Another_Fan

I am pretty sure a decent player could achieve the same accomplishment with most blaster combos and with a good number of them do so considerably faster. All that is required is a willingness to play at very safe settings, and live with a comparatively glacial rate of advancement.

They seem to have no trouble ticking off the players with nerfs witness the Hami changes, the BotZ changes which tick off the majority of people using them and force people to resort to the at best painful respec process. When it comes to buffing powersets or ATs that have problems, they seem infinitely worried that the tiniest of possibly even imaginary minorities might be upset about the change.

Devices is the poster child for making changes that actually move things fully toward where performance should be so that there is an equality of performance. What happens ? Not enough people use it for it to be priority , why don't people use it ? its bad, why is it bad because it was never looked at after the overpowered smoke grenade was fixed.

Welcome to city of ADHD

Statesman's cold dead hand still on tiller for blaster's ? Its not a difficult prediction that people would want an AT they played to not get shortchanged. All the prediction indicates was that people were aware that Castle was not doing enough in buffing blasters and the AT would still be at the bottom of the performance envelope.

The same thing is happening with stalkers now. They should be doing a solid 10% to 15% more damage than scrappers just on the basis of their lower HP and nearly identical armor performance in an IO build.

Amen

Pretty certain that the only build that would benefit more from +HP over recharge are PVP builds from the mechanics of heal decay, and builds with a +HP power, no self heal and where Aid self is either too costly to take, or is not sufficiently usable to be desirable.

Just look at dark regen

at 100% recharge

Its base heal is equivalent to roughly 2% regen/sec

at 200% recharge it goes up to nearly 3% regen

So hasten + 30% global recharge increases the the incoming damage you can take without losing HP by 50%


The biggest HP% set bonus you can get in the game is 3%

Aid Self is a little trickier because it has an interrupt and an insanely long cast time.

But at its base it offers the equivalent of roughly .8% regen/sec (while eating 25% of you available offense potential)

at 100% recharge it gives you roughly 1.3% regen/sec (while eating 1/3 of your offensive potential)

at 200% its at nearly 2% regen sec but you spend half your time firing off aid self.

That is just enhancing the powers for recharge, dark regen doesn't need the heal enhancement, if it hits 4 foes its a 100% heal every cycle.

Ehhh ? Crabs aren't the only veats and all of them have pretty good ranged options

Crabs aren't slouches by any measure.

Single shot:80 feet
Burst:80 feet
Venom grenade:80 feet
Frag grenade: 80 feet
Mu lightning/Spirit Shark/Gloom/Mace Blast: 80 feet.


But just back on topic, if you want to deliver damage at long range Archery is the blast set that does it.

On a spawn of 16, Archery can deliver around 16,000 pts of damage in under 2 seconds from the spawn being notified.

Or to put it another way, Rain of arrows + Explosive arrow will do 1,000 points to everything in the spawn withing 2 seconds of the spawn first knowing they can shoot back.

Single target damage in general and single target damage at range is pretty irrelevant unless you are fighting 1 enemy.

If you want the benefit of extreme range, and want to take advantage of what was considered a cheat (being able to kill mobs while they can't kill you)

Try Archery/Mental Manipulation or Archery/ Energy Manipuation.

Archery can literally kill x 8 spawns at range. Archery/Energy can do it at sniper range.

Ar is second in its ability to do this but its not a close second. AR notifies the enemies when you pull the trigger on full auto, Archery notifies when the pseudo pet spawns.

If you are willing to put aside your issues with weapons, consider a Villain Epic AT.

Blasters aren't offensive juggernauts, with the buffs coming to stalkers it looks like blasters are somewhere around 4th in single target damage. They may not even be tops in pure ranged single target if you can believe the pylon results thread where you have a soldier doing 270 dps on a pylon with just ranged attacks.

It's a fine concept to trade survivability for damage, but if you give away one you should get the other.

They were supposed to be looking at blaster nukes awhile back, I wonder whatever became of that ?

"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly"
---Thomas Paine

Aside from a few posters who have been equating impossible with not obtainable by them numerically the percentage of badges anyone can actually obtain has been increasing.

Matter of fact the percentage of badges that you could call difficult is miniscule now < 1%.

I still thank you for starting a truly amusing thread. I mean where else could I get to see people complain about a "Disturbing trend in new badges" because they are difficult to get, for a very few extremely hard core badgers, and another poster complain that those badges killed badging for him, when every issue there are badges introduced that can't be gotten at all once their time passes.

