dragonhawk777

Virtually every character in the game either has or would benefit greatly if they have Hasten in there powers. Years ago Cryptic made the Fitness pool all inherited powers so we didnt need to waste a power pool choice picking (primarily Stamina) the pool because it was pretty much mandatory for every build in the game. Well I would say that Hasten falls into that also. I cant remember the last time I ever saw a character without it, so could we get it moved to the inherited section and end the need for everyone in the game to go after the Speed power pool. In its place I thought of a new attack. Speed Charge, which would do the same thing as Shield Charge, though without the aoe knockdown. Instead it would be a single target knockdown effect. You can use the same animations as Shield Charge, or tweak them a bit if you want to eliminate the shield arm swing at the end of the animation. The idea of the ability is that you are running at super speed and ramming into someone. I say make it a single target ability so that it isnt as good as Shield Charge. It would seem with the latest patch on the beat server being alot about tweaking the various travel powers, now would be a good time to implement this change.

Most of my blasters have flight for a travel power, but for my Archery/Dev blaster I went with super jump. It was more of a concept thing as the character is supposed to be more of an infiltrator who is an expert archer. So more of a Hawk Eye with Batmans sneaking abilities. I have found that with the various cc abilities in both Dev and Flame Mastery I can make sj get me around most maps and stay out of danger. Tight cave maps negate sj but Bonfire generally takes care of any mobs in those situations. Thankfully none of the devs remembered to give bosses resistance to knockback like they did for other mez powers. EBs and AVs seem to be the only ones immune to the knockback effect. I do agree Hasten is a must. I have yet to find a power set in any class that does not benefit from Hasten. In my opinion the guys on Homecoming should make Hasten an inherited power like they did with the Fitness pool. I dont know of a single player who doesnt have it on all their toons. In its place you could put an ability like Speed Charge and have it do the same thing as Shield Charge does but just make the AoE knockdown effect a single target knockdown. You can even use the same animations as Shield Charge uses. My one wish the devs here would do for Devices is dump Time Bomb and replace it with a targeted AoE ability. Call it Sticky Bomb, and give it the same range as Taser, then we would have a more group friendly ability. Trip Mine is ok but I find only sparatic use for it if Im toe bombing as packs of mobs just die so fast to groups. Solo its fantastic and allows me to one shot EBs with a stack of Trip Mines. I would just like something that you can work into a rotation easier, like you can with Taser. I did think about taking Munitions with my archery/dev but I found that Flame Mastery gives me more benefits. You get armor that offers smash, lethal, fire and cold resistance, a hold, a fantastic cc if your earthbound, and a self rez. I think my Beam/Time blaster might have munitions on it but not positive. For this toon I would say the decision factor came down to that Bonfire beats Sleep Grenade by a mile in the cc department, and a self rez seemed a bit more useful than dealing with the animation swap from going to and from Archery and LRM. Munitions though would have been my second choice for my archer though. It should also be noted though that I have three different jet pack abilites on this toon so I can fly around if needed.

I hadn't thought of putting a stealth IO in Sprint, it's an interesting idea. That would allow me to drop as and get either Assault for a bit more damage or Teleport for team utility. I wish they would just make Hasten an inherited power like the fitness pool was. It's pretty much a mandatory ability for any toon, and that would free up a power pool. Particularly since they are adding and tweaking different pools.

