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It does! They're working on 5th edition now, I think, and they've still got power creep

Power creep, IMX, happens less as a marketing ploy and more as underpowered stuff gets fixed/replaced. In an MMO, a game is never perfectly balanced, so underpowered stuff usually gets buffed, but average things don't get nerfed, so over time the average moves upward. Players and devs also often feel that the target point for balance lies somewhere above the current average, and aim for that. P&P games are kinda similar; it's hard to patch books that are already published of course, but things in new books tend to use stronger existing things as a balance point, so if Wizards are the strongest in the first book, you'll have a bunch of classes comparable to Wizards in books after that.

I apologize if that came across as an attack; I was just puzzled by the objection. I didn't mean you were dishonestly trying to misconstrue his words, just that you would have had to delete the last part of his message to get the quote you did. I wasn't operating at full capacity myself at 5am, frankly ;P

...and yeah, it's also really cool on Stalkers; I'm working on one of those Plays quite differently from a brute or scrapper, though, so I'm not sure if it's drawing from quite the same pool of potential players, and it only became this awesome a week ago, so I haven't seen many yet. In a month or two I would not be at all surprised to see a lot of them running around.

Yes, that was mentioned; in fact, you had to deliberately omit it from your quote, so o.O
The exact degree of its effectiveness will vary depending on foes, but will pretty much never work out equivalent to 16% damage resist, especially since it's reduced by the purple patch and by AV debuff resistance.

KM/EA seems more common on scrappers, at least that I've seen, probably because they get more benefit from Power Siphon, and can recharge it instantly. It's still far from bad on a brute, though.

Obviously it was designed to be that way, because it is that way, and isn't considered a bug. That does not mean the intent can never be altered for this or future content. You might note Dr. Aeon specifically said they're considering our feedback, and asked for opinions.
If that were valid, we wouldn't need Dark Astoria in the first place. Bringing up "the rest of the game" is nearly irrelevant; you don't get (meaningful) Incarnate rewards there. For this discussion, we're talking about Incarnate content, which so far consists of the trials, plus Dark Astoria. I don't demand that EVERYTHING cater to my playstyle, but it would be nice for one thing to do so. Even the SSAs, as feeble as they are for solo Incarnate progress, do not let me fight AVs, and most of them don't let me use Incarnate powers at all.

I'm kinda puzzled by this statement, because we've done quite a lot of that, actually. This thread clearly shows it's a largely subjective question, so I'm not sure how one could "prove" it in any useful sense, but several people (including myself) in this thread have presented reasons we think the absence of an AV option is detrimental to the DA experience, even for soloists and small teams specifically. At this point, asking "Why not?" is not attempting to shift the burden of proof. I've provided what I think are very good reasons. I'm asking what the reasons to the contrary are, and whether they outweigh the reasons I've provided. Which is again subjective, of course.

Dr. Aeon has spoken, so I accept that DA will not get changed now, but I maintain that it should have been done earlier in development when the issues could have been addressed, and that it should be done in similar future content.

They can. If you perhaps you mean to ask "why DON'T they?", well, I think that's been covered extensively already.

Odd. Which enhancements?

I disagree, I think it's quite good. Remember, the NPCs use the same attack mechanics that we do. If acc did not multiply defense the way it does, you'd need different amounts of defense to cap against enemies of different rank or level, or with abnormally accurate powers, like Malta Gunslingers. Arguably, if the game had been built from the ground up without a single relatively-easily-obtainable defense softcap, we might have avoided certain problems, but within the way it works now, it makes fine sense.
I think he meant that no power has a tohit buff that applies only to that one power. Some powers do provide tohit buffs that affect all your powers, but individual powers only ever have bonus accuracy, not bonus tohit. In the example, Hack should have had 1.05 base accuracy, not 1.00 accuracy and +5% tohit.

Incidentally, a power's final accuracy is AccMods = the power's inherent Accuracy × (1.0 + the power's Accuracy Enhancements + all global Set Accuracy bonuses)
Presumably, the few powers that grant accuracy buffs are added in those parentheses as well. So Fulmens' example should have had a total acc of 1.05*(1+.4+.28) = 1.764, but a total tohit of 39%, for a final hit chance of 68.80%.

So far, we know very little of the math for AoEs. Radius, target cap, and (for cones) arc are all factors, but we don't know exactly how; some players are collecting data on this currently to try to figure it out. However, Full Auto's recharge is long enough that the blaster proc should have a very high, probably guaranteed, proc rate in that power, even despite its AoE-ness.

Excellent, thank you.

But what kind of fish, and what kind of glass? These are important questions, you can't just gloss over them like that!

Maybe not, but I'd like to at least have the option to try. Bring 'em on! I'll put up a much better fight than I could have done before I was an Incarnate. If they're too tough, oh well, I'll have to make use of the EB option that we already have, just as I do everywhere else in the game.

...do you have any basis for that statement, other than your opinion? Any at all? A single dev quote or action that even vaguely implies it? It appears to me that KM just received two huge buffs (AS, and indirectly the ATO proc, which benefits KM possibly more than any other set), which would be an odd thing to do if they're considering nerfing it. Certainly, the stalker revamp patch would have been an opportune time to make such changes. I'm expecting the AS cast times to be standardized across the sets, which will mean KM's gets slower; if you're talking about changes other than that, you're gonna have to provide at least a shred of something that looks like evidence, before I allow you to totally dismiss my opinion.

But let's forget KM for a moment. I talked about it because it's the only stalker set I've played since i22 hit, but it's not my only stalker. My Nin/Nin stalker would not be at all happy with losing Demoralize either, not for a def debuff that's just as worthless as the def debuffs on my other attacks. An equally useful, but more thematically appropriate effect would be fine.

Moreover though, you seem to be talking about removing Demoralize and replacing it with an all-the-time secondary effect on AS, which I disagree with totally. I like and use Demoralize as it is. If it's replaced, I want it to be with something roughly analogous in function.

Edit: Wow, sorry, that came out way more aggressively than I intended it. Your comment rubbed me the wrong way, but yeesh, this came out much more confrontational than I meant it.

Further edit: On a hopefully more constructive note, is there a particular reason that Demoralize-or-equivalent AND all-the-time secondary effects isn't on the table?

We're more than 7 years into the game, and halfway into the Incarnate slots, and the rank system hasn't broken down yet. If the Battalion baddies need to be stronger than Praetorian baddies, that's easy: they can be higher level.
There's a few problems with having significant enemies spawn as EBs, even when players are willing to fight AVs. For one thing, it makes the fight trivial. Not "He was a strong foe, but I prevailed thanks to my Incarnate might", just "he was a pushover, I could've done that without Incarnate powers at all". To me, that's not satisfying.
In a similar vein, EBs just do not live very long against Incarnate-level DPS, so what should be a climactic encounter ends before you even get a good look at their costume or powers.
It's also a problem because ranks are relative: these guys are barely stronger than the nameless bosses I've been fighting dozens of.
And it's again a problem because it just feels disappointing. I possess ULTIMATE COSMIC POWER, which I have painstakingly gained, risking bodily harm and even the loss of my free will, in order to face challenges against which I would otherwise have no hope of prevailing, and those challenges are failing to materialize.