Bill Z Bubba

Was waiting for someone to catch that.

If that was ever the point in the first place, you might have a leg to stand on. Unfortunately for you, that isn't the case.

The point is that power creep leads to nerfs. Some buffs happen in this game because a set or power is underperforming. Blasters got buffed because they died too much and leveled too slow as per developer data mining. There was no wholesale buff to everyone to improve blaster performance.

Here we have a case where every character in the game is getting the same buff and it's happening at the same time as the introduction of another system which will buff all players at level 50. Edit: that utilize the system, of course.

When everyone is overperforming, global nerfs happen.

I'd never make that argument because I'd know it wouldn't go anywhere. And I realize that this is precisely what Arcanaville is arguing against, but from time to time I feel the need to yank her chain when she throws out statements of absolute truth that aren't so absolute.

Strike needs to be fixed because it doesn't look like a strike. It looks like you're trying to lightly graze the gut of the enemy you're attacking. It has a pause on the end of it that disrupts the flow of the attack chain. It's ugly.

But I would never make the claim that it *should* do less damage than swipe because I'd rather use swipe.

This whole back and forth began because Arcana felt this was the argument Psion was making and perhaps he was. I didn't take his comments in that way. I took them as he was stating that he didn't like how the once fast and punchy set was turned into a slow plodding set when you do build towards performance.

Arcanaville is correct in stating that we can all still have the old punchy feeling of the set as long as we're willing to accept the performance hit for doing so. Just like we can build energy melee to be a fast attack set and pay the performance penalty price for it.

This in no way means that this fact doesn't suck.

Nope, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the game was borked, the devs knew it, they also knew they wanted a crafting system and that ED and the GDN were part of the plan to both deal with balance issues at the time AND prep for crafting.

EDIT: Or I'm giving the devs far too much credit and every step along the way have been reactionary kneejerk reactions.

There's a Castle post about this... ahh, here
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3154296
Seems to me lately that as soon as a scrapper walks into a room "morale breaks."

Or the enemies aren't running away at all and are instead deciding that they'll take less damage from range so they get out of melee and revert to ranged attacks.

I don't know, obviously. I'm sick of it happening as well.

So I should be like you and ignore all dev statements made regarding ED as a prelim move for the skills system which became the inventions system?

Nahh, I prefer not to live in ignorance.

Edit: And, no, I don't buy that the GDN wasn't also done as a step to prepare for IOs.

Now this is just getting silly.

There aren't two cars. There is one car that has the magical quality of losing horse power as the paint job gets shinier.

The point is that while I understand why you posted what you did, it was kinda silly to do so.

Complaining about the cosmetics of a set has nothing to with the set's performance. You know this. Psion1 knows this. We all know this.

I don't want alternating hand animations for all the powers where it would make sense to have them because I want a specific attack chain to look cool, I want them so that ALL attack chains will look cool.

Because the devs are so persistently timely in all of their game changes, right, Dysmal? 6 years to make fitness inherent and we still don't have offline SG invites to get our own characters into our own SGs...

If that was your best counter to my statement, you should probably give up now.

I think I see where you're coming from on that. Luckily for brutes, even after the nerf, it takes a lot to get up to the cap. Even if you get the joyous double stack on top of 75% fury and nearly 100% from enhancements, you're still at about 60% of the cap.

Will a brute notice that extra 100% as much as a scrapper will? Nahh, but it'll still be nice.

Actually... you make me wonder something that I'll need to check later. Due to the brute's much lower damage mod, it is possible that they would benefit more from a normal damage proc instead of the CFBU. Hmmm, I'll need to plug some numbers later to check that.

However, the AH-CFDRD is always a good move in Slash.

That really doesn't make sense to me. That's akin to stating that I'm not allowed to complain about a car's crappy paint job if I bought it for its horsepower.

I must now dismiss your attempt to block me from complaining about all the left hand only animations in the set.

That was probably the intention.

We pre-paid with ED and the GDN. Something can be done for multiple reasons?!?! Shocking, I know.

It was cleared up.

Why would that only be for claws scrappers?

I agree and currently run with that setup.

Gaussian CFBU in Followup
Decimation CFBU in Focus
Achilles' Heel CFDRD in Slash

Sure, those CFBU's only have a 5% chance to fire off, but you get two chances every chain of FU, Focus, Slash, Strike, repeat (this chain only needs 184% total recharge in followup to work) and they do stack with each other.

In actual DPS terms, I found that they add about the same amount of damage in the long term as the damage procs that do 71.8 damage 20% of the time like the Mako's damage proc.

On the flip side of that, I would have vastly preferred for SL's heal portion to have been cranked up rather than its damage.

Due to the fury nerf, brutes can no longer reach scrapper level damage output except in extreme situations and even then it won't be for more than mere seconds.