[Hop on over to the beta server to test out some Page 5 power updates!]

21 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

Time for some good old fashion testing! If you've had your fill of Trick or Treating, want to help out the volunteer team, or just like seeing what's on the horizon, log in to the beta server and test out these proposed changes for Page 5.

 

I did. Gave feedback only to see it purged from the forums. So what's the point?

[Scrapper Superior Critical Strikes]

2 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I'd rather have a 70% chance to activate on each of three targets than a 90% chance on just one target, and you should too.

 

Why? I NEED the extra critting against AVs and monsters and Pylons. Rest of the time it's nothing but overkill. So for claws, it goes in followup for FU, Focus, Slash, repeat. For nrg, it goes in TF for ET-long, TF, ET-short, gloom, bs, repeat.

[Focused Feedback: Sentinel Archetype Revamp]

'You wanted more?"

 

I give. Make the damage scale 2.

[Claw/Fire farmer with i27p5]

1 hour ago, Sanguinesun said:

due to its irradiated ground,

Nerfed in beta as well. Won't over-proc anymore and hits half as many targets. "All/Radiation Melee/Irradiated Ground: This power can now only proc once every 10 seconds and hit up to 5 targets."

[Scrapper Superior Critical Strikes]

1 minute ago, SomeGuy said:

Six slot your T1 attack and slap the entire set there. Then ctrl-click that attack to set it to auto.

 

Just in case, /s

 

Dude... that would cripple my DPS.

[Focused Feedback: Fiery Melee Revamp]

11 hours ago, DarknessEternal said:

The enemies hitting fire farmers use fire melee.  Fire armor has no defense debuff resistance.  These changes exist to make fire farming harder.

 

And you verified that fire melee critters in AE are now debuffing defense?

[Indomitable Needs Your Help]

On 4/6/2022 at 9:59 AM, arcane said:

Just imagine city but with 1000x more people

 

No wonder I never played any other MMO. Waitin on State of Decay 3 but I'll only buy it if there's still a fully single player mode as there is with SoD2.

[Focused Feedback: Sentinel Archetype Revamp]

7 hours ago, Keen said:

What's your time with that build on Live? It shouldn't have changed much (assuming you used Offensive Opportunity).

 

Just got 3:11 so apparently I'm senile. Thought he was sittin around 4 mins on average. Carry on.

[Focused Feedback: Sentinel Archetype Revamp]

Pylon time with fire/bio sent, 2:56. This puts it on par with my shield/nrg tank and claws/sr scrapper. While hovering above the fight in complete safety. (Edit: In normal content, of course. I know it doesn't matter with pylons.) Also took out a lvl 54 Tub Ci in Mr G's arc in less than 5 mins.

 

Yay. More power creep.

[what powers would you use, if you were doing a Homage to Spiderman ??]

Guess I'm old school. Spidey I knew never had electric blast. I'll second StJ/SR with SJ/CJ ... and maybe a proced out Flurry. Kind of a bummer you'd have to haul out a mace for webbing but it is what it is.

[Tank or Sentinel for damage?]

I've got a dark/stone tank that tanks just fine. Fold space + taunt aura + taunt + aoes obliterate the stealth problems.

[Tank or Sentinel for damage?]

When you say raw damage, what do you mean?

Actual raw damage? Sent Fire Blast (69) > Tank Scorch (50.) Sent Flares (52) < Tank Fire Sword (75.) That's T1 vs T1 and T2 vs T2. Sent damres debuff will help some.

 

Or do you mean raw kill speed clearing everything? Sents cause scatter, like a bad fart. Tanks cause clumping, like kitty litter. Tanks win by a landslide on clear all kill speed.

 

My shield/nrg tank sits around 2:45 for pylon times. I don't see any nrg/* sents pulling that off, (my fire/bio sent doesn't come close,) but then again, NrgMelee buffs + tank overbuffing vs sents generally being a poorly designed bag of crap, fun or not, isn't a very fair comparison. (Why don't sents get shield again?)

