Lord_Thanatos

Originally Posted by Lohenien

Giving players access to more powers but not more slots seems fundamentally flawed. If it were up to me, I'd add slots to the fitness pool at various levels instead of giving players more slots to use anywhere directly.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

So AH proc is not subjected to level difference? It's flat 20% even against +4 enemies?

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Con Yellow is considered a "+1" level to you for some reasons. I know it is this way for proc damage. Just compare your boss pet's proc damage to yours and to the lieut and minions. All their proc damage is based on their level.

The test I did is Commando's chance for smashing VS my chance for smashing in Slug. I know it was like this a year ago. Not sure if anything has changed? If I remember correctly, my Commando's proc was doing 85 or 87 while my proc did 73-75. I can't remember the exact number.


When I did this test, I was also testing Achille's Heel's debuff value to see if there is any difference because 20% on a lower rank like Minion shouldn't debuff 20% resistance. Well, I couldn't prove that there is any difference so I am assuming 20% is 20% from any pet. I also don't know if Enemy's level reduces the effectiveness of AH Prc. Technically it should because your debuff powers against a higher level enemy are weaker.

This also means Patron pet's proc damage is higher than yours. Not that patron pets are great (not with that super long recharge and duration) but bringing it up as an example.


Yeah, hold proc in Oni may not be that good since only Char can trigger it but I think it's better to mix and match +hold duration and some -endurance as Oni uses a lot of endurance. This would probably allow one slot open up for a pet unique.

Originally Posted by ketch

It still comes at the cost of a terrible 25% tohit debuff, which is far, far worse than the endurance cost of Hover. Someone using Group Fly in combat is asking to be kicked from the team.

I've seen people pick up taunts from the presence pool. I've always thought it should be restructured though. I suspect more people would make use of a single target fear if they didn't have to go through the taunts to get it.

Originally Posted by Thinkso

The amount of redraw on Bane's is ludicrous and entirely unnecessary with a bit of developer work.

Originally Posted by Ebon_Wrath

Thank you very much. That is very helpful.

Is it still bugged so that it doesn't work with a proc IO?

Originally Posted by JD_Gumby

And the loss gets even more insignificant when you factor in the attacks not coming your way because of the confused foe(s). Extra safety is always nice.

Originally Posted by Seraphael

It took pages of discussion...and you still didn't get it (not surprising, willful blindness over the issue is pretty prevalent). Let me clue you in; it's certainly not about how the Blaster solo at level 50 with a full IO-set complement. It is, however, about how other ATs can infringe on the only thing Blasters get - damage in all shapes -, sometimes surpassing us, while these ATs benefit from significantly better survivability, control or utility.

Certain developments have made the issue more pressing; how spawns are more spread out in initial encounters making ranged AoEs without sufficient AoE control less effective, then Going Rogue bringing Corruptors and Dominators to the mix.



Agreed. Safer ATs do not appeal all that much to me. That said, where have you seen anyone requesting a change in playstyle? Blaster TLC and playstyle changes are pretty freakin' far from mutually exclusive issues y'know.

This could be achieved in any number of ways. Metagame changes like making offensive/hostile toggle powers resume automatically after being shutdown would make such toggles constantly dropping due to mezzing and nuking less of a hassle.

Front-loading damage on immobilizes is another small change that would make single target immobilizes more viable as a multipurpose tool.

Softening the crash of the old school nukes would also be good.

Increasing the radius of the smaller toggle auras is another good change. These are much less useful for Blasters than melee toons. Defenders benefit from such with their Opressive Gloom version for instance. Why not Blasters who need such even more?

Dominators benefit from better snipes than the ranged specialist AT does. Does this even begin to compute other than as an attempt to make snipes viable for Dominators. Why hasn't Blasters gotten the same consideration? And it's not purely about snipes, it's about powers like Power Push, Telekinetic Thrust and others.

Adding damage or secondary effects to single target controls would make these more viable. Only the extreme squishiness of the AT makes these decent choices. Compare our single target control powers with such powers belonging to any other AT. Just about all ATs (Corruptors and Defenders share these powers, but usually have far better options) have so far better choices they're not even in the same league. This despite manipulation at the very least being partly about control.

Other ATs, like Corruptors and Defenders benefit from Blaster damage scalars on certain blast powers. Yet, the Blaster version of Frozen Aura was neglected when the Tanker version got buffed and made useful. For me this is an example of the neglect developers have shown Blasters.



Straw man argumentation. Of course every AT brings something to a team. But who would bring more damage (both single target and AoE) to a team; a Fire/Fire/Fire Dominator or an Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster? Who has the better control (and therefore survivability)? Who has the better utility? That sort of problem is something any Blaster is confronted with.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Yeah, all the -damage is probably better than 100% chance to stun. I just don't notice the -damage that much. Maybe the targets die too quick. I need to find a Hero/AV to test the -damage.

Do most AVs/Heroes have high resistance to -damage debuff?

