Amy_Amp

Well, I at least see Powerset Proliferation happening. It's a crime what has, or hasn't happened with bases, but that's a rant for another thread.

There was an interview that Posi did and he mentioned he wanted to use Powerset Proliferation to give all of the ATs as many of the possible combinations as they could. Some sets may never get ported, ie brutes getting Ice/cold, stalkers getting Shields. There really is no reason Traps doesn't come to controllers.

To get more specific, Claws 1.0 was most known for Slash having "and here's....the pitch" type of animation that is also found in Impale in the Spines set. For a DPS based set, it felt wrong to have such a slow animating attack. Claws 2.0 fixed that and some other tweaks, IIRC. I actually had shelved my Claws/regen at 18 just because of the slow animation and not knowing if I really liked it, or not. Once Claws 2.0 hit and I wanted to test out Focus more, it was no looking at back as I flipped the diff as high as it went for back in those days.

Claws 3.0 came about after the other weapon sets and MA got fixes to their animations with removing the weapon redraw pauses that happened in between attacks, or just general buffs(MA). BaBs/Castle did a test run with Claws and the reports came back a little too good so Claws 3.0 got put on hold until they could balance it out. Claws 3.0 finally did happen and there was a shift from being a strong ST based set(Focus's damage got toned down) while the AoE got a nice boost. There were some people who were unhappy with this change(waves). So yes, the focus of Claws literally and figuratively got changed. At this point I've just grown used to what Claws is now, but would still prefer a more ST based set. Yes, I know the DPS of Claws's ST attack chain went up with Claws 3.0. Whatever.

And your doubts are wrong. It and "poison" will be one of the next added for controllers. If you think otherwise, talk to Posi.

No. End drain is such a hit, or miss type of thing in this game and that's even when playing a Kin/elec that I don't think slotting for end mod is worth it. I vastly slot for damage and recharge with some end reduc. This being based on SO type slotting.

+1. You can't blame the ignorant when you are so willing to team with them. I play on the "worst" server for idiots and yet I just shake my head when people rant and rave about how bad it is there.

It's broken once and then they go back to being feared. A D3 doesn't lack in -tohit so adding in more really isn't that big of an issue. For me personally and I know for others, we hardly use DN just because it doesn't come across as needed for the most part later on as the build fills in. Yes, DN is still useful at times, but you can easily go from mob to mob without using it and being "ok." FS has a base of duration 15 seconds for fear and a recharge of 40 seconds. You can get those numbers close enough to where I really don't see the benefit of adding tohit debuff versus fear duration.

A squishy AT to the best of my knowledge has always been an AT that doesn't get mezz protection. For blue side, anything not a tank, or scrapper is a squishie. Even if a Storm player can herd and tank, it doesn't mean they aren't within a blink of an eye from getting faceplanted either.

And I wouldn't simply group blaster survivability into one group. My Ice/ice does rather well staying upright and solos the same diff setting my ST based scrappers do. You don't need a lot of defense against stuff that's dead, or controlled.

I remember reading about it being 1-20, but I have been out of the CoH news loop. Still better than 37-40 and I think it's a safe bet the level range for that area will go up.

Spines and /sr are both slow to start so really don't be surprised by playing it and feeling like you are under performing. You are. End will be an issue, but it's a combo that I have thought about playing quite a bit, but have yet to do.

Only if you want to be there. If you don't, you're screwed in a bad way. The ladder theory explains all.

Very much this. I think /sr's end issues are overrated, but it's defense is just paper thin at times during the lower levels. At 12 with DOs, it at least gets "ok." During the old way diff settings were done, my Claws/regen was the build I pushed the most in terms of diff. setting before 22(yay, Focus). Recon, DP, and Hasten early with slotting nothing but recharge for Recon and DP and I felt rather sturdy. There seems to be a significant difference in survivability for /regens that take DP at 10 versus ones that don't. I've seen a number of level 10+ /regens faceplant on PuGs because of skipping it.

Fixed.

Name the one AT that doesn't have Fire for an option in terms of damage. Even with /fire, I wouldn't farm with a defender anyway, but a number of people would.

I have a Fire/storm and while I do like it a lot, I can see I have to play around with my diff setting to figure out what I can take on where I'm at. No self heal makes things....interesting. Fire/rad will be safer, but once you get the kinks worked out on a Fire/storm, it has the higher damage potential.

Quoting myself from an old post.

The before part of this would be I think Claws is a little better in the beginning. I vastly skipped the combos in DB until I had one by default at 26, and it's awesome. In short, DB flows better and I know I want to continue to work on it to lower recharge times. Claws is pretty good out of the box for me really. Both in the end are fun though. I rated both 9.8, 9.7 in the same thread I took my quote from.

Outside of those two, Kat is awesome just because it's so balanced of a set.