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Gonna steal hat for a blaster, Balstar the Alstar I kinda recognize Bill Z Bubba from way back, Luminara sounds familar as well. Old timers 😛😛

Pretty much what Dsorrow says, very well put. I lack the ability to be expressive enough to sound like I know what I am saying. I just know from experience. Anyway csparks you bring up brute melee vs blaster. That is base scale damage of the attack, it shows you don't know the mechanics well. It doesn't take into self damage buff, blaster will face punch that freakshow boss harder for one hit but a brute will be hyped up with rage from minion attacks before he flattens the small fry and punches the same boss's head off; but this is assuming 2 attacks with one being AoE (poor example with 2 attacks, but a hyped up brute is real fun). That .75 can equal to a blaster after rage. Someone can correct me in the last paragraph if I am wrong, full mechanics combined with math makes my head hurt. Not trying to insult you, but Scourge benifits greatly on massive meatbag HP more then minion clobbering. Read the scoure page link above, gives you a better undertanding; Souge is random, works under 50% and RNG chance increases the lower the hp it gives, where as Defiance hits right out the box. Double random damage isn't the same as bonused damage attacks.

Bud, your test is flawed period. At level 1, you hit what? 10 minions? Blasters do more damage per hit un like corrupters, Cors would excel on an EB/AV/Bosses that are tougher when Scourge kicks in and the HP pool is massive. Or rain of fire, those ticks add up after you fire ball a minion group. And debuffs/buffs technical benefit both AT unless solo. Single attacks on level 1s mean nothing.

I understand what your saying, but melee already have status protection to everything else, *shrug* its kinda a no brainer and a freebie benifit. Also benifits squishy, knockback is worse then a hold as they go flying. Offensively, knock back/down is an entirely different matter. Either it hits or fails to knockback but some attacks/utility are designed to toss things on their ass. Power Thrust is a good example, 8 mag so it hits average bosses like the Hulk. Not the best example though, but I think procs or damage maybe reduce the chance or mag of the hit, hell maybe convert to a stun or hold for a few seconds in the entire set with better bonuses changes, none of the ones current is any good. Just converting all knockback to down or a single IO in the entire power set is kinda over powered for attacks. The protection, justs add to the character and maybe 2 if you want to turn a blaster into a sent...but the attack part would be like asking for said blaster to get status protection to everything in a single IO instead of the reduction the sets give ( and acrobatics comes at the cost of several power picks which is totally not the topic I know) slotting the suggetion would be way easier but there has to be a cost cause the OP says "sprints or rest". Honestly, the single IO per attack is kinda OP as is yet costs to much like an cause you are giving it up per that 1 slot. Should of been a set bonus to convert KB to KD for the entire character with a single set slotted, there is a few that give protection to knockback at 4 bonuses for 1 set.

/jranger Problem is, one IO would benifit some sets entirely. It completly changes the game, for the cost of 1 IO. Better suggestion is to add some damage to the knock back set that makes the knock back attacks from low damage to moderate damage with the option of a knockdown modifier. Perhaps give every knockback some damage bonus and the option of different procs in every set; immobilize, a stun, hold that 'ticks' 1 second after after flying.

Why I would never play Assault Rifle/Device again. That change was a middle finger when I played last, its like "Here, we buffed Device to help the thematic pairing of Assault Rifle." Sorry, no other power set needs a buff that requires a particular seconday; nearly all primaries compliments any secondary or vice versa. Pfft, even with those new buffs I still have a hard time starting a DP/Dev because of the bad taste it left. Looking at a AR/, it doesn't look liked it has been changed since I4 Erectile Dysfunction Enhancement Diversification and cones cap. Beam, the other rifle has an 16 target AoE nuke with what looks like the solid single target attacks, other nukes apparently have their endurance crash removed with a shorter recharge so its no longer the O-Shit panic button. Still limited to mostly lethal, 3 cones, 2 single target with addition in snipe (buffed I see). The Sentinel Full Auto looks superior, half the range but wider cone and higher tick chance for that ext5ea damage (forget exactly been a few weeks since I look) and then Incinerate beats Ignite since its a single taget burn (or which ever name, both start with I and invole fire). AR has to much diversification in single, cone, and a single bonfire rip off while excluding beanbag..think I am missing an attack. Got my ar/dev to ding 50, left at 49 and never trained him, silly silent protest to say "Fuck you Crytic/NSOFT/Paragon Studios, I did it" as a return middle finger. It was a pairing that worked solo, but group wise it was lagging and was the bottom of the list for awhile in the set to be played. Good write up, device looks like it got a substantial buff but the bad memories still ruin it for me.

