DreadShinobi

I don't consider breaking a power to be "better".

80% end +15%*3 EoT = Gives you a short (read: immediately after nuking) period to be able to stabilize your endurance without losing your toggles. Overall endurance used is increased significantly. For any non end stable build (read: most builds using SOs) you will run out of endurance even faster than before after nuking and recovering to full as they will have to deal with both a recovery debuff and an EoT. Strictly this is a NERF for every situation other than having at least 5 small blue insps on hand to come out even. With this change your only option is still the same as before, except that you get to keep your toggles if you have all the resources available to keep them.

75% end = After nuking you are left with 25% endurance and 0 recovery, however the effects of this is alot more than simply making it cheaper. It is not completely reliant on any outside sources to be an effective power but can also benefit from having such powers or resources. If you don't have any blue inspirations or recovery power you can still fire off a few attacks (to finish off anything your nuke didn't kill) before running out of endurance, however you will still run out of endurance fairly quickly if left unmanaged as the recovery debuff is still significant. If you do have a recovery power you will have enough endurance to get to the next spawn before your toggles or an EoT crash you to use the power (in case your nuke or your teammates kill everything). Or if you have blue inspirations to manage it you can keep fighting, not have to retoggle, and need less blue inspirations than the current situation to bring you back to the status quo.

Your option gives time/opportunity (at the cost of 25% more end than the current version), but so does mine and it also strips the need of outside resources, gives you more combat options, and uses less endurance overall.

The situation of nukes really calls for a buff, not a tradeoff. I could see an EoT working, but the total end used really shouldn't be higher than it is currently. And really the massive recovery debuff already serves the purpose of an EoT. If your toggles use 2 EPS, after nuking thats going to be -10% end over 10 seconds added on to any EoT.

No, i consider that synergy. It can be a large decision why you would pair X power set with Y power set. Inspirations are supposed to be extra and a power should not have to rely on 'extra boosts' so heavily built into the core of a power. But we're splitting hairs at this point.

Win!

This is an MMO, in MMOs content gets farmed. The enemies you kill will still be there the next time you run the content.

We both know a cost free nuke would be broken.

Powers shouldn't rely on insps to be effective powers.

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At least in other games pets can actually keep up with you. In other games calling them a "glorified DoT" works.

Dom holds with domination up come in 2 parts. A base 17.88 sec mag 3 hold and a base 26.8 sec mag 3 hold. It's a total of mag 6, but the 2 durations are different which affect stacking. You would also want to be Mind or Fire Control as they have the fastest animating holds they allow the most stacking. You'd also want to be /fire not /earth. Earth has power boost but power boost is not required to stack up to mag 50 holds, the amount of dps fire can put out is far better. Power Boost is also not double duration on holds. Unslotted it is, but with 99% hold duration in dominate the duration is increased from 35.6 and 53.4 to 53.2 and 79.8 respectively, with 50% up time at best (283% rchg).

But yes, as said, perma doms have been perma holding AVs for years. With no need for pets or power boost either.

Correct.

Kahlan solo'd the STF a looooooooong time ago. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=253928

Wait, are you saying they added 5 min insps or you want them to?

*looks at the Statesman Loyalty Program that will end when i22 comes out*



Yup.

I wouldn't mind an EoT, but not with your numbers. Your suggestion would be a total of -125 end, which means even if you pop a recovery power or a stack of blues you will still be losing endurance after you topped out in addition to the drain of your toggles (since all toggles would be negative recovery when factoring the recov debuff of the nukes), I'm not sure but it's not a whole lot better than current and definitely worse than my suggestion of simply reducing the -end to 75.

As for the damage/range/radius/debuffs/mez/target cap I think they are fine. Blackstar and Dreadful Wail in particular have fabulous -tohit and stun respectively and don't need to be slotted to be effective debuffs/mez (not to say its better than inferno's DoT, but well, yeah). As for the target cap, I can't remember if they are 10 or 16 targets, but in general I try to avoid messing with target caps, cause that can have bigger effects on powers and balance than many people realize. I think just fixing the power to not be a complete sacrifice of all your resources would bring the power in line with other abilties.

I don't believe judgments make nukes any less of a valid choice if they didn't blow all 100% of your endurance, (until you start throwing large amounts of -res (sleet) and musculature around, then judgments are just silly broken compared to nukes). And its not like you're picking 1 or the other. My fire/kin corr has both Inferno and Judgment and having 2 nukes is most definitely better than 1.

A good speed run offers more shards/min than an actual 'Shard Run' by breaking down (or using) the component at the end in addition to usually a couple shards while fighting through. Also much less chance of getting RNG screwed.

Do you have super speed? A stealth IO? Softcapped defense? Do you use insps?

It doesn't take a whole lot to stay alive on speed runs when you have the above.

It's the people not the game. People go afk while forming or alt/tab in and out from their browser. Or are in the middle of chatting. List goes on. Sometimes I hold up the queue while I finish typing out instructions, but that doesn't have anything to do with being inattentive.

It was 2x fire/cold, 1x sonic/cold, 1x fire/kin, 1x fire/shield, 1x elec/shield, 1x spines/wp, 1x fire/mental. That was super stacked, but tbh it was what people normally brought anyways, we all had similar interests in min/maxing and builds. Post i19 we stopped trying, the new incarnnate tiers kinda ruined it for us.

For Rom: It all dies super fast from aoe, with just a bit of single target to make sure the 2 nictus died before rezzed rom dies. Drain Psyche and Benumbs on the nictus maximize how effective killing all of them all at once is.

I really miss the race for top times, it was the most fun thing to do in the game for many people I grouped with. And while Oedipus Tex mentioned speed ITFs are boring, I consider it the opposite, calculating every move to minimize the amount of time you do each task no matter how small is quite exciting.

Indeed, I was so happy when I read that they were stopping mission fails on TFs, since I always thought it was stupid. Then found out you could fail 2 missions total? All I could do was LOL. Since the main issue (that I noticed) was LGTF, and there are only 2 failable missions on that TF, one of which you only fail if you're doing a solo/duo run, which meant the change didn't even affect lgtf.

IMO, if you fail any 1 mission of a TF you should fail the whole TF, I'm sure many would disagree with me though.

This was pre i19: before interface/judgment/lore/destiny came out. Typical completion was 15-19 minutes, anything over 20 was /uninstall

WHF:
Speed ITFs can be completed in half or less the time of a kill all, easily (as Uberguy said), that's not marginal, and offer the best rewards, even for lowbies looking for xp.

...TPN cameras.