Starsman

I would make Aid Self a 90 second recharge (instead of the current 20s recharge) and remove the interrupt window. That makes sure it's significantly lesser than Reconstruction.

Aid Other, remove interrupt, increase recharge to 15 seconds. That makes it much inferior to Empath's Heal Other.

Stimulant: remove interrupt.

Resuscitate: remove interrupt.

Add a PBAoE heal. Basically Healing Aura with a 30 seconds recharge.

Let's see if i happen to nail any of those

Ah cool. While I am at it, I want to make it clear I deem Instant Healing to be a horrible power.

*cough* tesla cage *cough* give it damage *cough*

It did seem to be a bit weak. I thought most people sound happy with the Energize change, does not look too beefy in numbers but I understand Power Sink can actually add to some indirect survival effects, kind of like holds.

I will likely check all armors soon, right now I am rebuilding all my calculation tools and doing concessions I didn’t do in the past (from now on I will count debuffs like Chilling Embrace as "perks" and not direct mitigation due to many tiny intricacies. In short, i think I used to attempt too hard at micro-measure some effects.

Also working on some new DPS tools, got to be geared up to spam Synapse and Hawk over tankers

Edit: ARG... i forgot how ice is so debuf centric.... ugh... cant ignore that...

Actually, there is a reason on top of the synergy with Tough that I rolled the Elec armor numbers instead of the Willpower ones I actually think that one set may be able to run all that.

But at least in my experience with blasters, not having many natural toggles to keep running does free a lot of endurance for ofense or for stocking up on Pool and Ancillary toggles.

There is that. Not just THAT THAT, there are a lot of fun toys in the blaster pools, but none are as necesary for the blaster as armors are for a melee character. Heck, just to run all that the elec stalker cant even skip on the optional utility tool either: Power Sink

Edit:
Also, you went with Shadow Meld there. Thats just one very specific Ancillary pool. Nearly every blaster Ancillary pool has options to Charged Armor, some stronger in certain aspects (Like Temp Invuln that cuts down the energy to pump up Smash/Lethal a tad more) or ones that give Smash/Lethal defense, great for stacking on top of IOs and that have the potential to protect you from any attack that contains smashing or lethal (a huge number of attacks in the game.)

I am not trying to make the build you propose irrelevant, just noting that it's no huge sacrifice for the blaster to get these powers, not even a concept breaker.

OH and also: I was analizing the only Blaster secondary I have numbers for: Devices.

You wont hear any arguments from me on that. I just was curious about that one point.

Other than running out of endurance with that number of toggles and being forced to pass on a lot of attacks or epic powers?

Let me see with Electric, that can leverage Tough best:

83.22 DPS against Smash/Lethal
111.02 DPS against Energy
68.03 DPS against Negative
70.73 DPS against most other damage types

This is spamming Shadow Meld on top of Spaming Energize, and making an average of the effect over time.

Sorry, I meant because of Targeting Drone, power that would be affected.

It was my impression from your comments that the 22% requiring overslotting Targeting Drone was not a coincidence...

Maybe my memory is failing, it has been a long time... maybe the idea was to make them have higher DPAs than the low recharge versions...

But if they still have the interrupt window then those snipes are worse than I thought... sure better DPAS but due to the interrupt window blaster snipes get 20% bonus damage. Dominator snipes get no bonus damage, they just do standard damage proportional to their recharge.

I'll have to double check this once I get home... I recall them having the interrupt removed and recharge increased back during the Dominator revamp... maybe that never made it out of testing...

It is my understanding the slow snipes with 20s recharge for dominators was an experiment by Castle. If we are going through this now, I guess it means it's a failed experiment.

I would assume, should Dominator snipes get these improvements they would also be reverted to their old form. Either that, or the improved snipe will be 2x bad (but no nerf) for doms, since it would be on a 20s recharge instead of the standard 12s.

I think we are getting somewhere here...

So, what I am gathering is you dont really care THAT much about specific attach chains, or situational pre-fabricated chains, as long as you can recycle the attack power selection in less optimal chains, right?

In a different way than you may think. Remember for Dominators, snipes are not interruptable and are basically ranged 20s recharged Total Fucus. For a domnator that cant leverage the new snipe mechanic, this is a pure nerf.

I did say that part, that it would basically kill 2 birds for Electric Blast.

Even if the animation was slower for the "regular" version? (Still with the dps range I noted, just saying it potentially would have variable cast time like Titan Weapon attacks.)

Edit: And I do think the snipe issue is an issue with every single offensive ranged set that has a snipe. This is not a "freebie" for characters that never had it. Heck, a lot of defenders, corruptors and dominator builds will still see this as useless since without team buffs they will never be able to se that ToHit buffing.

How about at level 23? Or lets be generous, level 25?


I have sugested something along those lines a few times accross these threads, although never said T3 so I guess some one else also had the same idea. Note I am not arguing the viablity of the snipe, i do think it's too situational still, just was commenting on skipping those powers on damage oriented builds.

A_F, would you feel better if snipes, outside the 22% did acceptable damage so they are "OK" attacks? Lets say something perhaps in the 0.75 to 0.9 DS Per Activation second.

It has a recharge of 90s, 3 SOs drop it to 46s. Same goes for Aim.

Some people like A_F like to stack them. I personally find it's better to alternate them. If you alternate them you technically have a damage buff 41% of the time, that's without heavy recharge build or even taking hasten.

Skipping these powers is, imo, insane unless you are a tanker or dominator who's build is build around tanking/croud control.

I posted this in the other thread, but figure since people seem to be spread may repeat/rephrace it here:

The more I look at the snipe thing, accross multiple ATs, the lest I think it will work as an universal fix.

I think the mechanic is great, it's outlilned in a way that blasters are more likely to be able to take advantage of it than most other ATs, something I think is good.

But despite the uberness of AR/Devices once IOd or Overslotted, the effect may be entirely unaccessible to many defender, corruptors and dominator builds, who will in turn just feel the snipes are still just a burden in the set design.

Would be nice if they actually followed the full rendition of the stalker change, with Snipes becoming regular attacks that don't wooo if used outside of the tohit buff or under a 80ft range. Keep them interrupt snipes at over 80ft range if under +22% tohit.

This would make snipes useful for many sets without boosting dps drastically and at the same time helps Electric Blast and the complaints of the set having no viable ST damage chain.

I counted that heal in my calculations. Keep in mind: Stalker Willpower only gets 146.25% regen. Compared to that, even with the extra mitigation and Click heal they get.... 360% regen in a single power sounds insanely powerful... specially if the build also takes things like Tough, Weave, Combat Jumping and IO bonuses to soft cap defense.

Edit to expand:

It does not matter if you have resistances or regeneration or defences, etc (unless you mixing them together for insane builds) what matters is that the final build effectively regenerates more damage than it's being inflicted per second.

Sure, you wont be taking an alpha, guess what? Nor do most non-IOed stalkers.