i24 Blaster Changes

Think Destiny. We can also play games with slotting and number of targets hit so that one or the other increases the duration of the buff rather than the magnitude. So lets say the power does 300% regen for 10 seconds, 200% regen for another 10 seconds, and 100% regen for another 10 seconds, over a 30 second duration. You could theoretically make it so that instead of becoming 600/400/200 over 30 seconds if it hits two targets, it becomes 300/200/100 over 60 seconds instead. In this way, the more targets you hit, the less often you have to use it to get the benefit, or alternatively you can use it more often to maintain the peak benefit. But hitting large numbers of targets doesn't make the peak performance of the power run amok.

The devs don't generally use the word "overpowered" for the same reason they are very cautious about using the word "balance" - because the players make up their own definitions of both words.

Case in point: you don't care to know what the devs mean when they say what they say, you're just trying to explain why based on your definitions for everything what they say is inconsistent. Its not inconsistent at all, and I understand perfectly what they mean, because ironically I don't play word games with the devs.

This is why I do the math, see the effect in game, and judge for myself how a power behaves.

For you to assume that I don't care what the devs mean when they say what they say is not only incorrect, but is also totally inconsistent with my history of asking the devs to comment on issues in threads to get clarification when the community appears confused.

My position in this case is the devs would be inconsistent if they felt a power was truly overpowered and unbalancing and did nothing given the opportunities they specifically had to do so in the case of DP. The fact that they have not changed it seems to weigh heavily on the side that they feel it is not overpowered and unbalancing.

They have consistently been very leery of changing powers even when they know they are overpowered. Energy Transfer remained for a long time before they finally fixed it. They still haven't fixed Drain Psyche nor adjusted Blaze nor addressed Spines. *Stares at Fulcrum Shift still amazed.*

Sometimes stuff is overpowered, but they leave it. If they were not revamping some blaster powers, I would not want them to adjust Drain Psyche. But since they are working on this area anyway, I really think they should both make Drain Psyche easier to use and bring down the top end performance.

If this were a statement made by a dev then I would agree with this position, but it is not so I have other thoughts about their non actions based on their actual statements.

I think I am in good standing with agreement in the "outlier" statement, but the stretch to "overpowered" is one I can't make.

I know what the devs mean when they use those two words, and I know what I mean when I use those two words. What do you mean when you use those two words, and what's the difference.

Yes. No.

It means Arbiter Hawk is EVIL. Just ask him

Outlier a power that if they were making the set from scratch today would be different less powerful and possibly different mechanics/gimmicks. Not something that throws things out of whack balance wise.

Overpowered a power like PSW use to be. One that throws the balance out of whack and must be brought into check for the overall balance of the set..

You can do it if you overslot a little bit but it's probably easier just to slot a Kismet IO since that gives you 6% (Field Operative is a good place for it since you'll be running that anyway).