Mr. NoPants

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Wow, I didn't know you liked to hotlink and steal bandwidth. The more you know

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

No freeze arrows or oil slick arrows? I am disappoint.

Originally Posted by Vega

Xander Crews named you?

/e shiver

Originally Posted by je_saist

I guess my biggest problem with this particular set and suggestions is that it misses the point of the existing blaster secondaries.

Ignoring Devices for a minute the other sets are largely based around increasing amounts of mitigation to get players out of trouble.

At the low end of the manipulation scale are basic attacks, such as fire sword, ice sword, charged brawl, and so on.

Once you get above level 20, the damage generally stops.

Energy Manip, for example, gets it's 3 damage attacks by 10: Power Trust, Energy Punch, and Bone Smasher. At 38 you can pick up Total Focus which is a devastating attack. At 50 though, Total Focus has a base DPA of 60, while Energy Punch has a base DPA of 131, and Bone Smasher sits around base DPA 96.

The rest of the energy manip set is about self buffing, with build up, power boost, conserve power, and boost range, with additional close-range mitigation in Stun.

When you look at other sets like Fire, the pattern continues. Ring of Fire, Fire Sword, Combustion, and Fire Sword Circle are available by level 10. From there you get Hot Feet, which sends enemies running; burn, which sends enemies running even faster; consume; and strangely enough, blazing aura. Which at least now thankfully seems to have the taunt removed in the combat numbers.

On Psi you do get another damage power in the Tier 9 slot with Shockwave, but like Total Focus, the power is as valuable for it's stun mitigation as it is damage.

As you look over the manipulation sets, the design stands out. You get damage at low levels to defeat enemies, then as the levels go up, you get powers that are more about getting a blaster out of combat...

As I read through most of the lets port this set from scrappers / stalkers / tanks to blaster secondary... I think most people miss out on the basis design of the blaster secondaries. Even the high level devices powers are more about getting the blaster out of a melee situation and keeping them out of a melee situation. (Cloaking device, to hide from enemies; trip mine, for enemies to blow themselves up on; time bomb, same thing, place the bomb, get out of range, baboom; and Gun Drone, which fires on enemies separately of the player).

I'm not sure the developers are going to consider a new secondary for blasters that doesn't follow the pattern of using high level powers to avoid melee combat.

With the proposed powers of 5: Goad, 6: Crane Kick, 7: Trained Body, 8: Eagle's Claw, and 9: Battle Meditation, this proposal is never going to be seriously considered.

Now, if you moved one of the Stun's / Knockdowns to Tier 9 and added damage to it, like Total Focus, dropped the whole Trained Body Idea, moved focus chi later in the set, and borrowed some of the powders from Ninjitsu for a +stealth + enemy placate, this might be more acceptable to the design patterns of the Blaster secondaries.

Originally Posted by Zortel

As Stated in the post above. It's self damage AND to hit bonus. So damage bonus and to hit bonus, to self.

Originally Posted by Shard_Warrior

I don't think a taunt power would fly for a blaster secondary, especially one that adds a third +DMG (typical blaster setup being AIM + BU). A third +DMG would overpower it.

Might want to try replacing Goad with something like exploding shuriken to add the -ToHit and -Def.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

Come to think of it, I believe you may be correct, at least partially. On occasion I have seen Bane Spiders standing around ground floor of Grandville (where there aren't normally Bane Spider spawns), underneath the Web (where there are Bane Spider spawns). Except they don't respond to attacks.

As I recall, the conclusion that was eventually drawn after some discussion was that the Bane Spiders fall off the Web, and get hit by falling damage. The bane Spider's AI thinks that it's dead, and so stops responding to anything - after all, I'm dead, right? But the actual entity is saved by the falling-damage-won't-kill-you code with 1hp, and then regenerates that HP. This results in a full-health Bane Spider, standing where no Bane Spider ought to be, which does not respond to the presence of aggroable targets or to attacks.

