Dechs Kaison

I'm going to throw a suggestion at you that I think would work. Full disclosure: I am not suggesting one of the "easy" ATs.

What I am suggesting is the AT that was, far and away, the most fun I've ever had playing this game. Where you plateau at level 20, this AT starts to pick up leaps and bounds. What I am suggesting, is The MFing Warshade.

Read this first. It's a quick account of how much I enjoyed playing my warshade.

Then read this. This is my guide on how to play The MFing Warshade. It's not a guide that gives you a build. It's not a guide that says "slot this, press these buttons, win." It's a guide that gives you the tools to build the character that will be most enjoyable to you. A thousand warshades will be built a thousand different ways and played a thousand more, and none of them will be wrong.

You can also read my warshade's story, which starts here and continues here. It's far from the traditional warshade, and I only mention it to illustrate how creative you can be with the origins of yours.

Just give it a shot. You can thank me later.

Very much this myself, except I prefer Gravitic. Or Paralytic. I mean, I have Reactives for when I solo, but every character builds something useful to a team first.

Um. This is exactly how it works now. Have you heard of bodyguard mode?

Well, yeah. My way is just a simpler test. "Does the power accept damage enhancement? If so, interface will proc." And it's how the redname put it. At least, I'm pretty sure. But I'm too lazy to go looking it up. Take that as you will.

Last I heard was that any power that accepts damage enhancement will be affected by Interface.

Two things.

1) Expect snark to be met by snark. You should know better than that.

2) If sleeps are invalidated by damage, the core part of the game as you put it, they are already invalidated. Interface doesn't change anything.

Anyone that wants to do more damage but keep your sleep powers, I suggest you go with core reactive and stay at T3 for the -resistance procs. No DoTs to mess up your sleeps.

I do agree that the first part of this is a major problem. I also agree that blasters needed all the help they could get.

Are you saying no one gets use out of sleep powers ever?

Sure seems like it.

To be fair, you have to provide proof that -recharge won't break Fury if you're going to claim it. At face value, the statement follows logic since Fury is generated both by incoming and outgoing attacks, and -recharge will reduce the incoming portion.

That said, a fast recharging large radius PBAoE knock down attack will give you similar results. So will a PBAoE stun or fear aura. So will draining the endurance of your foes. Those sets don't have problems with Fury.

Nevermind that we have proof that "full" fury can be maintained just by attacking the dummies in RWZ.

Yeah, the way I read it, Nalrok's comment was more of a compliment to you, Mondo.

Wrong question to ask. Which defense based characters would benefit from additional DDR?

Shield Defense, Invulnerability, Stone Armor, Energy Aura, Ice Armor, Ninjitsu, Willpower, and to a lesser extent, Dark Armor.

Ok. Masterminds still have much greater survivability tools than blasters.

Actually, can we back up for a second? Why are we making this comparison again, anyway?

I'd argue that masterminds in general have much better aggro tools than blasters. Only /Pain and /Thermal really lack control. Even the primary attacks (if you take them) generally include some control, be it stun or knockdown.

If a blaster takes hits and dies, he's dead and does zero damage. If a mastermind's pets are taking aggro, they can be replaced. As long as they don't all die at once, damage is still being dealt despite one or two being missing.

My point is mainly this:

The comparison you need to make is between how two different sets of single target buffs were changed in the name of Quality of Life.

In one case, the single target buff was changed to an AoE buff and had its endurance cost more than doubled (if I recall correctly).

In the second case, the single target buff was changed to an AoE buff.

No matter how I look at it, I see a disparity that should not exist.

I fail to see how this matters. What option does the blaster have to keep aggro off of himself?

Blasters don't get to front load all their endurance costs. Your MM chooses to run those toggles, and I'm certain there are blasters running equal or more costly toggles themselves. Do the blasters not have to avoid being pummeled by +2 Praetorian Bosses?

Besides, you're just citing differences between the way ATs function. This is not grounds for defending your suggestion.

Alpha's effective health if he leverages bodyguard mode: 3476.
Blaster max health: 1606.4

I've read the thread. I don't see much of value in your arguments. A good deal of what you say is emotional hyperbole, and it doesn't do you any good.

The closest thing you have to a real argument is this:

It is, however, ignoring the fact that pet buffs do not wear off. I'm not decided on how much of a difference that makes.

Again, I agree with you that this change is more than a QoL fix, it's a straight up buff. They should have had their endurance costs increased by at least 50% in my mind.

I also believe that the mastermind upgrades are excessively punitive. It's been a while since I did the math on how much of an increase they were over the old versions to come up with an amount I'd like to see them decreased by.

Try to avoid using words like "my" and "their" when comparing ATs. Don't make this personal. This will help prevent your emotions from running your lack of argument.

Tech, I know I've talked to you about this before. Your anecdotes here are extreme hyperbole and you know it. This kind of inflamed ranting does your arguments no good.

That said, I still think the endurance costs of the upgrades are excessive. I agree with the compromise stated earlier that buffs should now increase their endurance costs slightly and have MM upgrades reduced.

Already confirmed that this is not the case. Check the Dev/Community Digest, I'm too lazy to find the link for you.

Yeah, I guess I forgot for a moment how awesome Stygian Circle really was. Silly me.

I remember this on a human only peacebringer I tried to run. Even with stamina fully slotted, I was gasping any time Conserve Power wasn't active.