Shin Magmus

This was a teachable moment, and teaching occurred: everyone did great.

Snarky, they aren't worth it. I do not need to elaborate.

...and you wouldn't have to spend 1.5 billion if PAs were easier to get, because then the price would go down for buying them AND SIMULTANEOUSLY you would have more yourself and not need to buy as many.

Yes, but as a direct result of that one possible avenue to get more Prismatic Aether is now gone. So if people want to complain on these forums that PA is too hard to get, then they need to also get involved with Open Beta and shout down the people against making PA easier to get. I did my part. Partially as a result of that debacle, I've just settled into the fact that having the best GM-Soloer is the ideal way for me to be able to harvest PA without needing teammates, at any time of day.

It's a perfect summation of the intelligence of the average CoH player. They will parrot a lie thousands of times, when their eyes can immediately disprove it. If +4 actually did anything, then why do the mobs coming out of the doors cap out at lv53 even when there are lv50s knocking on the doors?

Basically all procs in Volcanic Gasses suck, that's the long and short of it. The fact that ATO pet only goes off once (on initial cast) is bad, but the damage field and the hold pets have exclusive ability to fire only 1 type of proc (Hold or Damage sets), so it never works the way you want. I recommend extracting set bonuses from the power with whatever type of 4-pc or 5-pc bonus you're going for, such as the non-proc parts of Unbreakable Constraint or a Controller/Dom ATO set for Recharge bonuses. If you want to 6-slot the power, the extra slots can just be Damage/Mez Hamis since those will boost all aspects of the power.

Suggesting changes to Poison is Toxic.

I love Beam Rifle, it would be cool if any new Beam sets still had Disintegrate so that they could combo with each other.

Wow, that's a lot of angry assumptions when I was just asking if you tried the other similar self-buff options to compare them to Unrelenting.

Have you tried using the same character but swapping to Unleash Potential and using that before defeat? Have you tried the same but with Adrenal Booster? I'm curious what your death rate would be with a power other than Unrelenting, since you have other options to self rez (as you stated).

For some reason you wrote this as if to refute my point, but I just want to thank you for making my point for me Rudra. The difference between us is that I think: OPTION 1 Preventitive Medicine Mule, Travel Power + Universal Travel Set Mule, 60s: +34.6% all damage, +34.6% ToHit, and +34.6% Recharge Is significantly better than... OPTION 2 Dead Pick, Dead Pick, 30s: +25% all damage, +20% Recovery, +20% Recharge See, that comparison is really not flattering to Unrelenting: a power in the pool we are talking about buffing. Your arguments about using Unrelenting defensively fall apart when Rune of Protection and Unleash Will are superior choices in superior pools (again, with Travel Powers), not to mention that basing your survival around long CD powers is already an unstable build strategy and not needed by people with good builds. Furthermore, anyone picking Unrelenting solely as a self Rez has no idea how this game works or what myriad of options for ally and self Rezzes already exist. People who speedrun Advanced Mode have trays full of T4 Awakens...

Check the Experimentation pool and look at how Adrenal Booster completely outclasses Unrelenting offensively.

Vengeful Slice being this terrible is the single defining reason why intentionally avoiding the entire central mechanic of the set and not doing any Combos yields higher DPS than repeating the Attack Vitals Combo. An attack chain of Blinding Feint -> Ablating Strike -> Sweeping Strike -> Ablating Strike is the most DPS you can do within the set. This attack chain is simply spamming all of the "good" Dual Blades attacks, at like 210% global Recharge bonus with Hecatomb slotted in AS, while ignoring all of the "bad" Dual Blades attacks. Every Combo requires you to use a "bad" attack, for no reason other than the purely arbitrary requirement to be used in the combo. Vengeful Slice is a "bad" attack, and the attack chain of Blinding Feint -> Ablating Strike -> Vengeful Slice -> Sweeping Strike loses entirely because Vengeful Slice is hot garbage. I agree that this is the sort of thing that should be adjusted if only because it's common sense from a good game design perspective: when players are actively avoiding a set's mechanics in terms of optimization: you fucked up.

I WISH TO BE HUGEMAXIMUM.

This enemy can't be killed you say? Fair enough, there are things so much worse than death.