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That.

I'm mildly confused that nobody picked up on this huge change.

Too tired for the rest. Will take word for, will point out "Binds = Micro Managing", but this I wanted to touch on.

Not true. At all. They either have equal to Corruptor/Controller values, and sometimes actually weaker (Nature Affinity as an example has much lower values for Masterminds.)

So, "nearly full-strength" is "Cut by the same, if not more, from Defender Values as Corruptors/Controllers."

No. BLAST SETS in general are bad. This is not a Blaster Specific issue. Unless you want the other 3 ATs to have the ToHit gimmick, and Blasters this gimmick.

But that'll make Dominators buttmad.

Then again there is nothing wrong with the Super Snipes being mildly situational solo, and reliable in teams.

As. Designed.

No. You're more akin to a Kinetic Melee Scrapper. You have your silly cone, and your silly short range "ranged" power. You, however, do have an extra ranged attack. Shrug.

I could see it being increased to 70 per the other Mace Blasts. I guess.

Not a big deal though.

Sigh. Once again; The Design Point of the Snipe Changes was to make Blast Sets, Snipes Specifically, more beneficial in Team Play, not Solo Play. Solo Play is a situational bonus, with Devices and Time Manipulation shining here.

There is an extremely good chance, on an Eight Man Team, someone else has Tactics and you're good to go, which is the point. Snipe Change was to fix Team Damage Disparity, not "Kill Everything Ever Solo" ability.

The Blaster Specific Solo Fix is their added sustainability, which doubles as a team benefit as well.

And yes that would be dumb. Because I can promise Snipes would be nerfed HARD if it was so readily easy. Consider this a 'We don't want to nerf snipe damage, but don't want to make it SUPER EASY to get Perma Instant Snipes outside of two power sets, and outside of teams."

You can't have everything you want.

I think community accepted soloing is +0/x3, although obviously +0/x1 should be soloable.

But yeah. AS can do that. And it does.

Nor are Bane Spiders, really.

Because it's not a nerf. It's just silly.

... God forbid DOMINATORS have the hardest time to get Super Snipes.

Freakin' Doms.

... Wait I play those too.

AoE's haven't been as relevant since Judgment happened nearly two years ago. Seriously. This is why Water Blast's superior AoE means nothing to me.

Yes, yes. A game exists before 50 but a game starts at 50, too.

The major focus of the game's harder content has shifted to really devastating single targets. Mass Mobs are handled by >1< Judgment. 1. Single. Judgment.

So... yeah. Have to disagree there. Scale 5.4 or whatever 1 Second fast enough recharging BLAM means more than any AoE you can offer me.

Also I can just pick up Fireball like a good little Stalker and go "KYUU" and everything died.

Or something.

Who let the Bane Spider in here?

Shoo, Shoo! Go shine the boots of your Supreme Huntsman and Crab Overlords!

Have you tried throwing a life preserver glued to an anvil? That's not even realistic! More like "Unless the life preserver is poked with a needle before being thrown out." or something!

TW Doesn't suffer from redraw during Momentum.

We'll see, I guess. They did say they'll figure something out, and I hope it's something 'good'. As I said, the only thing they could do is just increasing the base power of those sets standard blasts. Super charging the Tier 3 Blast probably wouldn't work.

I'll probably still Day 1 Water Blast. At least it's pretty, I have a concept brewing still, and at the very least at least it's not Beast Mastery.

Ell. O. Ell.

Now I'm going to sit here and try to remember what Nature Affinity did.

... Clever.

And eh, I look toward the future as well. The Snipe Change is going to be massive. I just can't see them making up in any way for an Instant Scale 2.7 12 Second Recharge BLAM to the face for Water Blast, Ice Blast, Sonic Attack, and Dual Pistols. I don't think they'd adjust the Tier 1, 2, and 3 Blasts to equal up to an increase of 2.7 Across the board, and I'm not sure math really works that way.

Sure, Water Blast will remain with High AoE, but... No Snipe = No change to ST which means it's going to be left behind, and Blast Set ST is the major issue here, not AoE.

