Seldom

Sir, many people have explained with multiple reasons why the developers have made the decision they seem to have made. The post you quote restates you position while not dealing with the reasons others have brought up why things have taken the course they have. If you won't see things from another point of view, what is the point of starting a discussion on the topic?

The more the OP posts, the more it's obvious why the devs are making people go through the new content. The Idea that there are players that are averse to exploring areas outside of Paragon makes it more necessary to make content outside of Paragon mandatory. If you don't, they won't touch it. And if they won't touch it, you've spent the time on it in vain, as far as that customer is concerned.

Hey, I'm just looking at this from a practical end. When the game is stagnant, players drop off. So the developers must do their best to keep the game from being stagnant. As such, they add stuff. But they can't possibly add enough stuff for everywhere, so they have to choose where to put the new stuff. When they do, it's in their best interests to move as many players to the designated 'new and shiny' portions of the game. When they are immersed in the 'new shiny,' players forget about the stagnant outside.

With Going Rogue, you know what the new and shiny stuff is. You may wish to avoid it, but the devs will do their best (without being too heavy handed) to corral you and other players into the 'new and shiny' area. Once the new shiny loses its luster, They can open up same old outbreak to your brute for a new and shiny experience of bashing heads with fury there. But that's later. Right now, you are being steered into what is new and shiny now.

I'm thinking the lack of villain AT's blueside and hero AT's redside from the start might come down to this:

The upgrade seems to be centered around praetoria and the side-swapping content, wherever that may lie.

Players wanting to change side are focused through this new content. New characters hoping to play opposite sides are channeled through Praetorian content. People who want to stay with their factions, however, can go through the same content that's been around for some time, passing up the new content. Since the developers are spending so much time on the new stuff, I'm pretty sure they want to make sure as many characters use it as possible. Otherwise, their new stuff loses its pull. The more optional it is, the fewer people that will choose the option. If you are one of those people who positively won't try things outside of Paragon, but you've always wanted to try the other half of the archetypes, why would you use the new stuff if you can roll up a villain archetype in outbreak? If you could, the new stuff loses value as it loses necessity. Will they eventually? Maybe, but not until they make some profit on Going Rogue.

Put me in for the archery/energy camp as well. Archery is has some of the best overall range of any set, and has no powers that you need to really close in for. Boost range makes this even better.

The fact that it also has a crashless 'nuke' that can be shot off from 143 feet after boost range is gravy. (Snipe attacks are a 150 ft range.) Oh, speaking of snipes...do you like pulling with them? Or just sniping in general? Because you can get 239 feet on that, and that's before you throw any extra range in. With extra range, I can pop off enemies at the edge of visibility.

Good times...

*edit*...snipes with fully enhanced range and boost range up can get around 320 feet for their range. Which is a ways.

Geeze...it's freezing all of a sudden and...*sniff* WHOA...that's awful....Fred? stop laughing man, that Augh...it was you. Nobody else stinks up the place AND freezes it. Sure, laugh it up, Nick...freaking scorchers never felt cold in your life.

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Yeah...those I saw. It's the earlier ones that are tricky. (I like keeping the bonuses when exemplared, so I aim lower) Thanks, though.

Hello.

I'm trying to finish up my dominator, but one specific component is missing: a "Glimpse of the Abyss" Acc/Fear/Rech in the 30-40 range. (30-35 is most preferable)

Would someone happen to see one of these? The last sale for some of these goes back to November last year.

If someone has something, please let me know @chicagodoodler. I can reward you modestly for it.

*edit* I also have a few handy crafted IO's about, so a trade might be doable as well.

I have a /da stalker, and the toggles are a headache solo. I'm pretty sure the availability of fear/stun constantly to nearby enemies is a balance point of dark armor...having my main brute a /DA brute made me aware of how strong they are.

They simply stand in complete conflict with the stalker inherent. You cannot use assassin strike with the on, and using hide is a trick as well.

A few suggestions I'd posted before:

Suppress while hidden (A developer said this is not possible, because as long as the power is on, critters will aggro)

Have the power toggle two powers: hidden and revealed. When the 'Hidden' status comes up, the true cloak of fear/oppressive gloom are turned off, and a simple aura power replaces them. These powers are hidden, and carry the endurance cost of a max-end reduced aura, but cannot be slotted or seen. When the player is revealed, the powers activate the real control auras and deactivate.

Have the powers gain a reduced recharge rate, and make the activation animation interruptible, so that it does not root/keep you from reacting. (If not removing the animation altogether.)

Replace the powers with longer lasting click status powers.
(A PbAoE fear/stun click, of the same radius.)

*Reads architect changes*

*Does happy Seldom jig*

The other changes are cool too. Hm.
Auction changes...
*wonders if they will 'tweak' the nonexistent/no longer existant item bids*

To Lisar: yup, the masterminds needed some love. Moreover, it was masterminds' primary that was most limited, currently limited to only 5.

And to die hard blue folks, don't worry, remember this is happening around the time you can make goody two-shoes masterminds.

Only masterminds. Demon summoning is not a control or support set. Only masterminds have access to summoning/minion based powersets.