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If that's what you're complaining about, you did a really poor job communicating that in the OP.

Well, there was that incident with Bobcat. Seems she really doesn't like being called Boobcat.

You're a classy guy.

There's a difference between dusty, old, uninteresting sets and sets that are very nearly unusable such that they're simply not used at all (statistically speaking).

Forcefield is boring, but it works. Old Energy Aura didn't work.

Sets that are boring but work are best updated by judiciously adding in secondary effects that enhance but do not otherwise change the set's gameplay. It's a limited kind of updating, but it's the best way to make everyone happy. This was the case with the Assassin's Strike change, and from what I understand was mostly the case with the Grav Control changes. It's either that or the devs work with the community who plays that set to see if there's something they all agree they don't like, which can then be overhauled. That's rare and time-consuming, though.

Really, the more people who play a set, the less you can do to tweak it, and vice versa. When almost nobody is playing a set, you can do massive overhauls without upsetting anyone, but if there's a lot of people who like it, even a small tweak can raise a shitstorm.

Devs have access to those statistics, and if enough people like Energy Blast, then they're not going to pay too much attention to people who say Energy Blast needs an overhaul.

Oh dear, he's gone Bursar again. Does anyone have the dried frog pills?

This post is so cute I want to print it out and frame it on my wall.

To be honest, regeneration percentages confuse the utter hell out of me, so I prefer to rely on the final hp/sec output.

That's not much more difficult. It's -3.75% to-hit for each target hit with RttC (and RttC is autohit). As long as you assume the targets don't resist and you're dealing with 10 or fewer aggroed enemies, it's the same as 3.75% defense. Since Stalker WP gets 1.875-3% unsuppressed defense from Hide, which is unresistable compared to to-hit debuffs (and also isn't limited by a target cap), we can call that a wash.

That's accurate.

100% of damage is sent at you. The base to-hit is 50%, so with 0% defense, on average 50% of all the damage thrown at you will hit you. With 2.5% defense, on average 47.5% of all the damage thrown at you will hit you.

Thus, of all the damage that actually hits you, there is a 5% reduction (as 5% of 50% = 2.5%).

Are you also slotting RttC for Heal SOs in your calculation? You didn't say, so I can't be sure.
I based my armchair analysis off a very quick look at my IOed-out WP Scrapper in Mids before leaving for work, comparing against Reconstruction with 100% Health enhancement. When I get home, I'll happily compare SOs to SOs.

Right, I mentioned the soft controls Nin has, but that's not as easily quantifiable or comparable to other defense sets as D/R/R.

Nin has slow, sleep, and confuse available. Very interesting defense set, to be sure.

True enough, and I realized that after I posted it.

Really? That seems unusual, if you're measuring defense and resistance and regen. Ninjitsu only offers defense in steady quantities (with Kuji-In Sha providing some healing and toxic resist). Its survivability shoots up because of the number of soft controls it has, certainly, but I'd think in a D/R/R comparison it would come up short.

Also, although I'm at work so I don't have Mids to help me with the numbers, Stalker Willpower seems on the surface to suffer from lack of RttC. I imagine they were given Reconstruction because they don't have the HP to fully leverage +Regen, but Reconstruction doesn't scale like RttC does, and it suffers from being a click with a significant recharge which also cuts into offensive power.

I don't think the actual gap is all that large until you start mixing in set bonuses and accolades and such, but Scrapper Willpower can quickly outpace Stalker Willpower, allowing the Scrapper to survive large groups more easily than the Stalker.

Reppu, feel free to post artwork every time A_F posts. It'll help balance things out.

That sounds very unusual, considering that my current main is a TW/EA Brute and never had much trouble with End, despite TW being a gas guzzler. Are you slotting End Reduction in your attacks?

You'd be surprised how often people think it's not necessary when it actually is, especially when one's opinions start looking a lot like statements of fact.

He's in Take Down The WarWorks.

It's really Take Down Nightstar.

I'm really not fond of how missions are labeled, both in the game and in Paragonwiki. I found those by going to Maria's page and doing a search for Siege and Nightstar, plus the Nightstar one is listed under Badge Missions in the Contents list.

Edit: Triple-scooped.

You've always had the power to leave! Just click your heels together three times and say, "There's no place like the rest of the forums, there's no place like the rest of the forums, there's no place like the rest of the forums."

Or, y'know, use the drop-down menu at the bottom. Whatever works.

Pretty sure Reppu's not going to bikini it up, but hey.