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The only reason the new nukes won't be getting used every spawn is because they'll be too good at increasing kill time. I'm sensing the return of the all blaster super team that staggers its nukes to wipe groups one after the other.

Personally, I've been wanting a power with the concept of you phasing in and out to dodge attacks. I have no idea how to model that mechanically in an interesting way though. Pulsing intangible would have a bunch of edge cases where it would break the game, and a straight defense buff is very uninteresting.

Yes, it's supposed to be 8 seconds. If it's 15 seconds, it should be reported.

This is pretty noteworthy, in my opinion. The way the metagame has gone with defense being so easy to get, resistance buffs are very desirable.

The ancillary pools. Doms ARE short on area damage at first. They tend to get cones and PBAoEs in their attack set. The ancillary pool allows them to gain targeted area attacks and area drop powers.

As for the topic of soloing AVs/GMs, I think it's all valid as long as you make it clear what constraints you're using. I'm not going to look down on people who have beaten final fantasy 6 just because I've done a Celes/Edgar/Setzer only game in it. Beating a GM with temp powers is still pretty tough, and no one expects GM soloing to happen with no enhancements, inspirations, incarnate enhancements, or ancillary pool powers. Personally, I don't care for allowing temp powers because there's no limitation on them. There is no using the temp power system more intelligently.

Mild aside here which people may or may not care about: CoH is a game of numbers, and thus it's very easy to just look at the numbers and see how something will perform in a given circumstance. Numbers will tell you what will happen in an ideal circumstance, but experience will tell you how common that circumstance is and what happens when that circumstance doesn't occur.

Tying this back to Dominators, there is a gigantic difference between how things go when a dominator is in control and when they aren't. Completely negating an entire group's ability to attack and then dealing absurd amounts of damage to them is about as conceptually powerful as something can possibly be. Conversely, dropping dead at the start of the fight is about as useless as something can be (I take that back. Vengeance is pretty darn good). Both of these situations are very common for dominators, and are very capable of happening right after eachother. More than any other archetype, dominators benefit greatly from the invention system, in my opinion. Increased mez durations, accuracy, and mez protection make the first situation increasingly more common, and the second one less so.

Okay, done randomly talking to myself now.

Aaahh, I get you now. Nevermind me. CARRY ON.

I have a copy of that spreadsheet. You are not exaggerating as much as you may think you are. More than one spreadsheet program has crashed under the weight of it.

I have no facts to back this up, but I would guess that this is because most people rarely lead a team and rarely solo, so the difficulty settings are useless to them.

I've actually run the numbers on this specific case and I can say that it doesn't fix things. Even though its DPA is so high, being on a 60 second recharge means that even at the recharge cap it's being used too infrequently in an attack chain to significantly boost its damage. Its recharge would have to be reduced as well.