And if one person forgets to use their temp power or clicks too many glowies it isn't a problem.

They do get a bonus to the way they exemp, which is one of the big draws* to purple sets.

I think.

*The planned draws anyway, I don't know how many people even know what % they will get out of each power when they exemp.

True. I didn't think about pre-GR.

But it would be a buff to the snipes of some dominators, so an overall nerf to those that can't leverage it.

Like getting a below inflation pay rise. You might get given something, but in real terms are worse off compared to where you were and those around you.

With the change not being made yet I am still willing to call for it to be rethinked.

If the intention truly was just cutting downtime and making it more likely to go into a fight at full health then a base change would allow them to use every secondary to get the active mitigation that I think is needed. Changing these powers now means everyone is pretty much forced into at least one particular power and cuts down on interesting ways to revamp the rest of the secondaries.

By revamp what I mean is that each power should either boost damage, or provide some kind of mitigation through short stuns, +def, +res, kb, -range etc. Then you can pick the secondary you want based on how it mitigates damage rather than because you refuse to take Handclap.

Edit: Also how are they going to balance the regen and end costs of powers that have different requirements? For example if Energise is going to need recharge slotting does that mean it gives more regen because you can't slot that as much? In which case builds with global recharge will get more out of it. Will Handclap get a large endurance cost to be equal to the cost of running some of the toggles? Will the toggles get endurance discounts for those that only want them as +regen rather than caring about the damage they do? Etc.

Also is the activation time the same for all snipes once you factor out the interrupt time?

The AS changes went live without the AS animations being normalised, I wouldn't want that done again.

You could drop the anvil from a helicopter hovering above the drowning victim.

Valid for the powers that don't send stuff flying. But even if you can find time to use the power, if I have to take a power intended for combat mitigation I would much prefer it to be changed so it actually worked well as well as gave the regen buff.

KB to KD, or remove it and have reliable stun.

But I guess the beta forums will be a good place for that feedback. Hell it might even get listened to!

It isn't the level of regen I was on about, but how the fudged it into each powerset in what I think is an unfair manner. Some sets got good powers buffed, some sets got powers most people skip buffed and so will have to now take powers they didn't want.

Then consider the next round of buffs, they now have powers they don't really want to change.

Simply adding it to the base and saying 'the first step is reducing your downtime' would have probably been widely welcomed rather than derided.

I actually have that on one of my scrappers. Shame that is TW so would cause all sorts of problems even if it did turn out as a good attack.

The whole post though was talking about low levels, so I would have assumed you knew that is the situation I was talking about.

Granted this is the internet and context doesn't always go over well, so seeing someone right about BU being useless does deserve a 'WTF are you mad?!'.

Yeah it is very unlikely to be a problem with your specific account, and more about how your computer is running the software.

If you gave your username and password to someone they could log in from their own account, but equally I could then call everyone names and sell all your stuff (Not that I would, and most people on the forum probably wouldn't either) so it isn't a good idea to give that kind of information out.

I hope that when you follow the link from Alpha you get the help you need.

But if the snipes were just changed to become useful powers without needing the gimick they would really help those struggling for a full chain early on, and the benefit would be universal across all sets regardless of if you have Aim, BU or both available.

The AS changes made AS an amazing power no matter if you were in combat or not, I expected something similar for snipes to be honest. Maybe my expectations are what is wrong, but I think blasters are in serious trouble and was expecting serious help.

I will agree to disagree on DP, many people do.

As for Lightning Clap you are right most combats won't last that long but most teams don't stop for a few seconds in between spawns while you refresh your buffs and it is probably very easy to end up in a fight when you realise the buff has run out, and the way regen works the longer you are without it the worse off you are. I just think they should have taken the time to also make the power itself worth using, so people aren't having to use an otherwise poor power just for this buff.

Chilling Embrace I don't quite see your point about the tics, I think they were slowed down to stop it being overpowered but they won't change how easy it is to wander too close to an additional spawn (Or run across a junction to find a mob in the turning which is suddenly aggroed). I might be wrong on just how big 30' is, but it sounds dangerous. That was more a general observation than a complaint though.

I couldn't find your exact post (These blaster threads are moving quickly!), but I assume it was you that I was trying to remember. I think you might have mentioned it would give elec a 3rd blast, which was what prompted me to put T3.

Actually a good alternative would have been looking at the average health a blaster finishes a fight with, the average time the next fight starts and then seeing what regen the blaster needs, adjusting it to what they think is a reasonable level and then adding that onto the base regen. Because it seems like the real intent of this change was simply to lower downtime and prevent blasters from having to start a fight while still dangerously low on health.

At low levels I stand by it being useless (Or close to useless) because it is only up once a mission.

But it still misses the point and is a tangent we don't need to go down any more.

By default Aim puts your snipe on a 90s recharge. That isn't really an improvement.