How to "save the game"

I've seen a lot of this going around. Going Rogue is coming, and with that, the obsolescence of ATs.

First, and most obviously, is defenders. They're already entirely useless blueside, as evident by the fact that no one plays them, and you only see controllers. No one at all plays them. No one. Seriously. This will only be made worse by corruptors crossing over. They do more damage than defenders and have the same powersets. So here's what the devs should do: Buff their damage and change the inherent to something that gives them a chance for critical damage as an enemy's health drops.

Speaking of corruptors, their (de)buff values are way below what a defender can do, which is totally gimped. Furthermore, why would you want a corruptor when you could have a controller that just crossed over which has comparable debuffs but gets controls and a pet? This obviously needs to be fixed. So here's what the devs should do: Increase corruptor debuff values to that of defenders and add an extra power to each set which lets them summon a pet.

Holy crap, and if you want to talk about gimped, look at controllers. They don't do damage! Dominators control like controllers, but they have assault sets. Corruptors and defenders have (de)buffs like controllers, but they do damage, and defenders are even better at (de)buffing. Masterminds have the same (de)buffs, but get more pets and do more damage. Clearly, the devs need to buff controller damage output to balance them against corruptors, defenders, dominators, and masterminds. Increase the potency of their (de)buffs and add a few more pets for balance with Masterminds.

On the topic of masterminds: Have you ever played a petless mastermind? Forget that. Have you ever tried doing damage as a mastermind? Your pets do way more damage than the mastermind can, which is completely gimped. Even a defender does more damage than a mastermind, so this needs to be balanced. Why would you want a mastermind on your team when you can get a defender that crossed over and does more damage? Buff the damage of mastermind attacks, decrease the recharge, and increase effectiveness of their (de)buff values. Then they'll be balanced.

Don't even get me started on the melee ATs. These ATs are so far imbalanced against each other it's not even funny. Tanks hold aggro better than any of the others. Stalkers have the higher burst damage than the others. Scrappers have crits like stalkers, but have higher HP and better mitigation. Brutes have the lowest base damage. The fix: Port gauntlet and fury to all the melee ATs, increase stalker and scrapper mitigation caps to brute/tank levels and considerably boost brute base damage. But that's not even the problem with them.

Brutes, tanks, scrappers and stalkers are all so severely gimped by one simple fact: They have to walk the entire way to the enemy to use their attacks! At least they get mez protection and defenses to minimize the danger, but still, this is completely imbalanced. No team wants a melee AT that has to spend time walking to the enemy! Devs, I demand that you allow all current melee attacks for these ATs to have 60' range in the name of balance.

Mez protection! Crap, I forgot about this. Why is it only melee ATs have mez protection? That's way off balance. All ATs need base 10 magnitude protection to everything.

You know what? I have a better idea. Let's make it so there's just one AT, it will have all the inherents rolled into one, and it can pick any power at any level. And we need other travel powers like swinging and burrowing. Then we should merge all the servers into one big one.

Yeah, then everything will be fixed.

ouchie...that is one helluva wall o'sarcasm. nice job.

Im worried by the possibility that your actually serious about all that.

I don't think this is as funny as it sounded in your head...

If anything its actually too well written.

Took more than a moment for my sarcasm detector to ping.

*sigh*

I don't know what controlled substance you were under, but, can I have some for scientific research purposes?

This reminds me of my rant about how Going Rogue will kill every single archetype except Wolf Spiders.

ROFL, actually thought you were at least half-srs until I saw the 10 mag mez protection for non-melee. Nice post, I lol'd

I almost thought you were serious until I read the part about controllers. Though why do I get the feeling that some people actually think this way?

Anyways, funny post. Made me laugh. =D

Ah'm awl fiyah'd up on mountin' dew!

Heh. It made me chuckle.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Although it did take me a minute to get that you were being funny, I like it. People are so overly dramatic in this game about the ATs.

I been thinking lots of times that you can choose an archetype, you got your primary and secondary powers, then you can choose between all the sets. With some limitations, obviously...

For ex:
Scrapper
Primary: Some powers from Dual blades, martial arts, elec.melee...
Secondary: Some powers from willpower, some from super reflex, some from, dark armor...

I know he wrote that in ironic way but i didnt found it funny since i think that would be freakin awesome.
I know, never gonna happen, but it would be the ****!

You forgot the ever-increasing need to merge the servers, as well as the markets.

And get rid of levels, lest we see more suggestions to raise the level cap.

I'm a little sad that it took me a moment to get that you weren't serious, mostly in terms of what it says about the average proposal/discussion here that is entirely so.