Your test is a bit flawed. Blasters self buff through defiance, each attack does a small +dmg bonus that lasts like 6? seconds, enough to chain at minimum 3-4 attacks in that time dependent on recharge or the number of attacks used, by level 6 it would leap ahead with a few attacks. Blasters are high burst alpha and sustained damage. No other has damage attacks on both sides. Defiance boosts straight damage. Corrupters buff through their secondary, which they concentrate on as its a reverse defender. Scourge isn't dependable as Defiance, Scourge is random crit at 50%, sorta like a scrapper. And the double damage shouldn't be considered, its just a flashy orange number and a double crit for 10 damage x 2 = 20 is redundant if the baddie is at 9. It helps, but shouldn't be counted on.

Better then me, I am not so good at it

Exactly what a blaster is. Kick ass, take names, get smacked around, and taste the floor. When the tank is lifting weights, the defender diagnosing based on "vague opinions" on the internet, the controller is posing for social media with the locked down baddies until they click "like" and the scrapper is posing for a selfie with those flashy crits....they are all congratulating each other on a job well done on. Meanwhile the blaster is waking up to their favorite nurse, getting up and putting on their best battle uniform of tighty whities or string bikinis, strapping the gas tank to their back and wearing a claymore mine for a necklace, while giving a smirk to the bad guy with a finger on the detonator. Someone is going down, them or a blaster, hopefully them so the blaster can take out all his friends then face plant at the end of the battle in exhaustion.

Closely looking at the font, it can be different sizes even if they are all actually the same size. I didn't mean changing of size, just it would be like squinting as Bugs when getting the test...actually Youtube shows it as the guy giving the test so there was some squinting in it 😋. Yeah, the size does get smaller in that skit but as you notice above some fonts natually have different sizes. Gods know I didn't abuse stuff like that in highscool when they said to write a 3 page report (not font directed, teachers would always say a specific font)....just 1.05 instead of 1 inch margins or slightly increased spaces between the lines; you could half ass another half a page as the spaces start to add up 😏

You pretty much sum up what can already be done, colored bubbles. Its up to the player how to present it in what the font is. We don't need a thousand different styles and someone decides to make the equivalent to "walawala washinton" from the Buggs bunny skit getting an eye exame with small font.

Bro, chill out. Its the damn internet, opinions are like buttholes and we all have one. Sometimes the opinion is shit, but we are not best friends or brothers; example meaning we don't know each other personally so we don't have all the information. We have to use our own perception base on what you say compared to what we experienced with Defiance 1.0. Some people really hated it with a passion. You think it was great? It was a joke, your as banged up as someone life support but the natural response to any human is to stay alive; you pop a heal not 3 purple to avoid damage or your healer class sets will hit you with green...end result zero or reduced damage not max bonus. Long term, you got nothing unless you ask to not be healed or solo the entire time - boring in the internet cause its not a console game and XBOX/PS post 2005 don't count. I assumed by what you said and you experienced from the beginning of Def 1 by the joke. After your second response, I assumed you came toward the end of Def 1, some players can adapt far faster then others in a shorter time frame and....Its gone; you got Def 2. I can't adapt cause I prefer to stay alive, not cuddle with a creepy anemic dude in a grey bath robe. You, gave a suggestion...you expect a simple no or yes, a /veto meme as old as time? Some like my stupid ass sound long winded, can't help that. I can't even tell what I said sounded like an insult, I went back and looked. I did say it was a challenge using Def 1, what a challenge would be compared to it on HC (my thinking was the old school SO with out incarnate or IO up the wazoo). Sorry if you got affended, but you got to learn to let it go like water iff a duck. I also never said or can see someone what powers you can pick. I am already in a debate I gave up on on some guy who is dead set againt some MM using group fly, the guy comes off as a dick that is dead set in his ways and says he would auto boot anyone using it. Surpise! Idiot can use a bird literally called Null the Guull in Pocket D to neutralize GF, he just refuses to do so. Oh, and if you thought I meant "pro" blasters when I said serious I meant as in mostly played. Melee in the beginning bored the crap out of me. You prefere living on the edge as a blaster, I prefered the 3 classes with zero status protection.

