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Originally Posted by Tormentoso

On the other hand, pretty level 50 stuff that I used to sell at 45 mill are going for 4 or 5 millions. . .

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

And this is the sort of nonconstructive response we'd like to avoid in this thread, thanks.

If you can't understand that others should be able to enjoy the game as well, or can't empathize with people who otherwise are fine but have specific graphics that cause problems, please - don't troll this thread.

I *will* be reporting posts like this to the mods. I've seen far too many of them turn very nasty and hurtful to the people who suffer from these graphics to have any real tolerance for them.

I'll also ask those who DO have these problems not to respond to those people. Ignore them or /ignore them. Don't let it turn into a fight. It doesn't help get the problem resolved.

Originally Posted by Silas

Your Defender being softcapped to all types and positions doesn't prove your point. You said that Corruptors will struggle to softcap and make many sacrifices (such as permaHasten level recharge) to do so.

Demonstrably false.

If you meant that Corruptors couldn't be softcapped to all vectors and types without major sacrifices, maybe, I've not tried. That's not what you said, however.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Not really. The main case where a Defender consistently out-damages a Corruptor is with Sonic Blast. Traps shifts it even more towards the Corruptor since they deal Blaster level damage with Trip Mines (if you want to go that route)

For Traps the main advantage of the Defender is actually the Defense. FFG gives about 5% more defense for a Defender (assuming ED capped enhancements) which is a pretty significant boost.

Originally Posted by ArcticFahx

I don't see where the devs ever promised the booster pack powers would be available in all content, so yes, you are acting a little too entitled. Especially by continuing on this track after it's already been confirmed to be a bug (and yes, the devs are aware of the bug, and they are, I believe, working on it).

Originally Posted by Enamel_32

Seems like an entitlement thing.

Originally Posted by StrykerX

Dual Pistols is fairly lackluster on Blasters, tending to be average to slightly below average in everything and not having strong enough secondary effects to really make the ammo swapping useful. Defenders, on the other hand, do have pretty good secondary effects so it may be worth trying a DP/Traps Defender if you want versatility and more debuffs.

If you want lots of damage, on the other hand, you might try Archery. You get Blazing Arrow (one of the best Defender ST attacks) and Rain of Arrows (the best Defender AoE), though the Lethal damage can be annoying vs bots. Ice could work too... Ice Storm isn't as good as Rain of Arrows but Frost Breath hits harder than most cones and cold isn't resisted that much. AR could also be a decent choice if you can live with really bad single target damage but more AoEs. Avoid Dark Blast like the plague though... it's one of the lowest damage blast sets. Dark is a lot of fun if you like debuffing, but actually killing things can be a pain.

Originally Posted by monkey0707

Ice has good single target and 2 aoe's but ice storm will scatter them a bit and I never really liked frost breath.

Originally Posted by Flux_Vector

I don't have a lot of time, and there are kinda some complicated issues to address here, so I'm going to be quick but try and hit the important details too.

Fortunata psi/ranged attacks are simply statistically weaker than the widow claw attacks. Overall in the game, melee attacks have a moderate to large advantage statistically over ranged attacks, depending on what sets you're comparing. This is especially true for some reason with psionic damage type attacks, which tend to do less damage by design, perhaps as some kind of balancing factor for their debuffing or the control extras in most psi powersets, or perhaps for their damage type, which in the original design of the game was supposed to be less-resisted.

However, psi damage is not really less-resisted, especially in the end-game. Instead, numerous enemies basically 'shut down' psi damage, such as robots and zombies, and carnies. A few enemies are resistant to physical damages but not psi damage, but other than ghosts and non-praetorian clockwork, nothing is especially vulnerable to it. Generally enemies that resist 'everything' like armored Rikti, Malta or Longbow, also resist Psi, and to the same degree.

Finally, widow melee attacks have been specially designed for us, whereas the psi attacks were lifted from other sets. Our melee attacks have extremely fast animations to go with their higher damage, resulting in much-improved performance over the psi attacks. I think an all-psi fortunata would struggle to reach 70% of the damage output of a melee one, just going off the fact that most of the psi attacks seem to do 70% of the DPA (Damage Per Animation Speed) of the melee ones.

Bottom line: unless you really like being ranged or really like the psi powers, or really don't care about your performance, don't be a psi fort.

Fortunatas do have other issues - the lack of mental training for a recharge boost, and the fact their mind link power has a full minute longer to recycle than night widows, does tend to make them seem and feel worse off until the end-game. Getting mind link to perma is a huge benefit to a widow, but fortunatas almost require expensive IOs to make that happen. Nightwidows can do it much more easily, much earlier, and much cheaper. This makes them far more potent characters in the mid-game and for people without large build budgets.

