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I just realized that Postron was likely referring to in-set and in-category conversions when he said uncommons might become rare. What I'm describing happened in a conversion along the rarity type.

I just wanted to clarify that for anyone who thought that maybe Positron meant that you could get a Rare enhancement when converting an Uncommon using the rarity conversion (the cheapest one). I don't think that was what he meant, and I'm positive that what happened to me was a bug (improperly assigned rarities for conversion's sake to those specific enhancements).

Based on beta testing, it doesn't currently use drop pools, just general rarity. This means that you can convert a Pool B recipe into a Pool C/D recipe (I've done this, in fact).

There are some bugs right now-- I found some Rares that were classified as Uncommon, and Uncommons classified as Rares for the purpose of these, for some reason. I reported the ones I found. Positron did say that some enhancements might switch rarity, but these appeared to be consistent (I converted a Undermined Defenses: Recharge into an uncommon twice), and shown by the dropdown for conversion type. I don't think I got them through a random chance to get a different type, specifically because the drop down listed their rarity wrong.

They are only usable on the crafted enhancements.

Yeah. I specifically want Dual Pistol Scrappers, though. It's on-topic, but not a complete solution to your problem.

You'd want a Range/Defense AT. It's doable, you just need the damage and/or defense to be lowered so that they aren't straight up better than the Melee ATs, and you'd need to buff the hell out of Blaster survivability because they freaking need it anyway.

9 feet is "ranged". According to this analysis, the highest accuracy for pistol use for police officers hitting their adversary was at a range of less than 9 feet (3 yards). Beyond that, accuracy was really low:

9 feet just happens to be the range of Titan Weapons.

Please stop acting like close quarters gunfighting is silly. It's realistic. That doesn't mean we can't have characters with 95% accuracy rates when firing from 80 feet away in our superhero game, but it does mean that we can have people that need to be within 3 yards to be accurate (which in this game means used at all-- like how Executioner's Shot has a shorter range than other shots).

That's good to hear. I miss Pohsyb too, but I also think it's pretty cool that he's at Apple.

Thanks, I didn't remember that part.

If you're actively hitting them, Gauntlet is going to contribute more significantly anyway, making the aura's taunt duration irrelevant (as taunt durations from two sources don't stack, from what I remember). So the second issue is really only significant for characters with poor or no AoE, or in situations where you're trying to hold a spread out group by doing something like standing next to some of them, taunting others, and using a ranged attack on a third group.

It sounds rare, but it just depends on what you're fighting and when. I've encountered it when exemplared below Foot Stomp on my WP Brute, and on my SR/StJ Tanker on spread out groups like Praetorian Clockwork.

The first issue is still relevant because AAO and Invincibility provide far more than twice the hate.

Two reasons.

First, a Scrapper with AAO or Invincibility can pull aggro off of you because Taunt Magnitude actually isn't what is used to determine who has aggro (Magnitude just determines if it's taunted at all)-- it's Taunt Duration times damage times threat (that's a very crude representation, but we were never given the exact formula, just that) that determines that. Taunt enhancements will not increase the duration (they don't increase Magnitude, not that we need it) enough to surpass them, as Scrapper AAO and Invincibility have 17 second Taunt durations.

Second, if you are facing higher level foes, the duration is lowered, and WP and SR end up with short gaps in aggro where foes will attack other players. Yes, they can slot Taunt enhancements to increase their duration to make up for it, but no other set has to do that.

Wow, wasn't expecting that! Awesome. My primary controller is a Gravity controller (was Grav/FF, just remade her as Grav/Time). These changes look great.

My fiancee has been complaining about slow projectile speeds on Psi Blast for her Defender for years, and will love you forever if you speed those up.

So don't do it! She's supposed to love me forever!

Oh, but she'd be mad if she knew I stood between her and faster Psi projectile speeds, so I guess go ahead and do it.

Thanks for the summary, VK!

I agree. This is really the one thing I think needs to be done more than anything else. WP was given a weaker taunt aura as a drawback to make up for all the other benefits it has, which is like giving a particular Blaster set weaker damage as a drawback. I'm not sure why SR was given the same drawback, when it's not anywhere near as comprehensive, defensively, as WP. That does explain, though, why my SR Tanker has been having trouble holding aggro. I hadn't looked up the Taunt duration on Evasion and assumed it would be closer to the other sets.

Honestly, overall, I think Tankers are in a good spot balance-wise relative to other ATs after years of fighting to get them there. I think some tweaks to have some internal balance between Tanker powersets and some aggro control tweaks are warranted, but I'm going to disagree with calls for overall defensive or damage raises. I agree that Scrappers and Brutes mostly make Tankers irrelevant on skilled teams, and that's been the case for years, but I don't see how you could fix that without making them overpowered or step on other ATs' toes without a radical change to the AT that lots of Tanker players may not like.

Speaking of radical changes, one thing I always wanted, to make Tankers more fun, was to remove their reliance on taunt and have a position and/or proximity-based method of protection, where attacks intended for other teammates are instead redirected at the Tanker. Something like reverse Bodyguard, but with the ToHit roll being redirected as well. I know that may not be feasible for this game, but I just thought I'd add it.

Regardless of my opinions, good work compiling the list, Aett Thorn.

I always took it as a him having a platonic, father-like view of her. Otherwise, wouldn't she be his Clockwork Queen instead of Princess?

Yeah, that was really weird. Given how slowly content comes out (not a dig on the devs, you've been pumping it out lately!) relative to real time, I think the game should be using a comic-style timeline. It probably shouldn't be more than a year or two in-game since the release content.

It explains why Penelope Yin is so grown up in Praetoria, though, if the devs have been thinking of it in real time. I always wondered about that.

I really enjoyed SSA4 though. It's my favorite of the bunch so far, probably because the environment was so unusual.

Thanks for the information, Positron.

What about costume parts for purchase for VIPs? Could you restrict the purchase of certain items in the Paragon Market to only be for VIPs, with a worst case scenario being Premiums subbing for a single month 3 years from now and then buying enough points to get all the VIP costume packs they missed?