Dispari

I tend to play for the end-game and I'm not going anywhere (unless lack of costume parts drive me out again). You can have the middle-game and I can have my end-game and we can coexist. You can't understand this game isn't all about the middle-game.

I can do that too, but yes it's because you and I know how the AT works. Doms aren't as newbie friendly as a melee AT.

A Dom player needs to know the difference between each mez type and what magnitidues are. They need to know the durations of those powers and know how to apply them correctly. You also have to rely on some long recharge powers that need good accuracy slotting and aiming. If you mess up it can mean death. If you run into a more difficult situation, you don't have RES/DEF/heals/HP to back you up. A melee player just needs to punch things until they die.

All my characters at 50 are set in their current incarnates. I'm happy with Warworks and Rularuu pets. I'm happy with dark and fire judgements. I'm happy with my RES/DEF destinies.

But some of my other lingering characters could use better options. I'd like some energy and physical judgements. A PBAoE ground punch would be great. It also wouldn't hurt to get a psi pick in there. We could still get a rain judgement of some sort. That would be nice.

I used to have to hold characters back from 40+ based on APP/PPP themes. I still do sometimes (damn Corrs for not having a fire epic). Now I'm noticing I'm holding them back from 50 based on incarnate picks.

That has nothing to do with Incarnate powers, which have 0% recharge bonus, and would get the entire boost. And incarnate powers are what the thread is about.

Lore would be the worst example of this. Many of the buffs the pets use are timed specifically for certain things. They throw out Fortitude, Adrenaline Boost, or +50% damage buffs. Most of them have heals which would increase greatly with Spiritual. Or +DEF buffs that are limited by their recharge.

It would also make them around more often, and they're already quite powerful. Yes, Musculature makes them more powerful but you'd get that in addition to having all their buffs and debuffs available more often. Rularuu pets would have the evil eyeball around more often, who does lots of damage, debuffs, and mezzes. On top of having your other pet around more, who could be a healer and a +50% damage buffer.

For Judgement, it would mean you could nuke more often (nuke more often is more dangerous than nuke for more damage; just the base damage already kills most minions so the bonus damage is less of an issue). It would also mean debuffs up more. Void's -50% damage debuff is a notable example.

The devs already said in beta that if spiritual worked on other incarnate powers, they'd have to nerf them. If you compare it to Musculature, Spiritual would make you do more damage in addition to doing more buffs/debuffs. Your pets would do more damage in the long run and heal for more and buff more often.

You said yourself that they already don't limit things. All other holiday-related costume parts, badges, and powers are repeated yearly. What makes you think these won't be?

I think the vampire and medusa faces are supposed to look awful. I thought they looked cheesy and stupid. But that's most likely the point. It's a Halloween monster-movie type pack. It's for people who want that type of thing. Admittedly not for me. But I bet other people do.

Those of us who have a brain to put in a jar, he means.

Yes. One weapon model from one weapon set is going to turn the game into City of Final Fantasy.

Just like we had to live through City of Furries, City of Sparta, City of Equilibrium, City of Neo, and all those other times the entire game direction changed because of one new costume part. You remember that, right?

You may as well quit now before the game becomes City of The Old West.

One of the models is a train crossing sign. I imagine we'll get some giant blunt instruments to hit people with. They probably won't all be swords.

If you're going Void Radial, you may as well hang out at Uncommon for a while. The only difference going up in levels is the radius and how many targets you hit. Damage, debuff amount, and duration are all the same. And it already hits lots of people. So other than minor boosts, focus on other stuff. My widow has t4 Void Radial, but only because she had so many extra components left over after getting t4 Reactive, Warworks, Barrier, and Rebirth (yes two Destinies).

Since you're counting Lore which isn't perma I can only assume you aren't requiring all the pets to be perma. In which case Thugs/, Demons/, Necro/, /Traps, Plant/, /Storm, Illusion/, and various other types of characters can have that many or more pets.

My Necro can do 9 pets before Lore. My Thug/Trap can do 9 to 11 before Gang War or Lore. My Plant Dom could have a dozen or so depending on where I throw Creepers.

What do you mean "just one like Invuln?" Invuln has high RES and DEF, and comes with a strong heal that adds HP. WP trades the heal in for high regen. It cuts back on the RES/DEF a little, but the +HP is passive. Both sets are similar in their protections. No set relies on just one type of protection. Even SR gets resistances.

Alpha does do a good amount of ED bypassing. But they do a lot more than that. You can check out the link in my sig to get a rundown. But it's a couple issues old so it doesn't have all the latest info. I need to update it.