All I have to say, looking at the changes, is Holy FUCK. It's like everything, including the villains, must have shit in Statesman's cereal.
Defense has been lowered across the board, as well as several resistance powers as well. Everyone's defensive powers have been lowered across the board, and some powers took an especially heavy hit. On the other hand, all villain levels except for Arch Villains have had their accuracy lowered a bit to balance that out a little.
Circle of Thorns must have raped Statesman's grandma, because their higher level mobs got hit with the new nerf brand nuclear warhead.
Regen has had the healing of Integration nerfed, and Instant Healing has been changed to a click power instead of a toggle. Oh yeah, it's got a long recharge too.
Taunt has been seriously nerfed. No more than five enemies can be taunted at a time.
Controller control powers have had their endurance costs doubled, while halving their duration. Pets have also been altered so that multiple pets can no longer be spawned. To make up for this, mobs suffering from holds, sleeps, and other control effects suffer double damage from the controller. Because we all know that controllers actually attack. 
Most power pools have had their secondary effects such as defense lowered. Stealth got especially nailed by having its defensive bonus removed when attacking for a period of several seconds afterwards.
On the other hand, scrappers are getting a power boost for all of their attacks. Blasters are getting the defiance system implimented. Any blaster who's willing to dance with debt is capable of getting 40, 80, 160, 320, and even 500% based upon how low their hitpoints drop.
This is going to be some bloody testing before it goes to the live servers...
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JooJooFlop stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
The blaster changes rock. Extra damage as you lose HP, more HP and raised damage caps.
Edit: I approve of Blaster changes Noxhil2 fucked around with this message on 07-16-2005 at 12:09 AM.
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ACES! Another post by Faelynn LeAndris:
I had actually concidered Re-Installing and going back to Guardian (Assuming Envenom is even still there, they do any Character wipes or anything?) but after reading that, no fucking way. Evenom was a controller, and the last thing I needed was gimping my defences even MORE.
No character wipes at all, so your characters will still be there.
And having played around with a copied level 16 Grav Controller and a level 25 Illusion controller, I found that the defensive nerfs arent really that big of a hit for a controller when grouped... but it's gone from difficult to nigh impossible to solo as a controller/defender now it seems... most other power sets do not appear to have had much of a solo-ibilty change from the defence nerf...
Although I do question whether the defence changes were necessary in the first place.
That being said... my main is a Super Reflexes scrapper. I get the distinct impression that my universe is going to consist of a lot more pain and debt.
Fuck you devs, fuck you. 
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Ctrl-Alt-Del's account was hax0red to write:
Fuck you devs, fuck you.
This is pretty much how I feel right now, but I'm not giving up yet. These changes need to be tested. Everyone, EVERYONE needs to get onto test so that these things can be datamined.
If these changes hurt solo play enough, they'll have to be retooled. And if they're not... then A, the problems aren't too bad, or B, there will be quite a bit of people leaving because of them. Not many people are happy with the nerfs, even with the accompanying buffs.
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Mooj was listening to Cher while typing:
This is pretty much how I feel right now, but I'm not giving up yet. These changes need to be tested. Everyone, EVERYONE needs to get onto test so that these things can be datamined.If these changes hurt solo play enough, they'll have to be retooled. And if they're not... then A, the problems aren't too bad, or B, there will be quite a bit of people leaving because of them. Not many people are happy with the nerfs, even with the accompanying buffs.
I plan on doing an extensive test of these new changes. But I still have 2 hours as I formatted my computer and need to get my test server thingie back.
You mean my tanker might not be able to stand there with TI+Invincibility+Unyielding and solo purples anymore as easily?
They did add Toxic protection to Resist Elements though... though I haven't played in a while... something about village phases, banking xp, and so forth has kept me a bit occupied...
But yeah, this does look to be a bit of a nerf hammer.
I have Hasten on Capt. Highvolt, but I sure as hell wasn't using it as a defense buff, though I do use Hover frequently for the defense bonus.
As for Defiance, if Highvolt's health starts getting near half, I'm popping greens, damage bonus or no damage bonus.
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Asha'man had this to say about John Romero:
Hey, look my character wouldn't be affected at all!
I thought you quit after the trial. 
But, yeah, the changes I find especially stupid are the AoE limits (the concept is fine, the limits are too low) and the controller changes. Wow, the one time I would ever cast on a mob to do damage was to finish it off... how stupid.
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Cuba:
The stealth defensive bonus being removed when attacking; does that only work for the specific stealth power, or is it for all stealth-like powers (Re: Blaster/Devices/Cloaking Device)?
Seems to be just that power.
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There was much rejoicing when Delphi Aegis said this:
The stealth defensive bonus being removed when attacking; does that only work for the specific stealth power, or is it for all stealth-like powers (Re: Blaster/Devices/Cloaking Device)?
I think it's only conealment pool. It doesn't appear that cloaking device was affected.
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A sleep deprived El Cuchillo stammered:
I thought you quit after the trial.
No time.
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Asha'man impressed everyone with:
Hey, look my character wouldn't be affected at all!
Mine either, even though my main is a tanker I rarely use taunt 
Also, for everybody who missed the halloween events, the badges for killing the pumpkins and Eochai and all that (I assume) are re-attainable with the new lakefront resort they opened. Plenty of new ones, as well.
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Blah blah blah JooJooFlop blah blah blah...
Are the witches to be found anywhere?
I found some Cabal, but there's hundreds of people on the test server in that zone; For whatever reason it hasn't hit the instance cap to spawn a second (I think because there are monster spawns), and I got disconnected from map server.
