docbuzzard

While it is true that brutes are behind tankers in survivability, I'm not exactly sure where you think they are behind scrappers in some regard. They have equal or superior survivability to a scrapper and comparable or superior damage. Their only liability is getting the head of steam going in fury.

Personally I find the fury mechanic very amusing, so I have a hard time even playing a scrapper anymore.

Bingo. That's how I do it. I only pick up TPBs if they look interesting and I can just skip storylines if they look like dreck. Back when I was a proper comic book junkie, I just bought the comics in a series month in and month out.

I suppose I could pick and choose comics as they come out, but this is more convenient.

Ok I read it and still don't see much logic in it, but it doesn't really matter to me. Was just curious really.

Yeah, I always see this nonsense about how overpowered defenders would be if they could self buff.

It's a load of nonsense. They would still have gimp hit points, gimp damage and a joke inherent. BFD. A fully self buffed defender would still be the fat kid on the playground if he tried to solo.

Yes, one would feel less likely to reply to a request for something they are not. They also would be less likely to comment that the sky is blue or water is wet.

As for 'artificially limited responses', yes that is the point of using a qualifier in the first place. I don't ask for a specific powerset when I don't want it. I don't ask for a kinetics buffer and expect a storm defender to reply and lecture me on the wonders of their powers (not that I ever get that specific, but nonetheless).

If someone can't take people asking for specific powersets, tough noogies. They, as I said, need to crank down their sensitivity meter. Teams aren't that hard to come by especially in the era of SSK.

Yes, there is something necessarily stupid about it. A 30% absolute damage boost most of the time is something which will speed up any team (especially since you pretty much can't hit the resistance debuff cap without really working for it). Rad has too many good powers for any team to only want them for LR if they have any clue. Any team which wouldn't feel the rest of the rad powerset abilities, wouldn't need LR in the first place. Their damage would overcome any regen.

If a team is moronic enough to assume a rad will add nothing but LR on an AV, they aren't worth discussing. You can't buff away stupidity.

Also if someone was put out that people are specifically looking for a rad, they need to crank down the gain on their sensitivity meter.

I probably should have been more clear in what I meant. Someone above mentioned recruitment asking for a tanker with 2k HP and 100 regen. I've never seen the likes of that. I have seen messages asking for kins and rads however. I don't really consider asking for a powerset as a specification, but I can certainly understand such an interpretation. Usually I just see people ask for buff/debuff. That's what I ask for as a rule.

Actually what you think 'everyone knows' is something you have wrong.

The way resistance defbuffs work in this game is actually consistent across things with lots of resistance and no resistance. If I hit a target with a resistance debuff of 40%, I will always increase team damage by 40%.

If the target has 50% resistance to the damage, and you debuff it 40%, you end up debuffing after resistance by 20%. So before debuffing a 100 point attack did 50. After debuffing it does 70. That is a 40% increase in damage.

I would postulate that the reason resistance debuff resistance exists is that it would be overpowered on hard targets.

Say I'm hitting a target with 50% resistance with an unresistable 40% resistance debuff power. The 100 point attack which was before doing 50 points, is now doing 90 points of damage. That is an 80% improvement. This only gets more magnified with higher initial resistance. On a 90% resistance target the damage increase goes to 500% (10 to 50).

Unresistable resistance debuff powers are a no-no for a reason. They would drastically skew encounter experience in favor of teams having those debuffs. I mean completely drastically.