Vauluur

How do fire, electricity, and darkness make sense? As has been said by various others it's a game/comic with about a billion things in it as is that don't "make sense". You can't think of anything in the game from a real world perspective.

Energy resistance was in the set. I'm sure it will be the highest resist type, as the trend has been for fire to have high fire resists, elec to have high energy resists, dark to have high negative resists, etc. Negative energy, by extension, will likely be the lowest resistance.

As far as the toxic damage aura that was mentioned, but I believe it's part of the Bio Armor set they also announced and they didn't want overlap in two sets that would be released relatively close together. Can hardly blame them for that.

There's a youtube video floating around of an absolutely insane Bane. Of course that one's an incarnate so I'm not sure how it played pre-50. I don't really think Banes need a buff so much as Crab Spiders will just always be easier to build well because of their available powers. Kind of like how a Peacebringer won't ever be a Warshade, even though Peacebringers don't really need a buff anymore.

This. I'm not sure I need to have a perfect thematic explanation for every armor works. If I did, then only Invulnerability and Regen would make sense.

Same here. If they ever introduce alternate animations I may try it. Until then it doesn't really fit any concept I'm likely to use. Particularly not this one. I suppose I could use Electric Melee. Still, I'd prefer Energy. Maybe I'll roll both and see what happens.

I think we will keep seeing a lot of posts like this (some probably more angry than Hyperstrike's which was actually a reasonably calm question) since a lot of people coming into the thread now probably didn't catch the second round of proposed changes.

While it's easy enough to find them in the Dev Digest, perhaps you could edit your original post to include a link to the second proposal Synapse? That would help prevent some of the confusion.

Z said earlier in the thread that concerns of this nature should be PM'd to him so that he can direct them to the proper people.

This thread is for the mechanical/balance aspect and is being monitored mainly by Synapse, who has nothing to do with the Paragon Store.

I don't remember the time frame of the EM nerfs, but was that Paragon or Cryptic? It seems like something Cryptic would do.

Also, was it anywhere near when they still thought they could make PvP a thing that worked?

This. The fact that SBEs came out in a state that made them more powerful than standard IOs was a mistake that should not have occurred in the first place and unfortunately that means that some people have to lose an advantage that they paid for. But I'm ok with that since it fixes the problem.

Yes, but for good reason. If the +recharge was not ignored then Spiritual would be the only Alpha worth slotting. The benefits of faster recharging Lore, Judgement, and Destiny would far outweigh whatever benefits the other Alpha powers might give you.

With the second round of proposed changes, there shouldn't be an appreciable drop in proc chance from the Alpha slot alone. Not to the point that it would make Spiritual a bad choice or significantly penalize those that have it. All it would require is a bit more creative slotting which anyone who cares enough to know the proc rate is reduced by higher recharge enhancement would be more than capable of doing.

Well, I've seen it floating around for some time now that SBEs were never intended to work better than standard IOs. They just did work significantly better because of their better design. I wouldn't have (and didn't) buy any SBEs for the better procs. I bought the sets because:
a.) I have limited play time and they were a convenient way to get IOs without going through the hassle of crafting them
b.) They are attuned, making them highly desirable for those of us who primarily use an existing main to experience new content at all levels.

Frankly, being surprised that a change is coming down the pipeline that stops players from turning powers into something they aren't supposed to be is a little childish. Caltrops are not supposed to be a damage patch. They are supposed to be a crowd control tool. Brawl and Boxing are supposed to be low cost, low recharge, fast animating attacks that deal a small amount of damage. Not something you can load up with procs and expect to solidly deal substantial damage essentially for free.

You got your fun out of the exploit while it existed, but that's no excuse for pretending it isn't an exploit now that they want to fix it.

It's not really something to get upset about. In a very large percentage of cases this will increase proc rate. Only in edge cases where flat rate procs could be exploited will this be a nerf. And it's one that needs to happen and should have happened a long time ago.

The one legitimate argument against this amounts to "I paid money to be better than everyone else and now I don't get to be." Which I can't really take seriously because really?

Is this assuming that no recharge is slotted into the power? If so, I don't see this being terribly game breaking. It would be trading consistent damage for massive burst damage. Otherwise, I assume the PPM would simply have to be less than 1.

Irrelevant. There will be changes. Synapse stated that all procs will have their PPM value increased.

Regardless, basing it on modified recharge still seems dumb without introducing a floor to the proc chance equivalent to the current flat chance procs. That would at least make it so recharge wasn't as much of a penalty. I'm not sure how often the new versions will be better, but it's very very important that they are never worse.