Daemodand

If Follow Up doesn't hit, there's no bonus. It breaks down very quickly against high Defense opponents. Rage doesn't.

Correction noted. I was giving Follow Up a bit too much credit.

We're not talking about nerfing Rage, but taking the annoying aspect of it, the crash, out and adjusting the power so you get the same damage output over time as the current Rage. I wouldn't call that a nerf, I'd call it an improvement.

Thank you for your generous offer. Go ahead and put up the ones that haven't been filled yet on the BM if you can, and I might get them. You've been very helpful. I'm offering different prices for 30's though. When I get a chance I will look up what I'm offering on 30s.

I feel your pain. That's an IO almost everyone can use, so given the fail that is the BM, you have to burn the Merits or dish out top dollar and be willing to wait days if not weeks even for the buy it nao price.

I look forward to Going Rogue, but I fear what the BM will become as a result of Red Flight.

Your daughter is right. It's OK.

I'm in ur mind takin ur thoughts.

Absolutely. If this game has advantages over other MMOs (and it has many) those advantages should be turned up to 11.

I hope Doms get the Controller epics. That would be SWEEEET!

But thinking about it that would be unlikely since that would give a Dom access to 2 Power Boosts.

Here's hoping it happens anyway because I wants my Stone Mastery!

You're not the only one. The very idea of DR in PvE is a teeth-grindingly bad idea.

Et tu, Zombie Man?

A reworking of SS is unnecessary. An adjustment to Rage is all that is needed, and yes, the devs should make changes to existing sets to make them less broken and more fun, as they've done and continue to do all the time (Electric Armor being a good example).

Problem is Rage has 100% uptime, sans 10 seconds. No other Buildup-like power is up that often except Followup, which has something like a 5% downtime due to missing 5% of the time, and it's numbers are only half of what Rage's numbers are. And it becomes useless in high-Defense scenarios. No other Buildup-like power can touch Rage for duration, reliability and buff potential. Rage has no equal in the game.

What's wrong, don't like the idea of chameleon tongues sticking to every square inch of your body?

Activate Rage during the crash (or before) and the -Defense disappears.

Point taken, but something had to be given in exchange for no crash. Better ToHit than Damage, yes?

Same thing that happened to Electric Armor users when they got Energize: freespec.

I think you'll find my Rage wouldn't be overpowered at all compared to Buildup. Certainly not compared with current Rage.

The hard-core furries are all in Furcadia and Earth Eternal.

Stuns, Knockdown, tomato, tomahto.

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of SS players don't like the crash, if only because it's forced downtime and forced downtime isn't fun. Altering Rage so the crash is eliminated increases the fun factor of the set, and eliminates the problem of being fair to Resist and Defense sets all at once.

To help compensate for the ToHit going from 20 to 5. I thought it only fair, but I admit I am reaching a bit with that one. Though in this game (unlike in the comics where super strong characters struggle against super dexterous ones) super strong characters don't have much of a problem hitting super dexterous characters. Powers like Rage tend to indicate that.

I made it a click so you have the big 30 Endurance cost simulating the Endurance portion of the current Rage crash.

Your point is very well taken. In modifying the power, I had a choice to make: how much to punish ToHit and how much to punish Damage. I decided to let ToHit get the biggest hit, and leave damage close to the original value instead. IMO it wouldn't be overpowered, but YMMV. Excellent analysis you gave there though!

Note the 5% ToHit also has 20% Accuracy backing it up, so it isn't reduced to 1/4, though it isn't as good as Rage is now on ToHit, and this is intentional, as I gave my reasoning for this above. Nerfing the ToHit allows the damage to stay higher than it would otherwise (IMO). To me that's balanced, but YMMV of course.