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With the exception of brutes/scrappers.

They're not the same class, no. But in at least 90% of the builds out there, you can play them identically. The key difference between brutes and scrappers IN PLAY is that scrappers have a slightly higher base damage and a crit chance, so they have more "constant" damage, but Brutes have fury, and a much higher damage cap, so they are rewarded for being more ballsy.
I believe the only "exception" to this is /stone brutes, which I feel was only done to answer the cry of "WAAAH HEROES GET GRANITE!!!"

Brutes are not a tanker class though, yes, they CAN tank when built right, but so can scrappers.
It's fairly accepted that the "tanker class" redside is a Mastermind with bodyguard mode. (Can take a hit from a GM and not really care much!) Which of course still doesn't render them a "tank" it just gives them the best tanking ability redside (short possibly of granite brutes)

(And no, I'm not saying Brutes = scrappers. I'm saying that in play you can readily juxtapose the two.)

Regen is the exception to the rule >.>

I'm surprised there are no regen brutes yet. But, when it comes to defensive sets, the sets for scrappers and brutes are nearly identical, their base numbers are identical.. Basically if a set works for a scrapper, it works for a brute. Brutes/scrappers are the two absolute closest archtypes between heroes and villains. (they share many of the same pools, their primaries and secondaries are the same ("Melee" and "defense"), they both have a balls to the wall, in your face play style.)
Stalkers, however.. they're closer to blasters than scrappers. Sure they are melee damage primary, defense secondary, but without a lot of work, they can't take much of a beating and most builds focus on single-target damage.

I'm also adamantly against "non-proliferated" sets. (And sets designed to suck for certain archtypes)
I want to see more power sets get proliferated, I want to see new power sets be made and proliferated.

No, just no.

The Merit to inf ratio, you're basing that off one item which does not have a static cost.

Merit to ticket ratio, you're forgetting how easily gotten tickets are. If I could trade tickets for merits.. I could then run an AE Ticket Farm, get alittle over 1000 tickets, exchange them all for merits, and buy some of the really high value IO recipes, and resell them.
.. But wait, everyone would do that, which would put a glut of those recipes on the market, causing their price to lower (which would be a good thing, honestly), this would mean that the merit to inf. ratio was way off now..

Merits for other things: maybe.
Other things for merits: No.

You mean... These: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Ik8Aa1Bpg ?

The bolded part makes this power a fail, and does nothing to prevent wakey spamming.
Adjust it to be on a timer, like any other power. I would say 5 minutes would be a good base number, could be reduced pretty well through recharge redux.

Also, make sure it does not stack with the Self Destruct power from the Cyborg pack. (.. seriously, double kaboom?)

Not a bad power, not sure I feel it fits in the theme of the set though. It seems like it might be a little high powered, not sure though.

Reasonable power. Might need to +damage removed to put it more in line with other similar powers.
One thing that might be kind of cool on this is if was a passive which the values were based off of how low your HP are. Might also be overpowered..

Passive +res, +hp, +dept protection.. I would have to say this would heavily depend on the actual numbers.

Endurance and run speed for enhancers. Allow it to take Run/Universal Travel IO sets.

I would say based off the idea of this set, make it 50% HP/50% endurance, and have a PBAoE fear effect.

I'm not sure about an in-set passive power with a major +endurance in it. Usually you can only get small amounts of +endurance through IO sets (fairly rarely infact) and Accolaids (which I think total you can get +10)

I would say a passive +X recovery, with an additional +Y/foe in melee range would be more fitting with the games current system, and honestly a little more useful.

Really really situational power, feels a little useless. It would only have any real strength against AVs, but AVs resist resist debuffs.
I would skip this power, and have a feeling that alot of other people would, too.

Again, bolded makes the power a fail.

