what AT's are in need of any help?

defenders are for soloing
corrs are for teaming

Actually for starters I think Defenders should have higher Control modifiers than any other class. They wouldn't get Overpower or Domination, but the actual duration should be a lot better. The existence of Storm and Trick Arrow particularly justify it in my mind.

I also think giving them a damage buff in GR was a mistake. What they needed, and IMO have always needed to make them actually fulfill the "best support" role is a reduction of the base recharge of their primary powers, by, say, 10 or 15%. The reason I am not more drawn to Defenders mainly has to due with the fact that for most of the big important buffs, how often you can cast is more important than how big it is. I guess you could tie that to team size or whatever if that still has to be a gameplay factor. Frce Field is the main set that doesn't work with this, but Force Field has some major issues anyway.

Also, Sonic Attack. There is no other way to say it: this blast set is broken on Defenders. Not because it is too good for the game per se, but because its so far out of line with other Defender blast sets.

While we're talking about blast sets, I think similar concepts would be a start for Blasters. Why does everything always have to be about just modifiers? I would start with Blasters by making all ranged Blasts minimum 80ft range on a Blaster, all AoEs 5ft bigger with a target cap of 20. They are supposed to be really good at blasting, so how come we never see it aside from just bigger numbers. Even if that's not the only buff they get, I feel like Blaster's need visual presence in the form of fireballs and lightning bolts no one else can match.

I don't agree regarding control mods, but recharge - yes. That would go well with their inherent, getting end discounts as people are getting low on health - and it would also help with their damage output too.

Ehhhh regarding sonic attack - is it still top dog now that defenders have fire and beam rifle? Would like to see the numbers on that actually. I realize sonic helps team damage but still...

Mm ninjas/ need help, plz for the love of stateman plz help, millions of ninjas have die since 2006, nobody have ever help to stop the massacre.

Oh! The horror!!

My view of the relative need for 'help'. I am not interpreting help to mean 'buffs' necessarily.

1. Blasters - Only need help because everyone else is so Overpowered.

2. Peacebringers - Don't really need help. Some folks find them a pain to play (including me), but that doesn't mean the semi-AT is broken. If it got buffed (again) I wouldn't complain, but unless they are ready to do what's needed (reliable AoE) I wouldn't bother.

3. Scrappers - Flip out and kill isn't unique. Give this AT something that's unique and stop stealing everything they have and giving it to Stalkers.

4. Tankers - Need help only because you really don't need their tanking abilities. It's great to be immortal, but you don't need immortal for 95%+ of the content. Not sure what 'help' would look like. Probably giving them a better version of criticals.

Everyone else - No.

I vote we remove Scrapper criticals entirely and bump their base damage up by another 0.07. Surely then Geko will be happy!

How's about Pi divided by 'i' and multiplied by 'e'

None of this was a problem before GR came out. Each side had distinctive ATs with distinctive roles and that was that. Then with GR you have heroic Brutes and MMs and villianous Tanks and the lines got very blurry.

However I don't think that it will be easy to separate them again. With Inventions the Devs have made Scrappers and Brutes that can be as survivable as Tanks. Those two already did more damage so if they had to give up a small part of it to get as tough as Tanks they were still ahead of the curve. However Tanks are unable to lean the other way. They have nothing to sacrifice in order to gain more damage or control.

The game is supposed to be about having fun and making choices. The player can normally choose to have a more aggressive build or a more defensive one. Some STs and powerset combinations allow you to come close to having it all and those are the current FotW on the Forums.

I think ALL of the powersets and ATs need a leveling pass first before anyone goes mucking about. Bring the less advantageous sets (like Dual Pistols) up to be closer in performance to the high-end sets like Fire and Dark. Fix some of the issues like Nuke crashing and the highly-skippable T9 powers on many defensive sets. Update some of the oldest sets (like Stone Armor) to make them something other then 'I play until I get T9 then respec the whole character'.

THEN you can start playing about with the ATs and Inherents and so forth.

First and foremost I want to say this:

Everything concerning balance should be based around SO performance, not what's possible with IOs. Post-Incarnate can be tricky, since Incarnates combined with IOs have started to allow people to do crazy things, but I don't think saying something like 'Alphas fix tanks!' is completely okay either. I think every AT and powerset as well should stand on their own without Incarnates/IOs, and all should have room for growth, if not the exact same room.

Blasters:

On that note, I feel blasters as an AT, and many of their powersets, fail spectacularly. I think they need someone to personally go through and retailor how the sets for the AT works, seeing as they are pure assault and glass cannons, but many other ATs can come close, or even match, their damage without giving up that survivability.

I believe Arcana has talked before about how MORE DAMAGE is not quite the right answer for Blasters either, and while I feel -some- damage improvements should be given, I think old relics, like the full crash nukes, need to be adjusted. These adjustments should be proliferated, or again someone should go through and fine tune, for Defenders and Corrupters.

Defenders:

I do also feel Defenders get gimped on their damage unnecessarily, and think they should be given something more besides slightly more powerful buffs to compensate. I really liked the Feedback idea someone earlier mentioned.

Masterminds:

I think getting their AI revamped, and having their underperforming pets examined and fixed would be a biiiiig boost for Masterminds. I also feel that their APPs should be re-examined because they simply don't fit with the AT (personal opinion). I'm not sure what exactly they should get in place, but as an AT fully devoted to making their pets more powerful and the understanding that the APPs are supposed to grant the MMs something outside their normal scope, the fact is that Knockout Blow is somewhat silly on an AT that concentrates on making it's pets and everyone around it as powerful as possible and not themselves.

Beyond that, I believe there are quite a few underperforming sets, but not ATs. I would personally like to see Peacebringers made far more synergistic, and Warshades have their abilities retweaked with current tech to make it more player friendly (Such as the corpse bomb auto-targetting a corpse for you, or even letting you tab through corpses and giving a confirmation so you can plan it for optimal usage), as well as see the Forms get a buff that makes them just as viable as an all human build.