Aett_Thorn

Amazingly, though, the Praetorian zones aren't origin-specific!

This, it is only powers that actively put green numbers over your head that get affected. However, as mentioned, any power that also grants +Resistance of any kind will not be affected by these set bonuses. As such, they are of limited utility.

They will send you an e-mail when they get it. The first one that you get is likely to be a generic e-mail, possibly asking for more information in case you haven't provided enough. I would actually leave your full account alone until it gets fixed, as they're likely to shut that one down anyways.

Hope that it gets resolved quickly for you!

Okay, let's see how this goes.

Super Speed is already encroaching on the ability of the game to render the environment around you when at the speed cap as it currently it. As such, it is highly unlikely that the speed cap will be increased for any power. Also, Teleport is a LOT harder to use than Super Speed is, and costs a lot more endurance to use at the same time. Why shouldn't it be faster to make up for those?

Super Jump can't match the straight-line speed of Super Speed without some help, and even then, it is at the cost of additional slots that the super speedster wouldn't have to be spending on their travel power.

I always love this kind of thinking. The Scrapper, well IO'd out for Defense, can Tank as well as the Tanker, who has apparently done nothing to help themselves out. A Tanker at the Defensive caps (soft or hard, depending) is much sturdier than a Scrapper with the same values (well, actually, the Scrapper can't get to the same resistance caps as a Tanker can, so that's out). Now, if a Scrapper can tank well enough, then there is an issue. However, at that point, you have to compare it to the ability of a Tanker to match the offense of the Scrapper. Can the Tank IO himself out in such a way to increase his damage output either directly (+Damage bonuses) or indirectly (+Recharge, for instance), while maintaining a similar ability to Tank as the Scrapper? We have to compare apples to apples here. We can't just say that a 2 billion-influence Scrapper build (and I'm not saying it takes that much, just using a bit of hyperbole here) is way better than a 2 million-influence Tanker.

I'm not sure if this would really balance out. A split-damage-type attack set (such as Dark Melee, which has a lot of Neg/Smashing damage attacks) would be worse off at the damage cap than a single-damage-type attack set, such as Broadsword and Katana. Also, I'm not sure if an AT-based cap can be changed by the powerset choice. I just don't know if the databases are set up that way.

I don't think I agree with you that a homogenization is occurring in the game. I definitely don't see the powersets as becoming similar.

An opinion can turn out to be fact, just as a belief can. I can have an opinion that turns out to be true, too.

They are pretty much synonyms. An opinion can be wrong, just as a belief can.

These two statements are identical:

I believe the earth is round.

I am of the opinion that the earth is round.

They are amazingly similar, those two.

And before anyone brings it up, the quote about 10 being generous was stated both before AND after IOs were released.

It applies a lower modifier to the Blaster than to the Tanker.

Except, what about when the tanker needs to take more time to kill the enemy, and therefore takes a similar amount of damage as the Scrapper would have? Shouldn't he then use the same amount of endurance? That would mean each attack he has should cost less endurance than the same Scrapper power.

For the Defender, how much do you weigh the debuffs versus the damage versus the endurance? Do you have to pair it up depending on what powerset combo they use?

But what about a FF/ Defender, who gets none of those resistance debuffs? Should his attacks use less endurance?

Yes, a Defender's blasts cost the same amount of endurance as a Blaster's. The recent Dominator changes didn't touch the endurance cost of the powers. Why? The powers retained the same damage scale. The Dominators just got higher Damage AT mods. As such, the recharge and endurance costs stayed the same. Now, if you were to increase Power Blast's damage scale, then the endurance and recharge would be adjusted to compensate. But changing the AT's damage mods won't do that.