ScarySai

With the council being reworked, trapdoor as a benchmark method is going to effectively die. Let's put it out with a bang, let's see the wildest, most cheaty times we possibly can get out of it before it's gone. Temps, insps, anything goes, I might even pay the best time by it going live, who's down?

Apologies for the double post, but I think this needs to be highlighted. Is this not the perfect example of how outrageous the way epic pool stats are calculated is? 3-10 min cds on powers like tar patch and dark consumption is absolutely outrageous, and this whole change to soul drain essentially screams that it's working around the formula, when the approach to how epic powers are created should simply be revised.

Dominator dark mastery is a great pool potentially, though there is a bit of a problem with tar patch's base CD being 3 minutes. Let's be honest, these CDs get bloody outrageous after a point and make otherwise desirable powers not worth the time of day. Slash the CD on tar patch and a few of the other obvious "WTF" examples of epic recharge scaling.

It's made fun of by the people who do it, I don't know how else they expected this to go lmao

Worst of both worlds, too weak to be a spot heal, with neutered +max hp helps nobody.

@macskull just don't think people should waste feedback thread real estate responding to such an outrageous claim. Say no and move on, eh?

Then they should have made the bane beam aoes actually good. Anim cuts are nice, but the scale changes aren't terribly game-changing. Plus, they still have the knock tax, on a character that's essentially a skirmisher - blast before jumping in. It'd be far better if they had a low mag knock that could be enhanced to KB, but KDs by default rather than the other way around. Too stubborn with the wrong things.

It was for a reason, but the reasoning didn't make sense, so it should just be added.

It wasn't, and it still isn't. Not worth debating this further.

I agree, but I'd rather have spirit drain than some overnerfed clone of soul drain that follows a broken formula that produces bad powers. Ideally? They just bring back pre-patch soul drain and leave it alone.

These guys are a proper threat now, I'm a fan.

I really don't like Galaxy Archons. They won't slow teams at all, but are ultra tedious to deal with solo, still. Focus them? They full heal via rez. Ignore them? They slap you around and use their friend's bodies to heal to full, and then you deal with a rez. Needs to be better counterplay besides getting lucky with a knock before they get a chance to heal, between the massive resists, heal and self rez, actual bother to deal with on +4, but for all the wrong reasons. As for the rest? I actually really like them, the galaxys are just annoying, but the bosses are a bit OTT.

Almost forgot: There's still no reason, lore or otherwise, for banes to not be able to fire frags from their deathstick. 1: It already fires web grenades, the space age beatstick can probably fire other variants like most grenade launchers do. 2: The player character is essentially a rogue agent, standard issue for NPC banes doesn't really apply to someone who can have all sorts of reasons to justify a difference in weaponry. How many bane spiders pull out a submachine gun and full auto your whole team?

Arguably a nerf at the top end, and corruptors ate a slight -res hit. Either way, the idea we can't give qol to sets that aren't bottom feeders is a bad one.

Frostwork -should- be better for pugging or solo mms now as a sort of 'save your ass' power, though on the higher end, I definitely prefer it with max HP for slapping on a tank that otherwise can't get it. Storm blast buffs are great, cell actually operates how I said it should have from the start, very notable impact now. Two kheld things I want to make sure didn't get missed: Was peacebringer fixed? They get this too, and I cannot make a quick test char till tonight. Make sure quantum maneuvers got this, too.

Hear me out: If you turn that black hole power into a vacuum like axe cyclone instead of a clone of the worst intangible power in the game: this pool will be really fun. Good proof of concept for dark miasma, if it works well enough.

I'd say soldiers are definitely more support orientated than widows, while both have leadership and team buffs, soldiers offer a pretty sizable amount of -res and other such debuffs, where widows really are more of a dps with some control.

This set has potential with gravity and dark control, I'm eager to give those combos a go a bit later.

The changes made are more or less good, though I'd like some minor things like mace beam blast to be KD by default, it's odd for a power like that on a melee character to knock back rather than keep things in crowd control range. Only real complaint would be the fact that it really seems like a barebones buff for a sort of middling AT. Some long requested changes sit ignored, such as psinado still having the old values that made it essentially trash without procs to carry it, or banes not being given a clobber clone of some kind to give their melee chain a sizable buff. One thing I would really like to see, is for the widow runner problem to be addressed in some form, since their poisons tend to ironically cause more mobs to run due to the dot and debuff stacks it applies, but it's not really strong enough to stop them. One solution to this could be to allow slow slotting on widow attacks. Procs shouldn't be a concern to bar it, here, since you can already full proc pretty much any widow attack.

My feedback more or less echos Dispari's, but I would like to add the following. 1: Smoke Cann is a really cool power conceptually, but it feels like it was designed under the fear of it being too good, like they looked at seeds of confusion and were way too cautious. It does pretty good work on +0, but basically doesn't exist beyond that, nor does it benefit from overpower or dominate. 2: Consider replacing the sleep grenade for something closer to trap's poison trap. Massive slow and -regen, chance for vomit. Instantly a better power.

2:56/57 (looks like 56 on first hit to me) - amped. I stopped being lazy and committed to a respec I've been planning for awhile. That archon almost ruined it by actually putting down the RPG, lol. Scorched earth.mbd Might try again later with burnout off cd, but I'll consider this my win for the day.

Fun fact: it's not just a drop. It'll heal you if you're under 50%.

Big news, indeed. Will the powers team get any new leadership?

I support all social media bringing dislikes back. If you can't handle a negative response to bad takes and cannot definitively prove you are correct despite that, maybe rethink your hills to die on.

They are working on a meat dragon.