Bill Z Bubba

No, please don't. It was a joke!

If that's the case then we should get sentinels as close to blaster damage as tanks are now to brute damage. 🙂

So it'll be Shadow Meld, Rune of Protection, MoG, lots of regen, a self heal and some +HP vs SM, RoP, 2 absorb shields, a self heal, a damres debuff, a damage aura and Adaptation? Pretty sure I already know which one wins but I'll happily watch the testing you do.

True statement but the amount of incoming damage is vastly lower at range.

Agreed. Edit: Scrapper ATO: passive +crit chance buff and change for major +crit chance = MOAR DAMUGE Tank ATO: Chance for +absorb and chance for 3 stacks of resistance = MOAR MITIGATION Brute ATO: Tiny bit of regen/endurance gain with a tiny bit of fury = pathetic Stalker ATO: omgwtfbbq!

That's why hover exists.

But does this knowledge change anyone's view about farming? It's going to happen whether AE gets nerfed or not. And the harder the lockdowns get, the more money folks like that will make. Not off me, of course, but I have an IQ higher than a turnip. Yea, yea, I know... barely... but still.

On the other hand, $100/hr to play a video game does sound kinda nice...

I dunno. Not even sure how many vetlvls per hour my farmer gets when I'm PLing new alts. Maybe 3 per 5 maps, 9 an hour maybe if I'm really pushing it? Still... madness. "I'm gonna pay real money for shit that means nothing in an 18 year old game! I IS SO SMART!!!"

I... wow. I mean, I KNOW some people have more money than sense but damn.

I have to ask: What, exactly, could HC do about it other than play whack-a-mole with accounts involved? It's not like they'd have any legal footing for any kind of action. Don't get me wrong, I assume that people who would pay for in game money with real money are probably stupid enough to harm themselves by breathing incorrectly, but I'm certainly curious.

But you shouldn't slot the same, right? Supposedly brute fury will carry it even if you have to neglect offensive slotting to get the mitigation side up to par. Or so the story goes.

Does it actually matter? Is it any more misleading than how tohit works? Or how confused folks are about the base incarnate critter tohit buff vs how the softcap works? Or how endurance reduction functions on the backend? Those that want to learn, will. Those that don't, won't. Asking for changes to a power due to one's ignorance of the game isn't a great place from which to start and intentionally feeding that ignorance is kinda mean.

Are you stating that assault on a tank does not provide a 15% damage buff? Yes, you are. And you are wrong. Watch your combat monitor and you'll see it listed quite plainly. I know where you're getting the lessened value from and yes it is absolutely misleading to bring it up in those terms. I have an attack that does 100 damage. I slot enhancements totalling 95% and now that attack does 195 damage. I turn on assault for its 15% and now that attack does 210 damage but that's only 7.14% more damage than the attack was doing with just my enhancements!!! IT'S ALL A LIE!!!! And it gets worse! I just hit buildup for another 80% damage buff and I'm only doing 290 damage! That's only 27.586% more damage than I was doing with enhancements and assault!!!! REWORK EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

No, Sovera, remove the ridiculously unnecessary buffs that were recently added because tank damage output is now ridiculous when compared to the mitigation they provide.

Do I really think some people on this forum have actually stated just those opinions on AE? Yes, because they have. Do I think the devs are silly enough to go along with those opinions? Course not.

I'll put it another way. Assault is always buffing every attack by exactly the % it states in CoD for each AT. You deciding that it doesn't because you want to mislead others on how damage buffs work in this game is not the game's fault nor is it a rational reason to rework how damage buffs function nor even a rational reason for changing the power description of every damage buff in the game to explain how damage buffs work.

Bullshit, no one is suggesting it. Farming in AE needs one well built farmer *soloing* and that's precisely what has the anti-ae crowd all in a tizzy. ""Those" people aren't being forced to team! "Those" people are earning inf/xp/emps/etc far faster than I can outside of AE! "Those" people are letting folks doorsit and level/earn rewards faster than actually "playing the game!" It's quite related.

Methinks "massive" is quite overstated with 1255 people online. 100% agreed when it comes to powerset and archetype balance. AE's not really an outlier if the vast majority of leveling happens there. But I'm game. Let's see what happens to the player population if the devs manage to nerf AE enough so that an ss/fire/mu brute can only get the same rewards per minute in AE that an emp/nrg defender can get outside of it.

Your test was flawed. Go retest with unslotted brawl and no other damage buffs. Then you'll see Assault functioning exactly as described and exactly as all damage buffs have functioned in this game for almost 20 years. For everyone else confused by the way damage works in this game, all damage buffs are added together and then applied. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Damage

We're doing it until those idiotic tank buffs get reverted.

Ever been on an all corruptor team? Every other AT becomes a waste of space. Sentinels would be far less maligned if we WERE playing a SO only game but of course we aren't. And ya know... I soloed a max diff standard no insps ITF with my fire/bio sent and while I'll admit that it was a slog because the AVs took forever due to my complete inability to keep them from running all over the gorram map, it does show that they're not ridiculously weak. And in a race with a blaster buddy of mine where we each took a path in the last mission of another ITF, I didn't fall all that far behind him. Which leads to the apparently necessary reminder that there is a game here that exists before we get a character to 50, T4ed with 500mil inf worth of IOs, and during that part of the game, my fire/bio sent was vastly more fun to solo to 50 than any other ranged character I've done it with. And we all know why. Ya want to completely trounce all the uber-diff content? Bring 1 high aggro controlling brute and 7 corruptors. Nothing else need apply.

All damage buffs be they from fury or buildup or any other source work the same way. It's not misleading, it's functioning as designed and as it always has. Big no vote from me on the topic. There's been too much power creep. We don't need more.

There are those that understand math...

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