The generic font is fine, I can't think of any game that let you change fonts unless you know of one. Most games go with the easiest to read, cursive suggestion would be difficult to read in a hurry during a fight if someone has the rime to type it.

The buff is increases a damage and range, unless it changed to the out dated I looked at. Dark Servant is basically a wandering Dark Miasma pet, I had a dark miasma defender on live a long time ago, generally it was slotted with -to hit and with the rest of the power set it could neuter most stuff. Think one of those to hit debuff sets has a proc, psi damage maybe

It took me maybe 3 years at least, playing shortly after launch. I believe it was an Ice/Kin corrupter or maybe a fire/kin controller. Altitis like a plague, might of been something else, allI know they were supports types. My first and main character was an AR/Dev that became a slog after I4. Played him occasionally but but didn't enjoy prior to the Nerf-oppocalyse. After slapping AR to the cone and far limited to targets (beam is 16, but came after), the damage type, the longest animation tied to LoS (AoE you just ran in when tank had aggro, rains didn't need LOS), and I belive this was all compensated for shortest recharge at the time. And the shit Defiance 1 and better 2 but for a trap like seconday it didn't benifite much. A buff to give snipe a crit with TD (or cloak, I forget) was"kinda "meh here you go" felt like a middle finger. Got that character to 49, dinged him 50 in a mission and never leveled him at a trainer leaving him with level 50 SO; a silent but stupid protest "I did it, fuck you Cryptic/NSOFT/Paragon Studio" to myself.

Don't forget to use Rest and bring an empath, you might get a Damage Taken badge in the process.

Don't want to tell you what to do and can't buld for shit for others, do want to make one comment. You can get very creative as kinetic primary doesn't need very many enhancement slots, speed boost, inert reduction if you take it and and the semi-stat protection don't need many slots. You can take almost every ice power and use them situationaly as you need them while getting the benifit of the unused power until you need it.

Pro-tip: you have no sense of humor and probably came towards the end of a useless inherent; I got the impression you played pre-D....you might be only a handful that could use it. That was a running joke at the time about the Grim Reaper. Nearly every serious blaster hated Defiance 1.0 like the plague, we didn't ask for it and instead of riding Death we preferred to stay alive and cause mayhem regardless of the DMG bonuse. Long animation like Assualt Rifle is locked with flame throwerbut not nealy as long with Full Auto, Device on the other hand got no benifite from it Def 1.0, cause face it only Caltops would do damage and you are dead if trying to plant a landmine in the middle of combat. Riding the edge of death, I did say was a challenge, but one AoE at 5% the edge and your dead. You want a challenge, strip out those IO, drop leadership, find other like minded individuals and run 4x8; 1 group at +4 is with 8 people tough but god forbid you got 2 or 3 groups while running with SO. And old Def 1 would benifite a brute or tank more, looking back at the original 5 hero AT it was basically the only active inherent. Not talking about hitting a button and generating taunt, RNGesus rolls for scrapper with an attack, increased damage from held baddies that couldn't fight back, or reduced endurance costs in a group....You actively have to take damage and 1 heal destroyed that benifite; the inherent activelly slid back and forth up the scale. Better off staying alive and create carnage as long as you can without that bonuse. Someone mentioned using the first attacks while held, pretty sure you couldn't with Def 1 and Def 2 it came later but I could be wrong, memory is fuzzy cause I discovered it a month ago. For sents, Assualt rifle is so much better stat wise then the blaster. Might be less damage but better full auto and that fire attack insted of the bonfire rip off. Range is shorter but I am jealou.

Yoir kidding right? So you liked giving b**w j*bs and t***ing the salad of the Grime Reaper? Had to to be very friendly with GR so wouldn't come collecting. Sure, it was more challenging. But its counterintuitive for squishy class trying to stay alive who easily drew a lot of agro.

If it does, I can shut up and others can stop bitching. Win-Win, so long as it doesn't fuck over the guy who was using it if MM pet behavior is still shit.

