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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Simplest buff to full auto: rename to "Rain of Full Auto," give players Primal Duray's signature attack. In exchange for the buff, maybe bump the recharge up to 75 seconds.

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

on tfs when someone drops from the team, sometimes who the contact sees as "leader" will change and if someone else talks it will give them the next mish then will revert to normal after the tf is back on track

Originally Posted by Zortel

I only plan on taking Burnout on one character, my Spines/Regen Scrapper, to get Instant Healing up more often. Her endurance bar doesn't move all that much anyway, so it's no huge loss to my endurance.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

This is unfortunately not far from the truth. Blasters are the only archetype, in my opinion, that is defined more by their limits than by their capabilities. Until that changes, I don't think the devs will ever genuinely be in a position to grant performance parity to blasters.

I recognize that one of the major hurdles is a balance-significant one. Of all the things players can do, only one of them really earns rewards: damage. Kills generate rewards. Buffs don't, debuffs don't, and not even unlimited survivability can generate rewards in the general case. Only damage can do that. All the other things can do is help damage. So if your target for defense is X, and you end up giving someone 100 times X, or worse Granite Armor, that is only a minor problem in the grand scheme of things: Granite Armor doesn't show up as even a blip in their data mining statistics.

But you give blasters twice the damage they have now, and that would create a game-breakiingly large spike in their performance numbers. So its for Blasters, and *only* for Blasters that the devs' aim must be true. And I don't think they trust their own aim in that context.

Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU

I always pick the most simple example, Frozen Aura from /ice blasters. The power being identical to tank ice melee, yet tanks get damage equal to footstomp, blasters.. well still no damage. I still dont know the reason behind this, specialy since /Mental actualy has the same T9 power with damage (except no sleep).

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

You're never going to balance a conventional powerset power around +4 anything. Ever ever ever ever. Ever ever? Ever.

Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade

What about Nin/time?

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

I've been noticing problems with the phasing technology.

Several of the hunt missions were nearly unable to be completed due to the enemies not phasing in. You'd see their victims sitting their cringing, but there'd be no enemies to fight in the various parking lots and courtyards.

And if this is happening way out in Atlas Park 6 and 8, I SHUDDER to think what it's like in instances 1-3 when they're packed.

Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU

Kill everything +4, yeah right. You got spoiled too much by farms and trials, +4 is not a standard in this game. If you worry about survivability against +4, you should go with a party, just as many other AT's do (there are only a few that can on +4 totaly solo).

And in what degree is elec/shield so powerful? their 2 mini-nukes once in while? Per activation they are pretty equal to many other AoE powers.

Originally Posted by Obscure Blade

As was pointed out at the time however that was a half truth at best; the nerf was also applied to pets and pseudo pets that have only one attack and had no AI problems. As I recall, either Castle or Positron was finally cornered into admitting that a major reason for the nerf was to weaken "overperforming" powers like Lightning Storm.

Originally Posted by MTS

IIRC I think the set that was hit the hardest by the pet recharge change was storm. Lightning Storm in ultra-high recharge builds was a sight to see, especially since Hasten carries over to the pet.

Fire/kin was never really about the imps. It's fulcrum shifted hot feet + cages that does the majority of the damage, since containment effectively doubles your damage cap.

Originally Posted by GenericGlobal

Took a while to find it but got this from ParagonWiki

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Patch_Notes/2009-04-08

• Pet Powers Change:
  • Recharge times on pet attack powers will no longer be affected by any outside source. This includes buffs and debuffs. What this means is that pets can no longer have the recharge time on their powers increased by player buffs (like Speed Boost) or their recharge time decreased by player or NPC debuffs. This change was made to allow pets to correctly cycle through their attacks instead of getting locked on using the same attack over and over and neglecting to use other available powers.

Originally Posted by Nericus

To me, Voyager was what damaged the franchise, then Enterprise was a band-aid over a gaping wound.

Also TOS was about 40+ years old when Enterprise was made, and now Paramount decides to make a prequel series to TOS???? From an FX standpoint alone that was a bad idea....

Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution

I always thought 8-24 players vs one or two AVs was cheating a bit :P

Originally Posted by Neo_G_Dice

Have you ever played Mario kart on the N64, on the 150cc difficulty, to find that no matter how fast your lap times are, the opponents you race against will always find a way to catch up with you, even if that means they have blatantly been programmed to go faster than you could possibly ever drive just to stay close to you thus defining the game's difficulty? That's what Incarnate Trials remind me of.

The funny thing about this is that no matter how unfair the AVs unresistable/unavoidable damage may seem, they are still beatable. Some people have already expressed their feelings in that this game content is still too easy. Which doesn't surprise me, when everyone is using Incarnate powers.

I dislike the concept of untyped/unavoidable/unresistable damage for different reasons than most people who have posted here already. The OP pointed out his concerns over an equality issue that lies within the trials in relation to this whole damage debate, whilst some have said that the equality is a good thing because it supposedly makes the trials fairer, as was the intention of the devs.

But therein lies the problem. The problem with the damage when it comes to trials is that it succeeds but also fails to make everyone balanced. One hit kill +1hp moves is the biggest example of this because regardless of archetype, and thus their individual health, buffs per player, and any other values that defines each character as an individual, everyone gets hit by this silly attack that treats everyone the same. That isn't how it should be. Why should tankers (technically) lose more health than a defender? The One Hit Kill rule is a paradox when it comes to fairness, and as a result Incarnate Trials have succeeded in maintaining an illusion of fairness which if anyone were to stop and think about it, would realize that the whole purpose of Untyped Damage doesn't make sense. It's self defeating.

No matter what way you look at it, 1% of a tankers health has more value than 1% of a defenders health. To sum up OHKO's, they actually disadvantage certain players rather than make everything fair. A lot of you probably just don't know that. And by implementing this stupid rule in Trials, it therefore negates the true effectiveness of teamwork, Incarnate Powers as a whole and an individual players capability to participate in Trials. Yes, it is unfair that Blasters might not be able to take as much damage overall as a Tanker, but that's the whole point of this game. You choose one option whilst sacrificing the other, and Incarnate Trials have completely turned this game onto its head and messed this up all together.