rsclark

Isn't that basically the equivalent of having your wisdom teeth taken out one at a time?

Or you could simply take the statement "raise the base recovery" and take it to mean what was intended instead of reading it in strictly game jargon terms.

Or, to put it another way, "raise base recovery" could simply mean a 10% boost added on top of the base recovery - all it means in the scope of this discussion is "the recovery you get without stamina", it doesn't need to be affected by any other powers at all. But of course, your intent is to make it seem more difficult to implement than it actually is in order to avoid having to actually discuss the core suggestion.

The answer would only be "yes" if you didn't change it enough. Now it is very good. If you change it significantly, then stamina is worthless. These two facts taken together imply a point between the extremes where it is good, but not worth 3 whole powers to most people (except those looking for mega DPS, solo that GM builds.)

Selecting powers doesn't mean you need to slot them right now. You see, this is the difference between an interesting choice - say better damage vs better control vs more defense - vs a silly choice - say stand around and do nothing for extended time during fights vs take stamina. A good choice is one where all options have plusses and minuses. Taking another attack when you can't power the ones you already have is lacking in the "plus" department, making stamina the only real option.

As soon as end gets tight?

So level 3 then?

How many non-MM, non-hit-and-run stalkers, do you have without them?

Well, they could do a global end cost decrease and a stamina decrease. Average characters would stay the same. Pre-stamina would be less waiting around. End hogs (which might change from what they currently are in terms of AT/powerset) would need to consider slotting more end redux. And it opens up the opportunity for more characters to go without stamina.

As it stands now, the problem isn't killing speed/what diff you can fight at so much as the fact that you get 3 dull as dirt powers right at the same time as your leveling speed starts slowing down. I know that personally, I take little joy in leveling from 12-22-ish depending on when I take the stamina chain. No only is it the lame illusion of choice, but it's a dull one. At least if the required powers were flashy or interesting, it might make the need to take them a little more palatable.

Good. Doing anything to encourage uber guilds is a bad idea.

Of course, the basic assumption of this thread is false given how absurdly cheap the rent is, but saying that it helps make guilds bigger has got to be the worst argument in favor of something that I have ever seen.

The Devs can. Take number of characters over 20 with Stamina. Divide by total number of characters over 20. If result >0.5, then END cost too high.

I used a bind that would let me hold control and left click to TP and that made TP a joy instead of a chore - much smoother than button-click-button-click...

So a MM with the personal attacks will contribute more than one that takes leadership to max out pets and ignores the personal attacks? (and no, you can't generalize demons to make this true for all MMs)

Saying "well rounded > single focus" is simplistic. It ignores the cost in terms of lost power from generalizing and it ignores the fact that all ATs don't excel in all areas.

If people really believed that better balanced builds were universally better, there would be threads of complaint about tanks and scrappers who don't take Aid Other and leadership and anciliary holds - I mean, given your logic, if they don't take those abilities, they are specializing in damage/mitigation and ignoring support, buffing, and control.

I'm guessing that slotting for heal doesn't prevent the use of Darkest Night. And slotting for -to hit instead of heal doesn't help the -damage aspect.

So, if you want to honestly compare the two, you would completely ignore the -damage component, as it will be equal in both cases, no matter how it's slotted. Likewise, you would only look at the difference between slotted -tohit and unslotted -tohit, since even fully slotted for heal, he's still going to use the power and it's still going to have it's normal, unslotted effect.

I don't know which is better, but your comparison is just bad because you're trying to directly compare the 2 powers themselves when the reality is you are getting both - the only difference being how they are slotted.

Balanced doesn't mean well designed. Several of the pools - fitness, fighting, and to a lesser extent medicine - are designed with speedbump powers. You have a weak lead-in power with a reward of a latter power that is worth wasting an earlier pick for a lot of people. Fighting just happens to be the worst of these because the first pick is completely and utterly worthless for almost everyone.

The level 15 probably hasn't sold one in 3 months. They don't exist in decent numbers, so the price doesn't reflect current numbers. And it's easier to place a bid on a 30 and wait a week to get it than it is to clog your WW with bids on each of 15-25 for months at a time waiting for one lucky sale to go up.

You playing the game doesn't produce value except to yourself, so externally, the value is zero. That seems a good starting place for setting a price point.

You need to read better.

So this board should be deleted since it serves no purpose?

This hostility towards people asking questions is retarded.

Yes, vacation days are intended to be used for recreation. Tomorrow we will work on an explanation for "Lunch Break".

It's not a better solution if it's affecting the drop rate of other recipe types. Even common IOs are a significant source of inf for anyone not in the billionaire's club.

Mention it all you want, but it doesn't make what you're saying less ridiculous.

Don't get excited. Your first impression was close - Ken/Ryu style.

I'm really not sure why super strength doesn't work for a street fighter. Is it just the excessive knocking people around? Because really, that's the set for standard punching stuff animations.

Those two cases are virtually indistinguishable. If you're solo and he's solo, then you joined his team just as much as he joined your team. Both of those are effectively "do you want to be on a team with me", with no mention of the possibility of other people also being involved.

Ummm... Wow.

I said it took 2.5 hours to get 2 people.

He said he could get a full team. I doubt that, so I comment that I doubt there will even be enough potential (online, correct level, lfg messages that don't exclude the group) people to even possibly do what he is claiming.

Two different numbers are used because we are discussing two different things - the first being the experience I had, and the second being what he is claiming he can do.

I really cannot figure out where you think there is a disconnect.

I think one positive response per hour is a good bare minimum to start at.

I also already said I would consider him a success if he could get 4 people in addition to himself - a lesser feat than he has claimed he can do. How much more specific should I be?

But that's a minimum. If I were to describe what I think would be a good healthy environment for the game - something I would be pleased with - then I like those times when you have to turn people away because there is no room, and you manage to point those random people towards each other, so they can form another team. Optimally, that would be what the game was like - a swarming mass of grouping people.

Ideally, you would log on, flip your LFG and at least 3 people who type slowly would get the "already on a team" message. Sure, that's an absurd fantasy, but it's much better than the idea that you need to "work" to form a group before you can even start playing. Work should only be involved when doing something difficult, not when just getting started.

Hence us of terms like "negligible" and "very slightly".

Actually, that is exactly what ED does. If a power has base resist 20, then ED caps it at about 20*1.56. Yes, you can push it up by a percent or two, but the returns drop off so dramatically after the cap, that for all practical purposes it's a hard limit on what you can get from any particular power.

base*2ish for schedule A
base*1.56ish for schedule B

So in terms of the post I was responding to, going over ED provides a negligible benefit no matter the circumstances. It helps very slightly to offer a buffer to offset debuffs if you are over the cap, but it provides that exact same help even if you are not getting debuffed or not over the cap.


Now, had the poster I was responding to instead said that going over ED provides a buffer when you exemplar down - allowing you to remain near the ED cap, he would have been correct, but it does not interact with debuffs in the same way it does with exemplaring.