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Obviously, but still, he maintains a valid point that Brutes step on the toes of Tankers too much. The 5 villain side ATs were designed to function in an environment where the hero side ATs simply didn't exist. Why major balancing revisions weren't made at the launch of GR is beyond me, but better late than never. Sadly, I feel like any real addressing of Tanker problems is going to directly relate to how they perform versus Brutes, and not spell anything unique or new for the AT itself. On the other hand, it means they can move on to Blasters next, who are in a far worse spot anyway.

As a vaguely related side note, there's a weird, almost palpable attitude from the devs that they don't want to mess with well established and documented "features" that are, in essence, glaring oversights. They'll admit they exist and probably shouldn't, but won't do anything about them. Super Strength's Rage and snipes in general, for instance. How that Hami-O fix went through years later is beyond me as well, but as long as they're finally addressing the laundry list of things to do, I'm a-ok with it.

Or to blur origins. Technowizards, a scientist who's human but uses chemical weapons, etc. Origin flavored pools sound great. Now, they just have to not be awful numbers wise, and we're all set!

Possibly. Everybody has a different definition of fun though - it's entirely subjective. For whatever it's worth (not much considering I don't play tanks or brutes), enormous survivability is a selling point, sure. Never dying and being the de facto team leader is a desirable quality for some people. Maybe that's worth emphasizing more? Increasing the Tanker's taunt to be, in a grand majority of cases, far stronger than a Brute's or Scrapper's would be a mild start. Increasing their aggro caps to ensure they maintain aggro on larger groups would be another. Mild crowd control additions built into sets would be nice, but that's on the scale of a revamp bigger than what Stalkers got, but it'd be nice. Tankers always felt to me as though they should be the center of attention, the group's strongman. They already do that in a sense, but merely homogenizing the 4 melee ATs even further by making Tanks comparable damage dealers won't fix that. They should be doing decent damage, sure, but I still say the root issue lies in Brutes stepping on toes because of now irrelevant design decisions.

Also, I seem to recall a dev statement about Tankers being the next AT to get looked at after Stalkers did. Not sure if that's still happening or not.

The majority of powers post-customization have been designed with customization in mind. It may not be functionally in-game, but I highly doubt they would design a whole new pool set without allowing the colors to be altered for when pool and epic customization is finished.

There's a 75% chance to deal psionic damage to enemies with low health, and a 75% chance to deal psionic damage to enemies under control effects as a t4 Hybrid. Not criticals per say, but they're achieved in the same manner.

FWIW, I'd argue that Brutes are too powerful as is, and the resist caps need to be lowered down to around Kheld/Arachnos values (85%), and Tank damage caps raised slightly as well. There's no real way for a Tank at the damage cap to hit any harder that a Brute couldn't utilize as well, and then to greater effect. Absorb shields vs Brutes getting Bruising is a fairly even trade off, but I can only see new support or defensive armor sets cropping up that utilize absorb making an enormous HP pool even more irrelevant.

Similarly, I had both Scrapper procs going at once as well. Eagle's Claw got me the bonus crit chance on the next attack to go off every time with the superior version (it has a red "CRITICAL STRIKES!" above your head when it fires), which stacked nicely with Eagle's Claw +33% crit chance on your next attack that it already does. Between the ATO proc, the global crit bonus, and the Eagle's Claw bonus, I was getting a guaranteed crit on Dragon's Tail for every enemy I hit. Good stuff!

Yep. The original Faultline, Rikti Crash Site, and Paragon Dance Party all still exist in game. There's been a track record of leaving the originals exactly the way they have been in CoH, so it took me slightly by surprise.

Not to derail the discussion too much, but I thought that wasn't the case.

So that you could theoretically get your AS recharge down to, say, 5 seconds, fire AS, get the proc on the 5th second in one 10 second time chunk, and by the time AS is recharged, you could fire it immediately and get the proc again, but it wouldn't work the next time 5 seconds later.

Which is technically more than once every 10 seconds. There's no reliable way to time that though, but I figured it's worth mentioning.

edit: Noticed the "unless you get lucky" part. Guess that's what you meant by it.

I had a similar idea, but you would just slot any existing Incarnate ability into Omega to get the Omega version of it. So, you could have an Omega Judgement ability that is better in every way in addition to your normal Judgement, and fire them off back to back. Or you could get an Omega Alpha slot ability in addition to whatever Alpha you already have, and so on. Less ridiculously overpowered in my eyes, at least.

Bonus points if it comes with a boxing glove to pop him around into his buddies.

I've never seen it used outside of "kind of" or "sort of". Prudish, roundish, etc. Some people will do something like, "that was fun...ish" for the same effect.

Ayup. I came here with the intention of writing something along those lines, but you managed to beat me to it.

Though, in addendum:

Quality really feels like it's taken a turn to the wayside as of late in exchange for more content. Quantity over quality, if you could. The old, "fast, cheap, well made - pick two" argument. I understand there are deadlines to meet and salaries to pay and all that, but I'd prefer if it could be done while assuring the releases receive not only ample testing time (which they do), but have the feedback that results from that testing actually taken into account. If something's not ready for release, don't put it out. Conversely, if something is ready for release, don't hesitate to release that in place of something that clearly needs more time just because your marketing schedule says otherwise. Nobody's going to sit around and think, "you know what, Paragon's been giving me a ton of fun and unique content at a regular pace, they're totally trying to steal all my money," if you put out sets too close to eachother. "But," you argue, "they'll get burned out and bored with the things if we give them too much at once!" To which I reply, "4 legged rig," and gently gesture my hand towards the defunct pile of concepts, notably among them - PvP, bases, base raids, gladiators, arenas, power pool customization, ancillary pool customization, epic archetype power customization, respec trials, hazard zones, standalone villain content, mayhem missions, safeguard missions, et cetera, et cetera. I don't understand this "fixing and revamping old content is bad" mentality that exists now, and most likely never will. I suppose I'll go look over to the people dancing around as coyotes throwing frisbees at eachother in this new incarnate trial for answers, though.