I dont have any experience with gun drone as I didnt take it. Even with the buffs Im not a fan of noncontrollable pets like gun drone or voltaic sentinel. I believe though it uses pet buff sets like Edict of the Master. Both Edict and Blood Mandate have some defense bonuses so they are probably your best bet. Blood Mandate has a defense buff without 6 slotting gun drone, so if your not going to 6 slot it then go with that. Overall pet sets dont seem to do much for a blaster. As for Devices overall I think it works great with Archery as one of my mains is an Archery/Device blaster (the other is Fire/Rad). I would like to see Time Bomb changed to something else, preferably something like a Sticky Grenade that does a targeted aoe damage and is useful in group situations. Overall the set has some nice buffs, is great for sneaking through tfs, and is good for soloing. Targeting Drone is basically permanent Aim, though without the damage buff, and allows you to maximize your Ranged Shot (+hit will buff its damage). Field Operative combined with SS makes you invisible, and Trip Mine allows you to lay down a massive stack of explosives and one shot every elite boss in the game. I did the entire Maria Jenkins arc and the only EB that game me issues was Nightstar, because she is always flying. Otherwise just keep stacking trip mines till you have like 15-20 of them stacked around a corner, then pull the EB to you and watch him blow up when he comes around the corner. Otherwise the set has some nice cc abilities that will slow enemies down and Taser is nice damage and has a stun. With the right Epic set the build is a monster. I chose Fire Mastery and it makes a bunch of tf maps fantastic. Caves become your friend if you take Bonfire, as you can drop it and stand in the middle or behind it and just pick off mobs at your leisure. The knockback sends them all over the place and many of them wont even get a shot off before you kill them. It makes the first two maps on ITF alot of fun. The set also has a hold, armor, a resistance debuff, and a rez so its a very nice mastery set. Here is the link to my build. Keep in mind I tend to build blasters with a certain amount of survivability, which is why i take Aid Self on many of them including this one. I find that combined with the incarnate Barrier ability it allows me to heal up fairly easily if the team doesnt have a healer or they arent close to me. You could copy my build and sub out the healing pool for Gun Drone and either Stunning Shot or Smoke Grenade. Either of those you could use without slotting if you wanted to 6 slot Gun Drone. Depending on how much you want to spend you could also sub out Positrons Blast for Ragnarok to get some more recharge. Overall though I have been very happy with the build. http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1505&c=676&a=1352&f=HEX&dc=78DA65D45B5352511407F07DE0108A20DE106FC4250D453840F5DE74F521694CAB5786813370660C18C0997C2A9BFA1295A88DA5364D2F5D3F459A69D343A9F5DEE51B9C16FC17979133A3BF73966BEDBDD73EFB18BB7BD9FA7A6AE9BC906C97E613C562FC22FD2EA985B6D8422951D272594197E5BA96CE9492855CB168A6C77ECE89CF26B26935A55C2824336A61D1590BCF2DE4F3B94249994AA4D26AA928AC33B9DCBC32AD26F25A366DAB3EC4D49496D4B2AAA5FA349757D594BD9695520BC58C96EFB992D792CAD5F9C41D351EAB0EBC38409307E8C7256A976E12CB4454168632BB02E555D8B606FDCFE0BD46AD1043889D24241E4F7AC3F56FE18977EC7B68F9C07E844EDA11238F67F422E6264C3C9E2968A8C63A43AC02BBC26C0406A27089AACC5C6BAEF4E6A71ECAD0BA0203AB30C43D85D7F0FC8068E7DAF6758C67DD803DCFD917B06F139EDE8295A577706DC76323729EC0FEA7EC321C28C3E00A74D1826DBC07B651ACC54D31BB84F1EC3724D4CDC2A13918BE09A3B7A46A4DF4369E7D54D5CD6BE9DE468F433B70E433BBCBEFEE0B0CEEC187442FE635F47A3887F5B3F70907AFD71146CC47EB75729D731231CF314F51CE20D70DF2BB7E440CF35A87BF633F3C3FA0F7803D648F60E827E7D5CFB22E5C3C4765FBDC3C9E5BC8985782A306D6C8CA3064821B34AC0FB546DF2FAE3D600F61F0086E52EE18E78EEDD11970D159D867BF41FF57F88A5EEE38E78EEFE2BC4C6CB33B7C7E3FC19734EE24F734C93D6D514CE1BD55CEA0F77018462B9B4E73F4D3DE469023220E9C8311B9E95BD5E9125EB9F6A9EA7AA0E5AF919648B42572B62572AE2532DD129991EBFF2184548DB477D5BF7BFD5AA09EAFFFB65026F72185D0FFDFE698177DFF698E8D23EF5F2366908E9DDD09D6D147F00EACFB1AF79D8EC6FD546FE3FE3F8B4EEB56

True but my thinking was that Time Bomb has such high damage because it has so much going against it otherwise. i think the devs gave it such high damage because they needed to give it something in order for anyone to even think about taking it. It seemed that with all the other improvements I gave it (AoE damage and a knock up) that the damage would be balanced where I suggested. If however testing shows that it should be raised then I certainly wouldnt be opposed to that. Think of the damage number and AoE radius as starting points and they can be adjusted as testing and balance dictate.

