Westley

I agree. What we need is more than one type of cheesy grin.

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Tankers? I'd say they do about as much damage as Defenders. Just up close.

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Except that's not true. Just about any tank I can think of can outdamage a FF defender, most of them quite convincingly. Plus many tanks have damage in their primaries (blazing aura, icicles, burn, shield charge, etc.)

Defenders without -res (or a suitable self +dmg buff like kinetics) in their primaries do subpar damage. Fortunately (or unfortunately) only FF and empathy lack that capability.

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Do you know WHY they do more damage than Defenders? Because in general melee damage is higher than ranged damage. I know people will roll their eyes about this, but it's true. A club to the face in this game will do more damage than your typical blast.

The theory is that Defenders can shoot from RANGE and thus are safer because range = protection.

In reality, Defenders already do a decent enough job at keeping themselves alive with their own primary powers, so they don't NEED the range.

But if we DID get a damage buff, would anyone play Blasters?

It's a hard balancing equation, and I'm glad I don't have to do it.

Or in short:

Why are Controllers so Awesome? Because they have their own Awesome PLUS Defenders' Awesome.

And you can quote me on that, because it's totally not fair.

I have a personal theory that this game only really has TWO roles:

Support and Damage

ALL ATs can do enough damage to solo.... at a snail's pace at least, but let's look at the ATs and where they fit into these two basic roles:

<ul type="square">[*]Scrappers - Damage, little to no Support.[*]Blasters - Damage, little to no Support.[*]Tankers - Support with minor Damage.[*]Defenders - Support with minor Damage.[/list]
Now this comes from just what I've seen these ATs do. Scrappers and Blasters are basically just "stuff killers". And Tankers and Defenders are basically "Support that can also kill stuff", but kill stuff slower than the "Damage" ATs.

That leaves Controllers. Now what did they USED to be? Well, their primary is Control, which is, Survey Says....

Support!

And their secondary is Defender Primaries, which are, Survey Says.....

Support!

So, while all the other ATs have one major role to fill with a minor one thrown in on the side, Controllers had TWO Support roles. The extremely minor damage that they did originally was thrown in there as a necessity so that the Controllers COULD play solo if they wanted to... so it was POSSIBLE.

Then what happened? Controllers got Double Damage.

Which means that now their primary did Support, in the form of stopping enemies from doing ANYTHING... PLUS "good" Damage, and their secondary also did Support, ALMOST as good as the Defender Primaries.

So, is it any wonder that Controllers are overpowered?

Tankers and Scrappers have a weakness - They have to be in melee.

Blasters and Defenders have a weakness - low hitpoints.

Controllers.... don't. Sure, they also have lower hitpoints, but guess what? Enemies don't matter when you can STOP THEM FROM DOING ANYTHING.

Controllers are just simply overpowered, and that's the truth.

/Rant over.

Tankers? I'd say they do about as much damage as Defenders. Just up close.

All I can say is, Containment is the worst thing that could have ever happened to Defenders.

It makes Controllers overpowered because it gives them "close enough" to the same buffs Defenders have PLUS amazing damage on top of that.

It's really not fair, if you ask me.

But, you can tell me this one, since you like to compare ATs that share powersets with each other... can one Blaster keep a full team as safe as one Force Field Defender?

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That may be true, but some of us had the temp power, but none of us used them.

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Really, because in the chat log Mentalshock clearly says "I have it to. I just used it."

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O SNAP!

So, how do I start a Joke SG?

Bah, I soloed him.

It was messy.

Bad memories.

cuz i want it i want it I WANT IT I WANT IT!!!!!!!!

That's why.

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Don't really know what else to add, but maybe even witches need some kind of 'oh crap' thing to whip out when things get tough?

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At the tail end of level 40...

"Laugh now, my pretties. You may have shrugged off my mighty powers borne of ancient magic. But the time is drawing nigh when you will regret our foolishness. Mark my words..."


After a little montage to get to 41...

"I'm back! Remember me? And now for a magic of a new and different kind..." (Whips out the rocket launcher and blows the bums away.)

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So awesome.

LOL

Is that a cousin to the WTF Blanket?

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Off to change my name now !

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*looks at her name three hours later*

Wow, I hope she didn't get lost.

Jump Kick has numbers comparable to Air Superiority, and everyone keeps raving about how AS is one of the best Pool Powers you can get.

Defense prevents Sleeps.

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I've done an ITF with a stalker who had no status protection and used jump kick in his attack chain and kept my mouth shut.

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What's wrong with Jump Kick?

Because rocket launching witches are AWESOME. That's why.

Almost as awesome as a Robotic Ninja Pirate. Almost.

Was it fluffy and creamy too?

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It's just the usual friday server maintenance. They should be back up an an hour or 2. SUCK IT TREBEK!!!

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It's just the usual friday server maintenance. They should be back up an an hour or 2

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That way if the healer's baby throws up in the middle of a big fight the secondary healer can step in without losing a beat.

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You fail.

You'd probably like the Jello Shooters channel on Protector, like you, they don't want me around. They also like chatting a lot and blowing stuff up. Great Minds Think Alike?

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(Except PK - he abused it, so some of us are tempted to petition for a ban if he does it again! )


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Yeah, mine's not changing again. Because we don't know when the new forums will be upon us, and I don't want to be stuck with something retarded when they make the switch.

Every time I see your name man, I get hungry for Funyuns...

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So what's the fastest 1 to 50 time you have heard?

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If I cared, I probably would have remembered what I heard.

--NT

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You're so cool for not caring.

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Am I even cooler for not caring that he doesn't care?