Haijinx

Don't forget the "Kick Me" Sign

This is a funny thread. Blasters out damage everyone, its not even close. They are in a better place now than they have been in years. However Corruptors allow the team to do much better. So really they often are far more valuable, and a lot of combos end up adding more damage overall than the Blaster does.

Would come too late.

Yeah the critical moment is selecting Willpower instead.

Blasters have been going into melee since Issue 1 with no mezz protection. Sure Empathy would be a poor choice. A lot of others would be fine though. You could gate access like you do with shields. Force Fields would likely do well. They get mezz protection, and some defense to self. They also have some other tools. ===== You could be right about the motives, the concepts suggested could just be OP'd coincidently. Almost every time.

The other guardian? This one didn't seem to have that.

That's just flavor text though. WP is functionally Regenerating. And its easy to fix the "weak to alpha" problem WP supposedly has with IOs.

I disagree. Corruptors already do damage. The change would just change some of the damage to be Melee instead of Ranged.

The Placate thing is a non problem. With the chance to hide ATO, it not like Stalkers need it.

It partially does, since Assault sets are already largely similar to Blast sets.

I did not suggest Melee sets I suggested Assault sets.

This was done recently in the proposed Tanker/Brute changes

History would suggest otherwise. Sentinels are not right yet. You could argue that Kheldians are not right yet.

It is perhaps easier to adjust melee scale than coming up with a new AT.

Id rather do neither. But proliferation would be much more straight forward than a new AT. Look at Energy Blast vs Energy Assault. They already share multiple powers. So you are actually only juggling partial set changes. (Replacing some ranged attacks with Melee attacks)

Id argue it is not given that there are a couple spots left. If this was a game in beta I'd suggest we may already have too many. Besides flavor text, why are Corruptors inherently "ranged"?

Or perhaps the other way around. Many of us feel adding a new AT should be very rare. Thus the need should be compelling. Often its an excuse to get some broken inherent or some unbalanced sets of stats introduced. For example. If we prolifered some Assault sets to Corruptors, you could basically do the Support+ Melee thing, without changing the game's character all that much. Since the inherent, hp, epics, etc already are hashed out. But proponents always want the new AT. And to me that suggests something.

On the more macro sense, its the same idea. Basically Support+Melee

But yet it gets proposed .. Or a variant that is basically the same thing gets proposed .. Every couple of weeks

Its almost like Regen was really good. Then they over nerfed it. Then instead of admitting it they came out with Willpower. Which is really good. So Regen did get fixed. The thing is, to play the fixed Regen, you have to play Willpower.

Its a massive End hog for something you tend to have lots of just by accident in IO builds. Plus Stallers get 3x as many Build ups as everyone else. Which has to hit already.

Interestingly EnA gives up nothing on a Stalker really, and has its full End tools.

Its exactly the same as WPs just comes earlier

Just meant that if someone wanted to skip Dragons Tail, they should just play a stalker instead.

You can skip CAK, since you have Crane Kick and Cobra Strike available. Dragons tail is the best 8 foot pbaoe available thanks to its animation time and KD. Plus you get synergy with EC crit buff, and the quick animation makes the ATO crit buff better. So really, if you want to skip that, then just play a stalker instead.