The least used power in Devices, if not the entire game, is Time Bomb. Even in solo play it is basically a useless skill. Trip Mine while not super viable in group play where you are moving at a rapid rate, it does have a fair amount of use if soloing missions. You can stack trip mines and with enough you can one shot most elite bosses in the game. Time Bomb though has no real use even solo as you cant even stack it like you can with Trip Mine. I would like to see a replacement for Time Bomb. New ability Sticky Grenade. Short range (20 the same as Taser), targeted AOE with a small radius of effect. Medium damage with a knockup effect. This would give Devices an ability more suited towards group play, that can be used in conjunction with Taser for close up mobs, and act as an AOE version of Taser. Damage should be approx the same as Taser (base 109), with a mixture of lethal and fire the same as Trip Mine.

Razer has just released an updated version of its left handed Naga mouse. As a lefty I fell in love with the mouse when they released it back in 2014. With 19 programable buttons its a great mouse for games like MMOs and button heavy games like SC. The right handed model is kept in production but the left handed model is only periodically produced and Razer is the only company to make a left handed model.If there are any lefties out there who would like a great gaming mouse specifically made for their hands I would suggest to go out and get one. I actually bought three of them so if they go out of production again I will have backups. My last one lasted 5 years and it was torture playing MMOs on a regular mouse after being able to program in all the commands and macros I needed into the Naga. Here is a link to the mouse if anyone wants to get it. https://www.razer.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-left-handed-edition/RZ01-03410100-R3M1

I did a fire/rad blaster and he is awesome at range. I chose radiation because it gave me a bunch of options build wise, and I wanted something a bit different than the standard fire/energy build. I skipped the melee abilities and got the single target hold, plus char from the epic fire pool, so I can easily lock down bosses. I skipped Inferno and just use the pyro judgement power. If your going to go pure range I would say flight is a must for travel powers as it can keep you out of range in 90% of the situations you will encounter. I slotted for both damage boosts and ranged def so it hits like a truck and can tank most things at range. The biggest unconventional thing I did was take Heal Self for added survivability. Combine that with Barrier and it becomes quite easy to just run around any map in a TF and kill things on your own, as a healer becomes fairly redundant at that point. This is my current build for him. My Incarnate powers are Muscular (45% damage boost), Barrier, Pyronic (+dot), Longbow Pets, Reactive (resistance debuff) and Assault (bonus damage). Hero Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.7 https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer Click this DataLink to open the build! Dragonhawk: Level 50 Mutation Blaster Primary Power Set: Fire Blast Secondary Power Set: Atomic Manipulation Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Medicine Ancillary Pool: Flame Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Flares -- Thn-Acc/Dmg(A), Thn-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Thn-Dmg/Rchg(3), Thn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(5), Thn-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(5), Thn-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(46) Level 1: Electron Shackles -- Acc-I(A) Level 2: Fire Blast -- Apc-Dmg(A), Apc-Dmg/Rchg(7), Apc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(7), Apc-Acc/Rchg(9), Apc-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Dcm-Build%(11) Level 4: Fire Ball -- OvrFrc-Acc/Dmg(A), OvrFrc-End/Rech(11), OvrFrc-Acc/Dmg/End(13), OvrFrc-Dmg/End/Rech(13), OvrFrc-Acc/Dmg/End/Rech(15), OvrFrc-Dam/KB(50) Level 6: Rain of Fire -- PstBls-Acc/Dmg(A), PstBls-Dmg/EndRdx(17), PstBls-Dmg/Rchg(34), PstBls-Dmg/Rng(36), PstBls-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(36) Level 8: Fire Breath -- PstBls-Acc/Dmg(A), PstBls-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(17), PstBls-Dmg/EndRdx(29), PstBls-Dmg/Rchg(31), PstBls-Dmg/Rng(31) Level 10: Positron Cell -- BslGaz-Acc/Hold(A), BslGaz-Rchg/Hold(27), BslGaz-Acc/Rchg(27), BslGaz-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(29) Level 12: Ionize -- AdjTrg-Rchg(A), AdjTrg-ToHit/Rchg(48) Level 14: Fly -- BlsoftheZ-Travel(A), BlsoftheZ-Travel/EndRdx(15), Frb-Stlth(19) Level 16: Aim -- AdjTrg-Rchg(A), AdjTrg-ToHit/Rchg(48) Level 18: Blaze -- SprBlsWrt-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBlsWrt-Dmg/Rchg(19), SprBlsWrt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(23), SprBlsWrt-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(23), SprBlsWrt-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(25), SprBlsWrt-Rchg/Dmg%(25) Level 20: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(21), RechRdx-I(21) Level 22: Metabolic Acceleration -- EffAdp-EndMod/Rchg(A), EffAdp-EndMod(36), EffAdp-EndMod/Acc(37), EffAdp-Acc/Rchg(37), EffAdp-EndMod/EndRdx(40) Level 24: Maneuvers -- Ksm-ToHit+(A), LucoftheG-Def(31), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(39), LucoftheG-Def/EndRdx(43) Level 26: Blazing Bolt -- SprDfnBrr-Acc/Dmg(A), SprDfnBrr-Dmg/Rchg(33), SprDfnBrr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), SprDfnBrr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(33), SprDfnBrr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34), SprDfnBrr-Rchg/+Status Protect(34) Level 28: Tactics -- AdjTrg-ToHit(A), AdjTrg-ToHit/EndRdx(45), GssSynFr--ToHit/EndRdx(46), GssSynFr--ToHit(46), GssSynFr--ToHit/Rchg(50), GssSynFr--Build%(50) Level 30: Aid Other -- Heal-I(A) Level 32: Hover -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), BlsoftheZ-Travel(43), BlsoftheZ-Travel/EndRdx(43) Level 35: Afterburner -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), BlsoftheZ-Travel(37), BlsoftheZ-Travel/EndRdx(39) Level 38: Aid Self -- Mrc-Heal(A), Mrc-Heal/Rchg(40), Mrc-Heal/EndRdx(40) Level 41: Char -- BslGaz-Acc/Hold(A), BslGaz-Rchg/Hold(42), BslGaz-Acc/Rchg(42), BslGaz-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(42) Level 44: Fire Shield -- GldArm-3defTpProc(A), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(45), StdPrt-ResKB(45) Level 47: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 49: Rise of the Phoenix -- RechRdx-I(A) Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A) Level 1: Defiance Level 1: Quick Form Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A) Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A) Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A) Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift -- Flight-I(A) Level 2: Health -- Pnc-Heal/+End(A) Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A) Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(39), EndMod-I(48) ------------

