Wavicle

Changing the underlying math of the game itself is unlikely to happen. As much as I agree with your general point, it's just not going to happen. What DID happen, and can be exploited by the Devs in future content, is to increase the Base accuracy of the mobs in Incarnate content. It's a much more feasible approach.

It's totally doable. Just requires bringing Support toons and the team staying together and people knowing how the trial works.

That's all fine. I think we were just making a very specific point that i24 was NOT, in any way shape or form, an HC issue. It was designed, tested, and implemented 100% by Paragon Studios back in 2012, long before HC or SCORE existed.

Balancing the support sets is a necessary first step to making all support useful.

No. i24 was on Legacy Test. It was NOT an HC issue.

Though if we're being honest Dark Miasma/Affinity is still incredibly strong on all ATs, so not really something to be concerned with.

Hey, yea, sure, why not?

Yes, but this is only part of the fix. You can also introduce an all Bosses and EBs mode.

They were doing both. That’s why Ranged attackers generally and Blasters specifically got so many buffs in i24.

I'm not sure about the Hamidon raid...maybe the Hive leaves all the switches on... I guess street sweeping (Hami, MSR, zone events) in general should leave all the switches on.

Level 45-49 EXd Incarnates should only have access to the Alpha Slot. Level 50 Incarnates IN NON-INCARNATE CONTENT (such as PI Radios or ITF) get access to Alpha, Judgement, and Interface but NOT Lore, Destiny, or Hybrid. AE arcs get a switch the author can move to enable or disable each tier of Incarnate abilities within their creations. Incarnate content (including all DA content, Number Six, Belladonna, Sister Solaris, Apex/Tin Mage, and iTrials) stay as they are now. That is my proposal.

That’s not a realistic solution with such a small population.

No, I didn’t say that. They should just buff the few lagging sets and then create new harder content, and leave the current content alone.

Pugs are explicitly where game balance is important.

This idea has merit, but I Hope most new content has doors Outside the AE building.

Yes, but such content needs to be level 50 minimum.

That's where I am, a bunch of 50s, a bunch of toons currently moving through the 30s and 40s and a ton more toons in the 20s waiting their turn.

I don't want any of the 30-50 content to be harder. I only want there to be more content at 50+ that is harder. That is to say, more Incarnate content. Make Kallisti Wharf an Incarnate zone with mobs and arcs. Make new iTrials.

Ok, well we disagree on that. I think the issue is a few underpowered powersets and one or two ATs, not the vast majority of the game.

What I'm saying is, they probably aren't going to make Radios any more challenging. Support toons can focus on attacks throw buffs and debuffs only as needed there. But by balancing powersets (to the extent it can be done) they make it possible to generate more challenging future content.

What you're describing is a problem with the content and the mechanics of the game, not individual ATs or powersets. Which is exactly why they've said they want to work on game balance, which I'm all for. That is to say by addressing the imbalances with individual ATs and powersets they can achieve enough balance to then justify creating harder new content.

I think the devs understand perfectly well that 50+4 Radio missions are trash missions, as they were always intended to be. They are there for grinding xp and drops, not testing the limits of your capabilities and skills.

Heck, Radios aren't really Content at all.

It's not. It's technically just 40s content brought up to max level. High level content is Incarnate content and other lvl 45+ content. Anything you can bring along level 1 SKs on is not high level content.

Force Fields does need help, but not Absorb. Would be nice if it had a Constricting Field (functions like Wormhole) instead of Repulsion Field, and if the Cage power was worth a damn.