Stalker Ice Melee

[Riverdusk]

Couple of issues I've seen with Stalker's version of Ice Melee.  

 

First is that the power "Frost" won't take range enhancements.  Stalker is the ONLY AT that can not directly slot Frost for range.  Tanks, Brutes, and scrappers all can.  IMO if just the stalker version not taking range was deliberate as some kind of weird "balancing" decision, then it should be reclassified as a PBAoE for sets.  It doesn't make logical sense the way it is set currently that a Targetted AoE power can't take range enhancements without using the famous weird IO hack way of doing it.

 

Second is that Ice Patch is showing for Allowed Enhancement Set Categories:  "Universal Damage Sets" and "Stalker Archetype Sets"   It actually takes neither of those sets.

[Redlynne]

Frost is a Cone attack, not a PBAoE.  Switching the set type it accepts to PBAoE would be invalid on the criteria you describe, because all Cones use Target AoE sets.

 

The solution for Frost is to allow Range enhancements to be slotted into the power (and have them affect the power).  Range not being accepted by the power for Stalkers is probably a copy/paste error when the powerset was proliferated to Stalkers ... an oversight rather than a deliberate decision/balancing point.

[Riverdusk]

2 hours ago, Redlynne said:

Frost is a Cone attack, not a PBAoE.  Switching the set type it accepts to PBAoE would be invalid on the criteria you describe, because all Cones use Target AoE sets.

 

The solution for Frost is to allow Range enhancements to be slotted into the power (and have them affect the power).  Range not being accepted by the power for Stalkers is probably a copy/paste error when the powerset was proliferated to Stalkers ... an oversight rather than a deliberate decision/balancing point.

There are a LOT of cone attacks that use PBAoE sets.  Shadow Maul, Eviscerate, flashing steel, etc, etc..   Almost every melee set has PBAoE cone attacks.  The main difference is typically the short range and that they aren't able to be slotted for range.  Therefore my point stands, if Frost is unable to be slotted for range and with its short range, then logical consistancy means it should be a PBAoE.

 

But yes, I agree it is probably just a bug considering all the other versions allow it and easiest fix would be to allow range and the issue is fixed and it'd then make sense being a Targetted AoE.

Edited December 24, 2019 by Riverdusk