drducker

i play quite a bit but nearly never, if ever post on the forums a dmg nerf is probably warranted but maybe more from a powerset to powerset basis, sure -- i don't think this is it at all it'll take a lot of looking at the chalkboard but i concur with the people bringing up that the comparisons between brute and tanker drives this balancing act when it should be trying to make them inherently more unique from each other - whatever that ends up looking like (honestly, it doesn't sound like a terribly easy thing to do, or even to envision currently) but since powersets have proliferated from AT to AT, the points of unique spots between brute and tanker have been too muddied to ignore, and now with regen coming to tanker too? stalkers and scrappers have managed the play style difference, even if one is typically more applicable and played, controllers and dominators have an overlap and a wonderfully different playstyle tanker and brute need to get to that level until then, this really just looks like a broad stealth nerf to AE, which is just more punishing to people that don't AE farm on the AT, play poor sets, do solo content, etc and if thats the case, if thats the aim, hit the rewards rather than the offenders - it'll be more unpopular but at least it will not be an easily undone respec or AT change for farmers, and hundreds of abandoned off-meta tankers sitting in page nine of character select for everyone else (edit: wow this is really my first post, thats crazy - from 2019 launch to now might be a record on the forums or something)