New Archetype Ideas

Yeah, I had to think about it for awhile, because I do think the "element" of risk would be higher with a shorter range. But I think that if you made the effort to keep everything at range and "prop-up" your range defense, the results would still be the same.

Every AT has basic modifiers to the effectiveness of powers. For example. A Blaster has a Scale 1.25 ranged damage. Any time a Blaster uses a ranged attack he or she will do the attack's base damage multiplied by 1.25 (25% more damage). A Scrapper's Ranged Damage Scale is .50 which means they'll only do 50% of the base damage the attack throws off normally.

Blaster firing Ranged 100 point damage attack deals 125 damage
Scrapper firing Ranged 100 point damage attack deals 50 damage

Link for the damage scales by AT :http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Damage_Scale


Does that make sense?

Meanwhile all ATs also have modifiers to their buff/debuff powers. I don't have a link handy, but a Defender and a Corruptor both tossing the same buff will grant different amounts of buff. Debuff is the same. Generally speaking an Epic pool grants you abilities you normally don't have based on your class. Tankers get ranged attacks and control effects, for example. They still have a base modifier to the effectiveness of the power, even if they normally don't receive it in their primary or secondary. The modifiers (unless I'm mistaken!) also apply to most if not all temporary powers gained throughout your career (except the Vet reward powers which ignore all buffs or enhancements).

-Rachel-

Just a minor correction: the Blaster ranged damage scalar is 1.125, not 1.25, which equates to 12.5% more damage, not 25% more damage.

Also, you have to remember that the ranged damage scalar doesn't apply to every ranged attack. Because such a pitiful ranged damage scalar would make the APP and in-set attacks that are ranged so utterly useless, all of the Scrapper ranged attacks actually use the Scrapper melee damage scalar.

Yeah, Quantums, even without the unresistable damage, are just a pain in the ***. It's not like Kheldians are gods among men and utterly overpowered, so I don't see why a cheap-shot enemy has to exist for them.

But it's not just Voids and Quantums that bugged me as a Kheldian. Practically everything did. Lieutenants hit me like they were bosses, minions swarmed and overpowered me quickly and minor screw-ups put me in BIG trouble. And mind you, this is coming from someone with a multitude of Blasters, so I'm used to fragile. But with Blasters, I both had more punch AND was actually harder to kill, perplexingly. I guess if I'd stuck with my Kheldian to the 30s and 40s things would have turned around, but the slog through the lower and upper 20s was just SO BAD it wasn't worth it.

A Dominator I actually managed to tough out until 31 or 32, but with them it was a combination of lack of survivability and lack of damage that did me in. Yes, they have good damage mods, but their damage mods are worse than those of Blasters AND their defences are worse still. Control does help somewhat, but some things you can't control, other things you can't control for long and still other things you can't control quickly enough. The dude felt anaemic, so I ended up axing the concept.

The point is that any AT which is designed to go into melee and STAY in melee, as any Assault/Defence AT should be, is going to need decent defences. Believe it or not, amount of hit points counts for a LOT.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Someone wasn't playing a Warshade

"Oh, hello Mr Quantum and friends, would you like to play? And by play I mean flay your miserable bodies with negative energy and then drain the stained little things you call souls out of your multilated corpses, while using them as bombs and pet food!! Bwahahahahahaa!

...*ahem* Yeah. I enjoy WS's too much XD

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.

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

So far I've found my Peacebringer is much more effective than my Warshade, but I've only gotten them to level 20....

Yeah, 20+ is where Warshades take off into orbit. Stygian Circle = never need for health or stamina again. Corpse bomb, pet power, Cone stun, Dwarf form...all the goodness that comes with being purple and bad@ss

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.

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

:/

How is that any different from a Mastermind that switches sides?

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Why in particular model their Control powers after Dominators? I was thinking model them after Controllers so they didn't do a little bit too much damage.