Suggest correcting -Res values in Dominator Sonic Assault

[Shin Magmus]

   Everyone, in light of the Sonic Attack Blast changes simplifying the set and normalizing the debuff values on the various Ranged ATs, I've found some intentionally undertuned powers in Sonic Assault.  Dominators have higher debuff scalars than Blasters across the board.  Doms don't debuff as well as Controllers/Corruptors do with most stats, although they share the same -Res debuff scalar, but Doms debuff better than Blasters.  This is non-debatable and something you can see by comparing shared powers across the ATs, as well as fitting the design of Dominators as a class and their more-supporty Epic Pool options than Blasters.  With that out of the way, here are the debuff values for the same Sonic powers on each AT:

 

Corruptor Shriek:   -11.25% Res for 8s

Dominator Shriek:  -7.5% Res for 8s      ???????????????

Blaster Shriek:        -9.75% Res for 8s

 

 

   Now for comparison, let's look at Weaken Resolve: a true shared power that accurately reflects AT scalar differences.

 

Corruptor Weaken Resolve:   -7.5% Res, -10.0% Def, -5.0% ToHit for 15s

Dominator Weaken Resolve:  -7.5% Res, -7.5% Def, -3.75% ToHit for 15s

Blaster Weaken Resolve:        -6.5% Res, -7.0% Def, -3.5% ToHit for 15s

 

 

   Conclusion: The base values of the 3 ranged attacks in Dominator Sonic Assault do not follow established design principles or AT scalars.  These powers also have mismatched debuff durations with their identically named powers in Sonic Attack: Shriek is the same duration but Scream and Shout are different.

 

   Recommendation: normalize both the debuff value and the debuff time of Dominator Sonic Assault powers to match Sonic Attack.  Buff Sonic Assault ranged attacks from -7.5% Res up to either -11.25% Res (Dom AT Scalar) or -10.25% (Interpolation point between Blaster and Corruptor).  Additionally, match Sonic Assault debuff durations to the same powers in Sonic Attack: 8s for Shriek, 8s for Scream, and 10s for Shout... or maybe 9s for Scream on all versions just for the consistency of it being longer than Shriek.

   

[Shin Magmus]

   I'm going to go ahead and preempt the most likely contrarian response as well.  Before someone replies "the arbitrarily lower debuff values are good because the Sonic Assault is balanced around Disruption Aura's -Res", that's like claiming that Dominator Bitter Ice Blast should be arbitrarily weaker just because it has a damage aura, or that Dominator Seismic Smash should be nerfed just because that set has a damage aura.  No.

[Indystruck]

Huh, wonder why that happened.

[Uun]

There are several powers that were revamped for blast sets but left unchanged for dominators. Voltaic Sentinel comes to mind immediately, but I'm sure there are others.

[golstat2003]

6 hours ago, Indystruck said:

Huh, wonder why that happened.

 

Not enough testers on beta, and a VERY VERY large release.

 

I myself barely had time to touch everything that was going out in beta.

[arcane]

20 minutes ago, golstat2003 said:

 

Not enough testers on beta, and a VERY VERY large release.

 

I myself barely had time to touch everything that was going out in beta.

Sonic Assault was not changed in this patch. This is an old issue. 
 

Agree it should at least be as high as the blaster amount.

[Troo]

it is known