Adeon Hawkwood

Also some enemies are more vulnerable to knockback, in particular CLockwork will generally get knocked back by knockdown.

I thought of another power I'd like to see reviewed: Detonator for Traps Masterminds. This power is a huge mess, first enhancements in it don't actually work properly since it actually uses the damage, accuracy and knockback enhancements slotted in the targeted pet rather than the ones in Detonator. Now I could live with that but the second problem is that the damage varies wildly depending on whether your primary is a Human-based set (Thugs, Mercs and Ninjas) or a non-human set (everything else).

Why does it differ? Well the power works slightly differently based on whether the henchman targeted is human or not. When it is used on human henchmen they summon a pseudo-pet Time Bomb that deals the damage whereas non-human henchmen simply gain an additional PBAoE attack that they use immediately. Now the human time bomb power has damage scale 5.5 while the non-human one is damage scale 5. Now this alone I could live with, a 10% damage bonus is nice but not great. However because the human henchmen summon a pseudo pet it uses the standard pet damage scale as opposed to the henchmen damage scales (which are lower than the generic pet scales).

So the actual unenhanced damage for Detonator is approximately*:
Human Henchman (any rank): 305.86
Non-Human Minion Henchman: 125
Non-Human Lieutenant Henchman: 153
Non-Human Boss Henchman: 180

*Values are approximate since I don't know the Henchman damage scales for certain. I am approximating based on checking powers on City of Data that list the damage a henchman does and the damage scale of the attack.

So yeah, it's not critical but I would like to see the damage normalized a bit.

Traps and Cold would be my top two for that (probably Storm as well but I don't enjoy Storm). Time and Rad are borderline, they don't need a huge amount of in-combat redraw most of the time but there are occasions when you need to spam your heal which does cause redraw.

If they did I would expect them to be changed to follow the same model as One with the Shield. Lowered values, a fixed recharge and a minor crash at the end.

Personally I'd be fine with that, when I look at powers like Unstoppable and consider the rest of the set the word "overkill" leaps to mind. An Invulnerability Tanker has about 30% resistance (after enhancement) to most damage types (a lot more to S/L, nothing to Psi) and a resistance cap of 90%. And yet Unstoppable gives 70% resistance unenhanced. It would make a lot more sense if it gave 40%-50% resistance unenhanced so that less of its power is wasted.

EDIT: I'd also say that Elude should be seriously changed. A defense based Tier 9 in a set that is almost entirely defense based anyway is not that useful anyway. The extra DDR is nice but it could really use some other mitigation like resistances or Elude the mechanic (the one in PvP that counters accuracy).

Before this thread gets locked for necro-posting...

You CAN do it by calculating the DPS of individual powers and then adding them up but in order for that to be valid you have to use each power as soon as it recharges (which is generally not the case).

A more accurate value is achieved by figuring out your attack chain calculating how long it takes to run and then using the total damage form that. Calculating attack chain length is a little tricky since you need to convert cast times to Arcanatime and unless you have a perfectly smooth attack chain you may also need to factor in the time for any holes that it may have.