JayboH

That's easy, you get free respecs as you level. "Empower an ally with raw energy, causing all of their abilities to unleash chained bolts of electricity at nearby foes. These bolts drain a small amount of endurance and have a chance to knock up the target. Amp Up also moderately increases their attack rate and greatly boosts the secondary effects of their powers. Their power effects like heals, defense debuffs, endurance drains, disorients, holds, immobilizes and more, are all improved. Recharge: Very Long "

It will boost defense debuff, if that's what you mean.

What is the damage difference between ice and earth damage auras?

I wonder if it is because it isn't considered a debuff - it's an actual attack on endurance instead of a debuff of recovery? Like healing is reverse damage and so on.

Defense buffs has been confirmed to never get increased with powers like this by design. This was discussed at length during the beta period.

I mentioned this on the closed forums also - there are 3 different values being given for the passive endurance reduction on this ability - two on the left and one on the right. What is going on here? Support Core Embodiment

Not sure how you made the links above so I will do it this way. Here is one of Flea's builds I am using as a guide

Yes.

He had a whole powerset change plan being shown and discussed in the closed beta forums for Poison so it would be great to see some of that implemented on the beta server here at some point as time allows.

That set needs a revamp/tweaks/retooling - Powerhouse knows this too.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an oversight. Surely it should be draining more when the other sets he mentioned DO obey AT modifiers for debuffs, right?

Can you craft a new icon for either Acid Arrow or Disruption Arrow to go with the changes? They are identical in the same set which is confusing.

I told you it's dice-based PVP (and PVE of course.)

If true, yeah, that seems like an oversight that should have been fixed many years ago. Like you said, you can point to other sets that work properly - Sonic is probably the most well-known in that regard.

They shouldn't; aren't they for powers that deal damage only?

Yeah, it's kinda weird right

That's completely false. That's why blasts curve around corners and all that.

For those discussing ice swords, what about other formed objects outside of the fists, like say mallets as in stone melee - ice mallets would hurt - and what else would you like? etc. My focus was on the activation time of ice patch because it really doesn't even 'feel' right let alone actual performance metrics. As far as accepting other enhancement sets, that's not unique at all sadly to several powers in the game. I could see slow, but disagree on knockback enhancements. That would just enrage the casual player as most enhancements would just cause the knockdown to become knockback by enriching its mag level - so no, I don't think that's a good idea. I assume this is for proc reasons?

I think the idea there is the manipulation of those elements into whatever you want such as edged weapons, fists, elemental breath, etc. Mine is more real-play performance-related. It's like the mitigation it brings requires I get hit multiple times over and over first just because the activation is so long.

I know there are other sets needing attention (hello Poison, Energy Melee, Trick Arrow) and honestly Ice Melee is so much better since it got its revisions. My only request is to speed up the activation of ice patch. When you run up to mobs, you are locked in that animation for just shy of 4 seconds. That is really, really long in practice. Please give it a try in development testing and you might see what I mean. Thanks!

Note they are unlisted.

Here is Bionic_Flea's take on the combo.

Also want to chime in and thank you for all your continuing work on this! I noticed something when toying with elec affinity on the weekly release: alpha doesn't seem to affect their hover numbers

I noticed that when I am hit with Amp Up from another person, if I throw Ball Lightning, it only says 'Discharge' in orange letters above the main target I threw it at. It was difficult to tell if other targets were getting a gray discharge popup or if that was someone else, or if it is affecting everyone in the AOE. I did this several times and the only orange Discharge would always be the main target. As far as the Sentinel goes, I think it's been mentioned many times how it seems to have trouble going up elevators, so I am tossing that in here also.

Well, even if you don't, they are still damage debuffed. I kind of wish damage debuffing had a more noticeable graphical effect. That would help other sets like kin melee and kin and trick arrow and so on.