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Can confirm, page 6 is going to be quite substantial.

Let the MM APPs stand as a reminder of what happens when a feature is rushed and not thoroughly thought out. Of all the player-facing features of Going Rogue and the side-switching system, the new MM APPs for Going Rogue seem like they received the least amount of consideration. It looks like more effort was put into coming up with names for the pools than making sure the pools were good. At launch the power icons didn't even have matching colors in most of them (in fact, I'm pretty sure the matching icons they have now are a SCoRE/Homecoming thing). And now all these lame duck powers are protected by the cottage rule. Magnificent.

It certainly seems like a level of difficulty that can be overcome solo, but no, there's no way to get in without 3 other warm bodies.

There's nothing wrong with Radiation's damage... at least on paper. All of the powers are right where the formulas say they should be (except Irradiate and Cosmic Burst, which are around 8-9% higher). The issue is that Electron Haze and Neutron Bomb are slooow, and its only sources of safety are the extremely unreliable knockback in EH and hold in Atomic Blast, and the stun in Cosmic Burst.

So it is decided! Buffs for Street Justice! Rib Cracker Damage scale 1.32 -> 1.64 Recharge 6s -> 8s End Cost 6.864 -> 8.528 Shin Breaker Damage scale 1.64 -> 1.96 Recharge 8s -> 10s End Cost 8.528 -> 10.192 Crushing Uppercut Recharge 25s -> 20s Combat Readiness now doubles all combo level gains for its duration Sweeping Cross, Spinning Strike, and Crushing Uppercut now build combo when used at Combo Level 2 or lower (they still spend combo at level 3)

That's French, mi freund.

Yeah, it would be pretty good on Stalkers. Real Build Up*, and it loses only one of its weak combo builders for Assassin's Strike, which not only fills the role of high-damage non-capstone attack that the set otherwise lacks, but is also Assassin's Strike. Plus, for Stalkers the set's AoE is actually good. *I can't help but notice that all the sets I know to be better on Stalkers (Staff, Kin, and StJ) are all sets with some gimmicky, weaker version of Build Up. *gives Rad and Savage the side-eye*

I have a level 50 Street Justice Brute, and he just does not feel that strong. The AoEs are tiny. None of the combo builders hit particularly hard, recharging in only 3, 5, 6, and 8 seconds, with matching damage scales (Most sets have a 10s recharge ST attack that isn't even the capstone power). Combat Readiness is just plain worse than Build Up. You can't use the AoEs freely because that eats your combos. And Crushing Uppercut, even at combo level 3, is weaker than it should be for its recharge (although if you consider it a clone of Knockout Blow with the same 5-second recharge penalty, it's as strong as it should be at combo level 2 and a little stronger at 3). This set can't be bad, right? I'm just imagining things. That must be it.

This would be incredibly complicated to implement. The way TW works now, there's effectively two powers in the database for every power with a fast and slow variant. If you use a power with no Momentum, the game calls one power, and if you use the same power with Momentum, the game calls another. To have 3 or 4 different levels of speed, you would need to have 3 or 4 versions of every individual attacks. And of course that means 3 or 4 animations for every power. It's a ton of overhead.

I don't think I fully understand it either, I mean look at that left leg. What shape is it?

IIRC Radiation Blast doesn't do any toxic damage because when the game launched there was no Toxic damage type at all. That's why there's also no Toxic defense, because it was added after the whole defense groundwork was laid out and it was too complicated to add.

Where the heck are you pulling these numbers from? I know you’re not talking about damage resistance. The stun resistance in Resilience is redundant with Integration. It’s only useful if you need to use a t1 or t2 Rez inspiration. The extra effects in the other passives I mentioned are not made pointless by other powers in the same set.

Everyone’s been outside the Shadow Shard, it’s where characters start right after creation

Better than Resist Physical Damage, which gives 25% defense debuff resistance, or Grounded, which gives knockback protection, or Bane Spider Armor upgrade, which gives resist to all, +Max HP, and mez protection? I don’t think so.

That is absolutely not a reason to buff Scourge, then, because the solution to "everyone's doing too much damage all the time and winning before support even matters" is not going to be "let the support do more damage."

There has to be some kind of reason to make a change. This is all sounding more like you're bored with it now and just want something new.

I don't think any change is needed at all. Yes, Corruptors don't see much use in Scourging anything weak, but that's the exact design intent behind the inherent.

If you reduce Corruptor base damage to make up for the extra damage from more Scourge, then you haven't changed anything with the AT overall, and you've made their ability to do damage more random and less reliable. What's the benefit of doing that?

But why? Why do Corruptors need to do more damage? It's largely acknowledged that players are doing too much damage as a whole, so why is a damage buff justified for this entire AT? They already do more damage than Defenders outside of heavy proc shenanigans.

On paper, sure, but as was pointed out earlier, the more teammates you have, the faster enemies die and the less chance you have to Scourge.

Same as Scourge, no?

This is literally what the damage buff from Vigilance is for.

Dominators and Controllers get a temp power that lets them hold all nearby 5th Column enemies, and Blasters and Corruptors get a temp power that deals massive damage to held enemies. You're supposed to cycle those to clear out the ambushes as they come.

Solo they'll live long enough for Scourge to have a chance to kick in.

So help me understand. A crux of the issue people have is that Scourge isn't useful against minions or lieutenants. But minions and lieutenants are basically just trash mobs that evaporate in the face of a typical team anyway. So why is it a problem that the inherent doesn't really help Corruptors kill them even faster?