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It's worth something because it gives us an idea of the effect that the upcoming changes will have on specific sets and how that affects how they stand compared to each other.

That chain does about 77 dps before procs and voltaic sentinel. You definitely want to change that chain. An SOed defender can do more than 77 dps.

No one wants to get rid of end drain. And yes, it's great when you come across one of the AVs that doesn't resist end drain. The AV version of him on the Khan and Barracuda are vulnerable to it as well.

Underperformance is an objective thing, not subjective.

No one is proposing making all of the blast sets exactly the same. There is no reason you can't have each set have unique advantages that make them each viable while also being unique from each other.

And please stop insulting people. I don't know why you're so offended by people thinking that a powerset you like is numerically weak.

No, but analysis and discussion like this will help us get an idea of how those future changes will affect what's already in the game.

That's the idea. It's meant to be a graph of every set's maximum potential under the IO system.

As far as I know, there isn't any enemy or power that can debuff accuracy.

Yeeeaahhh. That "hopefully" in my previous post should have extreme emphasis on it.

In my opinion, it's not. Short circuit's animation time and the DoT nature of its area attacks make it poor at quickly taking down targets before they can counter, which is an integral strategy for many blasters. Then again, the upcoming boost to blaster survivability will hopefully make blasters less reliant on the burst AoE strategy.

::cries::

This is what I was afraid of.

World of confusion's entire purpose is to make you look Fabulous!

I laughed. Hard.

So he plays on Pinnacle?

It isn't big in the context of the game, but I consider it to be too much. So that's where our opinions diverge.
It was a predictable result, really. Throw in an attack with twice as much damage as the others and use it one out of every four times, you get a 25% increase.

Gah fine, I'll run numbers on this.

power bolt - power blast - power bolt - power burst (standard chain)
6.468 animation time, 360.32 damage, 55.7 DPS

power bolt - power blast - power burst (not worth it)
5.28 animation time, 297.76 damage, 56.4 DPS

power bolt - power blast - power burst - sniper blast (probably the easiest chain involving the snipe. Requires 127% recharge in sniper blast, which is slotting + hasten or a few set bonuses)
6.768 animation time, 470.46 damage, 69.5 DPS

power bolt - power burst - power bolt - sniper blast (requires slightly more recharge than the above, but lets you drop power blast and improves the performance of purple procs in power bolt)
6.108 animation time, 430.42 damage, 70.5 DPA

power bolt - power blast - power bolt - sniper blast (about the same as the previous, and requires more recharge. theoretically better depending on power bolt proccing)
5.712 animation time, 400.42 damage, 70.1 DPA

power bolt - power blast - sniper blast (because I don't know, you have a hami raid worth of kins buffing you and they all popped ageless)
4.524 animation time, 337.86 damage, 74.7 DPA

70.5 is 27% more DPA than 55.7. I'm not counting the 74.7 one because it requires 295% recharge in sniper blast. The sniper blast chain is also going to get more out of procs since its cycle time is lower.

For reference, 25% damage is the difference between a stalker and a tanker using the same power.

It was indeed a dev post. And it was the news on the coffee talk that got me the most excited, because it's the direction that I wanted them to take to address the discrepancy between those with mez protection and those without.

This has occured to a few people. I'm one of the people who thinks it's a cool idea. Jumping to only one target wouldn't do much to increase area damage in the grand scheme of things, but it would do a LOT to make the set feel cooler. And yeah, adding -recovery to the set's attacks would be nice.

It's extremely strong. Not compared to attacks found in melee sets, but it is compared to attacks found in ranged sets. The DPA of these things is twice that of any of the other power in most of these sets. A massive discrepancy between the blaster performance floor and the ceiling has always been an issue. It's going to be wider thanks to this change. People at the performance floor won't be able to leverage this or will be using a set that doesn't contain a snipe (future changes will potentially address this) while people at the performance ceiling will get even higher.

Definitely. This is exactly what I want, in addition to voltaic sentinel being stackable.

The design of other sets says otherwise. Using buff/debuff sets as an example, time and thermal have their resistance debuffs given large recharges and reduced power because of the large amount of defense present in them. Archery's resistance debuffs have their power reduced because there are two of them in the set. We can't say for sure if it's the case, but it's a very real possibility. That's why I asked about it in Hawk's thread.

Ice has four damaging powers, two of which ONLY do damage aside from their secondary effect of slow. I think expecting damage from it is reasonable.
On a related aside, I think many sleep powers should be reevaluated. Probably not to electric's sleep's level, but that's a good benchmark.