I like fly, chiefly for ranged/squishy characters like my blasters or defenders/corruptors. Much though will depend on the concept for the character, for example my fire blaster has fly, but my archery device blaster does not. Doing an infiltrator Hawkeye type character didnt seem to work with him flying and ss combined with his cloak make him able to slip past mobs and fits with the characters concept. In general though fly pairs very well with ranged ATs as it is easy for them to stack up ranged defense and fly will keep you out of melee range. My fire blaster has ranged tanked everything up to EB quite well in the past, with incarnate abilities like Barrier making it childsplay to range tank anything including many AVs. As far as its speed goes with a flight boost in sprint and two slotting Fly I dont find the speed awful. I also dont consider two slotting it a waste as I generally use Blessing of Zephyr to boost my ranged defense. Unless i take Afterburner I usually skip Hover and Afterburner allows you to move faster than SJ does, but havent tested against SS in a straight line.

I did that but didnt see the option which selection am I looking for?

Is there a way to eliminate the pop up tray that shows up when you active Mystic Flight in the Sorcerer travel pool? I know there are other pools that have this issue also such as Mighty Leap from the Force of Will pool. If there isnt is that something the devs can work on so that we can choose to drag the one power out of the tray if we choose to and have the tray vanish. I find it very irritating having a tray pop up with only 1 power in it and I cant either add other abilities to the tray or move the lone power and get rid of the tray. At teh very least let us manipulate the tray like you can with + trays so we could at least alter its shape and set it off to the side.

