Doctor_Xaxan

Originally Posted by je_saist

Yep.

Read here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ge#post2837784

There was a leak a few weeks ago describing some of the in-testing changes for shield charge. From the leak we know that Castle is examining a higher recharge time, probably 2x or more, in order to keep the initial impact damage the same. We still don't know what the final numbers on the modified Shield Charge will be.

What we do know is that it will no longer outpace Blasters for DPS and will be significantly reigned back into scrapper values.



Wrong word.

Nerf is what happens when a balanced power is adjusted downwards with no compensating changes, or for no justified reasoning. Let me make this clear: City of Heroes has not experienced a genuine nerf to any power-set.

If you want to know what a true nerf is, go talk to Ultima Players, Everquest Players, former Planetside players, WarHammer players, WoW players, or just about any other MMO. A true nerf is when a developer just drops the values on an attack, item, or something else because they felt like it. I've been in games, such as Planetside, where weapon behavior would literally change overnight because it a developer felt it was wrong (Lasher, Lancer, Magrider, Thresher, Sunderer, Skeeter, Reaver... actually. Pick a Vanu gun, Vanu Vehicle, or pool vehicle and at some point some developer decided to just change it's attack values or attributes because they felt like it. No database, no datamining, just, change, see what happens.).

As of right now Shield Charge is massively overpowered. It is out of balance. As such, Shield Charge is being Re-Balanced.

Re-balancing is when a power, item, or in-game event, is brought into line with similar powers, items, or in-game events.

If you play Shield just for Shield Charge... well... honestly I feel sorry for you. Really, I do. Shields an excellent all-rounder set, and even without the baster class nuke without the end-drain it's still going to be a good all-rounder.

Originally Posted by PC_guy

so you want to soft cap and RP?

GL with that.

Originally Posted by Simian_Stalker

My plan with this build was to try farming for once. Foot stomp comes up every 6 seconds and I thought I could just use Foot Stomp and Shield Charge to go through large groups. Because of the endurance costs of Foot Stomp I thought I would need all the endurance I could get.

Originally Posted by Briarpatch

Damage over time attacks do seem to cause mobs to occassionally flip out. With /fire you will see things pull away from you and snap back due to your tank inherent/aggro aura.

The effect is more pronounced in conjunction with slows and -recharge but does occur with plain old fire attacks as well.

I don't have any hard evidence or numbers to support my statements--just a lot of time paying attention to mob AI in game.