I miss the freedom to make a power set combination, do well with it without worrying about being gimped due to a ludicrously rigid team mechanic thats outdated. I miss seeing such combinations grow more and more advanced, witnessing that unstable equilibrium when you start curb-stomping things, as power increases as you actually earn it through learning the set and how to make it unstoppable. I miss being able to further that with IOs. I miss incarnate powers increasing the multiplier effect to get that "I am a creative and I am going to start ruling enemies even outnumbered 8 to 1!".
I miss the feeling of a super team multiplying it's strengths so much it melts +4 mobs.
But ultimately I miss the sheer variety of it.
From hard-hitting crowd crushing brutes to near untouchable chrono shifted killer robots instantly stacking extreme DoT due to incarnate powers. From empaths who never have to heal cause the enemy was debuffed by attacks that they cannot hit any allies and godlike buffed teammates, to hyper damage capped scrappers backed by a max-recharge kineticist.
...All the way to Mind-linked buffed warworks ruining your friends day in a cut-throat cage match 10-15 times in only 5 minutes.....
I miss it all
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