 

Been running Mr. G's arc at max diff with my fire/bio sent. Several faceplants but got through carnies, Crimson Revenant and family. Slow going of course. The tank rolled through all that without issue while being safer, faster and vastly more efficient.

[Another nail in the Brute coffin]

40 minutes ago, Snarky said:

But Brutes damage output is much closer to Scrappers.

 

It's really not. Scrapper +crit IOs send them way ahead. Brute damage is much closer to the tank side than the scrapper side these days.

[Another nail in the Brute coffin]

17 hours ago, WindDemon21 said:

They actually get the EXACT same resists... Brutes just have a higher cap which only comes into play usually with smash/lethal and the elemental type of a specific set.

 

This is one thing that always made me eyeball brutes badly. They should really have resist/defense values in BETWEEN tankers and scrap/stalkers

 

Could and should. HP-Max is at 2088, 2410, 3213 and 3534 for the 4 ATs. Base values (edit: and caps!) for the armors should follow the same ratio.

 

That's right... nerf stalkers and buff brutes. Then make sure damage output follows the same inverse rule.

[The tragedy of the Brute Fury nerf. A timeless lament]

There was a reason that the OG BZB was moved off of Pinnacle and replaced with BZB Brute. And there's a reason now for me having 3 BZBs. I'd have 4 if stalker claws wasn't such a steaming pile of shit.

 

I miss old fury as well.

["Do-it-all" AT?]

I'm gonna second the time/* defender. My time/fire can solo max diff and can keep a team happy, healthy and mean.

[Things you enjoy that other people seem to not enjoy]

9 hours ago, RobotLove said:

I like "defeat all" missions.

 

Yup. I also enjoy AV fights that take longer than 2 minutes.

[Tell me about your "main"]

Only reason I never recreated my ice/nrg tank from live is that I can't remember her name or what she looked like.

[Tweaking Gauntlet...]

3 minutes ago, Krimson said:

When you are aggroing 3-5 mobs at a time, you totally get runners. So maybe you have to hustle more on Dreck. But something like the Troll Caves with that mob density... It's nice. 

 

Except for AVs going into full flee mode and ignoring taunt/gauntlet/threat completely, the difference in runners for my claws/sr scrapper vs the brute/tank versions is beyond painful.

[Trying to find the easiest build for an impaired player]

I've said it before and will no doubt again, but SR is just cruise control for cool. A secondary that provides a heal, Rad or Dark hop to mind, will take you into immortal land and provide a combo where the only clicks you really have to deal with can all be in tray 1.

[Tell me about your "main"]

20 minutes ago, BlackSpectre said:

from way back in my Champions pen and paper RPG days.

 

Wonder how many of us ended up here because of that.

[Tweaking Gauntlet...]

16 hours ago, Ultimo said:

Honestly, I don't understand the resistance to this.

 

Because tanks were ridiculously overbuffed already and any further buffs are beyond ignorant.

[SR build for Hard Mode your thoughts]

Nice build. Amazing how much mitigation you're getting from just Storm Kick with its +def and the MotT set.

[Tell me about your "main"]

I got tired of the bureaucracy in Hell and needed a vacation. Heard about this place called Paragon City where a buncha supers were running amok. Sounded like a good idea. Crafted myself a new body, gave it some groovy claws and a knack for avoiding damage and went to town. Been tearin through the baddies (and goodies) ever since. What's to say? I enjoy flipping out and killing things while painting rooms with their blood and entrails. The name seemed close enough to my real one and American enough to fit in.

[Why SR?]

7 hours ago, Mezmera said:

DDR caps at 95% which SR can easily attain.  My Shield tank is at 90% without using Ageless, seems pretty close to me.  Then Shield can bring much more to the table.

 

Shield is numerically superior to SR.

 

Shield is subjectively very less sexy than SR.

 

SR on a tank is borderline insanely tough. That's without RoP or Darkest Night or both pushing is even further.