Zemblanity

You disagree when I say that armor sets and buff sets are much better than blaster secondaries? I guess any chance I had at keeping my credibility in your eyes never really existed in the first place.

Yes, but that's not really saying much, since all blaster secondaries are designed to be crap, essentially build-up + 8 skippable powers. Any corruptor secondary would outshine every single blaster secondary in the game, even /energy. Comparing /traps to /devs is really like comparing /devs to /willpower, which only goes to show how poorly designed blasters are.

I'm preaching to the fishes, but what the devs could do to buff /devs is at least look at overlapping powers between it and other sets in the game, making sure there aren't any significant discrepancies - things like the range in webnade, or the fact that cloaking device's stealth and defense bonus surpress in /devs but not in /energy armor's energy cloak.

But to answer the original poster - all blaster secondaries are crap, so it's not like there's anything wrong with just using your primary and pools anyway. If you really want to play /devs, go nuts!

Sounds to me like what you really want is an option in the graphics setting that allows you to shut down external buff's animations and bright colors. Shouldn't you be petitioning for that instead of trying to argue a point that most people, including the devs, don't agree?

I don't think interface bugs count as a challenge in my book. If I can't harm them, why am i even tab targetting them as enemies?

Do you perceive the lag in BAF as a challenge as well?

Nukes aren't available only on blasters, corruptors and defenders have them too. Anyway, examples of toggles:

Blaster (En/Dev) - Cloaking Device, Targetting Drone, Combat Jumping, Acrobatics, Tough, Weave, Charged Armor. That's seven toggles, and around 10 secs worth of retoggling once I get a bit of endurance back. If I use a nuke, they all crash. Without them, my defence plummels, I lose all of my s/l damage resistance (which is over 50%), I lose my +tohit, I lose my protection against immob, hold and knockback, I lose my unsurpressed travel power (jumping around), and I'll no longer be invisible once the fight ends.

Defender (Rad/Rad) - Radiation Infection, Enervating Field, Hover, Maneuvers, Assault, Tactics, Tough, Weave, Temp Invulnerability. That's 9 toggles and around 15 secs worth of retoggling once I get a bit of endurance back. If I use a nuke, they all crash. It's even worse here, because not only am I directly affected by the loss of the toggles, but my entire team is suddenly facing whoever survived the nuke without my team buffs or enemy debuffs, which regardless take at least 8 secs to recharge.


Good advice. We're still stuck on Dupont circle here.

"I don't use my nuke because it's useless to me",
"What? It's very useful, but you shouldn't use your nuke",
"I won't, because my nuke is useless to me",
"Good, it's very useful, but you shouldn't use your nuke".

I don't see how different this is from using spines in a tuxedo, if the player wants it, why not? Anyway, just disable this option on Martial arts, like you disable capes if you pick trenchcoats, problem solved. Everything else seems to work with robes, and they'd look prettee cool on my hooded dual pistol assassin

a) There's a 16 target cap on nukes, full team spawns generally have 24 mobs, leaving at least 8 mobs shooting back at you while detoggled and with no endurance for 15 secs,
b) Most bosses and many lieutenants can survive nukes, and you just got their full attention plus whoever wasn't hit by the nuke while detoggled and with no endurance for 15 secs,
c) You're detoggled and with no endurance for 15 secs, and even if you pop a blue you'll still need time to retoggle.

Remind me of the trade-off again, is it related to the debt badges?

So? I play an energy/devices blaster. That doesn't mean I wouldn't appreciate changes to both sets, and in fact I'd welcome those changes.

I really don't understand your resistance to the idea of change, Bill, particularly the need to debunk suggestions that are borderline wishful thinking and have 0,001% chance of actually getting implemented.

That would be great, but ever since ED the devs have been held hostage by the "no more changes or I'll quit" motto. It didn't help that they tried opening an exception and spent alot of resources for the PvP revamp, which proved quite unpopular.

The crash mechanic is horrible, but it'll never change. Just do what I do and skip the nuke, use it as a set mule or play the sets that don't have crashing nukes.