If you do have the budget, the fortunata's superior breadth of powers - controls and AOEs - are favored by some players. You can still be an effective fortunata without that budget, but you won't be a top tier build, whereas a nightwidow on a modest budget will be a lot closer to the top.

Hope this helps. Good luck and don't give up!

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

The devs may have made a participation system that sometimes rewards being a dick, but only we can choose to be one. If the devs can lead us to screw real people with pretend gear, that's less a reflection on their stupidity and more on our sociopathy.

No reward in this game is worth enough for me to screw my team/league mates, so under no circumstances will I choose to help or not help my team/league mates based on what a participation algorithm says. Anyone who says they are being forced to abandon their league members is making excuses for their purely voluntary crappy behavior, an excuse I do not accept.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Well, I tried this and still received an Uncommon. However, my next two runs I focused much more on my Primary (Dark Miasma) and threw in Attacks when possible. I netted a Rare and Very Rare.

I thought I was on to something so I ran the trials twice more and netted uncommons. RNG is random. :/

Originally Posted by makerian

I have taken note that you are not a player that receives good rewards, I will be inviting you to my Leagues more often ;D

Originally Posted by BurningChick

I and someone else have reported that, after yesterday's patch, our Trappers have uncharacteristically hit better drop tables in a handful of trials each.

Again, it's purely anecdotal and, perhaps, not statistically meaningful, but I think it adds a new wrinkle to the discussion.

Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon

Gang,

Maybe I'm jaded because I've been in a period of unemployment. However, I recently discovered that I have *just* enough time to take my daily shower during the BAF load time and cut scene.

Thank you, Mother. May I have another?

Lewis

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

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This is your SPOILERS tag, since it was requested.



The joke is that Fiusionette is stupid. That's really the sum total of it. And it's not even a funny "ha-ha" joke, it's a funny "NPC companion AI sucks!" joke.

Once upon a time (and possibly even now), Fiusionette's AI had her rush ahead of her companion player, aggro additional spawns, die and fail your mission. She was incredibly weak and her powers did almost no damage, turning the mission into a very annoying, very unpleasant one. Players complained, then complaints turned into parody and Fisuionette was compared to a "n00b" player. This was supposed to be funny, and so the joke began.

Because about half of Faultline's storyline is sketch comedy, the joke seemed to perpetuate, and was extended into the Rikti War Zone, where Fiusionette was officially written as a ditzy klutz with a low IQ and Faultline was written as an inexperienced nitwit who was unsure of himself. Their relationship was forwarded, as well, with then next "joke" being a botched tell from Faultline to Fiusionette where he forgets to add the slash in /t, and a comment from Fiusionette as a captive, telling the Rikti: "You just wait until my Build Up recharges!"

In general, Faultline and Fiusionette were written as a lovey-dovey couple of semi-competent class clowns with a ton of play-driven humour surrounding them, and I use the word "humour" very loosely.

Enter Fusion and Jane Temblor. They're the opposite in terms of personalities - rude, crude, arrogant and insufferable. They are, however, the same in terms of approach - incompetent and inefficient. Their relationship, instead of a kissy-huggy one, was turned into sort of a love-hate relationship as exhibited by Bonny and Clyde style couples in crime. It's no longer as adorable. It IS amusing to see them knock each other down with their finishers, though. That's funny.

Then we have Praetorian Duray teaming up with Primal Duray, for the finisher. See, Fusion and Jane are actually amusing in the way they play off each other and the way Duray plays off them. "If you've just about wrecked everything, then why am I standing on an intact highway?" "Eh! Blow it out yer ear!" Not exact quotes, obviously, but that's how it comes off.

So when Praetorian Duray complains about the incopetence of Fusion and Jane, Primal Duray quips "Just be glad they're not the local version!" in a way that makes me expect to hear that followed up with a laugh track or a rimshot. Because... Jim Temblor and Fiusionette are funny, right? Because they're both clumsy and stupid! And Fusion is a WOMAN here! Laugh, damn you!

It's out and out comedy that, rather than being funny, only manages to destroy what sense of humour I have left. Fusion and Jane are humorous enough on their own. They are humorous because they are well-written and well-acted. You don't need to throw endless references to endless player-spawned jokes. That's not humour, it's failed comedy. Especially the third time through the task force.

Originally Posted by Supernumiphone

Keeping in mind the possibility that there's some kind of "participation" score involved, I've been buffing and debuffing as much as possible, even when it serves no purpose. So far there hasn't been any noticeable change in my reward tables. I hope the answer isn't "play something with more damage."