Trickshooter

Posted this in another thread, but I think it's useful here, too:

As far as I'm aware, all versions of Bonfire and Tornado reference the same two pets.

A very easy way to reduce the effectiveness of this IO in those just those two pets without nerfing them or the IO would be to add a tag to each of their KB effects, called "ForceIO". That way, the power would function exactly the same as it always has until the IO was slotted.

Then, they would just need to add the corresponding effect to the Overwhelming Force proc that said, for example: -50% to all effects tagged ForceIO.

This would reduce the chance the KB would occur in both powers down to 50% while the IO was slotted, without affecting:

A) Either power for anyone without the IO slotted.

OR

B) The usefulness of the IO in any other power.

50% might still be too high, but it would be easy for the Devs to adjust because it's just a single line in the Overwhelming Force proc that they'd need to tweak.

Both are incredibly situational (hopefully that changes whenever the devs get around to reviewing the set). I like Force Bubble more, but honestly hardly use either.

Not a Global, but it is a Unique IIRC.

Well that's a huge compliment, so thank you, but unfortunately I'd need a lot of game development experience, and I'm just a graphic designer.

Interesting read, but I worry that this obsession you have with Toxic Damage is unhealthy.

Will there be any extra attention paid to snipe-less sets besides bumping up the range on their 40-50 range 'heavy hitters'?

And if there's a set that still underperforms relative to the other sets after this change, will their be an opportunity for additional buffs to be tested during beta? In other words, are you willing to buff individual sets outside of the overhaul to snipes, heavy hitters, and the Blaster secondaries if necessary? Or will that not fit in to the I24 schedule?

Because playing Elec Blast makes me wish I was dead.

EDIT: Nevermind, you answered both right away.

Buff Trick Arrows!

Alpha: Intuition, especially the Radial path, was practically made for Trick Arrow. Spiritual can be a decent secondary choice, but seriously... you should take Intuition.

Judgement: Ion or Pyronic offer a nice change of damage type for Archery and function well no matter the distance you are from your enemy (minus being out of range, I guess).

Interface: Reactive is always a good choice. You might have Acid Arrow and Disruption Arrow already, but even together they only get you as much -Resistance on a Corruptor as a Dark, Cold, or Storm Corruptor gets with 1 power. So having that extra -Resistance is nice, especially since Archery uses the more heavily-resisted Lethal damage type. And Reactive offers a nice, less resisted damage type with it's Fire DoTs.

Honestly, you can't go wrong with any of the Interface options that give DoT, as they'll add some damage types that are much less resisted, and most of the other effects are small enough to not make too much difference (besides maybe Cognitive's confuse proc, when it goes off).

Of the non-DoT Interfaces, Diamagnetic can be useful for survivability with it's -ToHit proc (especially given TA's weeny -ToHit in Flash Arrow) against anything boss-level and below, but the -Regen proc will be superfluous in most situations, and the main foes you'll want it for, Archvillains, will resist it heavily (up to 87% on top of top of any reduction in strength from level differences).

Destiny: Again, no real wrong choice here and all can be useful depending on how you play. Clarion can potentially get you permanent Mag6 protection to Holds, Stuns, Sleeps, Immobs, Confuses, and Fears. Ageless +Recharge and +Endurance are useful for everyone, as is the +Recovery of one of the paths, and the Archvillain level debuff resistance of the other path. And Barrier and Rebirth... well, not much explanation is needed about why they're good.

The only one I can't recommend is Incandescence. I've never used it, and I've heard from people that it requires much more thought to be useful.

Lore: Well, that's totally up to you. Personally, I like Carnies, Longbow, Polar Lights, and Cimerorans.

Hybrid: My choice for my TA/A Defender was Assault, but Support and Control are also decent for an A/TA Corruptor (even if Support is meh on it's own). The only one with really limited use is Melee, only because you have no other reason to be in melee-range besides using the Melee Hybrid. But then again, nothing is stopping you from entering melee-range, and if you have the Melee Hybrid combined with maybe Rebirth, Barrier or Clarion Destiny, you might be more survivable closer to enemies.

Surveillance is the name of his power that gives out MarkedForDeath, so they would last together. You're tagged for 60 seconds.

Surveillance also has a -20% Defense debuff attached to it that lasts for 20 seconds (because of level differences, though, it probably hits most people for -28.8%).

Edit: Surveillance and Rain of Arrows are both autohit, by the way.