What choice do we have but to stop caring and stop trying? When the GM’s response is “X person is going to insult you and shit on you. It’s all on you to not engage!” Of course I feel as hopeless as you do.
Like the idea of a generic memorial
Don’t like the idea of select individuals being memorialized by popularity contest or any other exclusive criteria
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I assume it would at least have the following powers that already exist:
Strident Echo
Deafening Wave
Earsplitter
Sound Booster (or Build Up)
Taunt
Disruption Aura could conceivably fit with the armor set… but yeah, only 4 powers need to be designed for the melee set. Presumably a melee cone, a couple more S/T moves, and a mez or utility/buff move.
Hasn’t DPS testing objectively proven that both KM and Staff are terrible at least in that department? For non-stalkers, that is. I don’t feel like finding the threads.
Now, there can be reasons to have bad single target DPS. Like good AoE DPS or good mitigation. Spines or Staff, for example, have some of that, but KM is just bad at every category.
It feels a lot like Kinetic Melee in terms of feeling sluggish due to long activations and low DPA. The Sky Splitter mitigation buffs are a nice bonus, but I don’t think they quite justify how bad the damage is.
When I log into my Ice/Staff Tanker, I don’t assume I’ll be contributing any significant amount of DPS to the team.
Every armor set has holes, whether it be no Fear protection, no KB protection, no Confuse protection, no Psionic resistance, etc etc. It’s been this way for ever. Not seeing the need for a change.