I would change two things. With the mechanics I would lose the aspect of the scream that eliminates player resistances. This would cause a greater hardship on resistance based tanks vs defense based ones. In its place make the scream and the dot psychic, taht way pretty much everyone is in the same boat as there is barely and psychic resistance out there. So once he reaches 10% he screams once and puts a dot on the raid. After that he will scream again every x seconds adding a new dot after every scream. You then have to beat him before the dots stack too high for the healers can cope. The other ting is to change the reward. I think what some suggested with a new Hammi type enhancement would be cool. Rather than make it individual enhancements though make them sets. so you would have a set optimized towards tanks, a set for melee dps, a set for ranged dps, a set for support, a set for controllers, and a set to buff pets.

I moved up both healing drone and scramble drone so there is a bit more team utility earlier. I think you can heal teammates by level 8 now and give them Clear Mind by 12 or 14. I think the defense buff would be around 20 or so. I also made Targeting drone a team buff rather than a personal one, but made it come later. The powers are not exactly Defender tier accessable, but then again the AT is a bit different than a Defender or Corruptor. Its biggest use would be more in terms of debuffs vs buffs and that it can do from level 1.

Ok fair enough. I did all the personal defense items first because it seemed team powers were better used later on. Particularly since everyone just seems to run DFB or DIB for early content nowadays. I can move a few things around to provide some utility earlier on though.

Considering an entire powerset is dedicated to ranged damage I fail to see how its irrelevant. What is irrelevant is the initial description of it being a mixture of a blaster and brute. You clearly didnt follow the whole thread because I moved the AT away from a brute/blaster mix to more of a defender sentinel mix, so no the defenderish powers were not an afterthought. I have updated my initial post to better reflect the direction I would like the AT to go. So in offense mode it is much like a Sentinel with some defenses, and low team utility but very good ranged damage and in defense mode he is like a tanky Defender, who can provide a wide variety of buffs and debuffs, and is also tankier to better survive the increased aggro he will generate. Doing both heals and dps is sure to be a big aggro generator, and since there is no to-hit debuff on the power sets the AT uses armor to help him survive.

How OP it would be would depend on the numbers. Nobody says a Defender is op in its damage so depending on what damage modifiers for the class would be would depend on how op it would be. Plus you have to take into account the mode swapping. So swapping into defensive mode would boost the ATs healing, buffing and defensive capabilities you could assign low modifiers to keep its offensive damage lower, making them more for keeping the debuffs on the targets than actually killing it. In offensive mode the inverse can be made to be true, where the AT is much more of a glass cannon and the team buffs/heals it provides very small, but it does more damage, thus making it more blaster like. Yes the balancing could be very tricky, but it is hardly class breaking. I would also note that the class does lack anything like Aim or Buildup so you cant really alpha strike like many other classes can. The idea is for the AT to keep up constant damage so that it maintains its debuffs on the target or targets. Also baring Barrier none of the buffs or heals apply to the Warsuit they are strictly for teammates.

The title says it all. I would love to be able to skip these cut scenes, particularly after we have seen them already and just get on with the mission. If there is any way to allow us to skip them please implement it.

Personal lore is not game lore as the only game lore involves npcs like Statesman. Also the mechanic does not punish anyone who wants to nuke a group in melee. If you choose you can still run in and detonate. The only difference is you would need to have a mob targeted, which is hardly a punishment. In fact considering nukes got nerfed when they lost the endurance crash, you should be doing that anyways, as there is pretty good odds something in that pack is going to be alive after you detonate.. And yet they still went ahead and made Judgement powers, which anyone can get and do eactly what I suggested for T9 powers. Also please show me where devs are always right. They are in charge certainly, but just because they stubbornly refuse to admit when they are wrong does not mean they are always right. I also remember when they tried to justify why mobs should run out of a fire tanks burn patch, saying nobody would stand in fire if it was under thier feet. The reason was bs and everyone knew it, and it was just a band aid to prevent people from farming content with fire tanks. Blizzard also took 8 yrs of devs trying to justify why hunters should have a deadzone only to finally admit the community was right and it needed to be changed. No I said it would be easier to play a water blaster than make a new power set. Here is my exact quote,"I could save the devs even more work and just play water, then they dont even need to make a new power set." It had nothing to do with what I could play or couldnt play, obviously playing an existing power set is easier on the devs since they have to do 0 work on something that is already in the game. Truefully I am not even sure what you are saying here, so no idea how to respond to this. And yet they changed sniper attacks which have been around as long as nukes have, and made them even more op than they were. I dont mind and feel the changes have been very good for blasters in particular, who were suffering in the damage vs risk category when compared to scrappers and brutes.

