Dispari

How does that make YOU tired and unable to, say, perform melee attacks or run an armor toggle? Also, if you just catch your breath by using an inspiration, your gun is no longer overheating!

I find Elec kind of annoying. I don't like the pet I have to resummon constantly. Would be nicer if it was on a 4-minute timer instead of 90 seconds. I also don't like only having one AoE. Technically I have two, but the AoE splash on Thunderstrike does trivial damage. It also does knockback and throws enemies to the four corners of the Earth. And with the high damage scales Doms have now, the fact that the BU only does +68% is kind of dumb. With their new scales, they outdamage Blasters in melee, and aren't too far off from ranged. They really ought to get +100%. Or AT LEAST +80%. Their scales average out to 1.00, same as Stalkers, who get +80% from BU.

Rant aside, Doms are pretty fun since the update. Plant Control is easily my favorite. Earth Assault is looking good, and I'm looking forward to making a Plant/Earth Dom when i16 hits. Plant, Mind, and Fire are all great primaries to pick from. Secondaries vary depending on what you want (AoE vs ST and the self-buff power).

This is interesting. I thought the only new epic was going to be the Scrapper Fire Mastery. Now it sounds like all the ATs are getting a new set.

Usually "Epic Power Pools" is a broad term that can apply to villains as well. But in this instance, I'm not sure. Are villains getting a new patron? Are they getting a non-patron pool? Or does Epic really mean "non-patron" and villains aren't getting anything? In a lot of cases, heroes already have more epic pools than villains, who have a constant 4. I'm interested in knowing what this means.

You mean like this?

I think you mean Dual Gatling Psionic Laser Pistols.

"While the inherent is active" and "can" are the key words here.

Quick math:

+100% damage 50% of the time is a +50% damage increase, not +100% (double).

Scourge can't even kick in until the target is below half HP, though usually you won't see it until 15% or below. AT MOST it could only possibly be +50%, but realistically it's going to be more like +10%.

Though, when I corrupt I find that when it does kick in on anything less than a boss, that hit was going to kill them anyway.

I'd honestly like to see a ranged set have a power similar to Follow-Up instead of just a rehash of BU/Aim. But I agree sets need some form of damage boost.

AE? No. Farming and stuff, though, yes. And I usually use AE now since it's come out.

I think 4 should be Aim and that 5 should be a ranged version of Follow-Up. We'll call it Laser-Up.

Those are all pretty good points, actually.

But, teleport is already really fast and has a lot of advantages, like being the only one that can still move you even if you're hit with a web grenade. Its only real disadvantages are that it eats up endurance like crazy and that it's not that great indoors. If it was spammable and endurance wasn't an issue, and it was expanded to be dramatically faster than all other options, it would be way too good of a travel power.

Just so you know, I'm a devil's advocate. Most of my posts are. I like to provoke discussion and will even argue against my own opinions if you catch me on a good day.

I actually farm and powerlevel a lot myself. I didn't say in my post that it's a bad thing or that people shouldn't do it. I never actually have said that, and never will.

I guess you could say I "earned" my first few 50s. After that I got bored of the run and started rushing there. In fact, these days my motivation to level is usually just to get costume slots. A lot of my characters taper off after 40.

I don't recall ever saying anything similar to any of those things.

I'm not afraid of anything, since like I said I won't deny that I farm occasionally and powerlevel because I'm not interested in repeating the same content for the umpteenth time. But I've also never condemned it, just questioned why one form of "get stuff faster/sooner/easier" is any different than another form.

It's weird to me that someone will say it's okay to powerlevel a character from 1 to 50 in a few days but that item drops should still be really hard to obtain. Or that someone would say "I don't want something for nothing, I just want to trivialize the leveling process."

Hopefully you took me off ignore 2 years ago, because that's when I "tried it out."

So would I. And so would everyone else. Because that would make it hands-down the best travel power in the entire game for basically any possible purpose. Every travel power needs to have some pros/cons. If you could spam teleport without worrying about endurance AND it's the fastest, there's no reason to take any of the others.

"Something for nothing" is an interesting phrase, because to me powerleveling is basically something for nothing. Especially if it's done through AE where the risk is essentially zero for exceptionally high reward. It's certainly nowhere near as much time and effort as I put into most of my first characters. It took me about 3 years to finally hit 50 on something, and now I have 6 level 50s, and over exp weekends with AE I could easily hit 50 in a day or two if I wanted to. That seems like something for nothing to me.

The problem though is that there's no clear line between one person and the next. Why is farming and powerleveling okay as long as it's done outside of AE? Who makes up the rules on how fast it's okay to go? How much exp/hr is acceptable and how much isn't? Who steps in and says what the difference is between the people who "pay their $15 and want to powerlevel," and the unreasonable people using AE?

I feel like powerleveling of any sort is getting something for nothing. Really, why not just have purple drops be 2%? I'd still have to work for it. I'd probably have to kill around 50 badguys. I don't want it for free, I just want it to be way, way, way easier. Isn't that the same as wanting to be able to powerlevel?

They're not talking about invasions. They're talking about Troll raves and Hellion fires and other similar events. With those events, the enemies will spawn gray past level 10-15 so you can't even repeat them for exp.

This is going to change anyway. i16 is going to remove the level restrictions on zones, meaning level 1 heroes can go to Firebase Zulu and get a jetpack. Traveling there will be a different story though.

Yes. They've also determined that the other powers are rarely used, so will be replacing them with better powers. The new Flame Mastery will be:

41: Bonfire
41: Conserve Power
44: Bonfire
44: Conserve Power
47: Conserve Power