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If taunt is such a boon, that’s a good reason for either all Scrappers to have taunt auras or none of them. And since we know for a fact it’ll never be all of them, that leaves us one option.

Plus that’s completely meaningless to most defense sets...

SwitchFade and myself and others have all literally offered to show people things in game so... that kinda works against what you’re implying here doesn’t it. Oddly enough no one ever takes you up on it. It’s almost like people would rather be right than be helped.

Tbh I think they should just take away the existing taunt aura effects at this point. Go ahead and throw things at me.

I only attune procs (can’t be boosted anyway) and enhancements that I otherwise wouldn’t want to boost (say, that Acc/Dam/Rech on a power I badly want to proc). You could certainly argue for boosting less and attuning more, but I’ve never needed to. That comes down to what your priority is. Only things I exemp for tend to be speedy WST’s like Yin or Manti and I’ve never found myself hurting there so much that I want to pull back on boosters. Oh and do PvP’ers still play in Bloody Bay/Sirens Call/Warburg anymore anyway? I haven’t done a damn thing in that direction outside of RV and arena.

I apologize for not adding the requisite hedging such as “seems to be” or “IMO”. Yes, obviously I have not collected data from every Stalker player. If you feel that your Stalkers are lacking, perhaps you should reach out to someone who reports success on a Stalker. If you’re getting significantly less mileage out of them than numerous others, odds are you’ve missed something.

Yeah also not gonna read all five pages yet, but consensus amongst experienced stalkers is that they are either in a good place or overpowered. After leveling and kitting out another a couple weeks ago, I’m inclined to agree.

That should definitely work. But for scrappers in general I would advise playing with slotting until you max out that proc rate. For instance, Total Focus should be a good place for it no matter what, but, on my Dual Blades scrapper, there was no 20s recharge power available so I put the ATO in Blinding Feint but without the rest of the set because all that recharge slotting would’ve spoiled the proc rate. Basically went through the same thing with Superior Might of the Tanker. On EM, Total Focus had a maxed proc rate no matter how I slotted it whereas, on Claws, Follow Up had a good proc rate but wouldn’t have been so great if I had slotted the rest of the set, so I made it an Acc/Dam/Proc monster instead.

I suspect you’re either not seeing a critical or using the ATO’s in a non-ideal way while also getting bad luck. My scrappers are critting all the time now that I’ve put some thought into how to use the ATO’s. I think the inherent is fine tbh. Barrage also sounds like a bad place for expecting a good proc rate. In that example, you put that 50% chance proc in Total Focus to both set up Energy Transfer and max out your proc rate.

My cat wrote me a message IN ENGLISH one night a few weeks ago after I passed out afk. Eerie stuff. Here’s the pic:

But then what would I do while at work

Why don’t you tell us what actually did happen so we can understand why the world doesn’t care and is rude and abusive and so on. You keep dropping mega mystery posts with no details. Like what on earth could happened to make you want to delete everything, etc. People might help you, or they might not, but you’d have to give them something to work with.

Fire may win in the rankings, but literally any blaster combo should be tearing through mobs, at least once IO’d. You don’t need to think about everything in comparison to Fire; if you’re playing the AT right, you’ll be surrounded by bodies one way or another. Your power picks pretty much fit the meta just right though so looks good on that end. I never pick Frost Breath though. Going to be extraneous with two rains plus Frozen Aura.

4 Numina / 2 Interrupt or 5 Panacea / 1 Interrupt

I have a handful of these. Fire/Fire blaster meteor-farm-capable with capped fire res/def, Rad/Rad defender proc god, and good ole triple rain scourge Ice/Cold corruptor strike me as my best.

Its temporary status is going to stay because it’s not a Control/Henchmen set pet, yes. Whether or not its little attack is enough is another question. Seems ok against single targets, maybe even better if looking at sapping, but certainly feels there’s a smidge of room for improvement on the exact numbers.

Yeah, I definitely don’t understand how - *easily* capped defenses (all types), - easily permanent instant healing, - broad status protection, stackable to be superior to tanker protections, - permanent +100% recharge (likely plus hasten), - and more on a defender all at the same time with few set bonuses needed to get there can sound like a good idea to anyone. But then, some people’s brains really don’t put much stock in this concept of balance. So, yes, obviously the proposition of letting ally buffs affect self is an absolute non-starter without severe nerfs to the values of said ally buffs. Personally I don’t think it sounds appealing. (Yes I’m aware that I only described something a little stronger than Power Boosted Time Manipulation, but that set is already at the very far end of what should be acceptable, and the additional things this would allow like the insane regeneration.. would be so broken that it hurts I have to explain this)

People usually are a bit too generous on the numbers when they haven’t been paying attention to how devs pick values since 2004. I could see this being necessary because Willpower doesn’t really get all that into all the psionic type concepts you could want, but it’s pretty questionable that two of the power names proposed are synonymous with Mind Over Body and Indomitable Will. I like the thought of an armor set with World of Confusion though.

Guilty. Grav/Sonic/Sorcery = 4 ally toggles on a vacuum pet. So you have an extra tanky pet with high absorb and resistance using an AoE pull, constant AoE knockdown (firing off FF procs too), constant AoE damage and -res. TP it into a +4 mob, start firing off Crushing Field behind it. Everything melts in a tight pack, now mop up the bosses. This might be ok to test as an option to some toggles, but think of it more like Enflame: (1) Enflame can toggle on enemies and on allies, and (2) Enflame aggros. Would not be ok to have Rad put all its debuffs on an ally in the non-aggroing sonic way.

Why are we acting like this great thing is a problem. Go home Solar, you're drunk.

An empathy with power boosted fortitude, clear mind, and perma adrenaline boost would then be easily as tough as a tanker if not tougher so... that’s a hard no.

I can attest per my own bizarre behaviors that a core group of players will be willing to look past some pretty weird awkward shit.

Ok I checked the same and now I want the juicy details.

If you’re going to use LRM Rocket, you should proc bomb it. It’s record setting activation time can’t really be justified unless you get its damage up to nuke levels, and it will have maxed out proc rates. I typically do 1-2 IO’s for enhancement, Overwhelming Force Dam/Proc, and the rest damage procs.

Yeah the all-Council teams are boring af. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’d rather throw some Carnies in the mix.