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Nope it has definitely gotten way easier outside of IO’s and such too.

No vote from me.

Darkness Affinity *is* Dark Miasma essentially. Would be silly to give an AT both. I think Darkness Affinity is rather overpowered but hey this is Homecoming, lots of things are.

I only started jumping in these threads periodically because a handful of posters continue to post either (1) “there is no reason to make a brute” or (2) “brutes are useless”. As soon as people stop posting this preposterous hyperbole that their own data contradicts, the sooner we can all move on.

I think Bill has implicitly suggested exactly that considering the perceived imbalance between brute’s extra damage and tanker’s extra mitigation is something he’s been ranting about forever now.

AT modifiers are not proof that the devs intended all balancing tradeoffs to be perfectly linear. Please address the actual argument.

I don’t understand why people think balance is defined by having exactly X additional damage per X loss in mitigation. This is a baseless assumption that is the crux of Bill’s entire crusade. The world does not operate on purely linear mathematical systems and I would like to see where the devs stated city of heroes would work solely based on linear equations.

That’s literally not what it says though. It tells you how many of an AT exist, not how many players have made the AT. It just so happens those numbers would be more or less identical for EATs. The point is those are two VERY different numbers for any non-epic AT. If the graph showed how many players have made each AT, it would count me once for every AT. But that’s not what it’s measuring, so instead it counts me once for each EAT but 11 or 12 times for, say, defenders.

Considering you’re literally the first HC player I’ve ever seen mention debt as if it has any noticeable impact at all, I don’t think that will do it.

Specifically make more of the zones like DA in that you can street sweep at 50+3 and I would absolutely use them.

Considering you only need one EAT to capture all possibilities whereas every non-epic AT has a large number of potential combos... this is a misleading statement/chart.

If you could make level 50 hellion minions, they better not give much more xp than rikti monkeys.

Rad blast is phenomenal at proc damage. My rad/rad defender is a “barely any defense investment but instead 4-5 dmg/-res procs in every attack” setup.

A lot of people posting some pretty basic combos that don’t stand out from hundreds of others imo 🙂

Time/*/Power and Time/*/Soul Defenders get so much mitigation so easily. You can survive +4x8 with zero issues and go straight to building for proc damage. Mine is Time/Water though and Time/Ice or Time/Rad or something would be better for mopping up bosses. Other AT’s can be OP with Time too but my Fire/Time corr still needs fighting pool for the easy soft cap.

Sounds very nice. Do eet.

Not a horrible concept but I think you can generalize the name to fit more characters by just naming it “Luck” or something.

Just to clarify: you mean their controls lose effectiveness against AV’s and GM’s specifically right? Because that’s the only scenario in which this is true, no?

Yeah I actually like that a powerset choice is an aesthetic choice so disagree there.

My last count of my level 50 characters came out to 61 or 62 I think. All have been fully IO’d with at least t3 incarnates at some point, though ~15 are currently in a gutted state.

Never encountered such a thing. Done enough MSR’s to know it must be anomalous.

Well obviously you can count on others to have it covered as I’ve never regretted not having Clarion in any circumstances.

Everything you say is correct. It’s just not quite adding up to “skippable” to me. When I said I spam it I meant I use it every spawn really - not like it’s part of a single target attack chain. But like I said, as a /beam defender my current TA might just feel like it needs a good quick recharge AoE more than other combos. I tried to proc bomb Cutting Beam once but it was just pure garbage due to its proc rate. (I have a dark/TA troller too but it’s been gutted and shelved for awhile.)

Eh, this seems too absurd to me. Yes, proliferate some of the costume parts? All of them? No.

The question I have is would the proc chance consider the radius of one vs. the other, or is it just the same for all procs whether def debuff or AoE.