Slashman

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! And happy everything else to those who don't!

Ok...back the truck up here one minute.

I'm not a powergamer or min/maxer in any sense of the word.

I have played blasters almost exclusively since Issue 1(specifically an elec/elec/elec).

Please also read my post carefully...as what you seem to be accusing me of I have actually addressed in my post.

This is basically my observation as I came from elec, ice and energy blasters into assault rifle and more so archery as my preferred blasters. I've recently added Dual Pistols to that list.

Also, there is no way you 'nuke every minute' with your elec blaster...unless you are talking about using Incarnate abilities to mitigate ED on recharge. You don't even nuke every spawn(unless you take spawns really slowly).

I can literally nuke every spawn with my archery/devices(I sometimes simply choose not to). And I also run no risk of cratering my end without recourse if I happen to be out of blues(AFAIK being out of blues isn't an impossibility).

I don't have a problem if you disagree that other nukes need tweaking...but please stop attempting to put words in my mouth.

The point of my post is this: With an AR or Archery blaster, my nuke is used to great effect very often at little to no detriment to my character. This is not as much the case with my elec/elec or my fire/fire.

As I noted before, I didn't go out of my way to try to come to this conclusion, nor am I trying to belittle the effectiveness of a 'huge nuke'. I actually stated that I love the effect of the bigger nukes...not so much the downtime, recharge and end cratering.

I have no idea how often this gets brought up, or if there is a suggestion thread similar to it, but I just felt like I had to say it.

Some of the blaster nukes need some reworking.

I was playing my elec/elec/elec blaster the other day and I realized just how little I ever use his nuke solo and how little sense it makes to even do it.

Higher damage nukes with long recharge times don't seem to fit with the theme of the game much these days. Especially when you're a solo player. I get much more mileage from Rain of Arrows, Full Auto and the Dual Pistol nukes than I ever do from Thunderous Blast, Blizzard or Nova.

While in theory, I don't like homogenizing powers across all sets(tier 1 and 2 blaster powers*cough* *cough*, I just feel like the lower damage, shorter recharge nukes simply outperform the other nukes because they are much less situational.

I can let loose with ROA in the middle of a fight even if I'm relatively low on end and have no blues. I cannot do that with Thunderous Blast and expect to survive if everything doesn't die.

Don't get me wrong, I love to see everything drop from a single power, but I also realize that not having a more useful nuke, leaves the other sets a tad behind. I'm thinking more of elec blast here than anything else...but I think all nukes should be similarly useful.

What's all this nonsense about Justice server being dead?

Justice has been constant yellow since I19.

I ran a LGTF on it last night and got 7 or 8 shards.

There were more people who wanted to join us and we were full.

There were also a bunch of people doing the Tin Mage and Apex TFs.

IMO, the Warzone was a bit too crowded. It actually had a second instance.


P.S Golden Girl, that was scary...even for you.

I just got mine.

I unlocked the Alpha slot on the day after I19 went live. Just completed a single LGTF and picked up the extra 7 shards I'd need to make the common boost. I had enough Vanguard merits for the G'Rai Matter.

So basically on TF and had my common boost to Recharge. This will mean more Noxious Gas on my bruiser more often! Let the farts begin!!

Electric-Knight makes some valid observations.

This goes beyond simply one side being 'purists' and another side being 'efficient'.

There are Vets who want to level up as many alts as they can past the 'boring' parts of the game. But those guys will still be here 2 years from now. Nethergoat's still here. And probably will be after I die.

When you hand that power over to newbie, low level players though, it creates a different perspective for a customer who may suddenly not be interested in sticking with your game past the first AE sprint to 50.

When AE first hit and the PL farms were rampant, I had the 'pleasure' of being around the forums of several popular gaming websites. And without fail, whenever someone asked about if COX was worth playing, there was always someone there to say: 'Nah. You just sit in a farm til 50 then there's nothing to do. It's so stupid. The game is worthless now. Play MMO x or y instead.'

To which the inquiring person would say 'Oh. too bad. Thought it might be fun to try something different.'

That scenario happened over and over again unless I or someone else who played the game was there to actually try do do some kind of damage control.