My thought is make this a power like Elude or the like, with a crash that kills you (triggering your self destruct), and recycles your self-rez power, and grants a buff on nearby team mates.
The penalties you currently have linked to this power, FAR outweigh the benefits. Recycling the self-rez makes you pause before using this power solo (where the benefits would be the strongest), but wouldn't penalize your team for you using it (If they have a rezer, or someone can get you a wake, they don't have to be down a person while you hosp and run back.)

Interesting power. Not sure if it would work is the only problem

Imagine, 8 people at X8 players.. Would be insane.. and kinda fun.

because when your job description is "Bloody well stand there." you at least want to stand someplace nice.

The thought behind putting a insp. vendor in the hospital is simple:
Usually, you will buy the most inspirations after you have died. either because your stock is depleted of because you're like "Crap, I'm gonna need some defense and healing to beat this EB." Running to AE doesn't make in-character sense (they're virtual reality, seriously, you wouldn't even think about the inspirations there.)
And of course, there's contacts.. Let's say you're on a mission in IP, and your only contact is clear across the map.
If you're solo of course (which is when you will use the most inspirations), you don't want to leave the zone because, IIRC, leaving the zone resets your mission.

I will ask you something now:
With how readily available they are, what is the HARM in putting an inspiration vendor someplace it bloody well should have been in the first place?

Also, you would think from the in-character stand point, more and more people would start selling inspirations. Paragon City is populated by thousands of heroes, those heroes use inspirations. Sounds to me like a damn good business move.

... Herein lies the exact reason it has to remain anonymous, unfortunately.

Person is idiot, posts something that gets them neg repped.
They see who neg repped them, and go return the neg rep, even though they have no grounds.

I personally agree rep should be removed.

It just shows us how often someone's opinion goes towards or against the "popular opinion*" and how often they post. Nothing more, it doesn't indicate a worth while poster, it doesn't indicate popularity.

*There is of course no uniform "popular opinion" over the entire board. But in 90% of threads you will see the thread eventually take a specific direction, this is, for the sake of that thread the "popular opinion" which disagreeing with will get you negged heavily. (you will of course get negged either way, just more so if you're going against the popularity.)

I would!

I worked a convenience store for 4 years, fast food for a year, and now I work in an online retail business which I have to handle customer service emails/phone calls.

In other words, I'm used to annoying twats who think that they are the center of the frelling universe. I can be nice, pretend I care about their problems, pretend that their problems aren't caused by their own frelling idiocy.. or I can just ignore them other than when I have to politely call them an idiot. >.>

... That would make a teaming incentive though..

Every players fills out a "teaming form". This teaming form gives them a "rating" which, the rating is displayed next to their name for team searching.

The worse the rating, the better drop rates the people on the team with them get!

note the comment about lots of stacking.
Most players lack the money to actually build IO'd out characters like that.

Any IO set bonus is pretty useful, if you slot enough of it of course. It's just a matter of availability vs. usefulness vs. number of people who can use it that puts a demand on things.

+def, sure if you decide to go after it, you can get some pretty damn good defenses going on a character, and unless you're def capped all the way around anyways, +def IS always decent to have for any character. But, it's going to take a lot of IOs to get a "worth while" amount of defense, especially since it's not even usually +def (all) but +def (specific)

+rech though, like I said, you can replicate having another +rech SO that isn't effected by diminishing returns in EVERY POWER, with 6 semi common sets. (Okay, so I DO have the LotG Proc on my ill/kin, but that's all that's "uber" >.>) And of course, you get the added benefit of having a few other things thrown in.

What other IO set bonuses can you get to a really nice useful level in 6 non-purple sets?

Exactly.

Aside from +recharge, and procs, what is there in IO sets that is REALLY worth having?
It's not because +recharge is so powerful (which I will admit, +recharge is powerful, I just don't feel it is game-breakingly so)
+recovery has a somewhat high demand.
+regen can be useful, but I believe is mostly sought after by those who naturally have a good regen and want to improve it.
+acc is nice and offers decent numbers. Problem is it's rarely needed.
+Damage is too low to be of any use.
Most of the defense/Resists are too low to be of any use without lots of stacking.
Effects like +heal, +sleep, +fear, etc. are all pretty low numbers so not all that useful, and even then, they're only really sought after by certain power sets within certain archtypes.