I can't justify an 800 point drop on something that WILL be inferior down the road. I can't foresee any logical change to make up for that lack of Snipe.

God I can't believe I'm actually saying this about SNIPES.

I want at least some idea of what Hawk and Synapse have planned if these four sets fall behind (and they will fall behind, period). Just some assurance that my purchase of Water Blast won't be in vain. RP Concepts are one thing, but money is money and performance is a thing.

Bleh. While I can taste the sarcasm through my monitor, I am sorry that my sleep-deprived insanity made me come off a bit rougher than I like to try to initially come off.

Like to try being the keyword.

In truth: Asking for the same change to Snipes that Stalkers got to their core mechanic is not going to happen, if I had any guesses, with out Snipes taking a power nerf. My suggestion is the following: Try it out on Beta first, then if you feel it's too clunky, go from there. But do not be surprised if that Scale 2.7 monster goes down to Scale 1.7 in exchange for a change that... doesn't need to happen.

Look at it from the point of view as: "It makes Devices suck a lot less, while making Blast Sets in general suck less. Except those four unfortunate smhucks that didn't have snipes included TEEHEE."


Maybe, but it further shows the Melee Power Creep, which is why I was going on and on about it in Water Blast.

... and now Water Blast is sort of hosed (HAHAHAHA) with the Snipe Change.

And I was SO EXCITED FOR IT Q_Q

I play Stalkers, Nalrok. And even I acknowledge Assassin's Focus was overkill.

Spoiler Alert: I play every AT besides Brutes, really. Don't know why I never rolled a Brute. Weird.

Assassin's Focus. That thing that causes AS to be a Scale 5.whatever in 1 Second monster. The AS change by itself with out this added mechanic would have been perfectly fine. Assassin's Focus was overkill.

Design Intention is not always What You Want. It was made fairly clear the intention was to give blasters more of a situational edge in solo, and more of an obvious edge in teams. Snipes were "okay" solo, and were HORRID in teams. This was meant to make them pack more omph in teams. While Solo, you have the option of hitting Aim, going nuts, Build Up, going nuts.

If you are the only person in a team packing Tactics, that IS unfortunate. But, it was a Situational Change, not a Always Be Ready GOGOGO Change.

MAYBE it will be changed. Scale 2.7 in less than 1 second (I think it's 0.64 or something insane) is going to be extremely frightening to swallow as "Always Ready". But as it is I think the 22% To Hit "Lock Out" is the only thing that'll keep Snipes from being hit with the nerf bat.

Hard.

Assassin's Strike is not a 'decent power'. Assassin's Strike is blatantly overpowered. Combined with all the other Stalker Changes, it was "Way too much".

Scale 5.4 Damage in 1 Second every few seconds is kind of broken. Assassin's Focus probably needs to go and AS shouldn't be given special critical hit conditions. But not the time or place.

The Snipe change is good and is meant to be a Team Boosting thing, and a more situational solo thing aside from a few specific cases.

Blaster SPECIFIC solo and team boost is their added Regen/Recov/Whatever.

Enjoy!

Blaster Primaries and Secondaries do supply mez-style powers within them. Not to the extreme extent as Corruptors and Defenders, obviously, but they do.

Unless you're ignoring Ice's Slows, Dark's -ToHit, Energys -KB, and so on and so on. And what the individual secondaries bring as well.

Blasters do get those type of powers, they're just weaker because that's the trade off they make.

Because the design intent was to make it situational soloing, and more likely to be permanent in teams. Only ONE Support Set allows a Defender/Corruptor to do Perma Insta-Snipes solo, and that's Time.

Just like only ONE Blaster Secondary does, Devices.

Do not mention Kismet. That is an IO and this is not an IO consideration. If you mention it, I point at 170% Global Recharge Aim/Build Up Rotations and this conversation ends immediately.

You team with one other guy with Tactics going, and you're golden.

If you're soloing, it's a bit more situational and requires a bit more play with it.

