[Ninja Training improvements]

7 hours ago, General Idiot said:

Seriously though, Targeting Drone gives a bigger buff plus has less than a third of the delay before the larger buff reactivates. What's up with that?

Did they change Targeting Drone?  What is the effect and delay on that?  

4 hours ago, Saiyajinzoningen said:

2a. the shinobi power does not appear to apply the speed/jumping buff its supposed to

I was going to comment on that but I figured it was a typo.

 

The power does a lot of stuff crappily.  It's got a minuscule buff to defense, a situational protection to fear, a minimal resistance to psi and an unwieldy buff to damage and To Hit.

 

I was going to say take the speed/jump buff from Shinobi and put it in Kuji-In Toh, allow Kuji to stack but only the speed/jump buff (I was sad when I learned this power only refreshes and not stack) so you're getting some use out of extra rech slotting....and then increase the defense of Shinobi to a moderate level when unsuppressed (like 8% def) and link up the mechanic of initiative so that when you regain initiative, you also get back your 8% defense, making it a short-term offense tool for your next attack as well as a defensive bonus for planning out your next move.

 

But I figured that was too complicated and unnecessary to include as my idea's main goal is to make the set at least a little better for blaster offensive purposes.

[Regen rework/ideas.]

1 hour ago, Sarrate said:

I'd argue that Bio's gimmick is Adaption, not absorbs. The only other comparable sets are Stone Armor (normal and fully defense) and Kheldians (a whole AT, not a powerset). Bio only has two powers that give absorbs (Ablative Carapace and Parasitic Aura). If that is enough to make absorb it's gimmick, then one could argue defense is Invuln's gimmick because of Invincibility and Tough Hide. 😛

 

Honestly, Bio has a little bit of everything (adaption, +max hp, +regen, +recovery, +defense, +resist, +absorb, +dmg, damage aura, -regen, -dmg) to really say any one defensive stat is its thing. I'm going to go out on a limb and say one reason you're singling out absorb is because it's new and not as widely utilized. If absorbs were available from the get go, I think Bio's absorbs would just be another layer rather than a defining feature.

You're right but I didn't say "gimmick", I was just talking about the OP's train of thought regarding the sentence "What I was thinking was what if Regen became a new kind of defensive set".  I think Bio takes this premise already.

 

And I'm not against adding some +absorb to the set, I just don't think that should be its gig (putting it in Integration would be a good spot since that power is very meh...but 40% shield that regens at 5% per second is a bit much tho....that's over 100pts of absorb per sec ontop of your regen)  Another thing I like about Regen are its clicks and quite a few folks want to alter (or realter, as the case may be) to make the set more passive.  The hills and valley feel of the set is also why I enjoy it.

 

The set the OP outlines, while nifty sounding, is very different from the current Regen.

 

That all being said, I'm only stating what *I* want for the regen set.  I've come out before saying that my personal perspective of the set is that it isn't "Comic Book Wolverine Regeneration"...that's Willpower.  Regen as a CoH concept is more like "Cartoon-logic Nullification" where you can get *SPLAT*ed, show the damage, shake it off and instantly be back to normal.  I built all my Regen concepts around that and it works for them.  Just my opinion, though.