In any case, level 5 may be the most tedious thing for us Vets who have 3 or 4 servers full of alts and who just want to get on with it, but that same level 5 experience also helped to shape our connection to the game because we all went through it at least once.

Do more things need to be done to smooth the grind of low levels for Vets? Are the Vet rewards like travel powers at level 6 and now Inherent Stamina not enough to make things bearable? I dunno. That's something that the Devs would need to decide.

How the hell long does level 5 even last? One mission? Maybe a half depending on the length of said mission?

Thanks for the help Guy.

I didn't even know that the values adjusted themselves based on the class of henchman you cast it on.

It's actually a pretty mean debuff. Maybe not quite as bad as Mask of Vitiation, but satisfying nonetheless.

This has been niggling in the back of my mind for a while now, and maybe I'm just dumb but here goes...

I love this debuff. I use it on my bruiser whenever I face a tough boss.

However, I have no idea what the numbers behind it are. They don't give you the stats in the detail description so I don't know how much it debuffs resistance or defense or to-hit. Is there somewhere in-game that gives the real number behind this power? Or is it some super secret thing the devs want to cover up?

Also...why is it not just called Fart Induction?

Did it on my thugs/poison at +1/x2

The 2 EBs can't stand up to my debuffing nastiness when I pull them solo.

The real problem was that I thought I had to clear the room so I went back and destroyed each portal.

Is it just me or do the mobs continue to spawn even without the portals? It sure seemed like it to me....

Lots of people made the point(myself included) when GR was announced, that allowing flow from one side to the next would not fix the problems inherent with red side.

Badly written content(in terms of the player's role), and having an art style that tends to depress(other folks...I never really got bothered by it) are the two main things that are easily pointed out as to what is wrong with red side.

I personally thought that what it lacked, more than anything, was a unique system for villains to use to measure their progress as villains(not a morality bar).

There was never anything for a villain to call his/her own. You couldn't own your own personal island of villainy. You couldn't eventually carve out a chunk of the isles to rule over(instanced or not). There was nothing there that made you stand out from the heroes except that your powers worked differently. They squarely banked on PVP to push people into the Rogue Isles and it tanked.

If redside had some unique and interesting player mechanics to mess around with and truly let you shape your villain into what you envisioned, I'd be willing to guess that it would be more popular.

As it stands, there is now absolutely no reason to play there. Your brute is more than welcome in Paragon. As is your Stalker(lol), Mastermind, Dominator etc.

Whether or not it was what was published in the previews of the issue is not the main issue.

I'm trying to imagine War Witch being satisfied with that coming out of the animation department(or anyone for that matter). Is this what they meant when they said they had the same level of commitment to the game, no matter who left?

Because apparently that statement exempted the animation department.

The fact that you can choose one or two handed isn't a problem. It's that every single one looks the same. You can have one one-handed attack look different from another.

Just look at the new Dual Pistols powers and compare them to the mastermind versions. Worlds apart, and a totally different feel.

If this is what it means to lose BAB, then I think they need to chase after him right now...

I know there's a bunch more stuff in this issue and I'm going to jump right on the Incarnate content with my 50 thugs/poison MM...but I just had to say it.

The new blaster alternate animations are just...boring.

And repetitive. I was expecting the sort of thing that they did for some of the melee sets. Where you actually had a different option for each power. But it seems like they made exactly 3 new animations. The single right hand extended, the double arm toss and the new Aim charge.

So far I've tried ice blast, lighting blast and fire blast. Am I wrong and are there more variety in the other sets? What the hell happened?

I was expecting at least SOME flashy new animations and at the very least some new power effects.

Now I'm not sad that I can lose the Zapp animation in the electric blast set. But I'm a bit sad that it shares the animation for lighting bolt.

I kept out of the I19 beta due to the fact that I was busy and also I was kind of caught up with X3:Terran Conflict. I figured I'd just be nicely surprised with some new flavor for my favorite blast sets...but these are downright boring. It's almost like a rush job and a letdown after Kinetic Melee and Dual Pistols.

Please tell me these are just the first set of new animations that are coming to blaster sets...