...Back in beta. I do not mean this in any sarcastic way. Considering how much the game has changed since open beta say, our heroes must all have been Superman!

Back then, I did notice the game was extremely easy, soloing anything regardless of description. I wouldn't have stuck with a game that easy.

Now, how times have changed. I personally still solo fine, but I pity the new player.

I guess it just struck me how OP we were without realizing at the time. The devs must have been shocked when they realized what they would have to do to bring it into line with their design.

force eruption cleared the zone.

What exactly do you mean by within "their line of design"?

I can still solo and I am sure I will be able to after this patch. It is only affecting one of my characters with pyre but i was thinking of dropping it anyway as I use conflag all the time now.

This patch will actually get me to start a munitions toon again. Before, it was minimine spam and that was boring and stupid. Why have powers when all you do is use one overpowered attack over and over.

I know there are ppl who are crying about it and i really wonder what the **** is wrong with them!

A friend of mine began playing last week. He doesn't read the forums and he wasn't in any beta. He really likes it and points out how often my beta-baggage gripes really annoy him. I have to say I'm beginning to agree. I seem to be looking back as much as forward and that's not good. We we're doing the Jail Break open quest last night on a team with 4 others. It was a lot of fun. He said to me over chat that it was like playing UT with superpowers: Your either quick or your dead.

I think that new people coming to the game are having a lot less difficulty than the old guard from beta. I don't want to turn into a pre-cu moaner so I think I should play more and read the forums less. It get a bit depressing other wise

Sound advice. It is hard to let go, but MMOs evolve and change and what you once remembered will never be the same. You can't look back on any MMO and see what was originally there. Some you see shadows, others the foudnationw as completely ripped up and paved over. It's the way of the digital world and it's always evolving, changing, and moving on. You can either go with the flow or get wept up in the undertow.

What ever the heck their design is, I dunno. It appears to be a rehash of the 1 hero= 3 henchmen rearing its ugly decomposed head.

Well we weren't around back then, so it's not like it's anything different to us.

I do dislike how some powers are proving something of a necessity though. My first character's skillset was power armour, and I couldn't kill this one boss mob early in the game (Leech or something, his name is). Turns out I didn't pick Invulnerability. Oops.

So I did a retcon, went back, and it was fine. Much easier. Of course, there was no way for me to know this beforehand, and if the average newbie can choose between a passive defence like invulnerability or a cool minigun that pops up on his shoulder, what do you think he's going to take?

Technically, if you look at any hero, there isn't a one without some form of passive defense no matter how great or small. Batman is reflexive, superman invuln, Johnny has his fire form ect.

Good point, that's part of what I was referring to with new players.

When I made my first few champs, I was all over the place, since it's hard to know what things do, specially those you can't use training dummies for. He sure was gimp.

I'm not dwelling on the past, just amazed they were so off on their calculations.