Even bug hunter is available for those that want it badly enough. Of course if that's your bag I would recommend one of the publicly open bug bounty programs that will pay you cash for finding or fixing bugs.

Not so much, after all can you say how many have been handed out, and of those how many haven't been fixed ?


Actually, giving out a prize that has monetary value, in the context of an online game that people were paying to play was likely a can of worms they just didn't want to open.

Look at it like this they needed someway to motivate people to do lots of unpaid labor, that would have otherwise been very costly. They found a very exploitable labor force and gave them a badge for finding Exploits.

Look up a few posts. Want to tell me how 2 billion is below 1.8 ?



Lohenien, is one of those people that likes to tell tall tales about others.

Well you know so far there isn't any evidence that you are thinking or actually reading, so maybe if I repeat what I said and this time you read slowly sounding out the words a letter at a time you might get it.

An astute reader, might think I was calling him clever, and the people doing the buying idiots.

LOL, sometimes its smarter to be lucky than it is lucky to be smart

And P.T. Barnum is proven correct again.

Expecting ?

Looking at the market now there are 6 Gladiator +3s listed looks like they are going for 1.8 billion, 3 traded today, and there are 4 shield walls listed when this morning there were 0 of either.

Looks like its already happened.

Now more PvP will tend to lower the price but somehow I doubt the sudden urge to sell has anything to do with that. A cynical person might think you were just looking forward to the very near future when enhancement converters http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=278665 will be dropping the value of those IOs into the toilet.

I thank you sir this thread has managed, to amuse and entertain. I got to see a man grin as wide as he could, telling people he was shafting wholesale that he was doing them a favor, and I got to see the people being shafted thank him and go "What a guy".

/em boggle

Hardly handwaving when compared to the other self serving excuses for arguments presented here. I mean the badges are too difficult to get when people do so on a regular basis ?

I will give you this there are levels of hypocrisy and irony as well


But back at the O.P. here are a few numbers for you. Prior to going rogue roughly 50% of the badges where impossible to obtain on any particular character, now it is down to around 8 %.

If you want to talk about truly impossible to obtain badges, that arent clones of non praetorian badges they are down to less than 1%.

The rest of this thread has been people complaining that they don't want to do whats needed to gain a badge or badges. What is worse they completely fail to appreciate that there are people that enjoy overcoming a challenge more than revving up a counter that has been reduced to meaninglessness.

There is no reason blasters shouldn't do decent single target ranged damage and AoE they have given up everything else you can think of to do damage.

The simplest way to implement would be to merge the the damage bonus from defiance into the blaster base damage. Turn the 50% bonus available from defiance into a 25% bonus to the base damage numbers.

That would put the Cannon back into the Glass Cannon

Ask yourself this. There are badges that are completely impossible to obtain for most of the player base.

The badges listed in this thread are not them. As a point of fact every badge listed in this thread is obtainable, and all are not particularly difficult.

You can only wonder why they doth protest so much.

Oh I wouldnt go to far into the deconstruction. This entire thread exudes entitlement.

If blasters had better base damage, and less bonus damage from defiance, aim and build up it would be more viable. As it stands if you want to go for a high damage build on a blaster you can get bout 60% bonus from aim and build up another 50% from defiance. You toss in your enhancements (call them 95%), adding a 25% global damage bonus is only a 10% improvement in your total damage output.

Edit: That also raises the issue that blaster should have a higher damage enhancement cap. They chew up so much of their head room just using the buffs they have sacrificed survivability for.

You know dogma I don't think you realized just how close to the matter you are. I asked awhile back what was the important thing about badging. At the time I really just didn't get the concept. From the outside it looked like it was people going arond trying to get a bigger number than anyone else. It was the only explanation that made even remote sense. I say remote sense because its a race where somebody gets to start before everyone else and as long as they stay in the race they can't lose. I got a couple of responses saying that was exactly what was going on they just wanted to have the "BIG NUMBER". The rest including people protesting very loudly in this thread denied this like there was no tomorrow.

Man you just don't get it.

It hasn't been a contentious thread because its been a giant pity party. The people on this thread are whining, no two ways about it whining, about 5 badges out of 1300 + because they take effort to get.

Well somethings take effort. That's why they are called Achievements, or Accomplishments. It actually means something that you got them. All I see on this thread is people complaining that they have to accomplish or achieve to get an achievement or accomplishment.

Really its the litany of people that want trophies for showing up.