dugfromthearth

thanks for paying for more development

a key point with dominators is that they varied so much in domination and some people could get permadom, that there was a balance issue there similar to ED.

Some builds were uber some were gimpy.

They needed to even out how the AT performed for everyone so that it was viable for casual players and not just good for an elite few.

CoX is an MMO. They cannot please everyone, but they have to please a lot of people not just a few.

I've done some of Praetoria but only with 2 characters and they chose different paths

so I know that you can choose different paths, but only doing the arcs once I could not tell if they had different effects depending on what you chose.

I should do Praetoria all the way to 20 sometime

Sandra's arc in Atlas. Apparently what you say to the hero matters, and changes whether he helps your or fights you later. I know the first time I did it he attacked me. When I've been doing it recently I must always have chosen the helpful way.

So they can make at least dialog selection have a real impact on a mission.

Is this being used elsewhere and I haven't paid attention to that either?

let's be sacrificers, but not butchers,

so the takeaway is brute's need to be nerfed?

I have to side with the OP. NPC's should not be the focus of the story.

I won't be happy until hellion's are trying to steal my purse in Atlas Park

if you really want a ranged you might want grav for your primary as that gives you some extra ranged attacks. Normally doms don't care about those but if you are skipping the melee attacks in your secondary they might help out

congratulations

Someone commented on the new dark powerset that the power cannot be used every fight and if you don't need it every fight than you won't need it in any fight. While that is not strictly true, the variation of difficulty among spawns is pretty small. Basically +1 level or having spawns close together so you get 2 of them.

Would it be more fun to have spawns vary a bit more? Maybe 1/4 of spawns be +2 levels or be 50% larger?

Something that adds a bit more variety when grinding through a warehouse?

I've tried grav in the past for a few levels. The new grav to my understanding makes Lift and Propel do more damage if you have Gravity Distortion on the target.

And then Time (which I haven't played) does more debuff if the target has Time Crawl on it and more buff/healing if the target has Temporal Selection on it.

That means in theory I want to be tracking where 3 powers (including multiple uses) are on various targets so I know which ones to hit.

I imagine it isn't that complicated. You use Temporal Selection on someone and heal/buff everyone and they just get more. And you use area debuffs on foes and just Time Crawl the important ones.

But it seems complicated

How do you access them?
Are they long?
Are they fun?

a useful trick is to never target foes. Target your attacks through a tanker, brute, or scrapper. That way you are attacking someone that is already being attacked so it is less likely they will aggro on you

A Cimmeroran EAT would be interesting. Could be hero and villain.

immunes surgeon heals
legionarii phalanx fighting
centurions shout of command

you could make a nice melee/buff AT based on the theme

Yeah, it is really annoying that people doing PuGs get 8 people and then join the queue.

Why not just join the queue?

number of people in queue would be helpful

Night Widows are melee/support
Banes are melee/support
fire/rad controllers are melee/support

I do think this would be better as a new AT though. Changing cones to paboe's or wider shorter cones and some other changes to the sets would make them fit better with melees.

You can give the answer any way you want to. Months of extra enjoyment? Amount more fun? Amount less bugs?

The patch notes indicate a lot of new content - DA for incarnates, new low level story arcs, and the Bloody Bay sf. I know that Hollow is only a few days of content, but I played it over and over again - so it was worth for more than that. Are these going to be play it once and done or big boost to what people actually play?

Stalker AT gets reborn - that could be a lot of time for players if they now essentially have a new AT to play.

Dark powersets for controllers and dominators.

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I will probably never see the inside of DA again as I don't like high level content. But I play in the teens a lot. New content there while generally unneeded is great for me. I know I will create a dark character either dom or controller (probably dom), and I may even try stalker again as the concept was cool but it just wasn't enough fun.

I would say with a bit of new content for me and 2 new characters to try it will probably tide me over for 2 months.