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Seems like a non sequitur.

Well that’s clearly not going to happen.

The Shadow Maul change is fantastic. The only complaints about DM are from the whiners who thought that they were entitled to the Dark Consumption change.

I don't actually agree with the suggestion about Destiny, but I do want to point out that the devaluation of sets such as FF and Sonic is EXACTLY the problem.

Mez a demon lord and his Invincibility drops. It isn’t true for all mobs, but it is for many. But I’m pretty sure sorcerer Hurricane and Chill of the Night are toggles that will drop if mezzed or end drained.

That’s not true at all. Mez and end drain absolutely drop enemy toggles. Try it on a Sorcerer, for example.

Everyone has access to mez at lvl 50.

No. Dominators are quantitatively, unequivocally, stronger now than ever before. Only the relative value of damage and CC has changed. The problem is the content, not the powers.

Mastermind is a Defender that comes with their own team.

Nope. This is wrong. If you look closely in the character creator the ATs are listed in OPPOSITE order: Heroes in Alphabetical order (ignoring Sentinels and Kheldians) and Villains in the opposite order from what their ATs match (confused?). Blaster Controller Defender Scrapper Tanker Brute Stalker Mastermind Dominator Corruptor Tank=Brute Scrapper=Stalker Defender=Mastermind Controller=Dominator Blaster=Corruptor and if we go further: Sentinel=Sentinel Kheldian=Arachnos

Except that their OVERALL performance is that they are monsters. Not anemic.

And yet the Electric, Fire, and Plant pets are some of the best in the game for all Non-AV content. There are of course Pet IOs that can improve their survivability, and of course there's Destiny. So what you're saying is that some pets are great in some situations and others great in other situations and not all sets are good at the same thing. That's another aspect of game balance. Jack Frost could use a buff though, sure. XD

The game is not, never has been, and should not be balanced around the ability to solo AVs. On teams your pets benefit from teammate buffs and heals and do quite a good amount of damage (obviously it varies by set, that's a different issue).

You have to include their pet damage too when comparing total dps to other classes. Their survivability is intentionally variable. In AV fights, yes, they rely more on teammate buffs and tanking. That is by design.

What is the explanation of so many people having this fatalistic lack of faith in the HC devs, who have repeatedly demonstrated their competence, wisdom, and love of the game?

Sniper attacks now take the place of the third blast. Earth got buffed to account for it's lack of a snipe.

People solo AVs on Dominators...I am not seeing the evidence supporting this claim that Dominators don’t do enough damage. Doms are monsters already.

And then every response of yours has been an attack. "Your argument is without merit." When YOUR argument is to ASSERT that Doms don't do enough damage. You cite the numbers of individual powers in a vacuum as if that means something and then get angry with me simply for disagreeing. Just drop it.

You're being ridiculous. I quoted Coyote. I was CLEARLY responding to what Coyote said. You just chose not to pay attention to that and now you're being snide even though you're in the wrong. And you're being intentionally obtuse. The point of clarifying history is so that history is understood, not to make some OTHER point.

But you DO have CC! Support your pets!

No. I was MERELY relaying the history, I was not making a point. I wasn't even responding to YOU! I was talking to Coyote.

Excuse me, you are missing the point. I am not making “an argument”, I am relating the history of the AT. They were released with lower damage and with a different Domination and they were modified over a period of time including their damage being raised so they could compete with damage primary ATs. This can be probably be found in the development history of the game.

Hopefully the devs are looking into that along with support.

Dominators do more damage than you would expect for a damage second AT, that is to say it was intentionally boosted higher than it otherwise would have been in order to make them effective damage dealers, but you still have to take pet damage into account when considering their whole contribution.

lol, no. lol