Twilight_Snow

SR was considered one of the worst power set at that time. Since then, it received a couple buffs, for example scaling resistance, some resistance to slow, confuse, and increased perception. And also, higher-level mobs now have higher accuracy instead of higher to-hit. One of the complaints in the past was that resistance scales better than defense regarding level difference. As players understand how defense works and realize the power of flooring to-hit, SR becomes one of the best now.

The old DE crystals, auto-hit attacks, Rularuu eyeballs are still problems for SR. I read somewhere that summoned pets have 75% to-hit rather than 50%, and some defense debuff can't be resisted. So, these are some additional things you should watch out for. Maybe dark/SR makes your life easier because of siphon life.

I like these additions.

I think people are already "forced" to take kick or boxing. I'm not sure if combo will be appealing. How about a click called Fighting Spirit? It gives you 10 endurance every click with long recharge.

Anything that grants more damage is difficult to pass. Can you think of something less desirable? Also, all the powers in fitness are passives, maybe you can add a passive to follow the design.

The power name sounds good. What are the possible buffs for leadership? Maybe we can have something other than +movement and +recharge.

Maybe I prefer something that is more related to "basic" medicine, as the powers in the pool tend to do some basic things.

Probably a bad idea. I believe people will be perma-moving like running in circles in order to maintain the defense bonus. And also, I think we have enough defense bonus in game.

Actually, that's good. If you suggest any pool powers that are really needed, then it is a bad power pool.

Apart from looking cool and interesting, kb is a form of mitigation of incoming damage. A mob being thrown around can't attack. I believe you can appreciate kb more when you solo. The problem comes when no mitigation is needed, as in the case of the level 50 scrapper. I bet the scrapper has no problem surviving, and he just needs to kill more and faster. In fact, this is not a particular problem with kb, but with control in general. If there is no need to control, it just gets in the way of killing.

In general, if kb is inappropriate, you should stop it. If it's used well at the right time, it can be quite effective. The problem with energy blast is that kb is a secondary effect of your attacks, there is no way you can stop it unless you stop attacking. In my opinion, this points out the problem with the game design that you can't control whether to kb or knockdown during combat, and you're stuck with an effect that should be used situationally. You can only control the knockback distance by slotting with enhancement. That also means that you can't control the kb distance during combat either because this is determined when you do the slotting.

Regarding whether to delete the character or not, I think you should try hover-blasting and kb-to-the-wall technique. There should be more detailed description somewhere in the forum. Hover blasting can turn a kb into knockdown in principle, but more likely just reduce the kb distance practically. If mobs are close to a wall, the wall can act as a barrier to stop the mob from flying away. I suggest not to knock mobs to the wall in caves, as the mobs can easily get stuck.

After you try out these common tricks, and you're still not happy with energy blast, go ahead and do what you want. I believe that most people are quite tolerant with kb as long as you're not using energy torrent inappropriately.

lol, I did read. Well, technically, yeah, most of them don't say no explicitly. They talk about other games transfer fees are more expensive, so ours are relatively cheap. I think it's implicitly saying no or unnecessary, at least not very supportive. Actually, discussing SWG policy is a little off-topic.

I didn't say $10 is unreasonable. My post above just said that they might be able to make more money if the fee is even lower. I won't say making unnecessary transfers are frivolous, probably not very good from a managment point of view.

Yeah, the suggestion is quite inflexible. If you're in combat stance, you're not free to teleport to any place you want. Out of combat, the suggestion is to pull out a map to plan the travel. I believe the current method to teleport should be retained with the suggestion for both in-combat and out-of-combat mode. I'm not sure how it can be done though.

For this original idea, it's actually not bad. I agree with LostHalo that if we just want to do one single teleport, it's a hassle to have a toggle.

This is not the first time that I want a power to have two different ways to be activated. It would be nice if we can click "A" (for example) to activate teleport as a click for short teleport, but click "B" to toggle on teleport as a toggle for long travels.

I agree with you. Realistically, there are two limits. One is what you already said, if a person can take bullets, why does the person take damage for a regular punch. That means an attack has to do more than certain damage in order to hurt the person.

