DreadShinobi

This is what worries me the most. I'm really excited about Hybrid and all that it will offer, in each tree, but for some toons they're plain and simple not going to be able to run a 0.5 eps toggle without some serious build changes or requirement to take Cardiac or Ageless.

My toons typically have powers that will deal with it naturally (heat loss, transference, drain psyche, power sink, etc) but not everyone has that.

Things like the unlock requirement, which = 4-5 runs of the new trial, do not concern me. Infact I am glad that it requires what it does, cause that means more people will be running their +3s longer. I'm honestly tired of the lam/baf/keyes rut that double xp put people in, but that's an entirely seperate matter.

So much this.

Hint hint?

The video of the Tyrant fight pegged it at about 4 minutes IIRC, which was actually a minute shorter than the fight with Black Swan.

Psi does have resistance issues, pretty much throughout it's career, but the set itself isn't really low damage. Actually it's AoE is top notch. As for ST dmg that will fall into play once you get a high recharge build with all the procs. With a Hec proc in Mind Probe, an Apoc proc in Subdue (and potentially the ATO +dmg proc), and a Arm proc + glad fury proc in PSW, Psi can do very respectable damage. Even moreso if you take Sleet to deal with resistance.

Speaking of Sleet, another advantage of Psi is being a fully functional debuffer for teams. Being able to put out perma -1000% regen and 30-70% -res makes */psi/ice doms extremely potent debuffers. Not to mention the 200+ -rech they can put out, although that doesn't really matter as much. The amount of debuffage they can put out helps make up for their lower ST dmg.

And I was talking about the level difference between player and enemy.

Try doing an apex or tin mage without your alpha slotted (which is an 8 level difference). An Aim/BU'd blaster using total focus does about 15 dmg. You're NOT meant to fight like that, it's not possible, I do not consider that to be supported by the game. Because of the purple patch there is a limit to where you can effectively fight higher level enemies, realistically, that's at +4, +5 tops.

I like things to be challenging as well. However I don't think that overtuning the trial via level shifts to make the players nearly ineffective against the enemies within the trial is the right way to go about it.

Strong enemies that hit hard and have defensive capabilities along with bosses that make the player think via special mechanics. That's all it takes to make a good trial, and none of that requires reducing the player to 15% effectiveness.

O burn.

It's going to have to. 54+5 means +3s are going to be fighting +6 enemies. The game doesn't support that kind of level difference because of the purple patch.

Correct, if you convert them they stay superior.

Fade
2.03 cast
3:30 rchg
7.8 end

9.38 def all - 1 min
34.60 def debuff protection (ignores buffs and enhancements) - 1 min
9.38 psi, neg, smash, lethal - 1 min


Soul Absorption
3s cast
2:40 rchg
1.2 acc mod
16 max targets

100 regen for 45 secs
50 recov for 45 secs
18.75 regen/target for 45 secs
9.38 recov/target for 45 secss
-7.5 tohit for 10 secs

Thanks for posting that, I had only caught the support tree info while I was listening in.

It might act like interface, like hopeling mentioned. So for your Fire/Fire scrapper example, if you went Control tree it would add a mag 2 hold to each of your attacks, or if you went support it would add a debuff to your attacks or a pbaoe buff. Since it is supposed to be able to fill holes in your AT.

It might also act as a double power. For example a t4 control hybrid power might be a passive increase to all existing control powers and also be a clickable control power as well, ie it would come in 2 parts.

Really there are alot of ways they could go about it, we'll just have to wait and see at this point.