EvilRyu

I agree with you on everything you said but the nerfing of the CoV ATs. They actually did pre-nerf them coming out of the box. Until VEATs there wasnt a CoV AT that was on equal or better footing as the Hero ATs. What I hate the most about this game is the AT system or more so how it was implimented in such a way that it slants everything towards heroes except VEATs. VEATs was about the only thing they did right coming out of the box. Just look at the Villain AT inherrents, each one of them is just a huge cover up for making them work harder just to do their jobs. If you take all the hero inherrents away they are still fine but do this to the villains you have hugely underpowered characters.

Stalkers initially only crit from hide and status effected mobs where as scrappers didnt have this. Stalkers still dont do the same level of damage of scrappers, eventhough they rightfully should considering what they give up for the whole hide AS setup. Doms were done the worse, horrible control durations and damage starting out. It took them making the VEATs to realize its possible to make a support AT and have them not be overpowered. For this reason I think thats what made them finally put dom damage to acceptable levels. Brutes either should have been closer to scrappers or tanks instead of putting them some where in between. They had to work for their damage with fury but cant take a hit to save their lives in non-granite. Masterminds are just what controllers should have been initially.

In case you werent here we already been down this road with the percentage based AS. It worked extremely well but Castle didnt like it. The only issue was that it made it do a percentage on every rank not just bosses and above. Which overall made our damage on minions and such alot lower. I remember that patch specifically because I got a team together on the test server and we attempted the RSF. We insta-killed several of the AVs but if for some reason if anyone missed and the av lived our ***** were grass at that point unless you were defense base. Solo it meant a stalker could solo an AV but hell folks do this now it only takes alot longer so I cant see soloing avs as a reason not to do this.

The eviscreate change was one of the main reasons I will never do a claws stalker. Losing an aoe for a small damage increase just isnt worth it. To me all the folks who complained about wanting it single target should have just learned to leverage the aoe to make the most of it. Now the set has zero real aoe potential. I dont count shockwave cuz all it does is scatter **** all over the place.

I was going to write it but I thought it was understood how that set underperforms. I dont like the sound the set makes with sonic and I hate being butt booty naked for 20 levels. Thats way too long to go with no personal protection. And the final power is just a gloried version of earthquake. Way too long of a recharge for what it does. There hows that?

I agree here, what you described in the the repost hardly ever happens to my stalker on a team. In fact there are times where if I never attack I never got aggro period even if everyone else was dead. I would say our biggest issue is the team contribution nothing else. Solo we are fine aside from the escort missions where the hostage cant seem to see more than 2 feet in front of themselves. That whole thing could be resolved if you just get rid of the hostage having too short perception range is more annoying than anything else. if an ambush is going to get us they gonna see me anyways so why make me give up potential damage due this? If you are worried it makes escorts too easy how is this any different than just chugging multiple inspirations or being softcapped so that I never get hit while bringing the hostage to the door?

I think the team buff range needs to change and the fear effect changed to such that it radiates from the caster, aggro isnt the issue cuz they already will be aggroed on us anyways. If there are pvp concerns then make it where it doesnt effect players.