Design Point: Not always ready unless you went LolDevices (or are a Time Manipulation user.). That was the design choice. If they wanted to make it an I Win Button, it would be Assassin's Strike.

Which is a dumb power.


1) True. Force Fields (considered to be a weak one-trick pony), Sonic Resonance (read Force Fields), and Traps (the exception).

2) Blatant Lie.

Math doesn't work that way. The design choice was not to have the instant snipes "Always ready" unless you were A) Devices or B) Teamed with other people with +ToHit buffs. It was meant to make Snipes more attractive to the teaming Blast Set user. That was the design point.

If you're a Devices blaster, great! Enjoy! Your Secondary largely sucks anyway so this is your big perk.

If you're not, you're relying on Aim or Build Up + Tactics for it. Or popping some Big Yellows. Either way, yeah.

The three other ATs have to do the same thing (And the moment you bring up Kismet +6% and Tactics is the moment I point out 170% Global Recharge on Blasters is not that expensive, and allows you to pop Build Up, Snipe Freely for 10 seconds, pop Aim, Snipe Freely for 10 seconds, wait 5 seconds, hit Build Up, rinse repeat. Pop a yellow to kill that dead period entirely GG).

So... the design point is there.

Because the Blaster Community ignores the weaknesses of other AT and only harps upon their "strengths" and "why Blasters suck."

Really, this community is turning out to be, shock and awe, extremely ungrateful. Here's a newsflash, again, for those of you comparing the Snipe Change to the AS change.

Are you ready?

You're not Stalkers. Get over it. AS was a core power to the AT and it needed to be readily and easily available to use because the Stalker AT sacrificed, generally, an extremely good AoE for a garbage power.

Snipes are not a core power to the Blaster (or other Snipe using AT) AT. They were just extremely weak powers. Their buff is a boon, and you need to stop comparing a Random Power Set Power to a Core Design Power of Another AT.

Dependent? It's an option. Why are so many players against Inspiration use? That is seriously a 'thing' and it's a very annoying 'thing'.

Here's a news flash: Not everything needs to be catered to the soloists. I've said this many times and I'll say it many times again. If you team with at least ONE other person with sufficiently slotted tactics (Or less if you use Kismet +6%), you have your shiny instant cast scale 2.7 Beam of Destruction.

Is it easier for Defenders and Corruptors and Dominators to obtain 22% ToHit perma? Yes. They still need to eat a Kismet, but yes.

Is it impossible for Blasters to? Yes, with out targeting drone. Except...

At high recharge levels, rotating your Aim and Build Up can provide an ample enough of +ToHit to allow saturation of the Instant Cast Snipe. At 170% Global Recharge and slotted +Recharge in Aim and Build Up, you have them both at a 25 Second Recharge, allowing you to have a 5 second dead period between hitting the one you used first again and repeating the cycle. This drops down further depending if you went up to +200% Global Recharge, which is difficult but not impossible.

Or you pop a yellow for that brief dead period

So... bumpkis on you all? Think outside of the box on "WE NEED 22% PERMA ToHit" and go "Well we can also just rotate Aim and Build Up and have it practically perma too", or is doing more work the issue here? Boosts your damage up too so /thumbs up.

I do not think the design intent is to have it Perma with out extreme building in mind for Defenders, Corruptors, and Dominators (AKA Maxing out Tactics + A Kismet IO), nor perma on Blasters with out Targeting Drone. if they WANTED it to be easily perma, they would have just made snipes Scale 2.7 Instant Cast "I WIN HUR HUR" buttons.

If you're in a team, there is an extremely strong chance you have it anyway. If you're complaining for the sake of being TEH UBER SOLOIST, bumpkis again. Rotate Build Up and Aim and get over it.

And eat a Yellow.

And yes I know Build Up is +15% but I assume you took Tactics.

None of the ATs can get it with out the usage of IOs, and if you're using the IO route Blasters can almost get it with chaining Aim and Build Up. Your argument fails because you're forcing the inclusion of an IO outside of Time Manipulation's Farsight.