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Ugh. The last thing I need is to stop accepting Mystic Fortune because the Fool has -Tohit. Or worry about the crash on Mutation. Not to mention the plethora of ToHit debuffs carried around by CoT and what not.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that basing it off of ToHit is a bad idea. People are going to try so hard to get perma 22% ToHit, that it's going to be like the old Domination's damage buff: the players are going to treat any situation where their ToHit is reduced as a nerf, and the constant improved snipe as the standard level of performance.

Not a damage buff. One of the problems with Defiance is that it simply doesn't scale well with other buffs, whereas Scourge and Crits increase your total damage by some percentage (and don't count against the cap). I'd rather use the Magnitude Expression thing of Doublehit, and give every Blaster power an extra damage effect that deals damage based on a formula using Overcharge (or Defiance whatever).

*checks* Holy crap, they are typed "Toxic_Attack". When did that get changed?

Codewalker found the problem here: it's applying the damage buff as an enhancement bonus and subjecting it to ED. Bug. Sigh.

After you choose the power, when you mouse over it at the bottom of the build (have to scroll down to get there), it should have the standard green slider thing for choosing number of targets.

Did you set the slider on the power to have targets? It doesn't provide defense without enemies in range (unlike the resist branch, which has a frontloaded amount).

... I hope Sentinel and HeroStats and VidiotMaps are okay...

Not to mention Mids.

I haven't delved into it much yet, but I'd guess that part of the difference is the fact that Radial uses PPM and Core is a straight percentage, so high end builds with a lot of recharge can milk the PPM imbalance really easy.

I can't imagine who that would be...

7th Sea is one of my favorite systems of all time. It really does cinematic rules quite well.

I've been running a Strands of Fate game for my SG using their characters from CoH. It's been a lot of fun.

If we can get two or three other Mac users to try this and say it works, I'll ask my good friends at Titan to find a place for it.

Have people tested this? Does it work for you?

Should I wait before you update it to Mids 1.956 before I stick this up on the planner website?

Yeah, somebody else found this and reported it on the Titan forums. It'll be fixed in the next version of Mids.

I didn't get around to making any tweaks to the UI code yet, and no word from RogerWilco. Without a mac, I'd only be making stabs in the dark.

I tried to fix everything that was reported... I think the only things I didn't get to were Titan Weapons, Soul Absorption's target cap, and a few Staff tweaks (mutual exclusivity updates, etc).

There has never been a direct correlation between dev inaction and their opinion of powers. Castle remarked upon Blaze multiple times, but it never got changed, for example. I completely expect to see this power altered on Blasters whenever it is that Synapse and company get around to doing a balance pass on them, even if all they do is make the -Regen unenhanceable.

True, they really do like adding new mechanics, but Staff Fighting tells us they don't mind recycling various other special mechanics in unique mixes (Staff combines the Ammo system from DP, the combo system from Street Justice, and Kinetic Melee's "buff per attack", but has no new mechanic of its own). So we could justify a new set by, say, combining the Global Chance for damage from Fiery Embrace with the new Absorb mechanic. It could even combine that with an Against All Odds type thing and give you a hybrid:

Psychic Backlash
Toggle, +Psi Damage, -Recharge
+25% Global Chance for Psi Damage (doesn't stack)
+5% Global Chance for Psi Damage per target
-20% Recharge to target
Taunt to target

Psionic Embrace
Click, +Psi Damage, +Absorb
+25% Global Chance for Psi Damage
+some amount of Absorb (whatever is relevant)

Now you've got a set that gives you a constant amount of psionic damage, a la Fiery Embrace, where that amount fluctuates based upon the number of enemies around you, and you have a click power that will pump that number up to 100% for a short time (making it a match for Fiery Embrace, which is 100% Global Chance) as well as giving you some Absorb.

I simply didn't take either Power Burst or Power Push (the only powers I skipped from my primary).

Shout at least stacks nicely with the other powers... it's still pretty bad, though.

Not all debuffs, only those given as a result of IOs or pseudo-pets. It's already fixed in my dev version.

Actually, the power was nerfed when moved to Blasters, but they didn't change it for Dominators (because screw you Blasters, I suppose?):

Dominator Psi Assault:
100 Melee_Ones% Regeneration, Recovery for 30s (max of 1000%, unenhanced)
-500 Melee_Ones% Regeneration, Recovery for 30s

Blaster Mental Manipulation:
75 Melee_Ones% Regeneration, Recovery for 30s (max of 750%, unenhanced)
-250 Melee_Ones% Regeneration, Recovery for 30s

Rise to the Challenge is 100% + 25% per target, for a max of 350%. Instant Healing is 600%. Fully saturated Drain Psyche is the strongest regeneration buff available to players, period, able to beat fully slotted Willpower or Regeneration without any slots - once you slot the power out, it only has to hit a couple of targets to beat entire powersets at survivability. Oh, and at even one target, without enhancement, it will give you more Recovery than 3-slotted Quick Recovery. And it is the strongest -Recovery debuff available to players (nothing else that I know of is more than -100%, and Short Circuit is only 10 seconds). And it is the only enhanceable -Regen debuff, allowing Blasters to tie Lingering Radiation for magnitude and Dominators to be twice the strength(!).

Part of the problem is that regen and recovery uses Melee_Ones, which is the same regardless of your archetype.