Adeon Hawkwood

I don't think I've every seen my drones killed. They always self destruct first. I do agree that it makes more sense to summon them before combat but I do it for the debuff as much as the alpha strike.

I disagree that the debuff is useless. Each one has a 6% to hit debuff and a 26% damage debuff. Factor that two seekers mean there's a good chance of getting the debuffs stacking and that's a pretty significant amount of mitigation, not to mention the ability to stun minions (and lts/bosses on very rare occasions).

True, but the speed cap is applied AFTER the speed penalty for carrying a coconut so there is some advantage in over-slotting.

Well since the various EATs have powersets that are roughly analogous to Assault/Defense (with additional buffs/debuffs/controls thrown in) I think it's been demonstrated that an Assault/Defense character is by no means impossible to make balanced. Hard to balance? Probably. Not something the devs want to do? Quite likely. Impossible? Not at all.

There were plenty of other features we were told we couldn't have (like oh, say power customization). As with them there is absolutely no technical reason that this couldn't be done it's simply that the devs do not believe it to be a good use of resources. Honestly, I tend to agree with them but it still makes a fun thought exercise to consider how you would do it.

No, I'd like to see it changed, I was giving my opinion as to the rational for why the devs did it that way.

Yep. The only exception is that the Purple procs hit harder and more often than the ones from lesser sets.

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Defenders are a hybrid to, they are just more support focused while Corruptors are more damage focused.

Overall, Corruptors do about 11.5% more damage (neglecting Scourge) while Defenders have 13% to 33% stronger buffs (depending on buff type, most of the Traps ones are at the higher end of the scale). Overall I would say it depends on how you play. If you mostly team then I would say go Defender, your teammates will really appreciate your stronger buffs. If you solo then go Corruptor, the extra scourge damage makes soloing a lot easier.

Both will solo quite well though. Traps is one of the stronger soloing sets for Defenders since you are pretty tough (yay FFG and Seekers) and have better damage due to Acid Mortar.

One other thing to note is that the damage difference between the Defender and Corruptor versions of Trip Mine and Time Bomb are a lot higher than 11.5%. The reason for this is that these powers work by summoning a pseudo-pet and when the devs made Traps they did a direct port of the Blaster versions of the pseudo-pet rather than making new ones. So Corruptor Trip Mine and Time Bomb deal Blaster level damage but don't Scourge.

No it is correct:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Inventio...n_Enhancements
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Inventio...ements#Globals
I'll add the info to the page you linked so that anyone coming along and checking your link will assume you failed to read the page correctly thereby destroying your credibility on this forum *maniacal laughter* (ok, I'm actually doing it because the info should be there).

Correct. It's important to remember that for attacks with an accuracy other than 1.00 you need to multiply the accuracy by the enhcanement.

So Accuracy would be 1.05 * (100% + 40% + 28%)

There are pros and cons. Either everyone uses the preatoria market exclusively in which case the markets are effectively merged, there's just an extra level of complication. Or you end up making the problem even worse by splitting the demand and supply three ways instead of two.

I suspect you'd actually end up with a mix of the two. The Black Market ends up almost completely empty since villains shop at the Preatorian market. Heroes still tend to use WWs but enough use the preatorian market to make it more attractive to villains than the BM.

That would be absolutely useless. I discussed it a bit above but basically on a team you end up with a character that does less damage than a blaster or scrapper, can't buff like a defender or corruptor and isn't tough enough to take Tank levels of aggro. It's basically a Tank that can't tank. Solo it would have the same slow soloing as a Defender but with extra survivability.

I'd do it:
Blaster damage (maybe a little less)
66% Scrapper Defense (so 50% Tanker defense)
Blaster level HPs
Taunt component removed from damage auras and the buff/debuff taunt auras are replaced with something else
Epic Power Pool contains control powers and melee attacks, maybe Build Up

So like a Blaster it fights from range, the difference being where the blaster has a selection of controls and melee attacks to keep himself alive this AT relies on passive protection. The Epic pools are design to move him a little bit towards regular Blasters with controls and melee powers. I think that would be balanced although personally I wouldn't care for it.


For Assault/Armor I'd do pretty much the same thing:
Dominator damage scale (importantly melee attacks do more damage than ranged)
66% Scrapper Defense (so 50% Tanker defense)
Scrapper level HPs
Taunt component removed from damage auras and the buff/debuff taunt auras are replaced with something else
Power Boost is replaced with Build Up in the assault sets that have it
Epic power pools have debuffs, controls (mostly single target), and possibly a ranged targeted AoE

This is basically a tough Blapper without the ranged AoEs. It's not as tough as a scrapper and needs to avoid drawn out melee battles but is encouraged to dart into melee and pick off enemies after using it's ranged attacks to soften them up. The removal of the taunt component of damage auras and replacing the taunt aura is intended to help him break off aggro when moving out of melee range.

The AE didn't help and it definitely raised prices pre-I16. However the fact that purple prices didn't drop post-I16 is only partially attributable to the AE. I think the increased earnings ofr level 50s and the new difficulty settings are more to blame there.