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19 of 30 which isn't bad cause I haven't actually read batman comics.

I was fairly surprised by some of the answers.

Sure. Can't see a reason not to.

Agreed

Supported

signed

and any other descriptors to show a positive desire for this to happen.

I think your mistaken on the not very many new powers.

Issue 1 - APP's (granted some of these aren't new but it did add new things to the existing AT's)

Issue 3 -Kheldians

Issue 5 - Archery,Sonic

Issue 6 - Villain AT's

Issue 7 - PPP's

Issue 9 - IO's (while technically not powers, it most certainly was the powers team that did this work)

Issue 12 - SoA

Issue 18 - Dual Pistols,Electric Control,Kinetic Melee, Demon Summoning

Issue 19 and 20 - Incarnate

and lets not forget Dual Blades,Shield Defense,Earth Assault, Pain Domination and the various proliferations that sometimes required new powers to be made, done throughout the lifespan though I forget specific issues.

Also keep in mind that from issue 7 to I think it was 13 the development staff was very small (under 20)

As a pet PA would use it's own tables for it's damage.

And the argument the Illlusion doesn't benefit from Dom feels weak to me considering half of Elec doesn't benefit from it already.

This a PvP build?

If not you can drop Stealth as it doesn't do anything for you in PvE

If you have access to them a Soldier of Arachnos might be just what you want. Building either a Crab Spider or a Night Widow/Fortunanta

Bambi #1 Go me.

Secret Wars #3

anyways

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well a PBAoE repel is useful as a get off of me move. Especially for Stlakers since it's a knocback/down which is plenty of time for a Placate>Crit.

Of course that's only useful as a click not as atoggle.

repulse fails because it's a toggle that's better used as a click.

Oddly the only problem I had tanking Bobcat, was that I was on a Stalker and she lost interest in flailing at me pointlessly. I don't remember the exact team make up but I was consistently between 60 and 80% Defense thanks to Divine Avalanche.

Again only problem was that she got bored attacking me.

EDIT: forgot to mention this was without Barrier.

We all want new sets for Stalkers. Several of us want the devs to design the set for Stalkers first then worry about porting to others but it's never been done that way so far.

Stalkers have always had some concerns about game play and team viability. When Stalkers first got buffed it helped a bit but those concerns were still lingering around. Fast forward to GR and Side Switching is now available. Since teams are limited to 8 (not counting leagues) and Scrappers and Stalkers have very similar team roles the two AT's are realistically competing with each other for team spots. The same concern happened for Brutes and Scrappers and lo and behold Brute numbers were changed.

So it's only natural for Stalkers to raise the same concerns that have always lingered. Granted half of it is a perception problem which the devs can't really change, but the other half is a problem with numbers which can be changed.

Scrappers numerically are more survivable than Stalkers. this comes from the Hit Point values each AT uses.

Now Stalkers were given a buff in that their Crit rates will improve the more teammates they have within 30ft up to a 33% crit rate. Our resident number crunchers(specifically Arcanaville) did some calculations that showed when a Stalker operating at the 500% damage cap and the 33% crit rate will just barely pull ahead of a Scrapper at their 500% damage cap and 10% crit rate(Boss/EB/AV number) if i remeber correctly the overall damage difference was 5-10 points.

To me that feels wrong.

What kills me more than anything else is that two combos are tied up at Build-Up>AS>finisher

Such a terrible design decision.

Placate ending Empower is fine,

A combo ending off of As is also fine

But Both?

Why do I have to choose between using Sweep and Empower with about a 30 second delay before I can use the other?

WHY??!!!

I don't realistically see a way for the problems unresistable damage on AS would cause. But that's more a problem with the engine and how its coded rather than a fault with the suggestion.


Although thinking about things again, I wonder if the scaling AS damage idea could be done in a way that it calculated damage based off of MaxHp rather than rank?

For those unfamiliar with this idea...

The premise was that As would deal bonus damage based off of a mobs rank. This worked great for several things with a notable exception being AV/Hero class enemies that were scaled down to Elite Bosses. The problem was with the game and how it decided whether something was an AV or an EB. the result being AV damage against EB targets.

I don't remember if Max Hp was considered back then, but I believe it was a problem since we didn't have separate rules for PvP at the time. Now that we have separate PvP rules it might be plausible for AS damage to scale based off of MaxHP.

Just 1 for the attack.

Gamblers doesn't really hit twice though.

It makes 1 attack roll that if successful deals it's damage in two parts.

the Dual Blades powers are the same way, as is Shadow Maul in Dark Melee.

Basically it's 1 check per attack roll.

That's why things like Waterspout,Caltrops and Rains are Proc monsters.As they are constantly making attack rolls, they constantly get to check for Procs. Although there is a built in once per 10 Seconds clause on those powers for PROCing.