Syndace

Originally Posted by Supermax

I am honestly surprised as to how fun it's been. Please tell me lightning rod is also knockdown like TS, not knockback.

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Sniper attacks for meleers are somewhat odd. Most ranged attacks for meleers, like Hurl, use the melee damage modifier. The Epic ranged attacks are the same, presumably so they are consistent with ranged attacks in the Primary. (Or Secondary, for Tankers) Sniper attacks, however, seem to use the ranged modifier. This results in them doing about half the damage they would with the melee modifier.

This is even worse for Scrappers, because Scrappers have a higher melee modifier (1.125 versus 1.0) but Stalkers have the higher ranged modifier. (0.6 versus 0.5) Which only brings up the question as to why the devs would give Scrappers the Stalker Patron Pools in the first place. Scrappers and Tankers share two out of four APPs, and Brutes and Tankers share four out of four PPPs, so it seems reasonable that Scrappers and Brutes would also share the same four PPPs, instead of trying to fit in the Sniper attacks of Stalkers.

Interestingly enough, Moonbeam appears to do damage as if it is using the melee modifier, if City of Data can be believed. Its damage is 2.3 times the damage of Dark Blast. This kind of inconsistency is exactly what is wrong with this kind of kludge, the devs are giving Scrappers a certain ranged modifier, and then giving all their ranged attacks the melee modifier so that they are not penalized by that ranged modifier. It would be easier to simply make the ranged modifier slightly lower than the melee modifier across the board, and let the ranged attacks use that modifier accordingly.

At the moment, though, if you want a Sniper attack, try out Moonbeam. You can copy over to test if you want to try out the damage for it.

Originally Posted by Strike_Katana

Eh. I read this, got a laugh, and got over it. That was all it was posted for. The Lawls.

Originally Posted by Vexington

No one cares about zone in general or your personal experiences there that lack relevance.

Next time you want to post something so uninteresting, at least make it shorter. Then I'd actually read more than three lines and have something more specific and critical to say.

What's Virtue?

Originally Posted by macskull

I can time my offensive toggles. I can predict a mez (because knowing that you'll get mezzed every 15 seconds isn't exactly hard, nor a prediction, but an observation of the way things are). I can't make my toggles recharge instantly so even if I'm hit with an instantaneous sleep (i.e. Mesmerize) I'm stuck waiting for a few seconds for my toggles to recharge and then another 3-5 seconds for those toggles to activate once they're recharged. At that point I'm already almost 2/3 of the way through the mez suppression window and I have done nothing to my opponent that entire time.

It's one thing when you can do something to avoid having your offensive toggles dropped, but it's another thing entirely when there is nothing at all you can do to prevent them from dropping short of avoiding fighting anything with mez.


Probably. If you ignore concessions to players (i.e. options to turn off HD, TS, DR) the only positive PvP-related changes that have been made since I13 are the arena tweaks we got in I14, namely selectable maps. Unfortunately, while selectable maps is a nice feature and everyone's glad to have it, I don't know a single person who wouldn't give that feature up to have some semblance of pre-I13 PvP back.

Originally Posted by LuxunS

If you look at what you quoted, those are all sets with offensive toggles.

Originally Posted by macskull

No toggle dropping, eh? My Storms, Colds, and Rads would like to have a word with you.

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_EU

-Brute's have AoE Taunt.
-Brute's have Punchvoke.
-Brutes have Aggro-Auras.
-Brutes have the second highest hitpoints in the game.

To me a brute is clearly meant to be the tank on the villain side. While I tolerate it, I would have to lie if I had to say I dont find this "I dont need to tank cause I'am a brute" mindset many people have a bit anoying. If not the brute who else is going to do the job?

Just because brutes are a bit more offensive then tankers dosnt mean they are not tanks anymore. When I play my two brutes I always run in first to take the alpha and I always take the time to taunt away the enemies from my teammates if they are in trouble.

Of course that dosnt mean you are supposed to just be the punching bag and do nothing but spaming taunt whenever its ready... thats not even what a tanker should do, because thanks to punchvoke dealing damage draws a lot of aggro too. But the common brute I see on "Zukunft" which dosnt care for the squishys on his team, cant take an alpha and dies in seconds once he gets some beating because he pumped all his slots and power picks into attacks is hardly more then a leecher or a liability IMHO.

If you dont want aggro, a stalker, corruptor or blaster or something like that would be a much better choice, cause even a scrapper should be able to take on at least those three enemies the maintank cant because of aggro cap.

I'am sorry if I sound a bit harsh, I would never flame, kick or lecture some player just because he dosnt play the way I want him too... but in regards to your question I thought being honest with my opinion would be more helpful then some "its fine do whatever you want".

All this is in regards to at least a +2x8 difficulty setting though... at +0x1 hardly anything matters and you are free to do whatever you want and nobody has the right to complain.

Originally Posted by ketch

*sigh*

Somethings look so good on paper. I really had my hopes set on some PB'ed Linked Minds, but having just hit 41 today I noticed that LM isn't affected by Power Boost. There's a very small resistance component (1.7% to psi, thanks a lot) that puts it into the category of powers PB can't touch. Looks like I'll have to spend a respec...

Originally Posted by Neeto

since the devs won't fix random OP'd powers in pvp.