DreadShinobi

Yes, I read it, I was mostly emphasizing it.

Of course you weren't denting the hp of the CoP AV (especially if it was the stormy, because of hurricane which would have made many of your melee significantly less effective) and even if you had a Cold instead of a Kin it really wouldn't have made a difference. The CoP AV regens 597.58 hp/sec. A single cold would have only reduced that regeneration by about 1/6th of the total. You needed alot more buffers/debuffers in general on your run, not just a different source of buff/debuff... and alot less melee. Whether that was a kin or a cold or a rad or some weird mutant AT that had both kin as a primary set and cold as a secondary wouldn't have made a difference. It takes 6 sources of -500% regen to floor his regen, and it's not really possible to have his regen floored permanently all the time too because of his Immunity forcefield, which means you need a certain threshold of damage as well.

source: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...75&postcount=1

Judgment is all pretty much even. In general I would say: Pyronic for damage/activation, Ion for radius/targets, Void for the damage debuff, Cryo, kinda sucks. I haven't really played around with Vorpal yet.

Destiny is heavily dependant on your build.

As a tanker:
Rebirth heal/+regen is probably the best choice if you are playing an armor set that has little or no healing or would otherwise greatly benefit from the +regen. (some examples are SR, EA, Elec, Invul)
Barrier +def/+res is good on sets that dont need the heal/regen from rebirth or squishier sets that could benefit from the +def. (remember that T4 barrier is a perma +5% def and 10% res increase). Sets that would greatly benefit from Barrier are most resistance sets like Fire or Elec, or really anything that doesnt need Rebirth.
Ageless offers really good debuff protection on the radial side. It also provides a moderate recharge buff and can solve some endurance issues.
The only real reason to take Clarion on a tank is for the UGT in which case it is needed for the final boss.

Alpha is also dependant on build. In general Cardiac or Vigor if you need help with endurance, if you're endurance is fine pick up spiritual or agility for the +rchg, if you already have a solid attack chain or no other abilities that would heavily benefit from the +rchg, grab musculature for the +dmg

Actually Kin's -damage is extremely powerful, it can stack more -dmg than any other set in the game, and it can make a huge difference when going for things like master badges as AV's will have a much more difficult time dealing significant damage to you, as well as every spawn will eat a -20/25% dmg debuff from fulcrum shift.

Kin doesn't really need strong -regen when it has so much +damage. Time's lack of strong -regen hits the set's offensive performance much harder because it has significantly less damage modifiers like Kin or Cold does, the longer it takes to kill a hard target the more important -regen becomes. The higher your groups raw dps is, the less -regen is needed.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Bane Spider Surveillance do -res and -def and not cause aggro or drop you out of hide? Pretty sure it only aggros if you have an achilles heel proc in it.

1. Yes.
2. It's not crashless. A 75% end drop + a -1000% recovery debuff are not crashless. You will still bottom out of endurance if you use 1-3 more powers after nuking if one of those isn't a recovery power or you pop blues. Also keep in mind that any toggles that you have running will quickly eat away your endurance since you have no recovery to sustain them. You're still pretty much in the same situation you would be as you are currently, except without having to retoggle.
3. Yes, the point is to make all nukes perform better than they currently do. Fire happens to fall into this category as it contains a crash nuke.
4. It shouldn't step on the toes of noncrash nukes sets (AR, Archery, DP) as those nukes are balanced against current nukes by their fast recharge (as fiery enforcer said)

Arguably, I would say that other sets would benefit more than fire from this change. Fire already has plenty of aoe damage to mow down spawns. Other sets will gain a usable tool (because right now, many people do not consider crash nukes usable) to aoe mobs quickly and efficiently that they didn't have before, Fire already had this in RoF, Fireball, and Firebreath. All crash nuke sets will benefit, but imo the sets with the least aoe will benefit most, ie, not fire.

Placate will be a 100% defensive ability with the proposed changes unless they give it a secondary effect (like +dmg or -res)

Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking.

Agree with everything cept -dmg in Shiver, which is already a very strong debuff and it's good as it is for controllers and it wouldnt fix it for doms by adding -dmg. That and it's a control set not a debuff set, even though the set has very good -rchg debuffs, it's my opinion that the focus should stay on mezzes not debuffs.

I'd like to say add a short duration mag 2 Stun or Hold into Shiver, but I'm not sure how I would explain it.

We don't have any numbers yet. Fearsome Stare for corrs (same buff mods as trollers) is -15% tohit base. Buff mods for doms is lower. That and this Fearsome stare will be in a control set not a debuff set, it is unlikely that the -tohit will be as powerful in dark control as it is in Dark Miasma

I haven't been on your badge runs, so take my feedback with a grain of salt.

The terminals at the first time stop aren't really a big deal since he is regenerating from 75%-100%, usually you only cut off his regeneration only shortly before he gets back to full. The 2nd I could see either approach workable, is everyone using lore pets to bring him down as fast as humanly possible, so that him regenning thru this one wouldn't be a huge deal? The 3rd one I would say definitely kill the terminals, since thats 75% of his hp, save judgments for terminals after the 3rd timestop to get through it as fast as possible and minimize the time you have to dodge oblits while killing terminals and minimize his regeneration so you can kill him as soon as possible after he comes out of the last regen cycle.

You and all the rest of us

Anyone know if this will be a toggle or a clicky? I really want to hope that it would be like a combined Hot Feet + OG, but at the same time I kind of doubt it.