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I'm pretty sure that Domination doesn't activate automatically when its bar fills. 😉Having Hide for Stalkers be an inherent that's a toggle shouldn't be conceptually difficult for the class; if someone wants to play their Stalker without Hide, they don't have to use it. Well, the OP was about Hide being an auto power. It was @Akisan that thought the request was for it to be an inherent. Before I get into the rest of this post though, I want to be perfectly clear that I am opposed to making Hide an inherent power. (Or an auto power for that matter.) So, some questions: 1) If Hide was made into an inherent power, what would it be replaced with? 2) If Hide was made into an inherent power, then why shouldn't other ATs get one of their primary theme powers as an inherent as well? 2.1) What would those other newly inherent powers be replaced with? 3) What problem does making Hide into an inherent fix or situation does it address? (Especially since players that for some reason don't want Hide on their Stalkers can already skip Hide.) The question of Hide being made into an auto power is easy to answer. If Hide was an auto power on Stalkers, then Stalkers would not be able to do a multitude of missions solo, including story arcs. The question of Hide as an inherent is "Why?!".

Not once have I refuted any ACTUAL data that already exists in game via a powers numbers. Please show me exactly where I said something had a specific number value and said that that wasn't the case, because unless there was an extremely misplaced typo I missed, I guarantee you can't. (again, straight number value, not conjecture based on what other people "feel" is fine", as the straight numbers, are what actual data is, and don't just paste data someone provided, cause obviously I'm already well aware of the actual numbers that exist in game) Someone said something about someone not actually reading their posts or misreading them?

Yes, exactly, this specific thread. You have 0 support from anyone on this thread after 5 pages and 25 days. And yet you insist that only you are correct; that the Live devs were wrong or idiots for designing the powers in question the way they did, that the posters on this thread other than yourself are wrong, idiots, or incapable of reading your posts in regards to these two powers, and you keep pushing the goal posts further out for what we should be comparing these two powers to in order to make them "proper" and "balanced" powers, in strictly your opinion. In point of fact, you have provided 0 links to any supporting data, the only data you have actually provided is what you want the powers to be like, and have provided nothing that actually says anything about the powers having any actual problems that are not specifically your opinion on the matter. And you insist on ignoring any provided, and even linked, data that refutes you. Such as when you say that all "comparable" armors get END drain resistance automatically when in fact, they don't. Or that a +5% recovery boost is meager when it can provide 2.755 END per target, that's 27.55 END if 10 targets are drained, on top of the character's existing recovery buffs and the up front END Consume gives. (Edit: To put this meager recovery boost into perspective, at base value, Consume can grant the character +50% Recovery if all 10 targets are hit. And if you just slot for ENDMod? It can get up to +109.1% Recovery if all 10 targets are hit. That isn't meager even at 15 seconds of duration.) Because it doesn't fit your narrative, it must therefor be "meager" and not worth thinking about. This is why I am asking for the thread to be locked. You refuse to accept anything that does not fit your narrative and have spent the past 5 pages being "the lone voice of reason" against everyone trying to explain to you why your approach on the matter is wrong. Edit: And obviously I need to take another break from this thread for a while.

That is strictly your opinion, and reading this thread, one only you hold. Which again is strictly your opinion that does not seem to be shared according to this thread. Dark Consumption and Consume are not meant to be constant use powers. If that frustrates you, and apparently only you, then maybe don't play those sets. You are constantly trying to make the game what you want and to hell with anyone else's feedback or opinion on the matter. Because obviously, you know the best, right? Can we please get this thread locked? The only advocate is the author and (s)he/they don't give a damn what anyone else has to say on the matter.

