what AT's are in need of any help?

Masterminds.

Ever since demons they have desperately needed an AI fix.

I'll place order of priority:
1. Blasters

For me, this entire AT is still falling behind other ATs. After two rounds of Defiance, it's still not there.

I still think that Defiance shouldn't have been about damage, but about mez protection. Keep attacking to stack Defiance buffs to make you fight through mez attacks.

Then to resolve the damage issue, adjust the base ranged damage mods upward a bit.

Be sure to all the melee attacks have short duration soft or hard control components to them.

Now that new tech is available, 3 stacks of defiance allows snipes to have a new, uninterruptable short animation allowing them to be used in combat (that and snipes need their current dpa adjusted upward). And all nukes should be crashless.

2. Tankers

I'm of the opinion that Tankers should have a mechanical change that helps differentiate their playstyle from the other melee ATs. There has been quite a few times that I've had to explain to new players that made Tanks how Bruising works. how Guantlet works, and what a "taunt aura" is.

Besides reading into the powers, which it seems people don't regularly do, there just wasn't any indicator to players that showed them what's going on with these effects. With Scrappers you have crits, Stalkers you had hide, now new tech which changed their playstyle - with crits, Brutes you see your Fury bar move when you're attacked and are attacking and see your damage go up. Tankers? Those new players only noticed how "tough" they were as in the ability to withstand damage. That and it took too long for aoes attacks

3. Master Minds: it's true Pet AI needs work. However, the AT over all works well. Sure there's some issues with some sets in comparison to others, this occurs within every AT. But over all, the AT works well.

If and when pet AI does get looked into, it's something that probably would take a long time because not only would it affect MMs, but every pet in the game, player and npc alike. Not to mention probably also deal with much of the reguar mob AI as well.

While to many this sounds like something that'd be worth looking into, consider that over all, the game, and those ATs that use pets are functional. Not perfect, but functional.

Once all that is done, or perhaps while that's being done, then some other powersets that need adjusting can occur.

That's were you get TA and Mercs fixed. Those aren't necessarily AT issues, but powerset issues.

I don't think that the MM pets Ai is a hard fix to be honest Mercs suffer from small issues the same for Ninjas.

Give Ninjas the Jack Frost/Animate Stone Treatment.

Mercs...whew boy lmao!

They use the old AR attacks and animations. Give them the updated AR animations. Make the medic ranged ONLY he needs a Pbaoe heal...God...

Ok, I need to go to bed because I could be here all night talking about the horrors of playing a Merc MM.

Have seen alot of folks talking about Tankers and with the exception of certain powersets under-performing (ICE) or unpopular for mechanical reasons (STONE), Tankers are just fine to me.

I have never played a more survivable AT in any game (let alone this one) and they have a solid group role. If your argument is that the group role is not as "starkly" differentiated, then you should review ALL group roles in this game. Other MMOs have a clear "role-brand" for each AT. COX, not so much.

Tankers are just fine.

I agree with an earlier poster about Ice anything needs to be revamped in this game. The only good Ice set are Ice Blast, Cold Dom and Ice Armor for Stalkers and even then Ice Blast needs another secondary effect. -Recharge doesn't mitigate anything in game these days. I think Ice Blast should have -RES maybe half or 1/4 the -RES that sonic has.

Ice Manipulation needs a huge revamp...again I could go on but I'm talking about Sets now instead of ATs. Sorry heh.

It's not so much as Tanks aren't good enough for their designed role. They're stury enough to do well. It's just that the mechanics behind how Tankers operate are so subtle that unless you know about them, you'd never know they were there.

I've seen people ask out loud why Tanker attacks can be slotted with taunt. And really, if you didn't know about gauntlet, everyone generates aggro by attacking, so it doesn't feel very different when you're using a Tank.

The only thing is the sense of sturdiness and that when you mash the Taunt power, you instantly nab mobs' attention. Which is a concept given many other games.

There's seems to be sufficient reason to warrant the devs to take another look at Tankers. Enough so that Synapse has stated that they'd do so.

I'm certainly not advocating for a new inherent that increases damage - or at least not directly. I'd like it if Bruising worked with other powers in the set and had some ability to stack with other Tankers. But I get it if that's not feasable.

The change may be as simple as providing effects for guantlet to show on mobs, or something to do with the new Absorb mechanic. Wouldn't it be interesting if Tankers had a MM like ability to guard nearby players and absorb some of their damage.

Not being able to slot RIP IOs as a balance point was kinda thrown out when some of the T7s can slot them anyways. All it does is give a disadvantage to the ones that don't have it. Ninjas, Mercs, Beasts would all benefit greats from the extra 5% def and 10% res, as well as the extra slots. Bots are already very powerful and don't much need it.

The suggestions weren't just that, either, they were around making all of them about the power level of Bots/Thugs/Demons.

As for just making the pets able to slot them, that would mean that the sets without the pet T7s would be lower on slots due to have 5 (soon 6) aura procs to slot in their main pets.

I'm going to say this, and I'd like people to keep an open mind. Don't focus on the messenger, but listen to the message.

Most people playing this game don't know there's an aggro cap, let alone what it is, let alone think that it's too low. I highly doubt that raising it is going to make Tankers any more appealing except to a relative few hard core players, as most players wouldn't even notice the difference.

Furthermore, if you're trying to increase Tanker popularity with the masses, making the toughest AT even tougher isn't going to do it. If they're not playing Tankers now, it's because being tough isn't enough of a selling point to them, especially at the cost of so much damage. That is not going to improve Tanker's image of being slow, low damage and boring. If people wanted premium survivability at the cost of losing a ton of offensive capability, Stone Armor would be the most popular power set in the game. Pushing Tankers further towards the extreme, and pushing them further into a niche doesn't help them.

I ask you to look at what was done for Stalkers. They didn't play up their hide-and-backstab shtick further because they were hurting for being too specialized around that. What they did was improve their fighting ability and damage they could do when not hidden and increased their HP cap for a bit more survivability. In other words, they brought them a little bit closer towards middle and made them a little more rounded than they were before. And they are all the better for it. I've rolled and kept more Stalkers since their buffs than I ever have, largely because they don't feel so much like one-trick ponies now.

The same should be done for Tankers. They're currently one-trick aggro ponies. They could stand to be able to pitch in with the damage dealing a little more and have their damage cap increased the same way Stalkers had their HP cap increased. Because I'm sure if you asked people why they're not playing Tankers, they're not going to answer that it's because they're not tough enough and the aggro cap is too low.


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Every other AT isnt as important as Masterminds!

Masterminds need more attention!

RAWR!

I understand Johnny but a lot of people still don't know about the Stalker change even when playing one and seeing the Assassin's Focus Icon *sigh*.

Well my idea has been scrapped...what if Tankers had their damage upped to a Brute's level...do you think people would roll one then?

Also Stalkers didn't even do what they were suppose to do well and the devs know it.