Adeon Hawkwood

This isn't quite true since damage bonuses work off of Base damage and not enhanced damage. The way it works is that assuming 95% damage enhancement in your attacks and no other damage buffs a solo Defender and Corruptor will do the same damage which is why the devs selected 30% for the solo Vigilance buff..

0.65 * (1 + 0.95 + 0.3) = 1.4625
0.75 * (1 + 0.95) = 1.4625

If I recall correctly several people did an analysis on Scourge and concluded that in general it's approximately equivalent to a 20%-25% damage buff.

Well the pretty obvious one is stronger buffs and debuffs. For example Defenders get 12.5% Defense form Farsight compared to 9.375% for Corruptors. This makes it a lot easier to softcap a Defender than a Corruptor (especially when you factor in stronger Maneuvers, Combat Jumping and possibly Weave). This is even more noticeable when you stack an Epic shield since Defenders get noticeably more resistance from them than Corruptors (30% versus 22.5% for Temp Invulnerability).

Similarly Defenders get 30% resistance debuff from Slowed Response and 20% from their sonic attacks compared to 22.5% and 15% for Corruptors.

At the moment, in my opinion there isn't a huge amount to choose between the two ATs, it's kind of like the differences between Scrappers and Brutes. Defenders are a little better at debuffing and a little tougher while Corruptors are a little bit shootier.

Indeed. Although I did find the gender-based insult hilarious.

That may be solvable with a playstyle change. I find that if I jump in and drop a PGT first that I don't have much issue with scatter. However, I rarely use Caltrops when teamed either since they tend to cause a lot of scatter. Similarly I only use Ignite if I've already immobilized the target, I also rarely use it on teams anyway since AR has enough AoE damage to keep me busy while other people kill the bosses/Lts that are tough enough to be worth the trouble of igniting.

Yep, but not what you seem to think. It shows that the devs are rational thinkers who realize that attempting to "balance" the game the way you want would probably drive away more subscribers than it gains. People here ENJOY being ludicrously overpowered and for the most part it isn't hurting anyone. The main argument I see against it is that it makes the game "boring" but given the player retention rate in CoX that doesn't seem to be a problem.

What the goat said (although without the Negative Zone reference since I'm not a huge comic fan so I wouldn't know to make that reference).

However I would add a few caveats. I'd probably revamp Faathim's TF before Quaterfield's although it would be a tough call. Also although I'd like to see the Shadow Shard zones revamped, I'd hate to see them made smaller of have the Gravity Geyser's changed those are a large part of the fun . Just do a revamp of the graphics and maybe re-balance the Ralaruu a little bit.

The problem I see with that is that it also has a strong negative impact for non-IO builds, especially for ATs that lack any base levels of Defense.

Well technically you could do it by varying the To Hit chance for individual powers, I know a few powers in game already do that although mostly to make a power effect that normally auto-hits not auto-hit for some things (i.e. Smoke Grenade). Although doing it for all NPCs would be a major PITA.

That would be my assumption as well but I haven't seen it confirmed by a dev.

The power starts recharging on the server tick after power activation completes. This means that you need to increase the activation time to the ArcanaTime value:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/ArcanaTime

You're correct, on a fast moving team it's only really useful in AV fights. However if you like to solo it's extremely useful. Additionally a lot of the incarnate trials feature long static AV fights where you can pretty much toss it down to buff the entire league.

It's not a critical power the way that FFG and PGT are but it's a very useful power in any extended fight.

That sounds very, very painful.

Yeah most Devices Blasters take it but then a lot of non-devices Blasters take Stealth since a bit of stealth is a pretty useful tool for a Blaster. Objectively CD isn't that much better than Stealth which is why I classed it as an "unpopular" power. It's used but is virtually replaceable by a pool power. If I were going to class thye powers that are a big draw for Devices I would say it's Targeting Drone, Caltrops and Smoke Grenade (for stealthing guarded glowies).

I'd just do the LotG and 3 Membranes. Sometimes it's better to slot a power for enhancement and not worry about the set bonuses. Plus you can use the slots saved to give Recovery Aura some recharge.

Yeah I actually typed 25% first but then I decided to reword it at which point I made the typo.

I disagree. While the total number of debuff powers do mean that the set will always be slightly wonky I think it's entirely possible to fix the set without nuking it and starting over. Due to the fast cast time of Trick Arrow the time to apply all debuffs isn't awful, it's longer than other sets but not awful. The real issue is the lack of Alpha Strike mitigation (which most sets handle with either buffs or healing) and the fact that most of the debuffs are quite short duration (most sets use toggles to limit the number of buff applications during a fight).

That being said, I think Trick Arrow does have the potential to be given decent Alpha Strike by buffing a few key powers. In particular the fact that Flash Arrow doesn't trigger aggro means that it can be used as your first debuff without triggering the Alpha strike. Next Poison Gas Arrow will allow you to trigger the Alpha Strike from Bosses and LTs only (as well as decreasing their damage).

Now if you go back a few pages to where I did a debuff comparison you'll see that Trick Arrow is competitive in terms of -damage but is falling behind in terms of To Hit debuff. It's slightly ahead in -resistance but not a huge amount.

So given that I would do the following:
Increase the To Hit Debuff in Flash Arrow to 12%-15%
Make the sleep component of Poison Gas Arrow stackable
Increase the resistance debuff in Acid Arrow to 25% and increase the radius to at least 15 feet
Increase the resistance debuff in Disruption Arrow to 25% and increase the target cap to 16
Do a bit of general duration/recharge re-balancing so that debuffs don't have to be reapplied quite so often.

And maybe do the following:
Buff the duration/recharge of Ice Arrow, this isn't a TA specific change, I'd like to do it for all Blast sets and Buff/Debuff Sets
Increase the -recharge in Glue Arrow

The basic idea is that a TA should lead with Flash Arrow which is a "free" power in terms of enemy aggro. Then follow up with Poison Gas Arrow, the LTs and Bosses will attack for 2.5seconds but then they to will join the minions in slumber. This gives the TA time to cast Disruption Arrow and possibly Glue Arrow if desired. Total elapsed time: about 5 seconds.

At this time the TA has to make a choice. He can use Acid Arrow to further debuff the group's resistance but at the cost of waking them up. Alternative he can opt to focus either on attacking or mezzing specific targets with a lower resistance debuff while using PGA to keep the spawn asleep.

Obviously this is the solo strategy, on a team the TA will likely launch a flash arrow to effectively buff the melee's defense and then use Acid Arrow/Disruption Arrow to increase damage.

Essentially the goal of the change is that TA can't take a full Alpha Strike the way that sets like Dark or Time can but by combining Flash Arrow and PGA he can mitigate and spread out the Alpha Strike.

However to compensate for the lower than average damage mitigation TA gets a 50% resistance debuff capability and a powerful AoE attack (OSA).

If you use Lift or Propel on an enemy after using Gravity Distortion (I think it's a 12 second time frame) on then Lift and Propel gain bonus damage equal to 25% of their non-containment damage.