Assault Bot Incendiary Missiles

Has this power been changed back to the way it used to be? I remember dev saying it should not work like fire armor's burn patch and would put it on his list of things to do.

Does anybody know?

I don't think so, but its 1 of many issues that needs sorting out with regarding MMs, and afaik no official response from a redname has been made yet on any of the major problems

Most likely the devs aren't in a position to actually make changes right now. They're getting I19 finalized so changing the Live code would require redoing I19 builds, which they don't like to do after a certain point. (This is assuming I19 is going live soon.) Hopefully I19 has some MM fixes... if not, it will probably be January before we see anything since I believe the devs take a long break at Christmas.

I personally like the new one better. I use to hate the scatter thar burn would cause, the new version does less damage but it sticks for the total duration wihout the need for an AoE Immob. In the long run I think it would do more damage as all ticks apply.

I hate to say it, but bots is a joke now compared to what it was capable of. Bots heavily relies on the assault bot's Incendiary missiles for damage and nerfing them to 1/3 the damage really affects the set's overall damage. Used to be the ridiculous damage on the missiles would push bots over thugs in terms of damage under many circumstances. Now unless i'm mistaken, the assault bot's missiles does virtually the same damage as the arsonist's firebomb, but still takes 20s compared to arsonist's 10s to deliver the damage. The assault bot's missiles still have the larger radius, but both radii are quite large (15' and 20').

Don't get me wrong, I love (and still like) the steamroller that is bots. I've IO'd my own bots/traps. But now it's less of a steamroller and more of a household iron. Still able to flatten things, but nowhere near its prior ability.

Actually now that I think about it, even though it was a mistake, it almost seems more fair now since bots is clearly one of the hardiest pet classes. No sense in giving one of the sturdiest pets the best damage as well. And now it opens up room for patron pools other than Mu Mastery. hmm, maybe this could actually be a good thing for the game balance.

I actually was inclined to believe that it was a decent change as well. A vast majority of Masterminds were Robotics because they were both very tough and very damaging, not to mention the AV killing capability they have.
As far as the Mu Mastery thing, though, I dunno if I would get rid of it just yet. The bots still do a lot of knockback, and Mu really helps mitigate that.
Makes me sad that the KB is considered so bad almost everyone chooses a specific Patron Pool for that reason alone. Takes away from the idea behind CoH being making a unique character and taking powers you like rather than to mitigate a drawback of your primary powerset.

Can somebody post the I17 & I18 stats of missiles?

I forgot about this little change since I took a break just a few weeks after it happened but I thought my Bots/Traps felt a little weak last night, seeing fields of single digit numbers is great fun, but I preferred the double digit ones!

As for the lack of fear in the burn patches I don't care, more damage > less damage!

Thankfully I can see this being one that does get fixed (The AI bug sounds quite hard to fix without creating seperate AI's for each pet group), it may not be a priority but all they need to do is create a new burn pet with the old stats and assign it to the Assault Bot, so I have high hopes for it.

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