So how much people seek +recharge over all other bonuses from IO sets is not just because they're powerful.
It's because they gave the most universally useful 'stat' some of the best numbers in IO sets. +recharge is the only thing in IOs that matches 2 criteria: 1, anyone can make use of it. 2, even just a few sets provide a meaningful bonus.
My 'troller has like 5, maybe 6 IO sets slotted that give +recharge, and it's like she has another recharge SO in -every single power- (Like 36.25% IIRC). It would take 10-15 sets with +damage to be like another Damage SO in every single power, which would only have limited use to my 'troller since she's ill/kin (unless I am mistaken, pets do not benefit from global damage buffs.)

Since they nerfed AE farming.

Because obviously people would carry absolutely nothing but these, and ignore all other inspirations in favor of them, and pop them constantly....

Ergo they would be broken. >.>

I got a great idea..

Let's introduce them, as NPC buyable only, nontransferable, and make them cost 1,000,000, 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 inf a piece. But offer +50%, +100% and +200% recharge for 2 minutes a shot >.>

This damn game has been needing an inf. sink, don't you think?

1: I didn't flame you.
2: you still used the wrong expression, allow me to explain how this works:

DPS or Damage Per Second, is the measurement of how much damage your character will deal in a given period. It's not really even a proper term for CoH of course, because CoH has a slightly different system.

In the games it comes from, it referred to the average damage you dealt per swing, vs the time it took you to swing, vs your chance to hit. (If I have a 75% chance to hit with this weapon, which will deal 235-305 damage and has a 3 second swing speed... The math is: 235+305 = 540/2 = 270 which gets us our average damage per hit. 270*.75 (Multiply average damage by chance to hit, netting the average damage per swing) = 202.5/3 = 67 DPS (divide the average damage per swing, by the number of second it takes to swing))

In Coh, it's more direct than that. It means, quite simply, on average how much damage your character will deal in a second, presuming no lag or down time on your part. This gives us an ultimately subjective value that isn't really based off of anything but.
"My attack chain took 10 seconds to complete, and dealt 1000 damage, so my DPS is 100."
It doesn't matter whether that attack chain is 1 attack that dealt 1000 damage straight up, or 10 attack that dealt 100, or 2 attacks that both dealt 5 ticks of 100 damage.

This is what it will always mean to gamers.
(.. Although here in the state of Arizona, is also means Department of Public Safety, AKA the Highway Patrol)

the comparison you should be making is Burst Damage vs. DOT.

DOT alone can be better than Burst alone, depending on situation. DOT and Burst, however, pwn all.
(spines/fire scrapper FTW!)

There are a lot of existing DOT powers in CoH though, some may have the DOT as a secondary effect of course, but they are out there:

spines has a DOT effect.
Fire Melee, Fire Blast and Fire Control all of DOT properties.
Several other control sets have a DOT effect.
A lot of tanker primary sets have a DOT aura.
Radiation Blast has a couple of DOT powers.

the issue with what you pose is that.. the powers would have to be so carefully juggled..

First issue: Regeneration rates. For most baddies this isn't an issue, but AVs? Pair their resist and regeneration rate and your damage is absolutely wasted.
Second issue: Blasters are squishy. Honestly, I can't count how many times I've BARELY survived a fight, by getting an attack off just before the last foe did. If I had to wait even 2 seconds for that full damage, I would have to hope to hell they missed!
Third issue: Fixing the first two. If you boost the power to the point where the first two issues are solved, you run a very high risk of rendering the power set broken.

Now, if these issues can be solved, and a set that is interesting, unique, playable, and offers a new tactical option.. I'm all for it.