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It would only happen if your name was deemed inappropriate for some reason. Do you mind my asking what it was?

I'm sorry but this is entirely a you problem. Cast it once per fight. It's far, far better than Dispersion Bubble and asking for it to be nerfed so that you don't have to learn how to use your powers properly is ridiculous.

Been playing with the sets for a bit now...I think it's possible that Stone Armor might have gotten slightly Overtuned...not sure...

They don’t do enough for the team overall, yes. Squishy ATs all either have powerful buffs (defender, corruptor, mastermind), strong CC (controller, dominator), or insane damage (blaster). Armored ATs either have high damage (scrapper, stalker), AoE taunt (tanker, brute, kheldians), or decent damage and buffs (arachnos). This is because being tough is not in and of itself a contribution to the team.

This is my take as well.

Tonight my friend and I did something we've done many times before, ran a couple of levelling toons through the first arc from Provost Marchand in Brickstown. Both he and I took the missions, with me leading on my 38 Fire/Stone Brute and him set on Collaborative Missions Enabled on his 30 Water/Nature Corruptor. No problems for the first few missions. Then we got to the fight against Silver Mantis and things went absolutely crazy. There were, I think, TWO Silver Mantises, TWO Riptides, and TWO Alec Parsons. Furthermore, at least one of the Riptide's conned Red and attacked us and was able to be attacked by us. One of the Alec Parson's was also able to be attacked by us, although I don't think he summoned any robots or attacked at all, if I recall correctly. However, BOTH of the Silver Mantises absolutely attacked us. Quite a ride, definitely one of the most interesting bugs I've ever seen.

It seems like regular Fire Sword also might be playing another sound that could conceivably sound good used by GFS, but at least the annoying parts are gone.

Ok, I think I got it! Firestreaks3 plays when GFS is DRAWN. Firestreaks2 plays when GFS actually attacks. So now I have replaced firestreaks3 with FireSword4 and I have silenced firestreaks2, and that seems to have done the trick! Thank you both so much!

Actually wait... Something's weird. When I play the soundfile you linked atomicblast3, I hear the annoying shriek I'm trying to get rid of. When I use the Atomic Blast power I do NOT hear that sound. But when I SILENCE atomicblast3 the sound of the explosion of Atomic Blast is getting silenced, even though it's not the same sound as GFS... So confused...

Strangely enough, the Radiation Blast power Atomic Blast does not seem to use ATOMICBLAST3.OGG

But they do offer Some support. They're clearly tough enough for a DPS or a Support. So Armor does not need to be increased. Either damage or support or both need to go up. IMO, bringing Support up is pushing them towards being Armored Corruptors, and I think most people who play them do so because they wanted Armored Blasters. That's why I think increasing Damage over Support is the better idea. Again, IMO, with higher damage the lower target caps (although I wouldn't object to the 3s at least becoming 5s) and lower range would be acceptable.

Ok, I am on a brute just to be clear, but I listened through these and I think it is ATOMICBLAST3 that is the offender. I can try silencing that and see if it does the trick. Of course, I am now curious what other powers might use that sound...

I think you’re over thinking it Mac. they just need to do enough damage to be good enough alongside the other pure damage dealers. They don’t need to be a tank, and they don’t need to be real support.

Yea, that’s one of the ones I tried…no luck yet. I’ll report back if I figure it out.

Make it a toggle with a 30 second CD that gets reduced by your attacks

I'd like to be able to drag and select multiple enhancements and then drop them all into the same power at once.

I do like the idea in the OP. IMO Sentinels ought to be roughly equivalent to Scrappers, with the difference being the Sentinel provides an Opportunity for the team while the Scrapper gets Crits. That design is fine in principle, it's just that Sentinels damage is tuned too low and Opportunity is, yes, "too fiddly". My suggestions are: Increase base damage from .95 to 1.0 (perhaps removing inherent debuffs to compensate, but not necessarily) Change Aim to Build Up (increase Dual Pistols Swap Ammo buff effects as well) Make the Opportunity Strikes ATO increase Duration of Opportunity buff if it procs when Opportunity is up Combine Offensive and Defensive Opportunities into a single Opportunity buff Have Opportunity be triggered by a separate inherent button that does not draw aggro, and can be activated DURING primary power animations

That's fantastic, thank you so much! That fixes the weapon draw sound. I'm still looking for the name of the file that is playing on GFS activation, I tried everything listed in the CoD entry and nothing worked, so I think you're right the pigg viewer is the next step, to find that exact ogg.

Thanks anyway! Maybe I'll get it eventually. The fix for the GFS hit didn't quite work, I'm still working on that one...

Hi! Thank you so much, @Oubliette_Red and @The Philotic Knight for continuing to work on this! I'm trying to modify Greater Fire Sword to get rid of the ghostly shriek at beginning, and I'm having Some success, but only partial. I was able to silence the file "firestreaks3", but there seems to be another sound that plays not when I simply draw the GFS but when I actually attack (hit?) something with it. The spreadsheet doesn't seem to identify that file. Any ideas? Also, I would like to replace "firestreaks3" with (I think) "FireSword4". Does someone have that ogg file? If not, is my best to download the pigg viewer that was mentioned upthread? Otherwise I was thinking I might try to record the sound using OBS, but that seems like a lot of work, lol.

There is at least one exception to the exception, which is Stalkers Hide power, which stacks with “Stealth” powers AND has a Defense bonus.

You can, with Provoke and possibly the Hybrid Taunt aura. Although the 75% Res cap will hurt you, Control abilities can help, especially AoEs, so that includes any tier 9s with Stun or Hold or Knockback or -ToHit.

Infiltration is a "Stealth" power, as is Energy Cloak. You can only have one "Stealth" power operating at a time. Super Speed, despite having a stealth component, is NOT a "Stealth" power in the same way and as such can stack with other powers that are "Stealth" powers. I believe the difference is that "Stealth" powers include a Defense bonus and can be slotted with Defense Sets. Super Speed has no defense.

ouch, way to kick a guy when he's down 😂

This was in Find information on Protean. from Agent Jenni Adair. I pulled a couple groups together with my Fire/Stone Brute, including the named Boss Oberst Heinkamp, and the two spawns, both 5th Column, started fighting each other when I left them alone for a few seconds!