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Originally Posted by Ultimo_

I wonder if Muon's recharge time bonus would be a reason he could defeat the character when I could not? How do you get that window to appear, anyway? As I say, I used Inspirations instead of Aim and Buildup, which I see he has.

Originally Posted by Westley

So now, if you have a complaint about the REAL "normal" game content and your Defender not being able to run it, then I'd be more apt to listen to your complaints. Until then, you're the one with the burden of proof, not us or the developers.

Originally Posted by Ultimo_

TR:
You're telling me the AT isn't bad at soloing, even though that exact complaint has come up over and over for years?

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Just curious, is there any particular reason your font is so small? Very hard for me to read.

Edit: Annnd mine is too. Very odd.

Originally Posted by Ultimo_

I can see a reason it shouldn't happen. A solo player that finds himself facing unsoloable content has hit a brick wall and will be unable to continue playing. This is frustrating and dissatifying, and leads to unhappy customers.

If they mark a given arc as being too hard for solo play, then that's different, because it's no longer solo content.

I could ask the devs to alter all the content that could be unsoloable, but I thought it more reasonable to suggest a slight tweak to the AT that seems to be suffering most in solo situations. That this topic recurs frequently leads me to think this is a better course.

As I say, I'm ON the lowest possible settings. I'll also point out that there are certain situations (again, the Rikti bombs are an example) that aren't affected by your difficulty settings.

Originally Posted by Ultimo_

As I said, I did use inspirations. Whole trays of them. I also used my veteran powers. The example I started the thread with was an AE custom villain EB, but there have been other situations (such as Rikti Bombs during raids, and certain other EBs). As I say, the solution is one of two courses: adjust the content, or adjust the class. Since no one else seems to have the same problems (though, Controllers suffer somewhat in other ways), the solution that I see as preferable is a tweak to the class.

Originally Posted by Ultimo_

My question isn't how she deals the damage, as much ashow she avoids it. How do you survive long enough to do that much damage?

Originally Posted by BrandX

Has someone compiled a list of Blasters DPS? Is Fire the best?

I don't know myself...I know Fire Melee for instance isn't best ST DPS, but Blaster Primaries elude me. :/

Originally Posted by macskull

That would be hot but Traps already has webnade

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

OK, I know we went through this all the way back when Mental Manipulation was first introduced into the game, but since I'd never played a Psi Blaster to a good level, and wouldn't until now, all the commentary went completely over my head. Looking at it now... I'm not sure what to make of the thing.

Basically, World of Confusion looks like it's a control power. A very crappy control power. I had a quick glimpse through Red Tomax's City of Data entry on it, and its control element is listed as a 1.5 second confuse effect, with the power ticking every 4 seconds. It also "Must hit at -25%," whatever that means. In fact, here's my first question - what DOES that mean? Do I have 25 added to my to-hit roll for the purposes of determining whether a target is confused? Do I get 25 subtracted out of my to-hit chance? Does it work like a debuff? Is it affected by buffs and enhancements? How does that mechanic even work? Bebcause if it works like I think it will, then it caps my maximum to-hit with the confuse effect to 70%, since my final to-hit can't go over 95%, and 25% down is just that much.

So, basically, if I'm reading this right, the confusion aspect of World of Confusion is a less than half-time coverage confuse at a crappy accuracy, over a foot above melee range. Maybe I'm old-fashioned here, but does that honestly sound decent to anyone? Because to me it sounds like I'd be cheating myself out of an endurance cost. Then again, I've always had a VERY hard time justifying melee-range auras on Blasters, simply because I need to STAY in melee range for them to matter, and staying in melee range is not my favourite activity. At a four-second tick timer, it doesn't even seem like it'd work backup defence.

But if it's not ideal for control, then what is it good for? Damage? Err... Let me put it this way - I couldn't justify Blazing Aura, and this does less damage over twice the tick timer. I couldn't really tell Blazing Aura was doing anything, since I stayed the hell out of melee 90% of the time, and if I couldn't feel that, am I really going to notice World of Confusion's seriously inferior damage? I have a big problem with Blaster auras in general, as none of them are really quick-acting enough for my brief trips into melee to justify AND because they're offensive, they shut down whenever I get held. Which is all the time. In the end, damage auras on Blasters in particular never seem to be worth the cost.

Which brings us to the cost. It's minuscule! 0.52 per four-second tick comes down to about 0.13, which is cheaper than the bulk of other toggles. I'm a big believer in cost vs. benefit, and for that little cost, I can't exactly be picky. But here's the thing - even for that little cost, I still do, in fact, expect SOMETHING. And a slow-acting melee-range effect just does not appear to even register. What is up with this power, what is it good for and what can I use it to do?

Originally Posted by JamMasterJMS

what power does kinetics have that has -res?

Originally Posted by JamMasterJMS

With no real mitigation in your primary it is an edge of your seat, knife edge set.
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Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

Compared to other powers on a base 60 second recharge capable of buffing you and all minions to the point that Damage enhancers become useless. In the context of a set with an inherent ability to reduce Recharge times even further. And replinish endurance so that it is never necessary to halt. Combined with a Mastermind's already excellent survivability.

Or I could simply say, compared to the already bleeding-edge-of-overpowered Fire/Kin Controller, who the Mastermind/Kin would make a complete joke of.

Originally Posted by RiverOcean

Only /Psychic Assault has -regen and taking that set, would nix the AV holding ability solo.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

But how else can you meet more people?