Siolfir

Fortunata Psychic Wail is NOT a full scale nuke. It has 3 ticks of damage, one at 2.38, another with an 80% chance for scale 0.5, and another 0.5 scale tick at 50% chance. If all 3 ticks hit, it does scale 3.38 damage. It hits in a 25' radius, and has a 6 minute recharge.

A generic Blaster nuke (using Blaster Psychic Wail for the example) with a 6 minute recharge does a base of scale 3.0 damage, with the extra two ticks at 75% chance for scale 1.5, and 50% for scale 1.5. If all 3 ticks hit, it does scale 6.00 damage, to a 25' radius. That scale is off of a higher base damage, as well.

For comparison, the Blaster version of Rain of Arrows is, accounting for the Blaster's damage modifier, a scale 3.6 attack (it would be scale 4.05 on a Fortunata, because it uses a pseudopet that wasn't updated when their damage modifier changed - note that the Defender version is scale 4.05 if you account for a 0.65 modifier). Hail of Bullets is wildly variable, but the "average" is very close to Fortunata Psychic Wail's damage. Both of those powers have no crash, and a much lower recharge. Yes, all of the other nukes need love - and Fortunata Psychic Wail is among them.

While I'm at it, the Fortunata's damage modifier, at 1.0, is tied for the second-highest base ranged modifier with Arachnos Soldiers, and is identical to the modifier that Blasters had before the Defiance changes.

The math on it isn't that hard - to get general numbers, just assume an identical chain and slotting, then you can assume those are 1 in the equation and it's just a matter of adjusting the crit rate until the multipliers are equal.

Stalkers start at 1.10, and the additional teammates add an effective 0.03, working them to a "effective" modifier of 1.31 when 7 teammates are in range.

For some maths...

Solo:
Scrapper: 1.125 (AT mod) * 1.05 (crit rate vs minion) = 1.18125
Scrapper: 1.125 (AT mod) * 1.10 (crit rate vs Lt+) = 1.2375
Stalker: 1.0 (AT mod) * 1.10 (crit rate) = 1.10

4 teammates w/in 30':
Scrapper: still 1.18125 (minion), 1.2375 (lt+)
Stalker: 1.0 * (1.10 + (4 * 0.03)) = 1.22

Against Lts and higher, you need 5 teammates in range to exceed Scrapper damage. Against minions, you only need 3. If you use 7.5% (the crit rate Castle stated he used as the comparison for Scrapper damage when he altered Fury), it's 4 teammates. They're never exactly equal.

If you want more detail, you can actually apply the damage modifiers to account for the differences in Build Up strength and things like damage auras or Against All Odds - then you do need to actually account for extra details. But in general, you can just get the effective AT mod and assume the same power use.

Additionally, if you only care about your pets, and the pet window is open, you can use /petselect x, where x is the number of the pet in the window, from top to bottom, starting at 0.

I have binds on my MMs for /teamselect 1 through teamselect 8 on numpad 1-8, and then /petselect 0 through /petselect 9 on alt+numpad 0-9 (some MMs get over 6 pets in the window). Then I can use single-target buffs/heals easily on any of them - if it's a player, I hit the numpad key for their position in the team window, if it's a pet I hit alt and the numpad for their position in the pet window.

The 8 second snipe is completely retarded for any AT - it serves even less purpose on a Stalker who doesn't need to be at range to get in the first attack. If anything, I'd like to see all of them done away with and replaced with something that I may be able to find a use for beyond "hey, look how stupid this power is!"

But it's not in "every" set - you get Water Spout or Spirit Shark in Leviathan Mastery.

I pulled aggro off of a pair of tankers with my Fire/Fire Blaster after letting them get a 3 second head start. The third tick from Fire Breath got them before they got me, but the Empath on the team decided to start paying attention... and that I needed Fortitude a lot more than the Tankers did.

While there are already some punches in the alternate animations, the animations for them don't scream "highly trained martial artist" to me (iirc they use the same wild - and unbalanced - swings as the alternate Super Strength animations).

*shrug* It happens more often than a Scrapper critical, and less often than a Stalker one. They should've just gone with a partial critical IMO.

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Except that Scrappers can use Concentrated Strike to recharge Power Siphon, which means that they don't need a high end, high recharge build to keep it up more often. Combined with shorter-than-normal recharges you start getting animation-limited in your attack chain earlier, too - it doesn't benefit as much as other sets by dumping a ton of recharge into it (and can go for other options like +def).

So... yeah. No matter how you look at it, it works better on a Scrapper. KM/SD, anyone?

This - it happens while jumping, and with Shields as well. I actively avoid all weapon sets that this happens with.

These - the tricorder makes me go too.

Possible new Eviscerate animation that I think would look good, using ones that exist: a modification of Slash's one-two (1.33s) where both hands are left forward "inside" the target, followed by the end of Sweeping Strike (1.23s) where you rip your claws out to the side. I think that leaving the lunge part of SS's animation and the recovery to neutral position out of Slash's animation would let you trim it down to within the 2.33 seconds it would need to be to fit in the existing time.

Other powers that I don't really like the animations on:
- Integration / Tough: I hate the tarzan emote.
- Dark Armor: can we get something other than the same animation 4x?

Also, in general (probably too much due to behind-the-scenes extra work):
- An option that cycles (either in order or randomly) between all of the alternate animations?
- Even better, an option that cycles between a list of selected ones?

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Oh, and "No FX" options for Hasten and Superspeed would be great.

Energize isn't all that new, being added when Electric Armor was ported to Scrappers and Tankers with a power order shuffle, and retrofitted into Stalkers and Brutes in place of Conserve Power at level 28.

But if you've been away for a while, you probably missed it.

You don't need to switch sides to access APPs. They unlock at 41, just like they have all along for heroes.

Only heroes that want their PPPs need to switch sides (to run the arc) to do so. And once they're unlocked, you can use them even if you do a respec as a hero.

Thanks - I wasn't sure since I'd heard both 7 and 10 seconds but never actually timed the buff myself, so I erred on the side of caution.

Pretty sure it takes sets, but I didn't have any Brutes on the beta high enough level to check.

Eh... yes and no. My SM/WP has ~160% global recharge and at least 50% more slotted in each attack (which, except for Dark Obliteration, all also have ~70% endurance reduction), and while she can run herself out of endurance, it takes a long time and I'm almost always done with the target before I need to worry... and if not, then I hit Strength of Will and the extra recovery puts me back in the positive side of that.

As you said was likely, I'll probably just keep Gloom.

I've been guilty of this myself (I could even link to a recent post of mine!) but DM actually does have an AoE in Shadow Maul, so it really should go into the "poor AoE" category instead of the "No AoE" category.