The other limit is that an resistance armor should have a maximum damage that it can resist. If a person wears a bullet-proof vest that can resist 99% of the damage from a bullet, does it mean that the person can also resist 99% of the damage when a bulldozer hits him?

In my opinion, these two extreme cases illustrate that the current implementation of resistance does not really make physical sense. But on the other hand, good luck trying to convince any people to stand on your side.

Regarding your suggested "protection," it has been discussed a really long time ago when Statesman was still here. I don't remember what the dev said so long ago. I only remember that it is a no.

I think it's probably clearer to have defense just for dodging attacks and another attribute called deflection. It is a little confusing to call them positional defense and typed defense. I think the idea of deflection is probably ok as other people explained.

You're not missing anything. It sounds like your characters are still low level. You'll earn more inf when you're higher level. There are some luck about recipe drop, sometimes you'll get only 1 or 2.

Technically no. The design of IO drop is that everyone can get it if they play. A lot of the stuffs can be acquired solo, and you can buy anything from the market.

Practically yes, because the more you play, the more you get. Therefore, if you don't play a lot or don't play in the "optimal" way to maximize your profit, you'll find that it'll take you forever to achieve certain goals, although you'll eventually get there.

However, asking in the forum probably won't get you anywhere. There are people who enjoy the current system and the market, and have a sense of achievement for being able to do something that other people can't. This is always a problem for a system with items, as there are always people who can get the good stuffs, and there are some who feel that they are under-achieving.

This has been discussed many many times in the past. The IO system is something for level 50s to spend their time to further improve themselves. Therefore, it is intended that equipping your character with IO sets to be time consuming. I think the issue here is how time consuming it should be. From the dev point of view, I bet it should take forever such that you'll pay their salary forever. In my opinion, something which is a billion is a bit too much. I prefer the expensive stuffs to sit around 100 mil, then IO-ing a character with all the expensive stuffs can be done in a reasonable amount of time. However, this is only me, other people will have different opinion.

This is partly true. I believe everyone can do a cheap IO build by so-called franken-slotting. That means not going for the set bonus, but just putting together different IO to enhance various attributes at the same time. For example enhancing damage, accuracy, recharge and end cost for an attack significantly, which is impossible with SO. This usage of IO can be very cheap, but a huge QoL improvement. There are not much reason not to do it, and I believe everyone can do it.

There are some expensive builds. It depends on the situation, sometimes it makes a difference between heaven and hell, for example perma-dom and an ordinary dom. Some builds are just expensive for some minor improvements.

Adding an offensive aura to a toggle (not only entropy shield) in energy aura is problematic. If you want to stealth, the offensive aura will get in the way, but then you don't want to switch off your aura because it is your defense.

I mentioned this in the past and somebody said that dark armor has a stealth and also a damage aura. For dark armor, you can switch off the damage aura and even stealth independently according to the situation, therefore the offensive aura and stealth won't interact with each other. Energy aura is quite different in this aspect.

Only the dev can tell you. It's not even clear whether the dev think that EA is ok or still needs improvements. We had a sticky EA thread in the brute forum (gone now), the dev never made any comments on this issue.

From the title you gave to the thread, I guess you're asking these questions because you want to make an energy aura brute/stalker. The characteristic powers in energy aura are stealth and energy drain, the rest of the powers in the set are pretty standard toggles and passives. If you don't think that you like the two characteristics, you're better off trying other power sets.

A little off topic for me to reply to this. Technically, for a shield to deflect an attack, you need your reflexes to move the shield towards the attack which requires positional defense. Then, the shield needs to be able to deflect the attack (imagine a wooden shield against a fire attack, or a metal shield against an energy attack) which requires typed defense. The dev do have to pick one kind of defense. Picking typed defense is problematic because the ability to deflect actually depends on the type of shield. The choice of shield is supposed to be a costumes choice. I won't say the dev abandoned typed defense. However, that's what I think, maybe the dev does hate typed defense.

Another angle of looking at this is that it's relatively easy to soft-cap defense for any defense-based characters, so they can perform pretty well compared to power sets based on resistance.

However, if you compare only defense-based power sets, energy aura may be at the bottom, mainly because people can't find much use of the stealth (from the perspective of a brute, stealth is ok for stalkers) and conserve power, while other power sets have other more useful utilities.