Dispari

Not saying this can't happen, but it's fairly unlikely. One part did change, and that's higher tiers of alpha piercing more of ED. Stuff that changes is usually minor tweaks. When Castle was working on Shield Defense, he tweaked values and re-ordered powers. He didn't suddenly make the set about defending oneself with armor made out of live lobsters (which is a shame).

Though there is one level in particular that bothers me and I hope they do change it. But that's still a stat thing. And I'll save my feedback for issue 24 beta.

I'm hoping I can get a warworks "Victoria" model for my widow. Since her name is Victoria.

Yup.

Looking forward to Pyronic and Void attacks. And Reactive procs. And warworks pets. You can tell I'm a damage-centric type of player.

Don't worry, I'm already using 4 trays on all chars, and some need 5 or 6. Not only that, the level 4 and 5 of incarnate are clickable powers too.

Wait, that's not reassuring at all.

I say just let cloaking device do a crit out of hide (same mechanics as widow/bane hide, just one hit, 75% damage, 50% crit on AoEs). And make Gun Drone less overtly obnoxious with its stupidly high recharge, cast, and end cost.

The power for DS is pretty good too. It's a big damage boost to the pet you give it to. And you get random imps that, while not that powerful, can take hits and do a little damage.

Besides which, the necro, thug, and demon powers can all slot RIP IO sets, giving ALL of your pets an extra 5% DEF and 10% RES.

I still remember that one. Most resilient rumor ever.

What's your definition of "super" anyway? Because I'm pretty sure the majority of characters in this game aren't Superman or Hulk, or people who could fall from orbit and just stand up and keep walking. Most of my characters are natural or magic. Relatively killable people who use weapons, strategy, or special techniques and abilities to fight. That doesn't mean you can throw them off a building and they'd be totally fine. I'm sure if my widow fell off a building she'd put a crack in the pavement. And then be moved to a closed casket.

Batman is a pretty badass normal. But if he fell off a buliding, he'd either do something fancy like glide down with a cape, or "take some falling damage" when he splatted on the pavement.

A badge is just a badge, even for my badge hunter character. I'd rather miss out on a badge than team with jerks.

Lots of my HVM money has been going toward throwing KCs on every character I own with melee attacks lately. Not just the DEF, but you get a pretty good HP boost too.

New natural powerset for Doms and Controllers. Forum Control:

1: Light Jab. Ranged, single target psionic damage (heals in full after a few seconds). Essentially a clone of Spectral Wounds. By insulting someone, you cause them to think they've been mortally wounded and retaliate. It's only afterward that they realize it's just a game. By then, it's far, far too late.

1: Casual Remark. Ranged, single target hold. It doesn't matter what you mention. Maybe you think Corruptors aren't very good at doing melee damage. Whatever your opinion, there's that one guy who takes offense and is shocked -- SHOCKED -- that you'd say such a thing. After the hold duration, prepare to be violently assaulted by that one guy.

2: Troll Bait. Ranged, AoE immobilize, +taunt. If you thought normal AoE immobs made people attack you, try one that taunts too! This power throws out an insult about how everyone else in the thread (except you of course) is just a blithering idiot. This will cause all readers to stop in their tracks and post immediately.

6: Wall of Text. Ranged, AoE sleep. You expel a huge wall of text, with no end in sight. You didn't even format it with paragraphs. Those unlucky enough to try and read it are quickly put to sleep. Unfortunately, it has low accuracy; most skip over it and say "tl;dr"

8: Necromancy. Melee, Single Target. You bring one thread back to life by posting in it even after it died. The thread is granted a short but powerful lifespan wherein several people will mention that it was necromanced, and repeatedly droll on about how a mod should clean it up, before one finally does.

12: Thread Repost. Ranged, AoE stun. You stun everyone by reposting the same thread that's already been posted at least 500 trillion times. You even go out of your way to NOT do a forum search. After the stunned silence, affected individuals regain consciousness and spend three pages telling you that this is old news. Inevitably, someone will provide a copypaste before the thread dies. Works in conjunction with Necromancy for a combo bonus.

18: Ragequit. PBAoE hold. All it takes is once well-aimed rage post about how this is the final straw that broke the camel's back and how the devs personally hate you. Affected posters will be unable to do anything except ask if they can have your stuff for at least three pages.

26: Math Whiz. Summon power. By invoking math equations that you probably just made up, you summon 1-3 small math whizzes who come to school you on how wrong you totally are. Other than minor insults, they contribute little to the conversation before leaving. This power has a small chance of summoning one Arcanaville, who instantly kills you.

32: Godwin. You had to summon him at some point.

Oh uh, I lost a few hundred mil. In exactly the same way. Yeah. <>

I figured someone would. Even writing the post I was thinking "Even if I mentioned MA Stalkers, someone would say theirs has good AoE thanks to epics."

On a Scrapper no, but on a hoverblaster, a Corr, Dom, Mastermind, or something of that sort? Certainly. Of course it depends on the powersets and availability. I have a Dom with S/L because she spends a lot of time in melee.

To slightly expand on that:

* You should work on what you already have.
* If you have nothing, and can only slot one thing, either S/L or range are best bets.
* If you can do everything somehow, M/R/A is easier.