Hopeling

It's not your character dying that you should be worried about:
Hence the entire premise.

If you have more than +100% recharge in Rage (slotting + global), it will recharge in under 120 seconds and stack at least part of the time. If you have +300% recharge in Rage, it will be doubled all the time.

As somebody who's given up on playing SS because I think the crash is too annoying, I'd personally love to see the crash go away (or be less severe), but I'm not sure how many players agree.
I think adjusting Rage to give a smaller buff to non-Smashing damage would be worth considering, so that the set doesn't get SO much advantage from Gloom/Burn/damage auras/etc. SS by itself is not incredible as a set, it's the way Rage boosts out-of-set attacks that gets really broken, so that's the prime target for any potential fix. IMO.

Ranged characters would probably prefer the "Laser Sweep That Cuts All The Robots In Half", "Huge Lightning Storm", or "Arrow That Blows Up In The Bad Guy's Face After He Catches It Midair" powers.

Interface is great, and provides a lot of damage over time, substantially more than Judgement. But Judgement's ability to do major damage to a bunch of guys all at once has a tactical value that is not reflected just by measuring its DPS. Judgement doesn't improve pylon times by much (if at all), but Interface can't instantly turn a dangerous spawn into a manageable one. I'm not sure I'd declare either one more powerful overall; it's a very apples-to-oranges comparison.

Hybrid is, numerically, pretty awesome, at least at t4 (it does have the problem of being very backloaded; t1 Hybrid powers do almost nothing, and it's the only slot where a t3 is not almost as good as a t4). Melee Core Embodiment provides regeneration comparable to Rebirth, and a big chunk of resistance, and complete mez protection. Assault is Build Up, except with twenty times normal duration. Control turns all your attacks into boss-level CC. Support is... okay, Support isn't actually very exciting, except on large leagues I guess. Hybrid isn't useless or bad in any meaningful way, mechanically.

But, as Werner says, the "sometimes on, sometimes off" thing appears to be disliked by a fair number of players, totally independent of what the power does when it's on.

Theoretically, yes, but I'd have needed a few orange insps (or Power Surge, if I took it and hadn't already used it) as well to do similarly, since there are also Victorias running around during that phase, and even still would have had less health and a harder time getting all the aggro. It was a near thing as it was. I don't think I was even +3 at the time.

But the important distinction here is: a Brute could, in theory, do that. But none of the Brutes in my league did. I've never managed such a dramatic turnaround via Brute-tanking, myself, even though it obviously could happen, in principle. The difference between what a Brute can in theory do if certain favorable assumptions hold and what the Brute will *actually* do in real situations is difficult to quantify, but sometimes important.

Where do weapons come from now?

Where does all the ice we throw with Cryonic come from?

In that case, they had plans to implement it, but changed those plans before even reaching the beta stage, and it reached live only by accident. IIRC. This might be a similar case, but then it might not.

It wouldn't be the first time an upcoming feature was foreshadowed through the auction house, at least. See: Super inspirations, ATOs.

I'd guess you're right, because I can't think of any example of a global proc that predates Divine Core Oscillation in Ramiel's flash-forward mission. If Fiery Embrace were re-coded today, though, I think it would still have to be manually added as a conditional effect in every applicable power. This is because it's not just a global proc, it's a global proc that deals a specific proportion of the power's total damage, and I don't think the game has a reliable way to dynamically determine the total damage a power will deal and then tell Fiery Embrace to deal 45% of that. (The "average damage" display in Real Numbers is unreliable for certain powers, especially the ones that do different hits under different conditions, like Geyser and Sky Splitter.)

Doublehit from Hybrid Assault shows us an example of what Fiery Embrace might look like if they decided to re-implement it as an Interface-style global proc and didn't so much care about it giving exactly +45% damage to every power. Reach for the Limit probably doesn't much care about the specifics of the triggering power, so it should work fine as a global proc; I could easily see Envenomed Blades going either way. We'll find out once it hits beta, I suppose.

You haven't yet stated anything that can be disproven, only things that can be disagreed with. "Super Strength outperforms X other set by Y margin under Z circumstances" can be proven or disproven. "Massive upheaval is necessary to improve the game, and the benefits of that would outweigh the downsides" cannot be conclusively proven nor disproven, because it is neither true nor false. It is inherently a statement of opinion. Even today, years after the fact and with all the short- and long-term consequences long since apparent, nobody has been able to conclusively prove nor disprove that ED was a good idea, nor that the benefits outweighed the downsides.
If you ever get around to expressing something concrete, we can talk about proving or disproving it.

Since you apparently refuse to even attempt to convince anyone to share your opinion, and express totally unnecessary vitriol that tends to make readers hostile to you by default, I expect that you will continue to not find much agreement. But hey, if you want to thoroughly undermine your own goals, that is your prerogative.

Closer to the bottom than the most popular AT? Well, sure. IMX, Tankers are still far from under-represented, though.

Reading comprehension failure. My bad, sorry.

If they're slotting less damage, they give up some of their damage advantage. If they're slotting the same damage, they don't have more room to slot cost reduction.

A Tanker (specifically, a SD/ tanker compared to a /SD brute, since that was Psiphon's question) has ~9% extra defense to all positions, and can reach the softcap with almost no effort (Steadfast 3%, Gaussian's set, done). A Brute needs a half-dozen or more set bonuses (usually the 5- or 6-piece bonuses) to make up the difference, and a Tanker can use those 30+ slots to focus on other things, like endurance, or health, or recharge. This is what I mean when I say the Tanker has a more flexible build: they don't have to spend half their slots on reaching the softcap.
.8 for Tankers, .75 for Brutes. http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Damage_Scale#Damage_Scale
The difference is very quickly swallowed by Fury, of course.

Uh... they do. Specifically, a (usually very useful) long-lasting temporary power, most of which cannot be obtained by any other method. And potentially a second one, if you get the weapons deal side mission. There's an exploration badge in every Mayhem and Safeguard, too.

Werner gave a good thorough explanation with numbers and stuff, but just to put it a different way, you are correct that the extra health/resistance applies only to the damage actually taken. So you can say that a Tanker can withstand only a couple percent more, but if you're looking at it that way, you're only taking a few percent of the incoming damage in the first place. 5% -> 6.25% is one-quarter more, just like 100% -> 125%. No matter how you cut it, a Tanker is one-fourth more durable from hit points alone, and then also has better resists and DDR and a more flexible build.