Ultimus

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

One thing I mentioned to Arbiter Hawk was that by giving more offensive options with one hand, and adding survivability with the other, the net result overall won't be an increase in offense and defense identical to the strength of those effects in isolation, because its almost certainly true that blasters will have to give back something else to get them to fit into their builds. Those things might even be inferior to what we're getting new, but it would still reduce the net incremental benefit of those things. I'm jettisoning tough and weave also, and getting energize. That's a net plus assuming blaster energize isn't nerfed into oblivion. But my survival won't be me + energize, it will be me + energize - tough/weave. Ditto for offense.

Its something to watch carefully as the changes are tested when they are released for beta. There's no question its a net benefit, but how much it will displace to provide that benefit is something that I think can't really be fully answered in a short period of time, except anecdotally in very limited circumstances.

There's a couple of things I'm thinking about to improve upon what Arbiter Hawk has presented so far, and I don't think Arbiter Hawk has shown his entire I24 hand yet. There's room for improvement, but I also think we don't yet know what the full context of these changes are yet. I have a suspicion on top of the options that snipes and secondary sustain powers offer, there will be a couple more tossed our way that will complicate these decisions further, perhaps not specific to blasters but still.

That sorcery power pool is still lurking out there, for example.

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

shouldnt need more than 2 range enhancers, and one tree of clarion has +range in it too

since you have to do that in a league if you have 10+ people just snipe at same time it nearly 1 shots the bomb anyway

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

to answer the questions:

1. i think its 80 ft for when they start counting down

2. they can be killed in melee but you would have to kill them before they blew up (ie <10 sec)

3. i think 24 bombs total

Originally Posted by Hopeling

We have not one, but two new items this week, as discussed a few threads down the front page of this very forum. No announcement thread by 11am is a little unusual, though.

I forgot what your objection to the purple sets was because I was too busy thinking about how awesome a near-100% purple proc in Gloom is.

Edit: The announcement thread is up now.

Originally Posted by Agent White

Or Night Ward for freemies. Guess it's VIP exclusive for a lil while.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

Yes and yes. For Dr. Kahn it's Column Breaker and Master of the 5th Column Task Force. For Barracuda it's Arbiter and Master of the 5th Column Strike Force. The difference between the badges is subtle but it's there.