Twilight_Snow

I guess it must be coincidence that pyro_nympho, samuel_tow and Mr.NoPants have exactly the same progress towards their next forum level.

I usually just do the missions solo, you can form a team if you like. However, I doubt that people like to run missions in the Shard. The missions are similar to those of Borea in Rikti War Zone. The contacts in the Shard never run out of missions.

The missions don't lead to anything. However, you will get a feel of what the zone has, what might be going on, and to explore the zone. The contacts introduce you to the next contact very easily. Different contacts have different interests, so their missions vary as well.

There are no requirements to do the Shard tfs (I guess the level requirement is removed, is it?). It would help if you explore the zone beforehand. Because there will be hunt missions at Point X-Ray, for example. It would be a hassle if your map is completely covered up by fog of war and there are no clues where Point X-Ray is.

If you're very new to the zone, you should know that there is a jet pack vendor, in case your traveling power is not convenient for the Shard. Try to learn the gravity geyser. If you follow the contact, you can gain access to another portal in a cave from Firebase Zulu to Cascade. There are Kora fruit missions from Dr. Huxley in Cascade where you can pick "fruits" if you're into this kind of thing. There are no mission contacts in the Chantry and the Storm Palace, but you can try hunting there if you like, either for a change or for some challenges, the mobs are pretty tough there.

From your response above, the idea is that you can see the team composition. This might not work that well if people are hiding, and you would have a wrong impression of the team.

You can have a filter to filter out people already on a team, and another filter to list people on a team.

If you rely on regeneration only, you might have problems with alpha or big hits from bosses and AV. Actually, if darkest night works for you, it's a good power to supplement willpower.

For my willpower tanker, I softcapped f/c/e/n. I do slot for s/l defense, but it's not softcapped, because I think the s/l resistance can add up with defense to give a decent mitigation. It's your choice though, some people like to max their s/l protection and consider the other damage types much less important. For ITF, your s/l defense will only be effective for only a while anyway because of stacking defense debuff.

Not every power allows you to slot for defense bonus, so there should still be room to enhance your +hp/+regen as well.

Both inv and EA are weak against psionic. You can softcap non-psionic defense for both inv and EA, and it won't take a lot of inf. I think that inv is tougher because of its high s/l resistance. The special things about EA are its stealth and endurance. So, you should think if you like these 2 features for thematic reasons or for utilities. This determines whether you should pick inv or EA.

I think it's technically possible to do nearly what you want. For example, press spacebar to activate a power called jump. The jump power will check if combat jumping is on, if yes, then grant the player a +def bonus for a few seconds.

I think other people do have a point that players with combat jumping will perma jump. A team of 8 players with combat jumping will keep on jumping no matter what. I think this is a pretty hilarious scene.

I do agree with you that combat jumping does not involve real jumping, so it's just a toggle. You turn it on and forget about it. And also for players who can run very fast, I believe they should be hard to hit as well. (Did superspeed has a +def bonus long time ago? Probably before GDR, I forget) While I agree with you, I have no idea how to make it fun though. I don't think it's a good idea to make people perma jump or perma run.

I remember that there was a similar suggestion in the past. It suggested toggles to lose certain effectiveness when the endurance drops to a certain level.

I think the suggestion in this thread is ok technically. I don't see a big problem about the order to suppress toggles. As explained in the quote, different powers tick at a slightly different time. In the case of two powers ticking exactly at the same time, then the server can randomly pick a power to suppress.

There are several posts saying that the suggested scheme would make toggles become auto powers. I think this is not really accurate because the suggested toggles will still use endurance and players are still penalized for running out of endurance.

In my opinion, the suggestion will make endurance drain slightly less effective. Currently, if you're sapped, you become helpless and it takes a while to reactivate all the toggles. Therefore, having all the endurance drained is quite a devastating effect. The suggestion mitigates the endurance drain effect a little. Given that there aren't a lot of ways for mobs to nail players, maybe the suggestion needs a second thought.

#1 is obviously not appealing, even the poster doesn't really like it. The suggestion is here more or less for completeness. For #2 and #3, it does encourage players to speed tf, but require a different skill set from the current merit reward system. It encourages players to kill faster. In order to speed tf under scheme #2 and #3, the team probably needs more optimized builds, needs damage multiplier, buff and debuffs (current reward system does need these things, but mostly for the final AVs kill, not throughout the whole tf)

Therefore, I don't think it's fair to say that the suggestions (#2 and #3) are to penalize people speeding tf. It simply encourages people to speed tf differently. I think the current scheme and the suggestions have their own advantages and disadvantages. I don't think it is necessary to replace the current system entirely by #2 or #3, the suggestions can be on top of the current system. So, I don't think people need to be upset about the suggestions, unless they want the only way to earn good rewards is to skip everything except the mission objectives, and don't allow any other ways to earn the rewards.

Everyone here is upset about it because they all feel that they are punished for being too good.

I don't think that tracking the statistics throughout the whole tf is problematic. Maybe some coding needs to be done. In my opinion, this method penalizes people who love to do tf at invincible, because it uses the number of defeated mobs regardless of their difficulty.

I think this looks good. People are rewarded for fighting difficult mobs. For players who like to beat the timer, they can also demonstrate their skill in killing everything very quickly. I can envision that there might be quarreling within the team about whether to kill everything or leave some mobs behind. Sometimes, people have a schedule and they can't afford to kill all every mission.

I suggest to use the current scheme (which is based on the average time from data mining) and then add #3 on top of it, or some sort of combination of the two schemes. In this way, if people have a real life, they can choose to do tfs quickly and still get decent rewards. And for people who like to kill more for fun, they are also rewarded for the effort without accused of being inefficient.

If there is a tanker, you can go melee and aoe. Otherwise, go in to fire sword and fire sword circle then head out immediately. In my opinion, melee-ing is mostly for fun if you can do enough damage from range. For blazing aura and hot feet, you can always turn it on if you have endurance or for conceptual reasons. You can consider the toggles as some extra damage, and hot feet for a little bit of soft control

I used force bubble, which is pretty effective to repel the repairmen.