Sorry, I didn't jump back in here sooner...
I think this would be worth addressing before wading in. You know Defender FF probably better than anyone, but balance adjustments are ecological as much as specific.
True, absolutely. I will NOT suggest anything for any other AT. These suggestions are just for Defenders, I don't have enough experience in other ATs to propose changes to how they work for them. I will defer to the advice of those more experienced in the other ATs and FF's synergies (or lack thereof) with them.
The "Only Affect Self" attribute appears to be called SEQBITS_TELEPORT, from what I can see:
So, all the devs have to do is take out THAT AttribMod from the power and give it another instead, let's say, duplicate the "throw up" effect of Mastermind's Elixir of life (minus the animation of course) that holds the target with a mag 1000 hold:
I disagree. The amount of time that enemies spend ragdolling (and often times getting stuck in the game's geometry) makes knockback/down count as a solid soft control, IMO. Being able to keep all enemies off their feet at all times? I think that's worth its weight in gold. It just depends in the skill of the person to make good use of those powers.
Fair points. Defense Debuff resistence... I would not say no to. But I'm not going to ask for it. I'll ask for what I think I can reasonably get.
The difference there being precision control. Torrent is a cone and can only effect things in a cone. FB is far more precise and can be pointed in multiple different directions in short succession. Torrent... can't.
Since target mitigation for anything but EBs and AVs, true. I never claimed otherwise.
I'm still open to Absorb... if I can be convinced that it won't make FF totally OP.