Elizabeth Ashlee

When you have a moment, test out your seeds of confusion. I can't confirm anything but it "feels" much better than it has in recent weeks. Could be placebo on my part but it does seem vastly improved as of today on the same enemies I had issues with last week.

Yep, it does work now, but I can 100% assure you this was NOT working 48 hours ago and has not been working for many months leading up to now. Maybe revisit when they remove the Halloween activities or drop another patch and we can see if it is still working. A quick search on discord and you'll find others discussing the same issue.

No need to be nasty about it. And yes for several months I have observed the combat logs and had others observe the same issue when they tested. This may have been changed as recent as today. I'll be testing it again in a moment.

Exactly my initial thought. That said, this slotting has been considered the "Meta" choice for a long time now. For several months, perhaps closer to a year this slotting choice has not worked. I had assumed it would be changed or fixed to not accept accurate healing enhancements at some point in time but without that happening I decided to mention it here. Mostly I find it curious that if this was not intended it would have been changed at some point, and its odd that so many folks consider this the Meta choice yet I guess literally none of them have actually looked to see if it were working. It also oddly seems to require hitting an enemy for either Numina's or Miracle procs to trigger, even though they should be active at all times in a toggle that is on, or always on while in an inherent power like Health.

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Blaster, Fire Manipilation - Cauterizing Aura and Theft of Essence: Chance for +Endurance. Theft of Essence: Chance for +Endurance is not doing anything under any circumstances when slotted into Cauterizing Aura. It appears to never trigger regardless of enemy saturation or duration spent with the power inflicting damage to enemies. As of October 2nd 2025 this is no longer "broken", the +endurance is triggering when hitting enemies.

I was thinking the same thing, however I have noticed the inspirations are applied just fine in the combat log before any enemy attacks have been attempted, and the untouchable just never seems to occur. If you do manage to survive with team members around you can and will still be taking damage right away from enemies though allies can not heal/buff you.

Return to Battle is likely the superior choice in nearly every situation, just be aware if there are more than a few enemies around and you're alone, you're instantly dead again, oh and you WILL get debt, it doesnt protect from that either if you suffer the instant kill on rez.

Neither of them seems to work properly, just as @Doomguide2005 stated. I've tested both on Brainstorm and live multiple times the past 6 or so months and found them to never provide the effect of "Untouchable" listed. If others are around you may live, if you're the first to revive or solo you are instantly killed every single time without fail. They'll do everything besides provide the brief protection.

I was skeptical with the last major live update, but the world in fact did not end and things improved a little, since then all these little patches have been great news, and the world still has not ended!

Defender - Mace Mastery - Web Envelope is doing Scourge.

It's the second to last power in Fire Primary for controller and dominator, and the updated "Dumpster Fire" version is a skip imo (unless you just must cram a set into the late choices). Sure it was too good slotted kb2kd but it seems there were many ways to change this for the overall better and not make it a Primary skip. Looking at other control sets at level 26 there are some fantastic picks and this went from subjectively the best to one of the worst when it comes to control.

At least the power will remain good for very specific set bonus slotting. 🤷‍♀️

Incorrect recharge times quoted, current base recharge time is 8 seconds on live, also the new recharge time on beta is not 20 seconds as listed in these patch notes The following unlisted changes also took place. Range reduced Area of effect reduced Number of targets hit reduced Damage reduced

This change impacts controller and dominator fire control, making the power basically useless as a 'control'.