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Melee characters without god modes can already take Shadowmeld which is far better than Phase.

Only idiot squishies take Hibernate and Phase because of the no-phase timer.

Regens are silly enough with Shadowmeld and pvp is boned anyway.

The only possible argument about this change (and others of its ilk) I could possibly get behind would be that its indicative of a general dumbing-down or making the game more easy.

So I suppose there is difficulty in terms of knowing and understanding the complexity of the game. Just not in terms of reflexes/how punitive it is, which are the common offenders for difficult games.

Which is silly, since if you're finding the game too easy crank your difficulty up and/or fight some Romans/Arachnos/Longbow/Vanguard/Knives/Malta/Rularuu/any other tough group.

I've seen some people in other threads complaining because this will make the game even easier, which somehow offends their old school elitist self.

Spoiler Alert: this game was never hard. More difficult, certainly. But never that difficult. If you want to crow about how you succeeded at something actually difficult, go play old SNES/arcade games.

You know, the ones designed to beat the crap out of you because the more you died and failed the more money you put into them.

CoH is just not a very difficult game.

Edit: It is true that the game can be said to be complex, since it's a MMO which tend to have a fair amount of mechanical depth. That and it's got 5 years of Stuff Added. So I get that it can be overwhelming for new players since everything has different mechanics and there's like four currencies and sometimes you don't get drops from stuff under your level and sometimes you do and whatttttttt

You think negative is more resisted than lethal?

This.

Force, if you're 5 years ago, can you tell my past self to invest in Facebook and Youtube?

This.

On a related note, it does bug me when people are spoiled by support-heavy teams where everyone is softcapped and the enemies are nerfed to hell. Then they play on a team with little support and run around like they are softcapped.

And wonder why they're taking so much damage.

This. If you don't ask questions, you'll remain ignorant. Better to ask and maybe look like an idiot for a moment than never ask and be an idiot forever.

Also, people who cannot or will not listen. I mean, dayum.

I made that mistake once.

Reading the Comic & H/V Culture forum is about as good for your brain cells as chugging antifreeze.

Any forum not the Dev Digest, the ATs & Powers section, Market and Champion I avoid like the plague. There's just too much stupid for me to handle.

There's still stupid in those sections, (especially Defender and Market section), but generally enough posts that interest me that I can bear it

My absolute favourite bit of Resistance speech is early on in the Loyalist Power arcs.

Break a dudes hand for information. Break the other for the hell of it, just "to see if you could talk normally. Apparently, you can."

I laughed so hard.

The Internet, dear fellow, the Internet.