I like the drone idea for buffs and heals. I think I would keep the armor skills but could change the heal and defense skills. For a heal I was thinking a drone that flies out and does an AoE heal. So you would target a teammate and the drone would fly over him periodically projecting a cone of healing energy down on him and anyone around him. Another drone could fly out and do the same with a force field to buff defenses and a third is one would fire out a scramble beam that would clear any status afflictions on the chosen target. The drones could be destroyed which could help with balancing. The inherent is interesting but I kind of like the idea of swapping roles with the Mode selector. Aside from slotting influencing how you are going to play the AT having to swap modes means you have a harder time doing everything. Plus it could make for some great "oh crap" stories as the Warsuit players saves his team at the last moment by swapping roles and pulling off an emergency heal or tank while the team recovers.

Yes you were. You said and I quote, "Not insulting, just my own dumb opinion." You took the time to write out everything so cant say it was an accidental misspeak. So everything you said was done on purpose, including the insulting remarks that me and anyone who likes the idea of a ranged nuke doesnt know how to play a blaster. So yes you did mean to be insulting and saying you didnt mean to be is a lie. So against please show me where I said Blasters had to be a ranged AT. I said the primaries are all ranged attacks, which they are, and that some people like to play their blaster as a ranged AT. So again you prefer to make up things rather than deal with what people have actually said. Yes I currently have four blasters Fire/Rad (play all ranged), Energy/Energy (play mixed), Archery/Dev (play ranged), Water/Rad (blapper) so I have a very good grasp of all the blaster abilities, both primary and secondary. So to take my main (Fire/Rad) I play it all ranged and very survivable, so I have pool powers that allow me to maximize that ranged damage, notably the new sniper mechanics (leadership pool), I have enough ranged def and can self heal so I can range tank most bosses and EB and even a few AVs for a short time. i have two holds so I can kep bosses locked down indefinitely. I have gone solo and dealt with entire corridors in ITF without issue. So you might want to inquire first into what someone knows before you decide they dont know the AT they are playing. I didnt say it was wrong I said it was pointless. The old mechanics dont mean much now because nukes are no longer an "oh shit button". the game grew and things got changed to accommodate the new incarnate powers. Now nukes be they pbaoe or targeted aoe are just strong aoe attacks, that is the reality of the game. If they make a classic COH server before IOs and incarnate powers then those old mechanics would apply. MMOs grow and change, look at WoW and how many times they have changed character mechanics and skill trees. I have a sentinel as well as blaster, but blasters are definitely more fun. Sentinels are more survivable but lack gameplay options. As to how can I complain it is the most powerful AoE that sets have so silly me since my main purpose is to kill things I like the option of do that as efficiently as possible, whether I am playing at range or in melee. So its ignorance on my part when I propose something that allows players to play a playstyle they enjoy and it doesnt harm other players playstyle. Making a pbaoe a targeted aoe does not stop a blapper from using it as a pbaoe but leaving it as a pbaoe does prevent a ranged player from using it. You have a very strange definition for ignorance. Not sure how this demonstrates that I dont know as much as I think I do. My explanation about Devices was in response to this sentence, "Granted Device's last 2 are kinda useless compared to Hot Feet, that floating gun breaks the use of cloak (used to be stationary, useless after 1 room without teleport friend) and time bomb has way too long of a set up in a group." So I was agreeing with you about the last two abilities and made a quick proposal about what could be put in their place to improve the set. I also agree that AR needs work and the current team should look at some tweaks to it to make it a bit better. Maybe expand the cone and add some bleeding damage like Savage has. Last time I checked most people bleed when they are shot so that type of damage would make sense. Also I believe that all the nukes are capped at 10 hits, or at least they were at one point, so its not just an AR issue. I do agree that you should have line of sight to fire off any nuke, even the targeted ones. I didnt even know you could fire them from behind cover because I never did. The only thing I ever used behind cover was Rain of Fire and even that was very very rare. A bunch of my blasters are fliers so I am either generally airborne or in the thick of things blapping.

