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And still, the fact that Scrappers do just as much damage as Blasters plus having a surviveability secondary and the Critical Hit inherent when all Blasters get is more damage hasn't been answered

Eh. Far as I'm concerned, until a redname posts in the Rookery thread and says it or else stickies their own Rookery thread, it's a suggestion and not a demand.

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Hello, and welcome.

A word of warning, snarky vigilante sorts are a dime a dozen on this server.

Not that it's necessarily a point against you. Just letting you know.

It seems like conceptually, the melee archetypes should lie on a spectrum between damage and surviveability, looking something like this.

TANKER -> BRUTE -> SCRAPPER -> STALKER

The problem is that Stalkers are limited to Single-Target Burst damage, which is such a ridiculously gimped restriction that the surviveability scale still goes

TANKER -> BRUTE -> SCRAPPER -> STALKER

But the Damage scale now goes

TANKER -> STALKER -> BRUTE -> SCRAPPER.

Stalker is at the bottom of both scales. Meaning it's pretty much worthless for the purposes of staying alive and making bad guys dead.

Well, aside from staying alive and making bad guys dead, what else is there for a melee class?

Hmm. Well, it's an interesting perspective, but that leaves me with the next question, which is what should I be looking to accomplish with an Elec/Kin Corruptor?

Frankly, I'm of the opinion that since damage is all Blasters get, their damage should be the highest in the game.

I mean, literally. Tankers get crap damage, but they make up for it with the ability to create the unchallengeable, unapproachable best defense and resistance in the game, blowing Scrappers and Brutes (The two closest competitors) out of the water. Defenders get crap damage, but make up for it with Buff and Debuff modifiers that Controllers, Masterminds, and Corruptors (The three other buff/debuff classes) can only look at and cry. But Blasters, who literally get nothing in the world save damage, damage, a couple worthless Mez powers that are useless on teams, and more damage? Scrappers have exactly the same base damage, PLUS criticals, PLUS surviveability.

Blasters should be to damage what tankers are to HP/Defense/Resistance and what Defenders are to Buff/Debuff. They should be the unchallenged, unsurpassed, Best Damage In The Game.

Because that's all they get.

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Alright, when I first heard about "Time Manipulation," my immediate thought is that a time altering power shouldn't have been a Buff/Debuff set, but a control set.

To that end, I put a bit of thought into it, and came up with my humble sketchings of a Time Control powerset.

1 Eternal Gaze: By gazing into an opponent's eyes, you can bombard his mind with visions of the vastness of space and time. He will be unable to react to his surroundings as his senses are overwhelmed by visions of eternity, but if disturbed he will be brought back to the present place and time.
Ranged, Moderate DMG (Psionic) Foe Sleep

2 Temporal Stasis: You can place a foe in temporal stasis, holding him helplessly in place. This temporal disruption can be damaging to the mind.
Ranged, Foe Hold, Moderate DMG (Psionic)

3 Time Phase: You conjure a field of temporal instability, making it impossible for your opponents to move. They can still attack. This temporal disruption can be damaging to the mind.
Ranged (Cone), Minor DMG (Psionic), Immobilize, -Knockback

4 Temporal Distortion: You can alter a foe's perspective through space and time, causing him to forget where he is and who his true allies are.
Ranged, Foe Confuse

5 Stasis Field: You can create a field of temporal stasis, holding several opponents helplessly in place. This kind of temporal disruption can be damaging to the mind.
Ranged (Targeted AoE) Foe Hold, Minor DMG (Psionic)

6 Time Shift: Your foe and his allies are all placed within a bubble in which time moves more slowly. Their movement and attacks are slowed, and their chance to hit is dramatically reduced.
Ranged (Targeted AoE) Foe Slow, -recharge, -tohit

7 Time Warp: You cause an area to jaunt rapidly in time, disorienting those caught in the time warp. This kind of temporal disruption can be damaging to the mind.
Ranged (Location AoE) Foe Disorient, Moderate DMG (Psionic)

8 Vision of Fate: Those within your gaze are shown their own lives in a single fleeting instant, all their trials and tribulations, the wholeness of their destinies, in a disorienting nightmarish jumble. Those affected are mentally damaged by the visions, which are often horrific to behold.
Ranged (Cone) Moderate DMG (Psionic), Foe Fear

9 Temporal Rift: You tear a rift in the fabric of time and space and wrench forth two wraiths, spirits that haunt the void between moments. The wraiths will fight by your side and can be buffed like any teammate. The Time Wraiths are resistant to Smashing, and Lethal damage. They also have a Defense bonus versus Toxic attacks. They are, however, slightly vulnerable to Energy and Negative Energy damage.

• Time Phase (Ranged, Cone, Minor DMG (Psionic), Immobilize, -Knockback)
• Temporal Jaunt (Ranged, single target, Moderate damage (Psionic), -ToHit
• Lash (Melee, single target, Moderate damage (Lethal), minor DoT (Psionic)
• Resistance (Auto, Self+Res (Smash, Lethal), Self +Def (Toxic), vulnerable (Energy, Negative Energy)

So. Thoughts?

Curses, I missed it!

This is what I get for not checking the forums all week. >.>;;

ETA: For the love of all that's holy, tell me there's more events like this forthcoming?

I suppose the key difference is that I don't see it as moving, I see it as expanding. My old toons are staying right where they are.

The VIP will be assimilated. IT SHALL BE THE V-I-RP SERVER.

Which spells Virp.

Which sounds funny.

Um.

...as you were. *Slinks off*

*Flumps out of a portal*

The frostbite is all better now!

*Dives into another one*