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Well, nobody but the obvious exception of the very visible elite group of players obsessed with pylons and AV’s. And PvP’ers. I’ve been playing around with making my S/T chains better lately, but I simply don’t do enough TF solo’ing / etc to tell if it’s worth it.

Well Snarky has this tick about being all ranged that he mentions a few times a day, so it’s out of scope regardless.

Short Circuit’s activation is so bad that I wouldn’t take it unless maybe paired with another sapping set. Elec/Elec defender maybe, etc.

This makes zero sense to me. Tesla Cage cannot make THAT much of a difference. Take Char on the Blaster if you’re short a single target attack. Will have to check later if it’s even mathematically possible for you to be correct.

Yeah PvP was great here until i13 slaughtered it. It would still be bearable gameplay wise but so many were alienated that the community is too small to function.

Sorry but there is no evidence that anyone wants to ruin fun. There’s evidence that people want to pursue reasonable nerfs to arrive at balance, but obviously no honest person would conflate the two.

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming his computer is a literal potato that leaves him with horrid frame rates and so on. Because if it’s not, there’s no other way to explain the problem minus... posts like this.

Depends on exactly when. For instance the aforementioned Fire/Rad controller certainly wasn’t suffering when it could have 9+ imps out.

+1 to Liquefy kind of sucks. But to the extent it doesn’t, can we at least make it so its effects’ colors will properly change like the rest of the set? It’s only ever orange on my Grav/Sonic.

If you have a 47% proc rate, each proc will do 71.75x0.47=33.72 damage on average is all you need to know basically.

If *this* inconvenience meets the Null threshold, thousands of others do too. Sounds downright awful. And way to make it blatantly obvious you didn’t read or comprehend a single one of the responses. Being speed boosted by someone else without your own consent is a choice to the same extent turning a toggle on/off is a choice? Maybe if you’re one of those 2+2=5 types.

Are you doing ok man

Power creep is literally the consequence of trying to balance but not allowing nerfs to be a part of the balancing effort. Your post can be summarized as “we should create more power creep in order to eventually address power creep”.

Debuff resistant or not, armor sets do not need to be any stronger at this time.

It’s pretty hard to argue that any melee classes need a buff though.

Attack recharge times only matter until you’ve achieved a continuous attack chain, so that’s a non-issue at a point. Defense set bonuses only matter to an extent if you are using good tactics and inspirations, so that’s also a non-issue at a point. Characters can survive at +4x8 on 45% defense or on 15% defense, the latter is just a hair trickier. These caveats are real but a bit misleading. (and I’m sure you know this and I need to stop replying to things without reading the whole thread...)

You can try but altoholicism ought to have you jonesing within 7 days tops 🙂

Basically procs do the same damage across all AT’s, so they will get more beneficial relative to damage enhancement on lower damage AT’s. You can still have Blasters with a lot of procs - I certainly do - it just isn’t as extraordinary compared to damage enhancement as it is on a Tanker, Defender, Controller, Sentinel, etc. Vigor Alpha is something I strongly recommend if looking into this because it covers both accuracy and endurance. If you can get to a 95% hit chance without actually using accuracy enhancements, that’s when you can really go all in and start putting 6 procs in some powers. Also note -res procs are important to not overlook. They don’t give you a shiny extra orange number but they are quite efficient at making all the other numbers bigger. My most proc-heavy builds typically wind up with ~25 damage procs and 2-4 -res procs, to say nothing of other procs like LotG, Panacea, Shield Wall, etc (ofc I get all those too!). It doesn’t leave you with much room for set bonuses so you then want to prioritize getting to 95% hit rate and some recharge bonuses (won’t be able to get as many as other builds but at least shoot for +50%). Anyway Mids is probably your friend but I don’t have Mids because Mac, so I calculate everything manually referencing PPM formulas, ED formulas etc on hcwiki and raw data on uberguy’s update of city of data.

Either, but if you don’t need sets the best thing is to follow the PPM formulas and see where a proc starts to contribute more than damage enhancement. For instance an Apocalypse: Damage IO boosted by +5 is often better than a proc, so the sweet spot can often be 4-5 procs. But yeah, always get Freeze Ray. That and Bitter Ice Blast are non-negotiable. Bitter Freeze Ray is optional as a big attack with a good proc rate if you can stand the animation time. I’m happy to answer any proc questions as I’ve been making proc monsters forever 🙂 though it should be noted Blasters benefit less from procs on average than many other AT’s.

Nobody does this because nobody has to. Devs post here with the players and have in some form since ‘04. It is not hard to extrapolate some of their stances from their own catalog of statements. I don’t have quotes on hand at the moment but I’m positive Null being an undesirable last resort fix is not something I just made up.

I have never ever used Agility or Spiritual to get to perma-dom. It’s pretty easy really.. you 2 slot hasten and get to that 70-80% in recharge bonuses (easy with IO’s) and you’re there.

So their maces double as grenade pez dispensers? I like it.

I was running Mystic Flight once instead of Super Speed on a Speed TF and my teammates all made fun of me 😞

One of its multiple boosts, yes, I got that. Great LotG slot too. But it sounds like your con is so overwhelmingly frustrating to you that the power is an overall loser on your pro-con analysis, IMO.

Well, yeah, exactly, one would wonder why you would pick a power you don’t want the boosts from.