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I obviously didn’t think about this hard enough. Probably because life drain is the only primary attack power I would ever take on an MM.

Not entirely true but yeah. There are no click defense powers like farsight or force fields that can benefit for their entire duration, but all of your defense toggles will still be stronger for the duration of power up. Weave etc. But yeah the power is more for the +damage and +mez duration (though doms hardly need any more of the latter). I’d say having a click buff to all defense in their APPs at all is enough of a gift to the AT though.

I didn’t read all of that but did recently build provoke into an MM for the first time so.. I like the basic idea well enough.

Soul mastery gets power boost and soul storm instead of garbage like oppressive gloom or dark consumption. It’s a fair tradeoff to me all things considered.

Power boost basically doesn’t boost defense on any power that grants resistance for some intentional reasons others can explain. Same applies to Fade, Ice Shield, etc.

A lot of us don’t consider it to be good design to allow players to opt out of more and more functions that require them to approach gameplay with an ounce of nuance. Hard no.

Run ageless at 50 and you’ll never have endurance problems again in end game content. When exemplared the best I can usually do on a stormy is usually run fewer toggles (i.e. detoggle leadership). But yeah sub-50 is the only relevant problem area anymore. Literally no combo in the game can’t have its blue bar fixed by ageless after that though.

So ESO and GW2 are just popular outliers.

Clarion is nigh useless if you just, ya know, (1) nuke the mezzers, (2) mez the mezzers, (3) cc the mezzers, (4) let someone else aggro the mezzers, (5) pop a break free, (6) just wait out the very very rare mez that gets past (1)-(5) (likely with the tons of mez resistance buried in most IO sets) and god forbid you have to pop a wakie once every blue moon/solar eclipse/etc. If you do suffer a rare death as a result of mez, you probably weren’t popping insps, so you can combine several into a wakie/bf/green/blue and get right back up mid-fight. Ageless, Rebirth, and Barrier are just so much better. Defense is helpful too I suppose. And yes Clarion Radial has nice other effects but if you’re choosing the non-perma form of t4 clarion you really aren’t choosing it for mez coverage at that point. Malta stun grenades are perhaps the only mez in the game that still feels like the bane of my existence once in awhile.

As someone with dozens of ranged/squishy 50’s that have never once ultimately found Clarion Core necessary, it’s definitely a no from me. Blanket buffs should be for cases where they’re needed, not handed out like candy every time someone might need to learn to play this game effectively.

Off-topic fun fact: the only MMO PvP I've ever played where playing the default way (casually and not hyper-coordinated on discord) is considered more or less idiocy is also the smallest MMO PvP community I've ever seen. Correlation or causation?

We don’t have to go right to assuming dishonesty. Could also be substantial ignorance.

Remarkable.

Perhaps you should provide links so that those Thunderspy streamers can be reported to Twitch. Perhaps they're just being overlooked.

I hear from people all the time about arbitrary rules like number of a given AT per team, number of poisons per team, taunt, electrified net arrow, telekinesis, old paralytic poison, etc. etc. etc. Were they making all that up or do I have a point?

Considering we know the arena community has zero problem imposing arbitrary rules on their own - why not just ban arena temp powers like raptor pack?

How do you think intellectual property and the real world works lol

Not disagreeing with anything here necessarily but IMO assault rifle’s biggest issue is having ALL of its later powers use obscene 4 second animations and getting nothing particularly powerful in return for that absurdity. It might be possible to make such awful animation times yield a worthwhile return, but not with these substandard narrow cones and a tiny patch.

How wonderfully convenient that you think the privilege should only be given to people that share your playstyle. You seem like a swell guy.

I specifically mentioned a pinned thread twice in a row, so no, you didn’t find anything I couldn’t. So please get over your little attitude here.

I'm good, thanks. Have zero difficulty finding names.

Well I looked at the pinned/sticky threads in each relevant subforum and have now concluded I must just be blind. Perhaps some of the folks here that express difficulty naming characters have yet to find it either.

While this policy is being debated, we should probably go ahead and have a sticky name help thread for those expressing that they have a gaping void where their creativity is supposed to be 😉

No such thing exists fortunately.

Although you can pretty much have a team of anything nowadays, I definitely do not agree it was always this way. In the early days especially I remember an awful lot of waiting around for a tank or support. Now the only semblance of this I still see is maybe a brief mention of “Think we’re ok with a sentinel as tank this TF? *yups all around*” On another note, the tiny minority actually asserting that no nerfs should ever occur and that that’s somehow a sustainable position sounds awfully thoughtless to me.