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Intoxication of some sort is one of my top reasons for not caring about perfectionist topics like never dying or pylon times or clear times. Ain’t nobody got time for that. I don’t drink alcohols though anymore.

Yeah, I wanted to say Sentinels should do Tanker damage, but I added “or less” because I’m not sure they should be doing *this* “Tanker damage”.

If a Sentinel and Tanker are both playing the way their archetype allows them to - one hangs out at range and doesn’t draw aggro, and the other draws all the aggro - then yes, the Sentinel should not be at any risk while the Tanker may or may not be at some. If you are not playing that way, which many of us don’t, then of course Sentinels rapidly begin to be more squishy. But balance is going to be based on what an AT can do, not on the meta of everyone charging into melee anyway. The bottom line is tankmages can’t be balanced without severe drawbacks. Don’t like it? Try to survive on a blaster or try to kill with a melee set. Everyone with a brain knew tankmages weren’t going to have blaster modifiers.

I don’t understand why you would think this at all. Range and lack of taunt reduces risk. Why would they do as much damage as AT’s with so much more survivability risk? Tanker damage or less seems about right. Everyone knew tankmage would be broken without severe drawbacks.

Seems a little too much like a crabbermind. I’d rather they tackle more broadly appealing Mastermind sets since we can already play like this to some extent.

The whole thing about not dying on a +4x8 ITF is completely within the abilities of a decent support character that’s paying attention. That said, I don’t enjoy playing that “hardcore” all the time and tend to play more casually, recklessly, and aggressively sometimes. Sometimes it’s easy enough to string together a wakie+BF+blue and speed away, and I’m not solely focused on the game. For instance I died once on a +4x8 kill most last night, but I was consciously showing off a bit and standing way out on my own in front of the brute when the giant nictus ambush came. But if I wanted to not die and was willing to focus enough to do so? There’s no support powerset combo for which that would be too hard on an ITF.

people are dying

True dat in every way

Pfft, this nonsense again. Support is amazing in this game.

The buffs in point #2 are already AoE?

Yeah Rebirth would do the trick too but I’m using Ageless Core at the moment. Can’t recall how necessary that was. But yeah awesome toon, but although I don’t think I’ve died yet... the health bar isn’t as immovable as my Invuln tanker or - after it’s already moved down a big chunk - my SR tanker.

I’m sorry Sue, but I would be opposed to making any defense set bonuses easier to get at this point.

Do you need One With The Shield to get to unkillable status? I built my new one without it initially and am sort of regretting it. Defenses and DDR are spectacular but without the capacity to cap resistances sometimes I wouldn’t say I feel unkillable. Outside of the fact that my health bar can still move a bit though, it is indeed an incredible pairing. I’d say I’m currently sitting at capped defenses, ~88% DDR, ~60-65% S/L/F/C res before SMotT procs and ~45% other res before SMotT procs. Think I need that T9.

hello darkness my old friend

I would be in favor of this. 4 Freedom Phalanx seems to make the most sense as a mirror to the villain patrons.

Smashing isn’t really any more resisted than lethal or psionic damage, if not less resisted. How many sets are we gonna be buffing to make this proposal fair? Sounds like broad power creep, no thanks.

Don’t see EM needing any buffs in its current state. It’s now firmly back in the “one of the best sets” categories. It’s single target damage is so incredible that it has to have relatively weak AoE. Think it’s time to focus on other sets.

Pretty much impossible to have endurance problems at level 50 thanks to incarnates, so there’s that silver lining that this will only ever be a problem when exemplaring. SR tankers are awesome.

I still don’t understand “where’s the crime?” when an acknowledgment like this is made. Guess there’s those lower levels, but then how many sets are late bloomers? Feels like plenty of em. Then there’s those roleplayers, but I don’t totally get what they’re going through that’s so hard. My imagination usually handles that kind of stuff, not my power names and descriptions.

You’re all good people. I’m gonna smoke a bowl and forget all my inane internet fights.

Back to the semantics around that word penalize. This is going in circles, getting entirely focused on arbitrary opinions, and going nowhere. Have a good day 😉

(1) Sometimes. Some of my fav heroes sure get tired. (2) Why is it a problem for a set to not be #1? As long as it’s not one of the worst in the game I sure don’t care.

Yes I had that in mind.

No. “Good balance” does not mean Super Strength has to be the strongest set in the game. “Good balance” merely means that, at the end of the day, the various sets perform relatively well compared to each other. Which they do. Maybe not some, but Super Strength is probably closer to the top than the bottom in overall performance, which is a perfectly good place to be.

Tremendous feats of strength are a tad tiring tho..