Indystruck

This is not coming from the point of "an average player," this is coming from a point of "we're all tricked out and playing our faves".

That data is actually explicitly how the game works.

377 x 2s being huge support is maybe sort of not really a thing, no.

Damage, because corruptors get the double damage rate up when the enemy is below half health and their primary power ability is a blast set. I could tell you about a class that has a stun in almost every ability, a fear aura, and epic pool with further chances to stun. Spoilers it's still a Tanker e:BRUTE, because the primary is Energy Melee, secondary Dark Armor, epic Earth Mastery and the other incidental stuns are just that, incidental. No one is relying on their tanks to do all the mezzing. Going "uhhh, excuse me, what about this one ability" doesn't change that.

Sitting back and buffing someone as a peacebringer is really just putting a power on autofire and doing nothing while you go to the bathroom because you just have glowing touch. Photon Seekers if you want to lie to yourself and put that on the pile. There's no RPG trinity system in any point of this conversation. It'd be more of a quintipartite, but, I digress.

Hi, fellow defender soloist of +4/x8 ITF, yes, it is infact, still support.

I think you're wildly over-estimating how many different web animations are in the game. Also wildly underselling how many people wanted gadget/weaponry related control sets since live. Web'd mostly be related to maces. Unfortunately I don't think it's enough to make two entire powersets enter the copyright infringement verse, but, that's unrelated to the topic at hand. I can use Dark Servant to absorb an alpha strike, this does not make it a tank. Scrappers can get Moonbeam, this does not make them a ranged damage archetype. So on and so forth.

Set just doesn't feel great. Can do +4/x8 but it's a bit of a slog (tried Arsenal/TA Controller and Arsenal/Arsenal dom) but, y'know. I'm not sure where the devs necessarily want Controllers and Doms to be, either? Should those classes be able to handle new Council at that level? Should they not? Is it okay for the average player to do this. or should it only be top-end players? The main thing I can say is it just feels like a grab bag of disjointed pieces. We can sleep but if we do we have a rapid fire chaingun waiting behind us to immediately light up anyone who dozes off. Also the -ToHit with +confuse, and, just... eh. I mean, a player can make it work, yeah, but, it doesn't feel great regardless.

Turning the difficulty from +4/x8 to +3/x8 is asking a lot, yeah.

knockback is good and it is my friend

Okay but I suspect it won't.

because one of the first posts was someone being an absolutely perpetually online weirdo about the usage of the term "diversity" if I had to guess

New Players are most likely to be told by Old Players that they can pick anything. Which is true, once you're all kitted out you can just blow through whatever at +4/x8 and be fine. Now for 8 new people who decided they want to be controllers, petless masterminds, etceteras who have expired DOs in and are like "hey let's try a Synapse", it may be a little different.

What if instead of Teleport having Combat Teleport we gave it to Speed and made it better. No.

Damn, sounds like it'll facilitate learning important mechanics then, that's a good reason to add it, fair point.

It's not a real concern. Anytime I form a team, there's always that one guy with 3000 other characters falling over themselves to even out the team composition anyway.

It's a task force Michael, what could it reward, one aether? don't you change this, Cobalt, or I am gonna go out of my way to give Zoe noogies until the servers go down

No, it'd be like if Defenders had "Dark Miasma," Controller had "Shadow Miasma," Dominators had "Umbral Manipulation," and Corruptors had "Shadow Sorcery" and they all got changed to "Dark Miasma."

Why does everyone hold up Castle's cottage rule as a shining beacon to follow and then we all turn around and rightly dumpster on him for his PVP changes, anyway?

consistency is key

as someone who has to do work, i also prefer less work to more work so i get them saying that

don't know who in their right mind would give this thumbs down. more options rule

i can easily stack a passive +50% range from sets before getting into power slotting, clarion, boost range, etc. if you want it you can build for it

i generally don't like to buy a bethesda game for a year or two, wait out the bug fixes, get a good mod stew going, wait for a GotY edition with DLC bundled for cheap i also don't like to watch influencer videos with grown men ranting about some video game shit for like 20-120 minutes nor utilize that to form any part of any opinion i've ever had

It was never about what would be realistic, it was about the animations not breaking.