Rumored Scrapper "Rebalancing?"

When someone says "two scrappers are always worse than two corruptors," that's directly comparable to someone saying "a brute is always better than a ____." No such generalization over the archetypes is ever true. I haven't duoed the LGTF with two scrappers to prove it to be false, but it should be plainly obvious that two scrappers can be constructed that can stack mag 16 status effects, fly, do ranged damage, and kill AVs rapidly with lore pets, same as any AT. That plus a little chutzpah are all you need to run a speed LGTF. I think it telling that the fastest teams are always mixed, however. It demonstrates that balance in CoH is not as bad as some people would like to think.

So we're back to "nerf stacking buffs/debuffs?"

I'm gonna take my cue on game balance from titan, staff and perma-lightform: They don't care, why should I? There's enemies to kill for profit!

Well perma light form and Inner light have made a nice difference from my old I9 PB.

I can't wait for Staff. My toon LunarKnight is already waiting.

I'm hoping that I can talk customer service into locking me out of TW again and putting those points toward staff instead. Since I'm not asking for the points back... maybe?

CSB time:

I've had the impression for over a year now that brutes were more fun than scrappers. Fury meant I could slot early for acc, end, and rech, while my scraps were either scraping for damage or blue skittles. And since I mostly did tips and groups, I was never really at a loss for enough mobs to keep the fury up. Jump in, whale away, and let fury make the good times roll.

A couple days ago, I decided to take my main brute on a solo journey to talk to Tina pick up Portal Jockey. It wasn't until I found myself running down way too long corridors with way too few robots to smash that I found that maybe a scrapper who did something other than lethal wouldn't totally suck. So after pondering, I shifted a spare brute over to another server and rolled a StJ/SD. Two days, four DFBs, and nineteen levels later, and I'm sold. She hit like a truck right out of the sewers and keeps on trucking without gasping for breath every other mob. I love her concept, her costume, how Street Justice flows, and how she can dive right in without needing a few warm up hits.

So I'm with UberGuy: Scrappers are good the way they are.

LOL not a chance.

OK, you still haven't responded to what I said in my initial post.

You said SD was "one of the few secondaries that work better".

I'm not asking you why it works better on a Scrapper. I'm asking you why you hold that the other powersets work better on a Brute. Is it because Brutes unconditionally get taunt auras, or is it something else? Because other than getting taunt auras, most of the sets are functionally identical in terms of power scale.

Not only is scrapper damage potential higher, the ATOs widen the gap. Average brute performance is improved a great deal, yet nothing can help a brute that is already damage capped. Now scrappers have a larger crit window than ever. So yes, scrappers definitively have a performance advantage. The annoying part is that brute boosters, or brewsters as I like to call them, tend to selectively ignore that because they're so high on life due to their sheer bruteyness. I admire the enthusiasm, it's great that you love brutes, but they're not objectively better, they have certain pros and cons just as scrappers do. I personally have come to accept that Moonlighter, mauk2 and others simply prefer brutes but that's where this mini-conflict is coming from.