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I think the important question here is what purpose mez serves in game balance. Giving straight mez protection to Blasters most likely wouldn't in itself unbalance the game, but then the question has to be asked, why not give it to the other 5 ATs that don't have it. Why even have mez at all? And if mez does serve an important function, why should Blasters be the only squishy AT that doesn't have to worry about it?

I think a lot of this really is the Devs fault for blurring the lines that each AT is supposed to be designed for. Blasters are supposed to be the glass canons, capable of tremendous amounts of damage while staying at range, and early on that was true. But then they gave NPCs just as much damage capability at even greater range, and suddenly Blasters became even more fragile than before. Over time other ATs have been given more damage capability to rival or even exceed Blaster damage without the glass part to hold them back. It seems as if there has been a tremendous amount of powercreep over the years. It might be time to redefine what role Blasters are supposed to serve in this game and find the best way for them to do it.

It's really only an issue for lolfiteklub. In zones or team arena regens are pretty laughable. They have so little damage and die so fast to debuffing that they are only worth looking at if they are the only thing left to target.

Regen is very beatable. Just not by melee. A half decent player could face roll the keyboard and still never lose to another melee, which is exactly why so many fiteklubbers use them, and why you see so many bad fiteklubbers try to enforce their own special rules to deal with them.

I'm curious how much of this discussion compares teamed vs solo play. From my own extensive experience with Blasters, I rarely spend any time mezzed/dead when teamed, and my damage far outpaces any Scrapper or Brute in those situations. Solo is of course different and I spend more time moving around trying to avoid mez, so damage output is somewhat lower.

I know there are a lot of people who love their AT of choice, and feel slighted when it can't solo at the same pace as other ATs, but this should not be how the Devs balance AT strengths and weaknesses. This is still a social game even if many people choose not to play that way, and there is no reason why some ATs shouldn't perform at a higher level when teamed.

Even for solo play, the Devs have already provided Blasters with a significant number of methods to lessen the impact of mez at all levels. If people choose not to make effective use of those, well that is on them. They should not make changes to an already effective AT simply because some people feel they need more. I see a large number of builds that concentrate of high defense to avoid damage and mez, and this is a very good idea from a min/max perspective. However, most of those builds I see choose not to take Acrobatics, one of the single best methods the Devs have given Blasters to lessen the impact of mez. If mez is such a concern, why are so many Blasters choosing not to take that enormously effective power?

My first comic was Uncanny X-Men #123. I read it so many times it fell apart, at which point I gave it to my best friend. It resonated so strongly with me that many years later, after I had stopped buying new comics, I went and found a back issue and reread it a few more times.

I did a double take when I found out Clancy Brown does the voice of Mr. Krabbs on Sponge Bob Squarepants.

Nin is still good. It has a self heal and a few other little tricks. Not having KB pro sucks, but is manageable. Energy Armor is a better defense set in my opinion because it has the KB pro and the best T9 in the game for defense. EA is a very popular set right now because of all the nubs that like to live in Overload like it makes them good. Will Power and Regen are pretty good since the Stalker buffs if you don't want to spend a lot of time or inf on it. They can hit the new HP cap where the defense sets can't, and can actually make use of the high regen. I don't recommend those though unless you are just too lazy to put the effort into a defense set.

It has a chance to crit up to 4 times on the same target. Auto crit in hide for the first, 50% chance for the second, 20% chance for the third and 10% for the fourth. That is only in PvP though if I recall correctly. It doesn't happen often that you can get all four crits, but it's a glorious thing when it does. I've 2 shot Scrappers at full health with AS+TS. The best part is that TS is stupidly easy to jump cancel the animation, so if they are dumb and not watching their status bar, they don't even notice there is another attack coming at them until it's too late. All they see is me jumping away and then loldednub.

Thunder Strike can crit up to four times from hide. Using the Stalker ATIO proc in AS basically gives you a second AS immediately after the first. My Stalker has gotten over 1900 damage with those 2 hits when procs fire. I don't think any other set can even come close to that.

For some reason when I saw the thread title I read Red Dwarf. I watched that video thinking "this is nothing like Red Dwarf, wth?"

Originally Posted by ShadowMoka
Or worse than Elektra or Catwoman


I found both of those movies to be far more enjoyable with the sound muted.

Well, it worked (sort of) for Indiana Jones. Why not Ghostbusters? I know my daughter would love it.

I think the answer is simple: The next arc needs to have the heroes doing something utterly evil and despicable for "the greater good".

And I want to be on a team with Golden Girl when that arc comes out just to see her squirm.

Well now, in all fairness to the writers of those movies, people really do tend to do stupid things when faced with a situation that overwhelms the senses. The human body actually goes into a kind of sensory lock akin to tunnel vision when the heart rate goes over a certain threshold in stressful situations. The ones that can avoid that sensory lock are the ones that prepare for and practice procedures specifically for those kinds of situations. This is why armed forces and police practice forced entry procedures. It's why firefighters practice entering burning buildings.

For anybody that is interested in that kind of thing, there is a book titled Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell that goes into depth about this phenomenon.