Frosticus

Here's what you need to know about dealing damage with a corruptor:
Rain of Fire

Here's what you need to know about dealing damage with a blaster:
aim+bu+defiance

A corruptor that understands how to leverage RoF (it isn't hard) is godlike. A solid fire/x combo can nuke every spawn in a similar sense to how a Arch blaster does albeit with an extra attack or two.

But Blasters that understand how to use aim, bu, and play aggressively enough to have solid defiance deal a lot of damage. Enough where few corruptors can keep pace.

That said a corr that uses a power like freezing rain in a team just eclipsed pretty much anything a blaster can do in terms of kill speed short of nuking and the corr can do that for every spawn.

When WW talked about the design philosophy of new vs old it boiled down to:

"We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom."

Regarding Posi's blog, I think he has a fairly logical view on things, but I think he is stuck in what was and not what could be. I also don't really place a huge amount of authority in his words because I personally don't think he did much, or much good anyway, while at the helm. He did fine, C+ or B-, which for me doesn't translate to someone I look to for revolutionary insight about MMO's in general, or the future of them.

The general rule I go by:
Defs do a little bit to moderate amount more damage at the start to midpoint of the fight. While corruptors do a lot more damage at the end of the fight.

*this excludes some specific scenarios like damage capped kins, which ime aren't quite as common while solo as people sometimes suggest for defs/corrs (it usually takes a double stack of fulcrum against fairly sizable spawns for the corr to cap). It also excludes some specific things like rain of arrows, which a defender can generally put a corruptor to shame with.

Personally (among some other things) I'd speed up the cast time on placate so that it actually makes numerical sense to use it on attacks other than AS. Because as of right now there are very few attacks (some sets have none) where using placate actually increases your dps.

Now my understanding of the power is that it is supposed to be multipurpose.
a/ it is supposed to give you a tactical advantage. i.e. placate a boss to get it to stop trying to kill you.
b/ it is supposed to give you an offensive advantage. Which it does with assassin strike, but you can't always use assassin strike, and it does with a select few single target attacks, and most aoes. But imo if placate is supposed to improve your offense it should do so in all applications.

Reducing the cast time of placate to ~1 second would make it work with almost all attacks to increase offensive output rather than lowering dps and it would help alleviate some of the issues of a mob walking over and hitting you while you placate it and effectively breaking the effect (well the hidden bonus anyway).

To prove my point: if you use claws there isn't a single attack that you can placate before (other than AS) that will improve your st dps. So if you are in a situation where AS is difficult to use placate is now offensively useless for you. This however isn't the case for all sets. For instance new MA has multiple attacks that placating prior to is beneficial. IMO it shouldn't be that way where some sets benefit considerably more from the signature power of the AT than others.

I find if you are playing the toon quickly you'll be leading the charge which means you'll likely be in bodyguard mode. In BG damage is spread to everyone. Triage heals everyone a little bit.

It's a good fit for that playstyle and on top of the ridiculous defense and mitigation a bots/traps possesses it should make a tangible and obvious difference in the type/difficulty of content you can tackle. Used in this manner it is way better than aidself and aidother.

If however you are more of a sit and watch type MM player and let your bots do pretty much everything than aidother will fit better.

When I miss stationary items it just reinforces the old saying "can't hit the broad side of a barn"

then again maybe the desk I'm trying to destroy is just really swift and maneuverable so I sometimes miss it.

I'm not opposed to a select few powers bypassing the 5% rule. As mentioned, snipes and assassin strike would be strong candidates for such a thing.

I'm also not opposed to select buffs bypassing the 5% rule by certain degrees. Like aim could take you up to 100%, build up up to 96%, targeting drone up to 97%.

I dunno, it always sort of bothered me that aim doesn't actually do what it says if you have moderately slotted your toon.

At the same time, while I see a reasonable enough argument to allow such things, I don't see a compelling enough game reason to do it. In fact if someone was pressed they could probably come up with some balance reasons why not to allow it, though I think if it was used sparingly those reasons would fall flat.

Just as an FYI all new accounts will only be able to create characters in Praetoria until they have reached lvl 20 with one of them and then they will unlock the ability to create characters in Paragon City or the Rogue Isles.

Seems someone important enough to call the shots had the exact same thought as me about how new players should be gated into Praetoria. Be sure to send Posi, or WW, or whoever made that call a PM telling them the same things you told me when I said it should happen.

I'm not saying I'm always right, but I'm better than this guy from the Simpsons:
Smooth Jimmy Apollo: "Well, folks, when you’re right 52% of the time, you’re wrong 48% of the time."

corrs and defs are a lot more similar than corrs and blasters.

Blasters are more like if you selected a dominator, but really skimped on the control powers, but with a lot more burst damage.