I dont agree with you and I disproved your whole paragraph about a new set being less work than changing one power in an existing set. Also there is no lore for power sets and no decades of existing structure. The game was not even active for 10 yrs and I dont count the years it sat buried in a vault as time with existing structure.

So would turning the 7 pbaoe abilities into ranged ones. Character animations can all be ripped from existing animations like AR, Ice, Water, or Electric. Recording and playtesting would be involved with both a new power set and changing the Tier 9s to range. You can disagree but you would be wrong. To create a new set you are going to have to test 8 powers (leaving out AIM), with some being single target and some cone and some AoE, so all the powers will need to be tested. You are also going to have test whatever secondary effect you give your new power set, and how that will also scale with the Defender, Sentinel and Corruptor AT, not to mention balancing the damage numbers with those ATs. In the meantime the secondary effects for all those ATs is already known for the existing PBAoE as well as their damage numbers. Bossk Hogg already showed there is no range tax if you make the pbaoe ranged attacks. The two scales are damage and recharge, so if it does more damage then it has a longer recharge but if it does less damage then it has a shorter recharge. So you are looking at testing 7 abilities vs 8 with a new power set and those 8 get multiplied by 4 when you take into account the other ATs and testing them. I also had people who could get behind the idea of ranged nukes, so you are wrong there. I have already amended my post to make the part of adding melee pbaoe just something to look at as a possibility. I have a number of times in various replies that the main point was to make blaster pbaoes into ranged ones, and that is not more work than developing a new power set. No you didnt as making a new power set does not change the fact that fire, energy, psychic, sonic,... all would still have pbaoe Tier 9s. I could save the devs even more work and just play water, then they dont even need to make a new power set.

The topic was brought up because like I said back when the game was live it was discussed and was generally well received and I wasnt even the one who brought it way back when. I agreed with it but I didnt make the thread, so this wasnt brought up based on just what I want, it was brought up because back when the game was live it was a topic that seemed to have more interest in and with COH under new management, so to speak, it seemed a good idea to bring it up again. I rarely if ever bring up a topic or fix if it is something that only affects me, you can check my posts over on the Star Citizen forums to show that as I advocate generally on behalf of a larger group and not myself. But when the gameplay difference for those not wanting the change is just I have to click on a mob vs I have to go into melee range when I have been staying in the back the whole fight for those wanting the change, yes I consider that selfish. If we could do a poll for the game and the majority wanted to keep melee nukes then fine they could stay. My blasters are already built and I have already adapted the ones I want to be range only to the limits of the power sets I chose for them.

The primary certainly is but I am trying to do more flexibility with the secondary so its a mix of tanky and support. i didnt make it just a power set because it centers on specific costume parts, like the Arachnos Soldier and the crab backpack. Making it just another blaster/defender/corruptor power set but still requiring you to take certain costume pieces just didnt seem to work. I think the primary is in pretty good shape and i like the idea of the AT providing the debuffs through attacks rather than by just dropping fields on a target, such as what Rad and Dark do, but admit the secondaries can use some work. I am thinking of losing the defense buffs and making them more team support abilities, so you get a better mix of personal survivability and team support without the AT being too op. So i welcome some ideas on improving the secondaries.

I am all about expanding player options which was something for the most part that CoH did very well. Making all the nukes ranged barely affects those who want to use them in melee because there is no minimum range so you can still charge into the middle of a mob pack and fire off your nuke, but allowing you to use the same nuke at range would benefit those that want to play a blaster at range are forced to skip it or make use of tactics that actually lower your dps in a group. Also making a new ranged set does nothing to fix the issue as we already have 6 of the 13 power sets that already have a ranged nuke, as it isnt about wanting just the fire set to have a ranged nuke but all sets. Oh and I can guarantee you that its alot more work to develop a whole new power set than to just copy a portion of the code used on Blizzard or Thunderous Blast over to abilities like Nova or Inferno. One thing I find interesting that when this was brought up years ago it was much better received by the community and had considerably more people saying they loved the idea or thought it at least had merit. Judging by the replies I have seen here the community has certainly changed over the years and gotten much more selfish, since the majority opposing it oppose it based on they dont even want their gameplay tweaked in the slightest and screw everyone else no matter how much of a benefit it would bring them.