Corruptor Rain of Fire incorrect Scourge value
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Kitsune Knight,
Posted on: 2012-03-23 09:27 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Ah, I should play my level 53 fire/dark more to make them fix this then. 
H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD
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I just want sets to be more balanced.|
Originally Posted by newchemicals
Ah, I should play my level 53 fire/dark more to make them fix this then.
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I have always found the corruptors underperform compared to other archetypes, but then I never played Fire Blast.
If rain of Fire is actually "working as intended", such that Fire Blast was intentionally made as good as it is, then maybe they will buff other corruptor sets in simple ways to be on par with Fire Blast and thus much more fun.
If this is a bug they want to squash then fixing it will at least stop the "Fire is king" flavor of the month prevalence and actually make more variety more common.
Other power sets will have a better chance of getting more attention from players, getting more guides and having more variety in builds and strategies.
Of course Defender blizzard does the same damage as blaster blizzard.
Well, once past 30 blasters start to underperform worse than corruptors. However, that's a different topic. 
Edit: if you want to see this fixed, you need to start a topic showing how to leverage its brokeness for MEGA xp and force the devs to make a change.
H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD
It's not bugged.
Freezing Rain, Rain of Arrows, Bullet Rain, and all other Rain-type powers have two scourge rolls for each tick. Go check out Red Tomax's guide on the Titan Network.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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That is not how it is bugged.|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
It's not bugged.
Freezing Rain, Rain of Arrows, Bullet Rain, and all other Rain-type powers have two scourge rolls for each tick. Go check out Red Tomax's guide on the Titan Network. |
Rain of Fire actually does 3 times the base damage when it Scourges because the damage number for each tick is 2x for Scourge on top of the normal 1x.
Look at the detailed info in game.
Look at Ice Storm also. Ice Storm does 0.5x smashing damage plus 0.5x cold damage plus 1x Scourge cold damage for a total of 2x damage.
Rain of Fire does 1x fire damage plus 2x Scourge fire damage.
It is clearly set to the wrong number.
Ah, I see what you're talking about.
All Rains do have two chances to crit on each tick, so doing up to 3x normal damage is how they normally work. Each of RoF's normal ticks, though, are also twice the size of the source damage, giving it the potential for 5x the base damage.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Scourge is only supposed to make a power provide "up to double damage", normal damage + normal damage(from Scourge).
That is how every attack works for corruptors.
Rain of Fire gets "triple damage" from Scourge, normal damage + (normal damage x2).
That is very bugged, and it is amazing that it is still in the game that way.
No wonder everybody says "make a Fire Blast corruptor" when Rain of Fire is essentially a cheat.