ShardWarrior

I would say StrJ/Nin scrapper. Ninjitsu makes more sense in that he was trained by Stick who used to be part of the Hand, who are ninjas. Also because of his ability to heal himself faster than normal. Speaking of Daredevil, I always thought the game could use a clubs/escrima type melee set. Could start by porting over several animations from dual blades and staff fighting.

If these were all PUGs, what do you expect?

When has this ever not been the case?

To be honest, I do not see Homecoming allowing discussions on whether politics or religion or other "hot topics" will be allowed to go into the CoC. Nor should they in my opinion.

Unless this is taking place on a privately created channel, then people cannot silence others on a public "official" game channel. Should anyone see something in public chat that they believe violates the rules then they should use the in-game petition system and have a GM look into it, or use the ignore feature.

I will preface with there are a number of things in the CoC that I disagree with. Most rules I agree with while others I find utterly absurd. With that said, in my opinion these servers are ultimately the responsibility of the Homecoming staff and it is for them to decide what the rules should be. We all have the choice to either accept and abide by them or not and should we choose not to, we have to accept the consequences. If you do not like the rules here, there are other servers to try.

If you say so. 😁

Except the TF did take (a lot) less time with debuffers than without.

Except without debuffs it takes longer. That is the point I was making. A team can do a lot of damage quickly or a lot of damage over a long time. Made perfect sense to me.

Alternatively this could also be accomplished by adding power set customization into things like punch and kick in the fighting pool.

I could be wrong but I believe this may have more to do with being stuck in an attack animation when needing to click a heal. Other sets do not need to worry about this as much as regen does.

My point was fairly obvious. As I said, the Reichsman fight can be a long, drawn out slog or not depending on what debuffs are used. I said nothing about survival. My thought was more about debuffs supporting a faster encounter time and more efficienct battle than just raw damage, but feel free to look at it however you like.

Well sure, but that was not really the point of my post. I was simply pointing out that damage is not the only metric to be concerned about.

Keep in mind that Defenders and Corruptors are more than damage dealers. Both are effective where debuffs are concerned. Those debuffs can make a big difference in AV fights, especially in TFs like Kahn. Reichsman can be a huge, long winded slog or not depending on what kind of debuffs your team has.

I agree with Bill here. I can only speak to the melee version as I have not tried the Sentinel version. The melee version needs a complete overhaul in my opinion. The nerf pendulum swung much too far on this set over the years. Far too reliant on clicks for survival and in my own personal experience far, far outclassed by other sets at the end game level. Turning IH back into a toggle would be a good start.

I would prefer Mako's Spirit Sharks with frickin laser beams attached the their heads.

Excellent advice which unfortunately most do not seem to follow or want to follow.

I did not say removing IOs would not be noticeable, just that it would not be as big a change as some might think. As an example, you could softcap defense before there were IOs on melee ATs and Cardiac pretty much eliminates END issues in the late game.

Removing IOs would not solve as many problems as people think.

You balance around common IOs, figuring most will get even level IOs at 50. That gives you ~ 10 -12% better results than a +3 SO.

Looks more like a loaded diaper walk to me.

This. My very first level 50 was an Empath. Now to be fair, Fort, AB and CM are still very good buffs to have at high levels, but Empathy was always outclassed by Kinetics later in the game. Power proliferation definitely exacerbated this. Empathy is more suited to have at the low to mid level game in my opinion, great for exemplaring down for lower level TFs/SFs.

Yes please. All powers should have minimal FX options IMHO.

Keep in mind, this is when pricing for IOs was absurdly high and out of reach for most players on the AH. The situation is much, much different here.

@Yomo Kimyata makes an excellent point with regard to force multipliers. Try an AV fight against something like Reichsman or a GM with and without debuffers on the team. You will notice quite a difference.