Aracknight

This is Aracknight's:

This is how Fly gets nerfed into having pre-requisites again.

Oh good, Rudra is here to shit on all our ideas. I notice you didn't quote Sakura who first suggested the ranged attack idea that i merely liked and played off of. Is it personal? Did I bang your significant other? Do you want me to?

I like the idea of a ranged attack. I think AE custom designed scrappers get some form of ranged attack built into them to not be useless against fliers. Martial Arts gets a shuriken throw i think, for example. Weave that in to PC scrappers and give it a confront component and I think it'd be cool. Let it slot either threat or ranged damage sets. Groovy.

My favorite part is where my clearly stated personal experience was slashed through and invalidated. Thanks.

I really like Diamagnetic. I main an MA/SR scrapper and the -regen and -to hit it gives me makes it easy and safe to take on pretty much anything, AVs, GMs, whatever. It can take some time, but it's the "safe road" for me. I typically run around right above the soft cap (45.8ish%) and then let Diamagnetic Interface take care of the rest in incarnate content, which it does well. That said, Degenerative is king when it comes to knocking things down. It goes much faster with degenerative, in my experience, but you don't get the -to-hit debuff that Diamagnetic lays down. To sum up: My personal experience says that for the solo hero fighting av's and gm's and pylons, Diamagnetic is slow but adds survivability, while Degenerative is fast and doesn't.

While I like the idea of "generic" IO's getting, essentially, the attunement treatment, I disagree pretty heartily with the rest.

My points are: -Brutes aren't the only AT that "need" their ATO to be competitive. -My question about more damage negatively impacting Fury was an honest and clarifying one. -When told I was missing the point, I asked a clarifying question with verbiage from the OP. -Brutes are probably fine. But I thought that yelling POWER CREEP at your suggestion, like everyone seems to do at every other suggestion people have made around here was too obvious and crass. But, now that I consider it further, I can admit that while it wasn't my conscious intention to troll, I can see how that can be perceived given how myself and others who have been on the receiving end of having our suggestions shitcanned around here might feel, given a chance to reverse-shitcan a suggestion ourselves. I'll see myself out.

So moar damage wasn't the point? I know you tried to bludgeon us with your patented sesquipedalian loquaciousness, but is the core point Brutes need moar damage so do something with their inherent, Fury?

Hmm. Ok, but, if it says that a Brute's Fury, and therefore damage, increases the longer they are in combat, and increasing damage would naturally reduce time spent in combat given that doing more damage typically sends things to the hospital faster, wouldn't increasing damage make it even harder to top out Fury?

There's more than a few Scrapper posts pointing out that Scrappers are only competitive with other melee ATs due to the Scrapper ATOs.

Page 2, right on schedule!

I *really* like the idea of giving the armor t9s the Phoenix Rising treatment. A self rez, or a heal/+end if alive and <75% health, and an AOE with a secondary effect. Dark's could be -ToHit. Electric could be Stun. Energy could be Knockback. Ice could be Hold. SR could be Slow. Ninjitsu could be -perception (to hide) Others could be others, etc etc.

Not a Superjail fan among ya, I guess.

Oh, life on the outside ain't what it used to be..

Some of the Family bosses, especially the ones with Singularity, have surprised me with how difficult they can be recently.

Raar, me disagree and bludgeon more from perceived higher ground!

Summation: I'm like a pigeon knocking over all the pieces on the chessboard, shitting everywhere, and declaring checkmate.

Gotcha all, thanks for the bludgeoning. So the solution, then, is to do the same thing that was done with the Stealth pool, and have the third power in the final four remaining power pools with pre-requisites for the third power to be a travel power. Please add +Runspeed to Tough. Please add +Jumpheight to Intimidate Please add +Flight to Tactics Please add +Teleport to Aid Self. These are all negotiable also. Aid self could make you run faster or Tough could make you fly faster. I don't give a shit. There's a ton of these single slot wonders you can slot Defense IOs in with no prerequisite, and exactly one that gives resistance, other than Rune of Protection which is a t5. You all scream about the slippery slope of power creep when blasters, who used to be nicknamed floor-eaters, can solo the ITF. The barn door is closed. All but four horses are already long, long gone.

And you don't have to take Jump Kick to get to the power you *actually* want (Super Jump) anymore. Which is sort of the point we're trying to make.

If Boxing, Kick, or Cross punch added synergy to literally every other melee attack, I might shut up about it. Today Boxing (Or Kick) is a one slot wonder I don't even put anything in. It is of zero use to me except as a speed bump to Tough. It will never make it to my tool bar. It has no value in my Scrapper, Tanker, Stalker, or Brute builds. None. I don't need to "slot it right" because I have primary or secondary powers already. Each power should have purpose, meaning, and usefulness, no matter the AT. We used to have to take Hover to get to Fly. Both of which are useful because they can flat out let you avoid attacks by simply flying the fuck away. Now, you don't even have to take hover or Air Superiority. Meanwhile, we have to learn how to throw a punch or a kick before we can become Tough? My whole primary is punching and kicking. Gimme Tough.

I was lucky enough to meet him last year at a con. I got an autograph and a selfie, and he was very nice and gracious to everyone that came through his table. This one hurts. He was my Batman.

Fair enough.

Uhm...I was on a team with 1 tank, 6 assorted ranged and controls, and my ma/sr scrapper two nights ago on excelsior. I popped ambrosia and meleed the titan on the ground the whole fight, with no UH OH moments at all. We got through it and got our master of badges really easy. I'm not sure how serious this issue really is. :/