Enhancements question


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I was wondering, Why are there are no Resistance Debuff, Damage Debuff, Recharge Debuff Enhancements ?
(and Recharge Increase Inspirations)


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Recharge Debuffs are generally handled by Enhance Slow.

Recharge increase insps... I seem to recall they were on the to-do list in the very early days of CoH (along with teleport insps), but someone upstairs decided it would monkey about with the power balancing unless they were so feeble as to be useless.

Whenever this question's been asked previously, cleverer people than I have indulged in a bit of mathematical skulduggery to show how ludicrously overpowered enhancing the debuff on damage or resistance would be.


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Recharge Debuffs are generally handled by Enhance Slow.

Whenever this question's been asked previously, cleverer people than I have indulged in a bit of mathematical skulduggery to show how ludicrously overpowered enhancing the debuff on damage or resistance would be.

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Doesn't enhance slow just affect travel speed rather than recharge time? (I don't know, I've never played a cold/ice toon)

Also, why would it be overpowered to debuff resistance? We can debuff defence?


 

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It's something to do with the way that no matter how much you debuff defence, you'll still miss 1/20 hits.


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Slow enhancers dont debuff the recharge effect, just the slow side.


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Doesn't enhance slow just affect travel speed rather than recharge time? (I don't know, I've never played a cold/ice toon)

Also, why would it be overpowered to debuff resistance? We can debuff defence?

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Definitely debuffs recharge - at least where the power description says it does which I believe is most.

And we can debuff resistance - most sonic attacks do as does tar patch from dark - if it was enhancable the base debuff would have to be significantly reduced - a sonic/sonic def or corrupter should be able to stack over 100-120% debuff easily as things stand now.
Remember though that resistance resists resistance debuffs so the initial debuffs may not have a large effect but as they do start to debuff the resistance they also debuff the resistance debuff resistance and so stacking is extremely effective.


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