No, they don't. Ice Armor for instance, where you find Energy Absorption, has 0% END drain resistance scattered across all 9 of its powers. Energy Aura and Electric Armor do get END drain resistance, but only in their specific resistance powers. Except for Sentinel Energy Aura (which is where you find Power Drain) which again has 0% END drain resistance across all 9 of its powers. So let's take a look at the sets. You want to compare the END drain resistance in Consume to the END drain resistance granted by the resistance, not the drains or defenses, of energy-based armor sets. And then claim they aren't equal so Consume needs a buff? They aren't even thematically the same or function the same. And even among the energy-based armor sets, Fiery Aura's Consume grants more END drain protection than all of Sentinel's Energy Aura. (I looked at every power in Sentinel Energy Aura on CoD. Not a single one had X% resist (Endurance).) Your argument boils down to you don't like that Consume and Dark Consumption take so long to recharge out of the box, and ignoring everything other than the +END in Consume, they are under-powered. Dark Consumption because you think it is not a good enough attack and Consume because you think the only thing that matters from it is the +END and everything else should be ignored or moved into other powers, preferably auto powers so they constantly grant those benefits which would make them so OP as to break the set with absolutely any amount of enhancement slotting. And even when you propose a nerf for balance, like you did with Dark Consumption to reduce the total END gained to 83.33 END with 10 targets drained instead of 125 gained from 5 targets, it is still a huge buff because you want it to have a 40 second recharge which means it can be used primarily as an attack that also happens to grant up to 83.33 END before you slot END enhancements and would be able to use it every 13.33 seconds, using the example that we can already get the 3 minute recharge down to 1 minute with ease as a reference for that math. The game is already ridiculously easy. Stop asking to make it even easier.

Energy Drain does not grant END drain resistance. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=scrapper_defense.energy_aura.energy_drain&at=scrapper Power Drain does not grant END drain resistance. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=sentinel_defense.energy_aura.power_drain&at=sentinel Power Sink does not grant END drain resistance. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=scrapper_defense.electric_armor.power_sink&at=scrapper Energy Absorption does not grant END drain resistance. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=scrapper_defense.ice_armor.energy_absorption&at=scrapper Neither do any of those powers grant +Max HP. And before you say yet again that the +Max HP can be plugged into an auto power as part of removing it from Consume, firstly, Dull Pain is not an auto power and it is your go to reference, and secondly, it is currently part of Consume and should be factored as such. Edit: I also note that you still have not referenced any of the math about that "so low" +Recovery bit that has been provided. You know, the one that shows that 'meager' +5% Recovery isn't meager? That even using the END/second rate can get up to 2.755 END/target drained on top of the up front +END the power grants even before you get into any global effects or how that stacks with all the other +Recovery buffs players build into their characters. +5% Recovery is garbage per you. So let's toss out all the +4%, +2.5%, and other recovery buffs. You will probably counter that those last constantly as opposed to the 15 seconds of Consume. Sure, but for those 15 seconds, that +5% per target drained is still adding to every other +Recovery effect built into the character.

And as @Luminara pointed out, the only powers actually similar to Consume and Dark Consumption are Consume and Dark Consumption. You are citing things like Dull Pain (which only does +Max HP) and saying that Consume doesn't even keep up with it. (It shouldn't. Consume grants END, Recovery, +Max HP, and END Drain Resist. Not a good comparison.) Then you go on about Dark Consumption not keeping up with its peers (of which it really doesn't have any) because the recharge and damage are too low for the attack 'it obviously is' regardless of how many times you are told it is not meant as an attack primary. Edit: Sorry, Dull Pain also has an upfront heal component. Still not comparable to Consume.

