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Peacebringers can't double-mire. You said Keldians, not warshades specifically.

You can slot it as much as you like, 85% is never going to be more than 90%.

Damage auras. CC auras. Higher rez than a Crab.

You gotta figure in scourge when comparing Corruptors and Blasters. Which makes picking a point between the two very difficult, since scourge varies in effectiveness depending on the target. 1.0 is the same as EATs, and is therefore reasonable, but I would probably go slightly lower and some sort of inherent that boosts damage in some way.

How about this:

Devastator:

Primary: Assault
Secondary: Defense

Range damage scale 0.9, Melee damage scale 1.0

Def/res scale as Scrapper (0.75), HP scale as stalker.

Inherent: Devastation: Attacking with primary builds Devastation Bar. When full, click button to give double damage for a time (basically the original version of Domination, without the bonus to CC).

No, in dwarf mode your damage sucks. You can have decent damage, or decent mez protection, but not both at the same time all the time.

Raw numbers say otherwise.

Aggro management is exactly the job of dwarf form. Didn't getting Taunt give you a clue? That they aren't very good at it is down to poor design.

Get you up some of them ledges though. It's a set bonus, stack it 5 times and you get 4 feet. That's taller than a 10 year old!

I'm sure some of those Olympic people would kill for +.2 feet.

Maybe a little strong for a set bonus...

Possible in the new IO sets though.

Edit: Maybe not, and they appear to be a targeted AoE with a -res proc, resistance with a +max hp "proc", defense with +res, and healing with +absorb.

Yeah, I know.

But one can always wish.

My personal opinion is this would be toast without some additional defense thrown into the mix (such as inherent mez protection and brute level hp).

Also, you will be able to make it with the Fighting pool when issue 24 goes live.

Their mez protection is decidedly dodgy, so they don't get everything that would go with a defense set. And with no damage or taunt aura, and 85% res cap, they don't match a tank or maxed-out brute for survivability or agro management either. Defense sets contain more than just defense powers.

But the question at hand is would you prefer a ranged tank or ranged DPS-with-armor AT, irrespective of balance.

"Similar to a keldian" would correspond to option 3.

Equal to a scrapper armour, slightly lower than slightly lower than a blaster damage is not an option on the poll (unless you count option 3 in Assault Mode).

Which is irrelevant. This is a hypothetical poll, it doesn't matter if any of these options would break the game or not.

You don't.

All full defense sets: SR, Ice Armour, EA & Ninjitsu have DDR (only Nin, as a stalker set, is a bit light).

Of the mixed sets, Shield has loads of DDR, Invun and Stone have fair DDR.

No. Why would they? But they have higher resist values than you can get on a crab (with SOs).

Which are also armor sets, and therefore were included in my statement. As for no god mode, that also means no god mode crash. Can just use the inspirations that a dropping like candy.

That's the reason for going with Assault sets rather than blast sets.

No DDR, no god mode, no KB protection, no damage aura, lower max HP = below scrapper level defenses.

It looks exactly the same to me.

Lower Rez and def values are just as easily soft capped when you start to figure in IOs and other factors which aren't included in game balance calculations.

Your pets and group buffs are very nice, but are irrelevant to the discussion.

But, for the point of data gathering, let me rephrase: Your options are: 1) similar to an arachnos soldier, 2) Better defensively but lower damage than an arachnos soldier (with aggro management tools), or 3) something which can switch between the two?

Oh, and which FULL defense set has no DDR?

I'm assuming existing defense sets are ported, so mez protection would be similar to scrappers (slightly lower numbers for option 1, but shouldn't make much difference).

The idea is, it's a base AT, not an EAT.

1) How does "slightly less than Blaster" differ from "Between Corruptor and Blaster"?

2) Whilst Crabs get better values for def and res than scrappers, they don't have a compete defense set, making up for weaknesses with pool powers and IOs. And even with them, they can't get DDR, a god mode, damage aura, and the other things that come with full defense sets. And Serum doesn't make up for lower max HP, since equivalent powers are available in defence sets (e.g. Dull Pain).

3) Crabs lack the ST ranged attack chain that true blast sets get.



I'll put you down for option 1.

Basically choice 1 but with a much more limited choice of powers available.

Since the only meaningful opponents are GMs, AVs, and EBs, ST damage is what counts. AoE = kill weak stuff faster. Good for farming and PL, but not so good for anything meaningful.

Only when attempted by Dick Van Pancake.

If they returned them to someone capable of making a good movie with said characters, in exchange for shares in said movie, they would be a lot better off.

This. You usually use these at the start of a fight, so they are poor on a brute.

I seem to remember another lot of forumites arguing that it was about time travel (based on the shape) and Nemesis (based on the beaten brass effect).

Sometimes decoding works.

[pedant]
Actually, there are several NPCs you meet in Cimerora who are still alive in the 21st centruy:

I can think of:

Dream Doctor
Marcus Valerius
Requiem

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