Vel_Overload

Great way to start a counter argument, automatic assumption people need to l2play. You must be in politics.

Agreed. But still. Mezzes shut down Blasters horrible. Some say Blasters need a weakness like mezzes but I say it's kinda strange how this one AT needs such a glaring weakness when every other AT gets some form of defense against it. MM have their pets still attacking+bodyguard. Defenders and corruptors, depending on their powersets can be rather resilient to Mezzes but still, they are support and probably should have this weakness.

To make my point short and sweet, The Blaster being the 'balls to the wall' AT, really shouldn't worry about mezzes. It really interrupts the flow of how a Blaster plays. Blasters should worry about incoming damage.

I dunno. This is simply my opinion and I say in CoH today, where Incarnates run around being as OP as ever.. Blasters really don't scale well in similar situations due to their glaring holes.

Assuming a fully IO'd out Blaster Vs. a fully IO'd out Brute I'd say yeah, it's about even usually. The problem is that the Brute doesn't worry about mezzes. The Brute has much higher mitigation and can have comparible damage. Thats the issue here. Brutes are simply so well rounded that it's hard to say a Blaster is better than a Brute in a situation. Yeah the Blaster can dish out huge sums of damage but the Brute can do comparible damage while having great surviveability on top of it.

Meh, not a problem with the Blaster.. more a problem with the Brute I'd say... Brutes be OP man!

Interesting about the pets heh. Pets are great solo usually but since we're comparing single powers to single powers.... blasters still get Snipe and the archaic Nuke spell (For older sets). And even with the changes I don't see Blasters picking up snipe very often due to it doing similar damage to the T3 blast anyway. I'd rather carry 3 red candies than 3 yellow candies simply so I can quick-snipe on a blaster.

Doms are fine. Doms do High-average damage when compared to the heavy hitters: Brutes, Blasters, Scrappers. And have control on top of it. Quasi Support-Damage role so I say apples to oranges. Also, I hate to break it to you but Elec/Elec is atrocious in comparison to say, Ice/Fire or Fire/Psy or Plant/Fire etc. Electric Assault is terrible in terms of damage due to having The Voltaic Fuzzball.. and Zapp and the hilarious Thunderstrike (seriously.. it take 3.5 seconds to use if you include lag time!).

Doms also get mez protection in Domination which is very possible to make perma.

I dunno. Not trying to destroy your arguement I'm just saying that Blasters do have issues... issues that aren't patched up very well with IOs or Incarnate crap like other ATs. Blasters do excellently in 1-50 stuff... but once you factor in IOs and Incarnate stuff, they start to scale worse... similar to Masterminds

lol they sure do love their VIPs man... so much they either make us wait 2 months to get it or force us to give even more money for power crepped sets...

Don't forget to craft them too. For some reason crafted IOs sell much more than the recipe for them + mats

But is the way to do it? This only make it good for one thing: Quickscoping. That's it. I still wouldn't pick it sadly.

Devices needs something more than an indirect buff like this.

uh huh. No need to be embarassed ^_^ /nudge /nudge

I'll give you that Arcana... but some people where were acting as if the game would be around fooooooooorrrrrreeeevvvveeeerrrr. Which it won't.

That's why having a second build is great. I'm not going to post a second build for lowbie stuff. I'm just trying to get people to use brainpower to make a Granite Tanker that attempts to crank up the psy defenses to modest levels assuming 27+ content (being lowered to 27 keeps Granite Armor)

Anyway, need to update the first post brb!

Edited:

So now we have Elusive Mind and Tanker IO set. Of Course Elusive Mind isn't up 100% of the time but when it it, it puts us about 3% over the softcap which is great. But of course, a more perminent solution is appreciated! Any other nifty ideas?

I tried to socket Taunt in a more appropriate manner. I would gladly remove the sixth slot from a lot of powers to give taunt more mmmmph! But many IO set's sixth slot bonus is higher psionic resistance/defense so thats a no go.

Priority:

1. High Psionic mitigation
2. High mititgation to everything else
3. Taunting/Getting punched in the face
4. Moving
5. Global Recharge
6. Dps

This.

I should have been more specific. This build was simply an exercise in trying to make Granite Amor less 'bad' against psionic. Yeah, I'd have better luck with super maxed Dark Armor (which can reach maxed psy res with a similar theory behind it).

A better formed statement would be: Make Granite Armor Tanker less susceptible to Psionic while maintaining it's core features. Use my build as a starting template.

But thanks for the (albiet obvious) advice

If you honestly think this game is going to be around forever, I hate to see what happens when finally the servers close. It's slowly losing subscribers and slowly people are moving on to other games.

Want evidence? Look up -any- game in history. Slowly, games die. I didn't say it would just shut down tomorrow.. but in a few years.. yeah.

Sorry but you sound like your in denial like anyone else who thinks this game is going to outlast time. I'm sure you believe that you will never leave this earth am I right?

All I'm saying is, and what the video is saying is that power creep is bad because it alienates players and makes players reconsider playing the game. And if people don't play the game, the game eventually loses money. Then it loses support and thus it is technically 'dead'.

Anyone else wanna argue that any game doesn't slowly 'die' ?

Rain of Fire is still a DoT aka it does it's damage over a fairly long period of time. and it's damage numbers are a bug that may or may not be fixed.. most likely not though because magic..

If Rain of Fire is so great then so is Ball Lightning, Short Circuit and other DoT attacks.. but sadly they aren't.

I'm not saying fire is bad because it certainly isn't... but I am saying that the extra damage component of Fire does not make it anywhere near the best set for corruptors. Archery is still amazing. Rad 'can' be amazing. Sonic is still the best in my humble opinion that is entirely up to debate.

Don't forget Ice also has the blaster-level damage on it's Ice Storm. Ice Also has delicious holds and the almighty Blizzard that kept it's Blaster Numbers.. that also procs off scourge.

But I think you were there when people made a mega thread comparing Blizzard (and similar rain powers) to nukes and I believe it was aruged that since the damage isn't in one burst that you cannot say that the enemy(s) will stay inside the rain for the entire duration so it's total damage is up to debate.

TL : DR - Rain of Fire may be nice, but if we're using that argument then Ice Blast has the upper hand.