Originally Posted by Talen_Lee

If people stopped making stupid suggestions, I might stop disagreeing with them.

And no - I'm not here to help design a way in which a ranged set with a high degree of customer currency can be interpreted to melee archetypes. In fact, I'm actively against the idea for some reason which might become apparent if one were able to navigate a sentence.

This is not the 'Everyone agree with me' forum.

Originally Posted by Noyjitat

..... Martial arts does have less damage than the other sets. I have several 50 scrappers that I have played and played again. Scrappers that I leveled to 50 without farming and scrappers that have tons of set bonuses. Martial arts should be doing more damage than it does because of its slow animation times. My martial arts / super reflexes scrapper remains to be my favorite scrapper despite its flaws.

The buff to cobra strike damage however would not fix the real problem with the set.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Yeah, I spotted most of those back when the Booster was first launched.

*Female Tai Skin gloves have the MALE skin texture. It DOES NOT match the female upper arm texture, creating a very visible line. Please, fix. Or, hell, give us a muscular female skin that matches the muscular forearms

*Warrior Gloves lack the Leather texture that boots have... Or did boots lack the Leather texture that gloves have? Either way, one of the Warrior items lacks Leather.

*The belt is only available with Robes. It doesn't have to be.

That's all I can remember off-hand. I'll report anything else I find.

Originally Posted by Talen_Lee

Every single scrapper with the pistol ancillaries is a scrapper who is using a pair of pistols. Or magical constructs that look just like pistols.

That's what I mean by 'conceptually narrow.' It can't be acid belching or bio-organic matter or tendrils of black hair. It's guns.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

It's a game Talen!

Originally Posted by Sardan

I'm sure they turned off rep entirely because that was a simple configuration change in the forum software. But I would've preferred a different solution: allow optional comments for positive rep and disallow comments entirely for negative rep. It's enough that someone neg reps you; I haven't seen any comments in negative rep that made me go "Wow, insightful. That comment changed my opinion." Even though I didn't get any Perfect_Pain-style nasty comments, they were frustrating because half of them were based on misinformation, yet I was unable to engage in any dialog.

As others have said, though, the comments associated with postive rep are nice because you get the compliment across without derailing the thread with an empty "kudos" post.

I'm guessing my suggestion won't be implemented because it'd require some custom coding, and I assume that there are exactly zero coding hours budgeted for customizing the forums.

Originally Posted by Shard_Warrior

Not entirely true.

Just looking at blasters... Fire Blast has powers such as Fire Ball that do Fire/Smashing damage. Energy Blast does Energy/Smashing damage. Ice Blast does Cold/Smash damage as well.

Originally Posted by RemianenI

*shrug* I don't see it as a flaw necessarily. Just like I don't think there needs to be big bold letters on my Motrin bottle telling me not to take more than the recommended dosage. If a person can't be arsed to log in to the game to check to see if they have the features attached to a booster or item pack, I don't feel any sympathy that they bought something they already had.

Many supermarket receipts have heavily truncated entries that aren't always understandable. Would I feel upset if I bought two of a particular item because I didn't know I had bought the first one already? No, because I should've checked my bag(s) first. Does that mean supermarket receipts need to print the exact name (including flavor/variety information) on receipts? I don't think so. Would it be nice? Sure!

Bottom line is, I don't tend to immediately think any mistakes I make are someone else's fault. If I had paid attention or done the necessary checking, neither case would've happened. And while the former has never happened to me, the latter happens at least once a month so it's not like I'm immune to it. My immediate reaction is "I should probably pay closer attention", not "you need to print better receipts".

Originally Posted by Flame Blade

In my opinion, you should just off the entire thing altogether.

Originally Posted by Ice_Wall

If you give a mouse a cookie.... He is going to want a glass of milk...

If you give a Fanboy something he wants... He will complain you didn't do it right and demand you do it 10 more times.

Edit: I love the new Ninja Run and Walk "travel modes" just the way they are. Customization of these power would be nifty, but there have to be so many other things I can think of that would be priority.