Bud, my fucking phone ate a post so I am gonna be briefer I am not over reacting over the power. Its the behavior you are showing. Group fly is beyond fucking stupid, he got creative to solve an issue. Maybe the commands didn't work, the AI is beyond shit. I approve of anyone that gets creative. If the guy dismissed his bots and continued to harass the group, that is griefing. If their is a fix on test, awesome. I don't bother reading them, I am used to changes withs nerfs and buffs. See Issue 4. Whatever comes off test, I can live with. Your reasoning is a poor choice, to kick someone instead of solving the problem that is a few minutes of your time. You are electing for the simple option, abandoning and exile them because of that shit power. Think about your behaviour, actions, and choices; what if you were that guy. That is all I am saying and asking. This is an MMO, not Self Centered Online games. Just help the dude out, it only costs you a few minutes and show others how to solve the problem with an unknow option to the masses using that stupid bird. Otherwise just uninstall, it would be an even easier option then dealing with the problem. I stand corrected. 4:57, from atlas steps to Pocket D including 2 10ish second load times and 10 more seconds to orient to Pocket D in Kings Row as I got turned around. This is using a level 1 stalker and hide, with out sprint on, while turning off all the options to speed, GF, Team teleport and navigating the menu of the damn bird. Slight longer from non-connecting zones, then again I played through when there were 2 separate trams lines and Oro didn't exist or the whirl gate at the base of the tram line in Atlas. Only saying, it doesn't take long and your attitude comes off as being a dick because you hate GF, while at the same time....you can turn it off but refuse to. You complain, but you have the power to neuter it but won't take the initiative. You can PREVENT GF FROM AFFECTING YOU. That is the only thing I don't get that you are the squeaky wheel but the grease is in Pocket D to silence it, yet at the same time it lets the one MM guy use GF which increase his value of effort o the team....so long as they turn it off. It isn't hard at all. "Hey guys, we need to go to P D and turn off some powers that affect us." Done...now I don't know if you can neutralize it but it still affects other team pets; controller may not fly but the fire imps might? Then it is more of a hassle.

No, the people are over reacting. There are 2 problems 1. MM can't control his pet because of shit AI, uses group fly to counter it. 2. Whiney players who can't spend 5 mins running to Pocket D and talking to a bird. Now, with out GF the first problem cannot be solved; namely the shit AI. Now, with the second problem of "over reacting whiny griefing" caused by GF can easily be solved. 5. Fucking. Minutes. Of. Your. Life. Get it? Yes, it is annoying AF to be caught by that power. Its also annoying AF for you stupid bots to have the AI of a Contaminated in Outbreak. Both problems can be solved easily, GF to counter bot melee and GF being canceled by talking to an ugly ass graphic bird. Only takes a little bit of effort, hell the MM has to waste several power picks to get GF where as the whiny players only have to spend a few minutes per toon to turn it off.; which is the bigger trade off? Also, teach the others how to cancel ALL of the powers they don't like while there is only a limited list to pick from. Otherwise you got a useless player who got exiled by some asshole or the MM can pretend to be a crappy scrapper-blaster hybrid just to save endurance on useless pets that die to AV stomps.

tl;dr - Instead of a power pick to collect picks or restrain range such as the range that run into melee give Doms another self inherent type power that pulls them back and completely restrains them while shutting down their instant reaction every time NPC shoot in their general direction. And something that restrains ranged type feom brawling or change them into something like the flying gun turret in device or malta engineers.

It isn't griefing, that is implied as usually going out of your way to intentionally cause a trouble to another player. A game like Ever Quest 1 in 1999, usually meant intentionally pulling a massive train of NPC on anothen player or group; while they are killing them same player pulls more; rinse and repeat until everyone is dead. This player enjoys causing grief, call them a troll like modern internet douche canoes. In the case of this mastermind, it is a tool for him to counter shit AI by design from the developer. Its a smart way that they figured out how to counter that shit AI. Can you at least understand that? Might as well boot masterminds because of their pets. Ever play with 3 of them and no, thats not the total number of pets....thats the amount of MM with ALL of their pets. And enjoy playing a kinetic, thank god whiney lazy ass players had to make Cryptic/NSOFT/Paragon Studios make the game easier; one cast of SPEED BOOST and its like a Bingo ball tumbler. Wait, lets boot all kinetics cause the player base used to whine about collision issues. Fuck it, boot all incarnates who run paper missions in PI, to damn easy and annoying when you can't do any thing. Boot anyone without leader ship, cause all players pussed out to easy mode "I don't and wanna get hit" need massive recharge to squeeze in everything they can with that Gambler plus every bonus they can. Boot any healer, cause everyone is nearly unstoppable superman and don't need them. Boot dominators, got more powerful control not tied to a click and comes with buffs. Hell, dominator are a blaster-comtroller-hybrid; blasters have weak ass control but those range/melee powers and massively useless control power cause an actual controllers come with buffs better then crappy melee blast hybrids. Boot blasters, corrupte inherent is better and comes with buffs. Boot brutes when you need actual tanks and boot tanks when you need easy mode reliable scrappers with more hitpoints and damage not reliant on a RNJesus roll. Boot scrappers, see above. Boot stalkers cause ninja assassin concept = shit when you got Hulk-Blob melee or scrappers. Boot blasters, Sentinels are watered down but come with status protection. Boot defender, see corrupter and blaster as better range damage and one has buffs. See, I too can come up with lazy crazy reasons to exclude people more based on their class AT instead of ONE POWER YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH. Is Group fly annoying? Yes. Is it griefing? No Creative way to use shit AI pets? Yes Annoying to use Null Bird? Yes Should you go to the bird? No. Personal MM GF or power to restrain Pets? Yes. Understand from their point of view first instead of bitching about something you can't handle on a personal level.

