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I hate the thought of them designing the game in such a messy, clunky way like this. Am just totally against such inelegant design. This game doesn’t need to be like Garry’s Mod.

I would absolutely consider buffing both the power and the set. But only in a sensible and measured way.

Powers should be balanced as powers and as parts of sets, not just one or the other.

The damage number on Ignite is balanced around it being so regularly escaped. You change the dynamic, you have to change the damage.

Not a yes/no vote, just a curiosity.. you do know that you’re proposing a simple reversion to exactly what these procs used to do, right?

I definitely take Adrenal Booster most often of the three.

This makes the most sense of the last three suggestions IMO. Maybe not exactly as described but lingering damage makes sense. Greycat’s idea is nice but would be a lot of mob specific coding work, AND you could argue those imps should just be immune to the fire damage too, which nobody wants. Outrider’s wouldn’t be kind to the cottage rule. Also maybe a +mag immobilize proc would be nice so that you could root a boss in one shot.

For reasons easily documented and available via search function, I must vote no.

Doesn’t make sense thematically at all so I gotta vote no.

I just can’t comprehend thinking Ice Blast needs a buff right now so all this “do we even like snipes” bit seems beside the point 🙂

Well they’d cap HP eventually lol But yeah, this reminds me of ESO champion points which gave fractions of a percent in various buffs and capped at 810 pts last time I played.

My fire brutes will able to afford to be... double afk?

I was wondering what was taking y’all so long on this lol

It’s a nice idea if it weren’t being proposed on a set that already has perhaps the best single target damage, certainly the best boss holding capabilities, and some of the best animation times on every other single target power. Now if you were to propose a similar gift to Shout...

I’m not sure your tone demonstrates that you appreciate the fact that this discussion has already occurred on most days ending in Y. 🙂

Can’t talk about slotting because I don’t have a /fire blaster, but yes RE: consume. The recovery powers in blaster secondaries are extremely powerful and make their endurance very easy to manage, freeing you up to not require things like Ageless Core or, in this case, Consume.

I haven’t looked at the power propositions in depth but (1) totally agree we need more earth sets or epic pools. That element clearly gets the shaft. Also (2) can we avoid “affinity” in yet another powerset name and mix it up a hair?

We definitely don’t “all agree”.

It did no such thing.

I really wonder where it ends sometimes. Is there a server yet where you just start with fitness, hasten, super speed, combat jumping, and soft capped defenses, and all the mobs are 50+4 hellions, and all positioning-intensive mechanics have been deleted? And if not why not? Because a game my cat can dominate at is clearly in demand.

Agree with others that have stated this is just a clever new way to rehash the same old knockback argument.

I can’t say I’ve ever once thought on Homecoming that fury wasn't plainly easy af to keep up. Maybe when CoV first came out, if ever.

I would also recommend Space Folders do the same and avoid teaming with whiners. Heck we’re just getting into general advice here aren’t we.

Y’all just need to start taking Intuition Alpha tho srsly.

Ok well that’s a non-starter. If you add an enhancement category, you either have to change the enhancement schedule to account for the additional effect or you have to drop something to stay on the same schedule. That’s the IO system’s basic design principles.