Edana

Unfortunately if they were going to put the time into changing how NPCs use endurance to turn sapping into a more workable debuff/control mechanic it would likely have been done for Elec Control. Instead they met the problem during Beta and the solution was to change what the power in question was for.

This leaves Elec/ being very similar to Radiation, the secondary effects being largely irrelevant and the most of the powers being broadly similar. 3 ST including a mez, 1 PBAoE, 1 TAoE, Aim and Nuke. Elec gets Voltaic Sentinel, Rad gets a cone.

The does give us an obvious and consistent fix for Elec's lacking single target damage: give Tesla Cage the same treatment as many other low damage single target mezzes have gained over the last 11 issues. Bump damage up to ~122.6 as befits a 10s recharge power and cut the hold effect to ~9.5s. Basically a slightly less powerful version of post i24 Cosmic Burst.

"You can play the game you've enjoyed for 5+ years for free, but to talk about it you have to pay for the new trial-grind that is why you didn't enjoy other MMOs."

But we can't possibly have more than one event happening a year, that might suggest that marketing is doing stuff and that the game isn't dying.

Also:-
All of the Hybrids have a 2 minute recharge after they detoggle; whether they do so automatically or manually.

Even with converters there are a lot of things I dump on a vendor when I notice I've got a full inventory. I get inf, the item vanishes from the game. The low turnover on sub-50 items discourages the use of market slots for them.

So; what if vendors re-listed anything sold to them on the market with a mark-up?

Anything that consistently sells above the vendor sale rate would likely continue going through the market; anything that sells for between the vendor's buy price and sale rate could still be sold for more than you could vendor it for. Anyone listing stuff for less than the vendor's sale rate still sells before them.

Increased supply at mid levels and the entire sale price of those items being removed from circulation are the obvious big benefits.

Would this be a good idea? What have I missed?

What you're doing is more akin to walking into Wall Street and ranting from a soap box about the evils of capitalism.

Clearly the set with the most point is Archery. *ba-dum-tish*

Fire does a lot of damage. Ice does good damage and some decent ST control. But a large part of their AoE depends on keeping things in rain patches. Archery does good damage, but the redraw can quickly become annoying if paired with an active set. Sonic is good for hard targets and has a lot of control. Dark has good AoE, gets you hit less, keeps stuff out of melee and adds a heal you might not have in your other set. Psi has decent damage and it's hard to find a power in it that doesn't have significant mitigation attached.

Blast sets are like cars: they all have the goal of getting from A to B but top speed isn't the only thing worth looking at.

My second hero and first scrapper was Dark/SR, I didn't know how accuracy worked, didn't know what softcap was and thought IO were something I might be able to afford in a few months. All I knew was that I could heal by hitting things and that if I hit stuff it found it harder to hit me. Therefore when in the middle of a multi layer cave something I didn't even notice killed the tank and the rest of the team followed I came to the obvious conclusion that the best way to survive was to hit everything. Some time later there was nothing left to hit. I decided to keep her.

Well I pulled a mind/stone dom and a stone/ea brute out of retirement for some testing. I would hesitate to call the results definitive but here's what I've got:-

• You can't knock down something that is currently ragdolled or playing a knockdown animation. Once it starts to get up you can knock it down normally but you can't ragdoll it or knock it down using the low mag knockup backflip animation.
• The movement portion of knockup/knockback is completely detached from whether the corresponding ragdoll is applied.
• There are some oddities with animation priority like the guaranteed knockdown in fault failing to occur in some cases where the power stunned the target and it began to drunkenly stagger instead.

In conclusion it does appear that Bonfire with knockdown would indeed make a more reliable patch kd control than Ice Slick or Earthquake but with damage rather than debuffs. Whether this is outside the design intention for the IO is another matter.