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I like the stat clamp. It makes doing older content more interesting.

Nah sorry. I like it as it is. When Ur too far strong for episodes, say cr445 and Ur in a world like Gotham wastelands, U just break the content. What U may not realise is essentially before they put stat clamp in, U could have skipped Sons of trigon episode and done that .uch later and solo the whole thing. That's not being a superhero, that's U breaking content.

U do the content at the appropriate level. All cr is just a gateway to the next episode. Ur a superhero when U do endgame, all others r just history

Personally I appreciate the clamp system. I don't want to be a lamesauce and cheap my way through all the older content at max power when I've already skipped over it with those 'max level boosts' they always offer people who decide to roll up a new character.

It's kind of a joke to just skip and to soar through things and then expect everything to be handed out to you on a silver platter afterwards.

I know it makes some feats harder to obtain, especially timed feats. But taking away stat clamp would honestly ruin the game. Let’s be honest, whenever you’re getting help leveling a new character and the other person is literally 1shotting EVERYTHING doesn’t it kinda ruin the fun? Imagine doing that against a super strong boss. You’re walking up on it and a healer from the back of pack basically 1shots. You won’t be prepared for when you do catch up, because your role has been irrelevant until now. But you’re also not enjoying the game because players who’ve been here for a long time are taking away any opportunity for this fight to feel like the massive struggle it’s supposed to be. If you’re expecting darkseid and instead you’re getting kiteman. Loosing interest isn’t just inevitable but almost immediate.

Personally i believe feats should only be obtainable in clamped content, HOWEVER.
they should also add a non clamped version so that any farming for styles etc is still possible but will loot lock you.
Clamped = Feats & No Loot Locks
Non Clamped = Loot locks and No feats.

I truly understand the reason for the clamp. I just don't think the clamp had accomplished one aspect of it.... which was to get higher CR ppls to play lower CR content. I think a reward system should have been established to play at a lower CR to encourage ppls to want to play lower CR content. For example, playing 50 lvls lower could earn you 2x source marks, 100 lvs lower 2x nth metal, 200 lvls lower quarks, etc..... Adjusting your armor to be a lower level would be a volunteer clamp for unique rewards for higher CR players, instead of the mandatory clamp.

This is only a suggestion, and I am sure others on here could probably come up with better ones. I would just like my progression to count when I want it to. I would love playing my character at a lower lvl for unique rewards, getting old feats and helping new ppl learn the mechanics. We would all be having fun I believe.

Peace and DCUO Forever

I like the clamp aswell but only because I have 10 years of experience and I also know alot of exploits with powersets and weapons lmao. However a noob will go play something else. The only reason why they had to put a clamp in the game was because they did not have the team to pull off a supercharged pass or balance of any issues. There was nothing wrong with CR differential the revamp before stats revamp. The problem with every revamp especially stats revamp is there still hasn't been a balance pass for some of the major issues in the game starting with supercharges. All they did was turn stats revamp clamp into artifact differential by Art swapping. As you can see nothing has changed this revamp is exactly like CR differential the revamp before stats remap the only difference is your art swapping to break the clamp in stats revamp

What I love about Superboy is when you get him down to half or a quarter and then he bugs and just stops fighting and starts regen-ing! That's my favorite Superboy power!

Cutscenes don't count towards time of completion feats. I may be wrong of course, it happens.

"I really like the stat clamp, i love doing old content" - Every player who played before the stat clamp and have all the old feats.
Where are you guys, i am on 1 week queuing for Kahndaq for 6/7 hourse, asking in lfg.
It's your mindset that is wrong, the stats clamp should be allowed only on the last 4/5 episodes, new players struggle to progress (on feats and sp) or just very big incentives to people to do old content and feats (so people just don't speedrun it), it's like some of you guys never got in another mmo

the clamp isnt a new idea many other mmos have the same feature ppl need to quit crying about it, its not going away.

"Many other MMO" give me names, also thanks mr dev to stating that the clamp isn't going away (?) roflmao this community of power players, It would be really amusing to know how many of you stat clamp supporters have only completed feats in a group without ever doing them solo. It's really funny how much you gatekeep new players, trying to act like an elite group who earned their stripes

All we want is y'all to fix these episodes with no lag spikes and take away stat clamp, and fix these arts like, demon Fang, Clarion, Bop, Hecate and mercy because they do way too much damage to PVP players. It's crazy you can be in all PVE gear and hit a PvP player for 200k damage that's a one shot that's crazy but if you fix those things we all be happy

I don't disagree on some time-based feats needing re-tuned post-clamp but "Quickly, into the past" is definitely still doable and the cut scenes shouldn't count against the background timer for the feat. It helps to go in with a partner whose strengths and weaknesses balance your own. I completed it last year with a league mate; Me: Nature, Him: Munitions, both might DPS. He did phenomenal damage, if adds weren't eating him alive. I did mediocre damage but could stun/root the adds to keep them at bay and heal minor damage throughout. To paraphrase Steel, "I'd line them up, and he'd swing the hammer."

I don't know about his set up, but Strat was my only maxed DPS art at the time, trans prob at 120 (def no higher than 140), Tetra was more like 100, and my passive allies would've been Oracle maxed (back when she repaired gear) and reg Batman at level 6; Krypto maxed as my active ally. If I had to guess, I was around 200 SP at the time and he closer to 300.

Hey at least you didn't bounties and then find out they screwed up and removed double currency. Then told everyone later in the day and then finished it up with"Sorry for the inconvenience ".

Actually, yes, I did exactly that.

8 hours now? Thanks for the update, but what is going on? It's not like we are getting a new dlc today, how did this turn into downtime for most of a day???

^THIS^