Primantiss

Originally Posted by Siolfir

An actual change that I would like to see but would alienate almost everyone?

Get rid of the following ATs entirely:

• Tanker
• Brute
• Scrapper
• Stalker
• Defender
• Corruptor
• Blaster

Replace them with the following hybrids, named whatever the heck you want to call them, with any powerset available to either AT being available to the hybrid:

• Brute/Tanker hybrid:
  • Brute base damage with Fury
  • 500% damage cap
  • Brute AT modifiers for defense, resistance
  • Melee set primary, defense set secondary to build full attack chains earlier
  • Brute base hp and Tanker hp cap
  • Brute (ie, ST) version of Gauntlet
  • Target cap for power "Taunt" raised to 10.
• Scrapper/Stalker hybrid:
  • Stalker base damage modifier with current functionality of inherent criticals, both inside and outside of Hide
  • 500% damage cap
  • Stalker base hp, Scrapper hp cap
  • Melee primary, defense secondary
  • Hide added as an additional selection in the secondary (10 choices) available at tier 2.
  • Scrapper self-buffing modifiers
  • Assassin's Strike disappears, so the Scrapper primaries will remain as-is.
  • Assassin's Focus turns into an inherent toggle with 0 recharge and 0 endurance cost.
    • Assassin's Focus will increase your base critical chance by 10% (to 20% + 3% per teammate in range) on single target attacks and reduce it by 10% (to only the teammate bonus) on AoEs.
    • This lets you choose to selectively increase your ST damage at the cost of AoE damage.
• Defender/Corruptor hybrid:
  • Corruptor base damage with full versions of both Scourge and Vigilance
  • 500% damage cap
  • Defender buff/debuff/mez modifiers
  • Support primary, ranged damage secondary
  • Power shuffling in the secondaries to get t3 ST blast by level 20 for the sets that have them appearing later
  • All t9 "nukes" are crashless (see: Fortunata Psychic Wail)

As for Blasters... there isn't a good way to stay within the concept (only do damage plus die a lot), so they just get to make a Dominator (control stuff and still do damage) or the new ranged hybrid instead. That's why I said to keep the full bonus from Vigilance (including the solo/small team damage bonus).

Since this affects every single "free" AT, I'm sure it would impact a huge number of players and offend almost all of them. But we have too many ATs that all do the same thing, and the only reason can come up with that many of them were created was because CoH and CoV were originally marketed as separate games and so they couldn't just revamp the "old" CoH ATs. I think it's a good idea, at least from a future-balance and team role standpoint, but it would never happen this late in the game because people are too attached to their characters.

Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack

I agree! I love it slotted in Living Shadows, but this is before the upcoming proc changes. The proc is a big part of the build and how I play the toon. I may end up retiring him.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

The low hitpoints and slower pace are somethings I just can't get into anymore in my old(er) age. If it was 5 years ago I'd be playing them.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

Attuned aside, being able to slot -KB enhancements at lower levels, being able to slot procs sooner, and/or keeping bonuses when exemplared. Not only that, some lower level IOs are more sought after (and therefore cost more) because the supply is so low.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Me too. And now I'm going to hang with my insectoid friends and watch all 56 minutes of it. Come and get me CBS.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

.... other games have chosen with their gamble packs where not only do you have to buy the pack but you have to buy a key to unlock each pack.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

Haven't read the thread yet, but I would have sworn Enhancement converters drop from grey cons, even the ones far below your level.

If not, then it must have been a bug when my lvl 43 DP blaster was putting out another fire (thank you, Cryo Rounds ) and I had to take down some Hellions, I got 2 during one building fire.

I didn't check to see it they dropped from the fire or from the hellions but I defeated a lot more hellions than fires for 2 to have dropped.

I wouldn't mind converters dropping from greys if they don't already.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

I have to bookmark this thread for the laughs the OP is giving me. He's as funny as the guy that demanded the CoH sub fee get lowered because he couldn't afford this game on top of what he spent each month on (his detailed monthly budget of) booze, gambling, pron, and a dozen other sub based video games.

Originally Posted by Oathbound

#4 is my favorite.


1) How do you not realize a warship when you see it?

2) If you did realize it, what on earth got it into your head that you could capture a 453 foot ship armed to the teeth with advanced weapons systems and loaded with over 200 highly trained military personnel... with a handful of guys in a dinghy using AK-47s and a couple of RPGs?

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

But Nemesis will make you cry and cry.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Glowing is fine, but I'd much rather a feature that allowed us a list of tattoos to choose from and the ability to place them anywhere on the Avatar with a X-Y-Z control axis.