PrincessDarkstar

Some people just seem to hate the idea of making things easier, but you just see things different to me which is fine

Area denial, knockback, self teleports that put you back 30', foe teleport, damage buffs, recharge buffs, targetted taunt patches, targetted fear patches (Whichever makes the runaway effect), recovery/regen buffs.

There are a lot of things that would help keep a blaster alive and allow them to do more damage that we don't necessarily see a lot of currently.

Edit: Blasters could even have pets, and to keep them different they could be high damage, easy to kill but fast to recharge and light on the blue bar to cast. Maybe something like Seeker Drones but damage not stun and it lets them take an alpha too.

I just can't see that happening in the real game though. I don't think it is worth it even on a defence capped toon most of the time, and a lot of the min/max scrappers in particular dropped it and tried to get more regen instead because it takes so long to use. Good regen coming from Melee Hybrid might cause even more people to drop it (I know I plan on using Hybrid as a heal if it stays the same).

If you aren't softcapped you can't use it that well so low level characters shouldn't be able to use it too effectively either.

Also even at T1 it competes with Combat Jumping, Hasten, Boxing (Sadly a needed pick mostly), Hover (Wouldn't blast without it) and Maneuvers/Tactics which are all good powers so it still wouldn't be a shoe in.

It probably would make the Presence pool feel a bit left out, but that is a good pool for MM's so has a place (Since they were designed as tanks and then not given taunts ...).

You are in for a treat in i23!

I agree on the power structure, but in this particular case it actually makes little sense to hide a self affecting power behind powers that only effect others because the type of people who want one are unlikely to want the other.

Tough/Weave being locked behind attacks are the other one I disagree with, I don't have any objection to say Weave locked behind Tough, because both increase survivability, but there is nothing that says people who want survivability want an extra attack as well, just like there is nothing to say people who want to buff others want a self heal or people who want a self heal want to buff others.

For the record I have one toon with Aid Self (Who doesn't use whichever of the others I picked) and one who has the other 3 powers but not aid self, which pretty much says it all.

It smacks of 'hide the good behind the bad so the good doesn't seem so good', yet for aid self in particular it isn't even that great.

I won't say "And the devs can do this easily" but it sure sounds like something that is as easy as changing some numbers in a database to me, with maybe a little UI work to cut and paste the powers in different orders. It is more worthwhile than a lot of other things I see the dev team doing.

[I agree stopping with the cake thing is a good idea because that one could have derailed this thread seriously lol!]

Edit: I should also say that I thought locking travel powers behind their pre-requisits was a good idea because it was thematic, but really love the gameplay benefits of not having to do so.

I think changing Total Focus to work like Thunderstrike is a must regardless of the focus of the set, I really like the animation and would prefer it stays.

I think the 3 basic punches need looking at, because they all seem pretty even and pretty poor, most sets have 1 of the 3 that stands out for the powergamers to take advantage of. [Edit: I have looked at Kinetic Melee and it is only Bone Smasher that really stands out as needing improvement, most likely just a small damage buff because for 1.5s it seems to have low damage. But they are all very similar in terms of DPA so could do with changing to have a 40, 50 and 60 DPA instead of all being ~45*, currently there isn't much reason to pick one over the other.]

Energy Transfer is where the set will be defined, keep the cast but make it an AoE if you want to AoE focus the set, and shorten the cast time if you want to ST focus the set. I would personally give it the same stats as Clobber.

Those few tweaks would give the set some much needed AoE (But not a great amount because Total Focus would still be slow and Whirling Hands would still be Whirling Hands), help the damage and give the set an edge for min/maxing (Which I think is important).

I don't think there is much need to buff Whirling Hands, unless they want it to remain the only AoE, and Stun works well enough imho (Giving Stun better damage would probably mean another power suffers and the set probably wouldn't benefit).

I know this conversation has been had a million times though, and Energy Melee is performance wise right in the middle so unlikely to get much change.

*Based on raw mids numbers for a brute with no fury. I haven't done the maths to convert to base damage.

I will forgive that then, but someone mentioned info given out at the Pummit and I hate that kind of thing with a passion. Just because there are new types of media doesn't invalidate the old ones which would have always been as good as the new ones if the people put in charge were IT people and not just desk idiots.

Well they don't all have a self rez, so they aren't all great veng bait ...

I didn't get that from his post at all. His last paragraph pretty much specifically states he doesn't want the fancy stuff that corruptors do.

I am thinking Melee will work as a nice heal over time, and Assault as a nice build up power. Kind of depends on how much damage you take, if the heal won't let you do more awesome things then take Assault and just do the same awesome stuff, but faster.

I hope Tumblr is a section on these forums.

I get more pissed off by what the devs do every single time I read a new thread.

What do you expect when they for some reason decide to release all their new information at Pummits (Whatever they are) rather than using their forums where most of their fanbase congregates?

It's not like I pay for an active subscription and browse these forums all day looking for information like this, I should have known that external websites are where all the cool companies keep their most up to date information...

Did they buff Aid Self at the same time? Honestly it is a pretty poor power even in a defense set, I dropped it on my Elec/Shield because I found the only time I needed a heal were the times when damage was constantly getting through. I wouldn't take it even at T1 on most toons.

I would love to have seen this testing because I can't think for one minute how it messes with balance that much. Most min/maxers already have it, and everyone else doesn't have the capped defence needed to take proper advantage.

I also assume this test was a while ago before they buffed Energy Aura?

This would probably help those who don't min/max as much as those that do because the min/maxers are good at making sure the wasted power pick doesn't affect the build too badly.

I agree, most pools have the useful power available straight away. I don't really see the need to lock any of them behind pre-requisit picks anymore.

Really?

I can't say I have ever seen serious complaints about anything other than KB, which I hate with a passion.

I am waiting for stone/dark scrappers