JuliusSeizure

Executioner's Shot is listed as 2.57 seconds of animation. Assuming we can hit 2.1 (as quoted) or slightly below that with an animation adjustment, it would result in almost half second reduction in cast time and be a nice boost to DPA.

I have wanted this forever. If I wanted to hover with teleport and fly around zones, well, I would invest in hover or a rocket pack. The teleport on Incandescence is so smooth without the forced hover.

I definitely agree that Dark, Rad, Traps, Cold, and Thermal have the only level of -regeneration that is game altering, and that it is absurd for these sets vary between -500% and -1000% while other sets are stuck much lower. Time isn't really on my radar in this regard just because it is so good at every facet of this game. But why do Trick Arrow and Poison wallow with negligible -regeneration when they are debuffing specialists? Trick Arrow has no duration on its -regneration, while Poison is stuck at -50%, or 1/10th to 1/20th of the value found in the above sets.

OK... Time has damage buffs for allies, grants 50% +recharge on a perma basis with access to IOs (do you know how much this can increase a team's DPS???), can buff ToHit while debuffing defense, and can apply both -Resistance and -regeneration.

Dark Miasma ONLY has better -resistance and -regeneration, and that is the sum total of its damage augmentation. It is not more offensive oriented than Time, especially on SOs and during normal content where accuracy is the greatest hindrance to fighting +3s and +4s.

But I will agree with you--Dark Miasma is bat poop silly compared to Poison. But then again, Time is as well. Why are these sets with massive AOE debuffs, high value buffs and heals that affect both allies and and the caster ALSO better than Poison at -Regeneration? Heck, why can Dark Miasma apply more -resistance to a 25 foot radius (double++ stacked Tar Patch) than Poison can apply to a single target? Why is a set like Poison with tier 8 and tier 9 powers that force you to enter melee range doing such with no self heal or self buffs, while self buffs and self heals are doled out like candy to every other set (TA excluded)?

My bad on the numbers mix up, but Time Manipulation doesn't needs any buffs at all. It is arguably the most broken support set I have ever played-- with personal protection levels rivaling that of a melee armor set and one of the most sweeping tool boxes of buffs/debuffs available to date.

This is a mechanic that works well for damage augmenting debuffs, which can be readily stacked throughout combat and layered on bosses/EBs/AVs, but is terrible for mitigation debuffs. You need the most mitigation up front during the alpha phase of combat, and less as a spawn wears down. This setup does not achieve that and Poison works with a whopping -7.5% ToHit debuff and -15% damage to an 8 foot radius as the sum total of its alpha mitigation. Not only is this value incredibly low compared to every other set, but most of the spawn is not affected because of the tiny radius.

I agree. This is the best skill in the set and the only viable alpha option. That said, you are basically forced to enter melee range with no form of self buffs or heals in order to have a viable alpha solution. This is odd in the context of sets like Dark, Radiation, Time, Traps, Thermal, Pain, Empathy, FF, Sonics, or Storm which all have some form of protection/healing or a massive 30%+ aoe -ToHit debuff (Hurricane).

I agree. The heal is an issue because of travel time. It is also an issue because no other set in the game is forced into a team-only power as an auto-selection at level 1-- except for Poison.

This skill would be fine if Poison had some other form of self buff or self heal, a self-affecting ability to increase your durability along the lines of what every other set aside from Trick Arrow receives. I said this on the beta boards and will repeat it here:: this set plays like it was revamped on paper and never played by developers.

It needs a couple solid tweaks and to have its -regeneration increased from 50% to something that is meaningful.

I would suggest implementing a lower bound an each and every proc that is equal to either the current flat proc rate, or the current proc rate -20%. Upper bound should be 90% as you have suggested, the lower bound should equal 20%/16% or 33%/26.4% based upon the current flat proc value. Everything in between and up to the cap can be dictated by your proposed formula.

Edit-- just to add, the lower bound should ideally remain at the current proc rate, as most players do not want to be penalized for haveing extra global recharge. In the example given here for Theft of Essence, just because Dark Regeneration CAN be cast every 7.5 seconds when at the recharge cap, it doesn't mean that a player will WANT to cycle it as such. Players want to keep a skill like this in reserve, and use it when most needed. Having the proc rate dictated by current recharge rather than base recharge really penalizes players.

That's funny, because my Tanks can usually hold the vast majority of agro on a spawn. Is it 100%-- no, of course not. But what other MMO allows a Tank to hold 100% of the agro? In fact, most MMOs have a far more robust dynamic where DPS classes constantly strip agro and force the "Tank" equivalent to reassert.

I think the problem with fire is that it has the best AoE damage, the best Single Target damage, and arguably also some of the best mitigation. Rain of Fire provides top notch damage mitigation as it forces foes to flee the patch while being slowed-- and this mitigation stacks with your secondary and is available every spawn with just SOs. It also is prone to Scourge-Scourge-Scourge-Scourge.

In a game where AoE rules supreme, Rain of Fire beats out a single target mag 3 Stun or Hold attached to a set.

Clockwork never had the best AoE. In fact, they had a bug for quite some time that caused the Boss pet's patch to do 1/20th of the damage that it was supposed to do.

Lunge never had the baked in redraw pause removed back when every weapon set was fixed. I asked Castle why Spines was left like this and he bluntly responded that I didn't want him looking into Spines.

Either way, Lunge should have the pause removed at the very least and a corresponding increase to its DPS.

Rad-- Toggles debuffs in PvP are kind meh...
Thermal-- Heat Exhaustion still rocks, but it is on a 2 minute recharge.
Cold-- Benumb is great, but has a 2 minute recharge...


Weaken has the same -special debuff as Benumb, but is on a 16 second recharge. That is why this set rocks. If you miss with Heat Exhaustion or Benumb then Thermal and Cold pretty much lose the 1v1 until they recharge. Meanwhile Poison is able to recast another Weaken in less than 8 seconds. It's -resistance debuff is also a fast recharging click with a 30 second duration, while Rad is a toggle (useless), Cold is a location based pseudo pet or a VERY long recharge AoE (very situational), and Thermal is a long recharge AoE (2.5 minute recharge with less debuff than Poison's Envenom, which also has a 12 second recharge).

Poison trumps them all in 1v1 and Zone IMO, but yes, Thermal and Cold still are great choices as well. Just not the best nowadays.

Freedom Server. It has very little to do with DP and everything to do with Poison's -special being on a quick recharge.

Like I said-- if you want to PvP on a Corr, you pretty much want Poison.

Just to reiterate: This is why Drones utterly outpace Warworks for AoE contribution.

Seers has perma-Fortitude for 5 minutes and is probably the best overall buff. The Carnival line grants perma-Forge, while the Phantoms grant significant periods of Adrenaline Boost. The Storm Elementals have a massive -ToHit debuff that can be a game changer while active.

These are the best radials IMO.

For straight DPS, the Warworks are far superior. However, for AoE damage and -Regen debuffs the Drones are the better of the two. This debate is a tricky proposition because even though War Works will significantly out DPS the Drones, the -Regeneration available on every attack from the Drones actually causes these two Lore pets to be a bit closer in single target performance than most posters realize.

I still prefer the superior AoE in Drones and adequate single target DPS when you factor stacking -regeneration.

All that said, Vicky is one bad *** robot... You can't go wrong between these two.

Edit:: And that would be Core for each Lore route. If you want buffs/debuffs from going radial then none of these three are particularly notable.