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It is absolutely better across the board now unless you were really really concerned with precisely how much mag of single target stun you could stack up. Damage output is unquestionably better.

There are a few seconds of video footage available of Joaquin Phoenix playing City of Heroes.

Ice/Ice Blaster was my very first toon i0, but it lacked so much of what we have today. Absorb/recovery, wide radius chilling embrace, frozen aura damage, quick ice patch cast, and I can’t even remember if freezing touch used to do as good of damage. Wasn’t worth much besides Build Up and Shiver.

All depends on how you want to play. Fire is always going to be meta for raw damage by design, but you have to also think about how much you want to be in range vs. melee etc. Fire is used more than Ice, but, if you don’t want to be a blapper, Fire may very well be the worst of them all in that scenario.

Quite the claim! Since absorb is not uncommon, are you really just talking about -recharge, -damage, and ice patch? Doesn’t strike me as all that special on paper compared to (1) a set that protects you by encouraging ranged play (TA/Devices) or (2) Drain Psyche, but it’s not nothing. Would be happy to hear your thoughts as this is one set I haven’t tried yet since live (along with dark, electric, and martial I believe).

Customizable interface effect colors first pls.

Manipulation sets don’t have much symmetry in the first place. After the t1 immobilize (or KB thrust), build up equivalent, and sustain buff, it’s all a free for all from there. But siolfir’s answer also has you covered.

Ok the implication was “you [who have observed the aforementioned channel] all know who”, but don’t worry it’s not you 🙂

Agree with fixing if appropriate but sometimes I'm suspicious of the things that take Accuracy enhancements... it seems like a number of auto-hit powers take them. It's hard to tell what's auto-hit as a result. Taunt and Flash Arrow are two examples. Someone recently said Weaken is auto-hit, but I think that's incorrect?

I have an Energy/Sonic blaster that only blaps. Didn’t even take Power Burst. Just Aim/Nova/Explosive Blast/Sniper Blast. Not really any harder to stand in melee than it is on a number of other things like kins or poisons. Melee isn’t all that dangerous for anyone in the game if you (1) know when to jump out, (2) don’t ignore your inspiration tray, (3) kite your melee attacks when things get spicy, etc. etc.

Many of my blasters would just take the build up and sustain toggle from the secondary and anything else that works at range like the holds. I have a couple of blappers too, but the implication that you are forced to blap is incorrect. You have more than enough ranged abilities to justify building for all ranged if you want. I actually like, for one thing, building ranged blasters because the builds are so easy to work your pool picks in - since you’re probably wanting only 3-5 secondary powers in most cases. TL;DR: you seem to have a strong desire to make an all ranged blaster and yet.. some peculiar aversion to just going ahead and making one.

I make a reasonable amount from constant farming, but my problem is more that I always have something to spend it on. I can make two purply 50’s a week pretty easily, but I never save a nickel.

I feel so inadequate.

I have a feeling Assault sets are going to be ranked near the bottom by a lot of people. I don’t really agree that Electric Assault is a bad dominator secondary, but most dominator secondaries are going to struggle to look attractive next to pure ranged with nukes and pure melee with heavier hitting attack chains. It’s just an awkward comparison. Agree on Dark Manipulation ranking towards the bottom. Only being able to build up in melee range is seriously limiting for a blaster. It’s pushing you harder towards “build as a blapper or avoid set like the plague” than any of the other sets because of that. Not that blappers are bad, but yeah, that’s all you can justify doing here.

Yeah, I’d be against it, and same goes for all the others - including SR, which has a similar following of people that bizarrely think the non-sentinel version is weak when it isn’t.

I don't do regular play with any of my /fire brutes at the moment, but, if I did, I would honestly prefer to make a second build than to water down my farm build - just because I farm so damn much (severe terminal altitis - doc says it looks bad). I do have a few characters with 2 builds and it's cool to have.

I made this mistake on my Rad/Fire and realized the magnitude of my mistake on my Bio/Rad: you want 6 procs in Irradiated Ground until the devs nerf it, Snark. It’s proc rate is not WAI but is OP for the time being. PM me if you wanna hang out with some of my farmers in game 🙂 I have 5 /Fire Brutes, a Fire^2 Blaster, and a Fire/Kin Troller all specifically built for capped fire defense, and my Plant/Psy Dom will have the same once I make the funds. Top vet level is about 925, collectively maybe 1800 between them. EDIT: Also, energy mastery is a waste of time tbh. You don’t need the extra regeneration on fiery aura against fire damage, and you also don’t need Barrier/Rebirth/Ageless Radial - meaning you should be taking Ageless Core and therefore also do not need extra recovery. Pick something that gives you another AoE. Fire, Mu, or Soul.

Not super relevant, but, in imagining how English-as-a-second-language person might perceive idiosyncrasies in our language, I am reminded of being surprised when international students in engineering school told me that non-metric units were the single hardest thing about the curriculum - while acknowledging the rest of the curriculum was pretty dang tough.

Right, they is fundamentally a plural word that has only found occasional use as a singular when being used to repair awkward sentences. Plenty of people justifiably find it confusing.

Brute is far and away the most popular. 2nd place in that metric comes nowhere close. That being said, Tankers, Scrappers, Fire Manipulation Blasters, Kinetics Support Archetypes, Plant Controllers/Dominators are all up there as options that aren’t unheard of.

Y’all just makin me want to make more regens tbh.

I just remove channels where annoying people go to talk about annoying things - mainly General chat but also Indomitable Arena chat (BUT only because of one person - you all know who).

Amen and awomen

If you are perceiving it as subpar where many experienced regen players are not, is it not possible that your perception is derived from having trouble with it? If your experience is not nigh universal, is that not an indicator that your experience could be subjective?

Not expressing an opinion one way or the other, but just FYI: it’s an objective fact that politically relevant portions of Wikipedia are absolutely loaded with opinions. EDIT: I don’t oppose the suggestion as long as it doesn’t take significant amounts of developer time.