Originally Posted by EricHough

The real problem here might be the fact that pets inherit enhancements from set IO's in a strange manner - if a pet power wouldn't accept the set IO then it won't inherit the enhancments from it. While it is obvious that this would apply to things like heal or hold set IO's in a pet, it is not as obvious how it applies to pet damage sets, which you would expect to effect all pet powers. I am fairly sure the real numbers in the pet descriptions for powers don't accurately reflect how enhancements are inherited either.

So, if you are slotting pet damage IO's that include end reduction the ember demon heals and many of the demon prince attacks (shiver, his slow aura, his hold) will not be affected by the end red in those enhancements (or the accuracy) because they are not damaging attack powers. Obviously, since some folks have pointed out that they are actually slotting plain end-red enhancments this is not the cause of all the pet end problems, but it might be causing some of them.

As for slotting heals in the ember demon - I am not sure that this will help the end issue. I would think it unlikely that the ember demon's AI is going to adjust it's heal rate based on the current amount it is healing - mostly because this would take a lot of calculation cycles, constantly comparing the value of thier heal against the damage taken by other pets. I suspect that the heals are simply triggered once one or more pets have taken a certain % of their health in damage and that % does not change.

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

That's the part I don't know about. Castle said the Fitness powers would be "available" at level 2, but was it ever said that characters would automatically be granted all four of them at level 2? It makes more sense to me, from a technical aspect, if the powers become selectable starting at level 2, but your character doesn't just receive them for free.

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

That's not the best example though, the two aren't really comparable given Joltings heavy use of pseudopets to propagate.

IOs & Pets / Pseudo Pets tend to act weirdly together, things like Recharge bonuses filtering down to the pet powers which required a nerf to fix.

That said I've never really checked if IO slotting a pet or pseudo for range increased the range for it's powers. I remember thinking about it for the Lich before (Fear/Range IOs for his Fearsome Stare) but never got around to it.

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Interestingly, I always assumed Gravitic Emanation was the same as the Dark Nova Dark Emanation. Turns out it's not, it's a very low damage knockback attack. Not really all that useful for me, for my Human/Dwarf I want to be dealing damage with my ranged attacks.

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

If you are going to build teams that will take something to incredible you are in most cases better off adding another defender of some kind than either a defender or a blaster. In the case of amped to awesome by buffs the scrapper still wins out as that AT allows the team to divide up more than adding a blaster would.

Originally Posted by Kyria_Shirako

Your reality (as much as the term can apply to a game world) may be simple. You're, in a way, very fortunate to live there. That doesn't mean people who didn't fall in undying love with the experience must forgo the capacity to stop, think, and comment regarding why we didn't.

Originally Posted by metalhead300

Yes I love the venom grenade for soldiers, it would be very handy for the MM (IMO)because I personally dont like having to send mine into the battle to set the trap. Caltrops and the web grenade help but theyre not always so reliable.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

She was created first. In the first promo comic in fact. I'm not sure at what point she took over War Witch, but consider this:

War Witch was reasonably written in the comic with the limitations of the low-mid level Ice/Fire Blaster she was. Then she died.

This happened before Melissa was made lead dev.

Now that she is, if they bring War Witch back from the dead in i20 and she starts picking up buildings, deflecting meteors with her perfect teeth in between bouts of Blizzard, Burn and Mag 100 Soul Storm...



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Originally Posted by ChaosAngelGeno

Right now pre-19, before the fitness pool goes inherent, I just do not have the room to take Soul Extraction. Maybe I'll look into it again, but the things for me are, 1) the IO sets that can put in it are Pet Damage or To Hit Debuff sets, which not terrific choices. 2) it's base recharge is 10 minutes. With normal lvl 50 SO's you cut that time half, but for 13 endurnace for that one pet is steep. To me it's a waste of slots to put in a power that depends on having a dead pet.

If I could put Expedient Reinforcement in it, or Basilisk's Gaze since the Ghost does have a hold power I personally might take it. I don't know if the OP is using IO's so for him I just feel there's better things to take. I'd take Manuevers over Soul Extraction at this point. For my build I am nearly endurance heavy as it is spamming holds and Twilight Grasp with 3 toggles running, adding Manuevers might kill my endurance. Imagine a non-IO'ed build.

If the OP is just fightning normal enemies, he really doesn't need Maneuvers, IMO.

I take Life Drain because I'm fighting AV's. Having that extra heal power is big in those kind of fights. When you're soloing against tougher Bosses or EB's, you need that extra healing when you're taunting them.

Or if Twilight Grasp misses.

Originally Posted by Silverado

Yeah, except Rad is significantly better than Dark at debuffing regen, and just about on par at damage debuffing. Dark is better at to-hit debuffing, I'll give you that.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Isn't Ballista an Elite boss?

Originally Posted by abnormal_joe

"If you don't want to slot a power at all, even its default slot, why did you take it? I can't imagine why you'd use a power in such a state or that you couldn't find one aspect worth enhancing."
The question of a power being "worth slotting" is highly subjective. Maybe base stats on stamina is sufficient recovery for my tank to do what I want.
Or put another way tons of folks take combat jumping for the immob protection and combat movement, but I have yet to see someone recommend ED capping the jump or defense components.
Ice patch is another example, it works fine unslotted, why not use the base slot somewhere else?