Sailboat

Wait, what?

** checks patch notes **

Oh, this?

Hell, they're complaining that a reduction in the degree of efficiency of one method of farming means they can't do it anymore?

Procedural question: can I say "laughably stupid" without getting banned?

It's worth mentioning that low-level Tankers are regarded as particularly prone to endurance problems. As you level up and have more slots to use for end reduction, more powers, and do more damage, this problem will become less troublesome. Slotting for end reduction (especially frankenslotting) will help tons. As you level up you also get more inspiration slots (to use for blues or to combine into blues) and the chance to earn the passive endurance accolades (the Atlas Medallion in your mid-20s and eventually Portal Jockey late in your career).

The same problem exists in movies, politics, big business, literature, and most other fields of human endeavor. Laziness is easier than innovation, and tried-and-true is less scary for investors than novel ideas.

When they changed the animation speeds, it became roughly competitive...don't ask me for the figures, I can't find them right now. But as I recall, the best attacks in the set were Storm Kick, Crane Kick, Crippling Axe, in that order. I use it now, especially when I don't want the knockack from Crane; it's also good because the slow impedes runners (even LTs who are immune to its weak immobilize). But my 50 MA/SR Scrapper has more attacks than fit into an attack chain, so she has some extra "luxury" attacks she can use for special cases.

I love the lok of Thunder Kick. I love the sound. I really love the speed. The problem I had with Thunder Kick was that, even when using it just to finish off badly-damaged enemies, I almost always needed to kick them again anyway, with one of my big hitters which would have killed them outright all by itself, so it was like TK was costing me time instead of saving me time. Costing me time is even okay if something fun happens; but bouncing ineffectively off a minion didn't meet my definition of "something fun happening." So I took CAK instead.

Yeah, but you're Batman.

And the Steel Canyon Wentworth's is a short hop over the wall to the University with its crafting tables. if you can go vertical to get back over the wall and into WW, it works just fine (at least I have the GVE edition Jump Jet for this). Or you can run a little farther and work your way up the road switchbacks.

IMHO, if you decide to respec for defense, you should be able to drop Unstoppable and keep your attacks.

I'd aslo venture to add that the fabulous set bonuses available for Taunt have something to do with its renewed popularity.

Well, it would be a hijack to get into this topic very seriously. I admit I am not much of a PVP expert. I've only PVPed hundreds of times, which in a career of online gaming as long as mine, isn't really much. Some was in Diablo 2 and some was in COH/V; in COH/V, some was involuntary and some was intentional in PVP zones, and some was deliberate in the Arena.

Of thos hundreds and hundreds of encounters, I would estimate that roughly almost all were marked by a pronounced effort to exploit rules, situations, and game mechanics on the part of the people I encountered.

Sticking just to COH/V, aside from social engineering type exploitative behavior (asking a question and then attacking when you open the chat window, for example, or porting a newbie on your team into NPC enemies, lying outright about one's character in Arena matches, hospital camping) some example of game exploits fully embraced by the PVP community I have encountered include Hurricane-pinning, Teleporting-into-geometry, the use of HOs to enhance unintended properties, the Vengeance stacking bug, hopping to negate ground patches, PVP IO farming, and pretty much any and every other rules quirk you've ever heard of.

Right after the Arenas came out, I made level-limited games that I thought would keep players with HOs out (not realizing that it would not be obvious when a player auto-exemplared) because back then HOs gave markedly better bonuses than any SO (to each value, not just enhancing 2 or 3 values but enhancing them further). Castle himself said HOs would be important to PVP. In the game names and pre-game chat, I specified that I was looking for non-HOed players who were actually level 35 or whatever, and not exemplared 50s. These guys would agree to the match on sporting principles, cream me, then after they left I'd discover that they were indeed 50 when I saw them around the zone, or in some cases I'd ask, "how'd you shrug that off?" and they'd say, "HOs."

I realize your experiences may differ, but in the majority of player-to-player encounters that lasted long enough for me to realize they were even occurring, the other player(s) exploited the rules as much as they could and acted solely for immediate advantage in all other ways [i.e., socially], utterly without concern for sportsmanship, an interesting or fair fight, or any concern at all except to notch the kill at any cost (and then, all too often, be as unpleasantly rude and childish as possible in chat or broadcast.

Well, it would be a hijack to get into this topic very seriously. I admit I am not much of a PVP expert. I've only PVPed hundreds of times, which in a career of online gaming as long as mine, isn't really much. Some was in Diablo 2 and some was in COH/V; in COH/V, some was involuntary and some was intentional in PVP zones, and some was deliberate in the Arena.

Of thos hundreds and hundreds of encounters, I would estimate that roughly almost all were marked by a pronounced effort to exploit rules, situations, and game mechanics on the part of the people I encountered.

Stucking just to COH/V, aside from social engineering type exploitive behavior (asking a question and then attacking when you open the chat window, for example, or porting a newbie on your team into NPC enemies, lying outright about one's character in Arena matches, hospital camping) some example of game exploits fully embraced by the PVP community I have encountered include Hurricane-pinning, Teleporting-into-geometry, the use of HOs to enhance unintended properties, the Vengeance stacking bug, PVP IO farming, and pretty much any and every other rules quirk you've ever heard of.

Right after the Arenas came out, I made level-limited games that I thought would keep players with HOs out (not realizing that it would not be obvious when a player auto-exemplared) because back then HOs gave markedly better bonuses than any SO (to each value, not just enhancing 2 or 3 values but enhancing them further). Castle himself said HOs would be important to PVP. In the game names and pre-game chat, I specified that I was looking for non-HOed players who were actually level 35 or whatever, and not exemplared 50s. These guys would agree to the match on sporting principles, cream me, then after they left I'd discover that they were indeed 50 when I saw them around the zone, or in some cases I'd ask, "how'd you shrug that off?" and they'd say, "HOs."

I realize your experiences may differ, but in the majority of player-to-player encounters that lasted long enough for me to realize they were even occurring, the other player(s) exploited the rules as much as they could and acted solely for immediate advantage in all other ways [i.e., socially], utterly without concern for sportsmanship, an interesting or fair fight, or any concern at all except to notch the kill at any cost (and then, all too often, be as unpleasantly rude and childish as possible in chat or broadcast.