Dark Consumption is not meant as an attack. It is a utility power that happens to do damage. You keep looking at it like it is supposed to be an attack just because it is in the melee power set instead of in the armor power set. The Live devs wanted to make sure that Dark Melee could be paired with any secondary instead of just Dark Armor (and possibly Fiery Aura). So we wound up with a damaging utility power in the melee set instead of the armor set. Are you this upset with Confront (edit: or Taunt) for doing no damage? It's in the melee sets too. Just because a power is in the melee set does not mean it's primary purpose is as an attack. And even at that, it still manages to do anywhere from more damage than other melee AoEs (looking at Savage Melee's Savage Leap per Mids because I'm not tackling the formula on CoD) to 2/3's the damage of most melee PBAoEs to half the damage of some melee AoEs. While granting something rather critical to the character, lots of END to fuel their attacks and defenses depending on how many enemies are around them. (So yes, that makes the Dark Melee set a fairly unique set among the melee sets that you are looking to make not unique any more because you keep treating Dark Consumption like its primary purpose is an attack that those 'silly, foolish devs' back on live screwed up the design for.) I'm with @TheZag. Dark Melee is a fun set that functions differently than most other sets and has some rather interesting modes of play that it will not have any more if the current devs turn it into an attack primary that just happens to grant some END like you want.

Like @Uun said, there are escort missions that require the character to not have any form of stealth power active, and yes, believe it or not, there are players that for some reason don't take Hide on their Stalkers. (I don't know why, but they do.)

@WindDemon21's complaint isn't that (s)he/they can't find 3 mobs with which to fill their END bar, it is that those powers cannot be incorporated into a sustained attack chain and (s)he/they want it to need more than just the default 3 mobs to reach full restoration. So the stated desire from what I'm reading is Dark Consumption and Consume need to have shorter recharges so they can be 'properly' incorporated into an attack chain and also need the full 10 targets they can hit to grant the full END while also granting more upfront END per use. (Please bear in mind I do not agree with this stance and it hurts my head to understand.) So in @WindDemon21's goal: need more targets to get full END bar instead of 3 or 4, needs to grant more END if only facing a single foe, and needs to have a short enough recharge that can be used at least in every fight.

I've already said why Dark Consumption is in the Dark Melee set instead of the Dark Armor set, using the reasoning the Live devs gave. I disagree with your take on Consume and Dark Consumption. Others disagree with your take on Consume and Dark Consumption. There hasn't been a single comment made by anyone other than yourself to support the OP. Even @Vanden who seems to be in favor of a tweak does not seem to be in favor of the OP itself. Maybe the devs will agree with you, who knows. Right now though? This entire thread has been a repetitive circle of pretty much just opposition.

What it looks like you want is to change Consume and Dark Consumption into attack chain powers so they can give constant END boosts and be used as constant attacks.

k, thanks.

Dumb question: I may be reading it wrong, but it looks like Tanker Willpower gets 51.625% DDR, Scrapper Willpower gets 47.3% DDR, and Brute Willpower gets 47.3% DDR from Indomitable Will and Heightened Senses. Is that insufficient? I mean between the regen', moderate defense, solid resist, and -ToHit, it can be pretty hard for me to get my main Brute, an Electrical Melee/Willpower, killed. Especially when I pop Strength of Will when things get bad. I wouldn't complain if the SL defense came up a little, but I also don't understand why it needs to.

... now I want to see the rest of the enhancement screen... that's actually artistic.... 😶

I doubt pasties would ever be made a thing in this game. To easy to use them to imitate nipples on the female character. (Edit: And if the pasties included anything to mark them as not nipples? Players would simply declare them piercings on their topless characters.)

There's at least 1 chest option for males/huge that already has this. I can't imagine that they'd add this for females, though... Females already have it! Pick a top, any top, for the female character. If she has nipple rings, she has them. Otherwise, yeah, there is no way in hell the game is going to allow a topless female so that any nipple rings or other such piercings can be visible to other players.