LOL welcome to hard mode. You might be one of those players that enjoy linear story lines where you are the all powerful chosen one (along with a few tens of thousands other players) from start to max cap. My opinion, don't be insulted if I am wrong. Vet powers are weak, not really required and seems to make people dependent on them; three are redundant. Sure, early levels is nice but once you get a few attack powers they are useless. And the draw animation kills it for me, only like Mu sands. No inherent fitness. Pros and Cons, can't have everything without a penalty, basically giving up several primary secondary powers. Repercussions for you choices, some power sets like Assault Rife / Device you could of skipped easily for the fitness pool; like Ignite (burn patch, YAY NPC FEAR MODE!) and Time bomb (mini-nuke, with obscenely long set up time). And cloaking device, laughable when they gave it the special crit for snipes cause it was a middle finger and the Turret was useless when it was stationary (still is when it floats, very situation except for big boss battles....cause you know auto fight pets break stealth when you toebomb). As it is, without the fitness pool I am looking for power pics by the mid 20s and fucking tired of looking at the leadership pool. YAY! Run toggles that kill that inherent bonus. Double exp, didn't exist when I played. Now debt that, that was hardcore (cause you know, badges). Try 10 bubbles per level if you were having a hard time, cause you need it for badges. So macho and manly....Good times, Good time. *sniff* Travel power and Disconnected transport systems. Game was designed in a linear fashion to keep you in a few zones at the early levels, who needs them? When you hit 14, you where all over the place when the contacts sent you to another zone. Didn't need a single transport line, most often it was only a zone away. Don't know if you played EQ1, back in the day it took like 3-4 hours to cross the world by foot without a speed buff. Ouroboros. Again, short cuts cause nobody wants to spend up to 10 minutes to cross a zone or couple with their travel power. So extremely fast short cuts then make travel powers redundant. why the hate of TO? Training Origins only lasted to until about mid teens, then the dual started dropping and could be bought, by 30 you were only using single origins.. Of course, back then you didn't make enough influence and were broke most of the time. Only thing about enhancements was the fucking waste of Developer time comming up with names, should of just treated them like more powerful TO shared regardless of picked origin (for you character, not that it actually matter there) and level locked them. When did you even start playing? I started shortly after release. Assault Rifle / Device, using Hasten to make Full Auto spray bullets as fast as possible.....llllaaaaaaggggg! When the numbers started floating, could kill a huge amount of baddies with no cap on cones. Gotta thank Positron (pretty sure it was him), good old I4 comes along neutering everything so AR/Dev becomes the redheaded bitch child slapped around with that nice small limited cone (all others are AoE 16), longest animation time requiring line of sight instead of run in and boom, gives up the old endurance crash for that shorter recharge, oh the recharge is awesome when you have the most resisted damage type with a piddle of a crit chance compared to the sentinel version. And ED came along, that Erectile Dysfunction Enhancement Diversification forcing a player to choose in a 1-1-1-3 most of the time for attacks; Acc/EndReduc/RechReduc/3 Damage. Gotta say, dumbing down the game too attract the more simple minded is to just draw numbers to increase player account. Game was made easier, not sure how it stacked up towards the end of Live but sounds like it was so easy it makes Minefield on Windows more challenging. Homecoming, super stupid easy. Don't get me wrong, I like things like Ninja Run but the rest...not so useful in my opinion and I still don't have enough options cause most power pools are kinda useless.