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How did this become the Dominator topic? I think doms are just about fine as is. The revamp to a lot of the secondaries helped but a few tweaks I'm fine with and maybe revisit the non-revamped assaults. Looks like Tex hijacked this thread over the weekend but I guess it's better seeing someone else rather than Ralathar for a change. If I were in an almighty position I'd buff the base hp up a bit, raise the melee damage modifier a little bit as well. That's about all I'd really do. The aoe holds recharging every mob is overkill, being able to lock down every mob would not be fun, surely not as fun as nuking every mob... Doms are about right so if there's going to be nerfs to TW then I'd advocate more for blaster damage to be toned down a smidge, let them still be top dps fine but not by such a wide margin.

One of my favorite things about this game is the intelligence and creativity afforded you with the IO system. It is a completely different game with them and for the better. That doesn't mean I don't want challenging content. I just want a nice big track to test out my racecars not some parking lot. Hopefully they think out what they're doing with looking to tinker with PPM because it'll hurt most those that feel the need for it and have the better percentages to take advantage of the system. I don't want the divide between certain damage dealers and everyone else to be further exacerbated by some tinkering, all that'll do is create more limitations.

Well I'm not Ice control but I have Energy Assault and most of what else your first build looked like as far as powers. I'm on excelsior if you want to check out how my dom plays.

In Arctic Air I'd slot a 6 set of the purple confuse set since that's the only confuse you get and those bonuses are yummy. Then I'd six slot that Superior Ascendancy into your next most used power like the ST hold. That right there will net you 20% recharge and 10% ranged defenses not to mention the other bonuses. As for Unleash Potential. Keep it, don't let those who have no real experience using it much tell you how it is. All told I have 70% defense enhancement slotted into that one and it nets me 21.5% defense to all, using power boost nets me another half of that value. So this one power nets you 32% defense to everything for a full minute. With how much recharge doms aim for mine is up for a minute and down for like 1:20 to which I'll just cycle Barrier. I'd much rather have a power like UP that nets me 32% defense max than a power like CJ that only nets me 3%. With all the internal defense bonuses available I'm pretty much walking around defense capped at all times. If you'd like to see first hand how it plays I'll be more than happy to show you.

Welp yeah that'll do it. That's the picture that must have been hung over Castle's computer as motivation to keep pushing forward.

I didn't realize dear leader Putin played. And had such refined taste. Then again if you didn't accomplish this while also riding a bear then I highly doubt it's you nor could you call yourself a real hero.

Right! Everyone knows it was Russian bots! 😎

Yes the grind is so much less. I can play and build characters quickly and just have fun playing. Live was a total grind fest where you'd pick the one character you want to invest completely in and that was about all you could hope for. All you need to do is get to vet level 1 and you can do the Apex/Tin mage which'll net you 80 merits in 30 minutes or so of playtime. Then there's the daily Hami raids. There's so much less gate keeping on HC than there was on live.

I'm a masochist and like to put TW scrappers in their place. I've invited a friend or two to duo some +4/8 carnie mishs on my dom. I'll fight it out alongside them relying on my damage and defenses then once the TW goes down I'll use my real controls. So yeah I don't really see why they're getting the nerf bat since I can only see it coming my way soon then based on other circumstances.

I fire farm with me Mind/Nrg dom. Oh noes I let the cat out of the bag! Don't nerf meh! 😲

Typically I get a ride to 30 on any toon and so I'll start kitting my blaster out with IO sets then. I hate having to keep re-upping with SO's. At level 40 when I'm blasting I'm doing quite well on them, and even level 30 for that matter. That's without purple IOs and the really good stuff. Blasters had always been pretty good, yes a bit more tender to play but on good teams they were already great to be playing. But now they're just so easy to play at all levels.

Blasters never sucked

I'm more in the mindset that lets just let things be and buff underperforming power sets like they did the dom revamp. With how trans-formative blasters have become and how they are currently it's clearly this group of devs baby. So I'm using them more as a hostage to justify what they want to do to everyone else and maybe to put the knife down and we can set their baby down.

Sure 5. Half is fine. BUT I'd still like there to be a Hami like last mission where you and your team can have all 10 powers active and will need every bit of power you can from those.

That's why I'd like to get us to those 10 powers and then activate some limitation set where you can only have active 6 of those 10 powers. They'll all have quite a range of choices within each power so you'd likely be hard pressed to find a team full of all the same incarnates.

Mind, Vitae, Something and Omega. It's searchable what the design intent was but yeah implementation would have needed to coincide with strong enemies that were also being planned. Omega was supposed to be the inverse of Alpha so maybe that meant you'd get a 100% buff to a certain attribute or whatever.

And that's the whole point of the "Why are we nerfing this and not this?" argument. Due to the mechanic involved with TW it doesn't benefit them to use their Judgement powers sometimes when just about all other powersets can do it willy nilly.

Sorry I want the full 10 more incarnates that were promised to me when I chose to support Going Rogue. So before we talk about nerfing any of the incarnates I'd like to see how the last 4 would round out.

That's why the next sentence I said not to go back to how it was. It's more appealing to have nukes in your arsenal as it is today. I'd just adjust in some -res and -def that it does to you upon use or something of that sort. Leave it mostly how it is but add back some of that think twice before using it.

Are you wanting to take away my Dom's jumping ground smash? Is that what you're asking for?! Blasters get two nukes then if you want to dive down that hole. Gonna have to give this a hard pass based on the insinuation. Choose to limit incarnate powers to 50+ content sure but I'd like to see some tougher bad guys and incarnate difficulty sliders.

They weren't all that bad before. You could just carry a blue or two and back to normal. But I wouldn't advocate for it going back to how it was either. They could though tinker with adding back some of that trepidation to use it while keeping some of what makes it much more appealing to have in your arsenal nowadays.

I'd up the recharge time on the nukes a bit or do something where recharge is unaffected on these powers kinda like how some of the newer armor t9s have a set recharge. Then they could do something like make it 50% end drop then it also caps your defense values at 30% and resistances to 45% for like 15 seconds. You're exhausting yourself with a massive attack so wouldn't it be likely you'd be easier to hit and harm just after exhaustion?

When has transparency ever been an in-noble goal? If they'd have done this months ago some people wouldn't feel ambushed with what's being proposed and thus wouldn't feel a need to rush their dialogue through. At the end of the day they'll still want people to play on their servers and what better way to keep them engaged, yes hold them to some level of objectivity and compromise but that goes both ways. Looks to me that what's being considered affects a large portion of the base unless you're a blaster main in which case it's kitty cats and rainbows. One persons drama is another's culture.

Welcome to the team! We'll try to be gentle. *Snaps on latex gloves*

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