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I meant in terms of making sure I leave them in the power (assuming the benefit will remain) and doing my respec NOW, if I have any, so that I can let them remain grandfathered in. I will add a "do not respec" column to my spreadsheets, so that I can flag any characters for whom a respec will prevent a re-slotting. Thanks!

Soul Mastery doesnt have Oppressive Gloom which I like to stack with Thunder Clap and/or Dark Pit, so thats a build-purpose deal-breaker there. But I guess I could just take Soul Transfer. I never take Rez powers but if I want to avoid a 5% global recharge drop and dont care about the damage buff, then it gives me an option. So I do appreciate the suggestion, it reminded me there is another place for a set mule if I need it. Thanks!

Bad news then. OK so youre saying respec NOW :) if I have any to do and I want to keep my sets. OK thanks for the info. Cheers!!

Oh no! Terrible news. I hadnt noticed this before. I believe this is a terrible option (Water Spout no longer taking Targeted AOE). I always build hard for global recharge and ranged defense. Especially ranged defense. I love having a powerset to put both Ragnarok and Artillery for both of those. I usually put Artillery in Water Spout because you can get 4% ranged defense from it, or close. This straight up breaks about 30 controllers I have, in terms of shooting for ranged defense soft cap. But there is no way to switch it out. As a controller I already have a full Recharge Intensive set in my pet, and one of those is unique, and so I cant get a full set twice (full set required). And also there are no 10% global recharge sets in Pets, for when I use it for the ragnarok. But usually I do Artillery. Sometimes in both it and Bile Spray. Leviathan is the best set for "I'm not afffiliated with Arachnos" set in terms of tne Coralax pet, and it fits so well with nature or mutation themed builds. And there is no other set with 2 targeted AOEs and a pet and an armor set that I can think of. So I'm looking at expensive rebuilds on ..... a mind bogglingly huge and EXPENSIVE number of controllers and dominators that I've made since 2019. Or else live with a massive drop in Ranged Defense. Is there any way to allow the Water Spout to keep Ranged AOE sets as well as pet sets? The time and influence required to retrofit 30-40 characters ..... oof. Thanks!

Is there any chance we could let it take both Ranged AOE sets and Melee AOE sets? I play a lot of Corruptors and Defenders, and I usually take this powerset and I usually take Soul Drain, because I like to play in close. But most important, I take Soul Drain because it is one of the FEW places I can get a 10% global recharge bonus from a Purple set. MOST powers in the Epics are ranged and ranged AOEs, but I usually already have a Ragnarok and Apocalypse elsewhere. So Soul Drain is the #1 premium spot to take a PBAOE purple set (Armageddon). So while there is the silver lining that I'll be pulling about 20 purple sets out of all my characters from Soul Drain, it also means all of those characters will lose 5% global recharge, that can't be made up anywhere else. Just a minor request. But it sure would be nice to preserve the set functionality of this power. Thanks for all you do. Cheers!

Apologies for my ignorance, but where is the thread for that? Or the source and/or executable? I swore I didnt see anything recent but sometimes my observational powers are limited. Thanks!

Merc/Rad AV fighters? :) I mean probably not, but I can dream.

Is there even a vaguely-recent MIDs or Hero Designer anymore? I'm still on 2.7.2.10 and the only one I saw people using at one point was throwing a virus scan issue (prob not a virus, you know how AV software can be overcautious). But I've been praying for an I4-compatible Mids/Hero Designer, and now I guess we are in I5. The one thread or two I see about it looks old, with the most recent comments being vague. I mean, I havent looked this week, but ..... I wonder if there ever will be a Mids/Hero Designer for I5. I used to love doing all my toons on paper anyway, writing down columns for all the numbers and totaling them up and stuff. Good times. :)

My concerns with these changes are that the weapon upgrades may be too much. I know some people complain about dead powers in sets like Mercs (Serum, or the attacks) or FF (various) but personally I like the flexibility of not taking them and not being weak if I dont take them. So if anything, the fact that the weapon buffs are noticeable but not extreme is a GOOD thing conceptually. For me anyway. I want to feel a power is worth taking, but I dont want to feel that I'm tanking the effectiveness of my build if I DONT take it .... especially for historically "skippable" powers. So having the weapons be useful without being overwhelmingly required for effectiveness sounds good. I dont want to have to respec and completely redesign all my mercs and throw out all the fun weird powers and epic villain powers I took, so I'm hoping for changes that wont create a have's and have-not's situation by making historically skipped powers TOO good. I want to keep puking shark bile and taking weave on all my masterminds without being left in the dust because I didnt elect to opt into the new hotness :)

Maybe gutted was an exaggeration on my part, but I play lot of stormies, and lots of cold domination and dark miasma characters, in large part because I love the stealth stacking for ghosting missions, and even being able to stack steamy mist with super speed and a stealth IO so that foes with perception don't see either. Maybe players who enjoy that are in the minority, but I have ..... checking my spreadsheet .... 12 cold domination characters, 19 dark affinity or miasma characters, and 23 storm summoning characters. And then I have a bunch of Illusionists as well (that overlap once each with the aforementioned powersets) and several stalkers and whatnot. So I guess I find this completely frustrating. Again, I wish they had just made ONLY the currently exclusive ones be affected like this. Anyway, I'll just try my best to ignore it. Cheers!

I dont like this change, specifically for this reason. Just to get the best of both worlds, they are completely gutting everything else. I would have preferred a solution where the change only affected interactions that were normally conflicts. "All conflicting powers can run at the same time but dont stack. All other stealth stacks".

Is Battle Axe being proliferated to Stalkers? I have always been hoping they would be, but I didnt see anything about it. Just curious. Anyway, these changes that I do see seem interesting for my Axe tanker. Looking forward to it.

Thanks

OK ..... appreciate the info.

Will Super Speed + stealth io in Sprint still give me a stealth radius of 65, like before?