Anon4321

Exactly this. Nerfing Tanks gives me the same feeling i had when they did the enhancement diversification nerfs 20 years ago: Feels bad and makes you not want to play. I was thinking of coming back and looking and seeing this just sucks the wind out of my sails so to speak. I would have thought the people running this game now would have realized that as they're former players themselves from what I understand. I guess things look different from the dev chair, but I really think there are better ways to make other AT's more desirable like you said.

Has there been any significant changes to powersets or procs since this testing was done?

disregard

Interesting and thanks for the replies. I am surprised given both Scrappers and Stalkers are losing out on a large portion of their crits with the set. I understand they have higher base damage modifiers, but with other sets it's their full crit bonuses that keep them competitive. Seeing as how Brutes can take full advantage of their fury boost with the set I would naturally think it's strongest for them. Do you happen to have any links to discussions about the differences performance? I am searching but not finding much.

Just wondering if anyone knows what AT the new Energy Melee is strongest on? I am thinking Brute due to the crit limitations which is why I am asking here first, but I'm not sure if I may be overlooking something. Thanks in advance for any help.

Same here.

I mainly agree with the OP's point. Unless something is really just an egregious outlier it does feel better to have everything else brought up to it's level rather than have it nerfed down. For example with the latter approach applied to a power set the player already feels like the other sets are "weak" or "weaker". It doesn't really matter if they absolutely are in terms of the original intended game balance because that is the player perception now and nothing will change that. I feel like this is one of the things that really hurt CoH originally and had far lasting consequences when they decided to nerf everything with Enhancement Diversification (I think this is what they called it but it's been like 15 years lol) and then several powersets (Spines and Fire namely). I played the game then and distinctly remember everyone being upset about it and the number of players dropping off shortly thereafter.

Would you be willing to post your build for this?