For Quarantine? That's... tough.... I'll give it a try at least. Original: It needs to be a one-way detention field/black hole effect.... How about something like this?: 7) Quarantine - Using technology so advanced it bends the very parameters of reality as we know it, you temporarily dimension-lock enemies in an area. This pseudo-dimension prevents those within from affecting anything in real space, while still allowing for real space objects such as attacks to be transitioned into it. Even after targets are freed from their quarantine, they may still suffer a lingering ToHit debuff. Both the Hold and ToHit debuff are more effective against mechanical constructs such as robots, as well as cybernetic beings to a lesser extent. That still reads wrong to me, but it does read as a one-way detention field that way to me. (However, that still needs the PvP question answered. Also, how would Malta Titans be classified. They are both robots and cyborgs. A weird definition for them, but they are all robot with a controlling computer augmented by a human brain.) Edit: The thing is, handling enemies like they are a virus (or other program) and you are hacking them still reads more like my Overload bit. So that would be more like: 7) Name of Power - You hack the very minds of your targets in an area, shutting down their ability to operate. Even after the targets are free from your hacking, they may still suffer a lingering ToHit debuff. Both the Hold effect and ToHit debuff are more effective against mechanical constructs such as robots, and to cybernetic beings to a lesser extent. So hopefully, what I am providing helps you.

What the hell?

Ah. That makes sense. Did not know that. Thanks.

I'm guessing to sell. Either that or someone needs to get Mids. Meh, much easier to just have the character that bought the unslotters to sell just sell them, and then e-mail your account the inf' earned. Weeks of gathering problem solved if the point is to sell them. Now from a personal point of view, I think it would be nice if we could send stacks of 5 or 10 salvage, including unslotters, to ourselves and then just claim those stacks the way we claim singles we send ourselves, but that 5,264 claim comment blows my mind.

I'm sorry, but dumb question: Why the hell would anyone need to claim that many unslotters anywhere near at once? We don't have 5,264 enhancement slots to unslot on any of our characters.

My 'human'-specific reasoning was twofold: - Even among organic life (such as is presented in this game), hominids tend to be just a little more vulnerable, wouldn't you say? - The Rune of Purification power indicates that 'human' is an already-existing designation; I figure, why not utilize it? The game also has the humanoid tag for entities, and Rune of Purification does not apply the extra damage to them either. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=temporary_powers.day_job_powers.archaelogist_rune And no, I wouldn't say humans are more vulnerable than other humanoid entities in the game. They are just as resilient as most other entities at the same levels. I admit, I hadn't thought about this (to my own surprise); I suppose it would follow whatever pattern Rune of Purification does. Rune of Purification does not have a different PvP effect as opposed to PvE. PCs are considered human in the game by the game even when you make an energy being (like my shadows), a robot (like my BB-series Tankers that basically only exist to make bases for other players), a rock creature (like my golem character back on Live), and so on. My idea was more like 'you're hacking reality itself and handling enemies like an antivirus program'; I did struggle with the wording to make it clear that the 'interface with reality' problem is one-way. I understand that is your intent, it just doesn't read that way to me. Anyway, those were just recommendations, not demands, so do whatever you want with the proposal. (And it looks like you're leaving the proposal as is.)

Are you sure? I know Mids isn't the greatest reference, but removing the global 3% Smash/Lethal I get from one power's set on a build I went to check reduced my Smash/Lethal resist by 3%. Dropping the 5% damage resist proc dropped it by 5% as well. (Edit: Turning off Tough also dropped the build's damage resistance by the power's listed resistance.) Edit again: I just went in game and did the same check. It was a flat match for damage resistance. Edit yet again: And if you are claiming that adding 5% damage resist to 85% damage resist reduces the damage by 1/3 because of the actual damage the character takes after the damage resistance? That isn't multiplicative either. Just because 85% damage resist against 100 damage reduces the damage taken to 15 while 90% damage resist against 100 damage reduces the damage taken to 10, that is not a multiplicative result. That is an additive result. 100 base damage reduced by (2% damage resist plus 13% damage resist plus 24% damage resist plus 31% damage resist plus 15% damage resist plus 5% damage resist) is the same as 100 base damage times 0.1 (for 90% damage resist).

What stats work together multiplicatively? I thought they were all additive or non-stacking.