SPINES

[Lazarus]

Spines for the 4 melee at( BRUTE,TANK,SCRAPPER,STALKER), has a secondary effects of -SPD -RECH.

 

Yet the DOMINATOR version has -DEF.

 

IF we could get the -DEF for all the melee version its would go a long way to improve the set.

 

Also SPINE BURST need an activation time redux,..3 sec. is WAY to long.

 

thx

[Shin Magmus]

     Sorry friend: Spines is not allowed to ever receive any buffs, adjustments, or changes of any kind: on CoH Homecoming.  Even though Blaster Plant Manipulation and Dominator Thorny Assault have had "Spines-adjacent" powers like their Impale and Thorn Burst respectively buffed: with animation time reductions to improve DPA, that will never extend into comparative buffs for Spines.  All suggestions to improve Spines in any way, including this one, will be ignored. 

 

     This is because the HC Devs hate AE farming more than they care about balance in the other 99% of the game.  Radiation Melee and Spines will not receive needed buffs until the playerbase quits farming with them, because the buffs in the rest of the game might translate to a minor (and we're talking ~1%) increase to AE farming efficiency... and that's unacceptable (to them).

[Videra]

1 hour ago, Shin Magmus said:

     Sorry friend: Spines is not allowed to ever receive any buffs, adjustments, or changes of any kind: on CoH Homecoming.  Even though Blaster Plant Manipulation and Dominator Thorny Assault have had "Spines-adjacent" powers like their Impale and Thorn Burst respectively buffed: with animation time reductions to improve DPA, that will never extend into comparative buffs for Spines.  All suggestions to improve Spines in any way, including this one, will be ignored. 

 

     This is because the HC Devs hate AE farming more than they care about balance in the other 99% of the game.  Radiation Melee and Spines will not receive needed buffs until the playerbase quits farming with them, because the buffs in the rest of the game might translate to a minor (and we're talking ~1%) increase to AE farming efficiency... and that's unacceptable (to them).

 

Sadly, Spines ever being buffed is essentially off the table for the reasons Shin stated.

Edited May 17 by Videra

[Azari]

I for one support any spines buff. I actually use spines both in normal content and for farming. Farmers don’t hurt anyone, this game is 20 years old FFS. Let us old folks have our farms..  Buffing some of the single target moves would be great. I’d like to see more Spines users outside of AE.

Edited May 21 by Azari