IanTheM1

I'm honestly surprised you didn't bring up Lightning Field's end drain.

Both Elec and Dark are perfectly playable without ever picking up the damage auras. And, as mentioned, due to the aggro-drawing nature of the damage auras, it's a rather tricky comparison to make. (Edit: Directly comparing Stalker and Scrapper defensive levels is trickier still due to Placate.)

Maybe I'm just biased since I've mostly played a Willpower Stalker, but I've never really had this problem.


As for what I'd do with Stalkers specifically... Well, it's far too late to do what I feel the real answer is: Not give Stalkers hastily-recycled Scrapper secondaries and instead give them reinvented ones like Ninjitsu.

So, what I'm left with, since it's the only real common denominator between all Stalkers: Change up Placate. Make it be available more regularly. Would probably have to nerf it in some fashion to keep it balanced (up its end cost, lower its duration, perhaps), but I'd love to see it as a much more active power, allowing Stalkers to dance in and out of aggro willy-nilly.

I'll admit it's a dicey balance situation, but I'd prefer fun tweaks to pre-existing mechanics over iffy new ones.

Death Shroud
Lightning Field
Quick Recovery (x2)
Lucky

Only one of those powers directly affects survivability, and Hide's bonuses partially mitigate its removal.

I do think Stalkers need a little something (preferably something that differentiates their playstyle from Scrappers further), however. I just disagree with your line of reasoning.

Regardless of anything else in the post, this is just incorrect. Stalker secondary numbers are exactly the same as Scrapper numbers. The only difference is that Stalkers get slightly lower HP.

I'm not really sure if I'd call a defense buff "utility". Quite frankly, I'm against giving Blasters any form of additional defense due to IOs.

And Devices has been buffed plenty since launch. Web Grenade got a slow effect, Taser got its range buffed, Targeting Drone received its Sniper Rifle bonus, Smoke Grenade's perception debuff became auto-hit, and Auto-Turret became Gun Drone.

Yet you're comparing two of the powers that are different. Technically, I suppose I could amend my statement to say "Blasters and Defenders are not meant to be comparable." though.

I'm still a fan of the turn in additional sets of Halloween salvage to earn permanent costumes idea. Especially since the balancing factor is built-in: Costume codes are account-wide, aren't level locked in any way, and are "free" whereas these unlocked costumes are per-character, require you to get the salvage in the first place, and take time to earn.

If such retrofitting required new code or new enemy designs then yes, it probably would be about the same amount if not more work. And even if it wasn't, it'd still be effort that IMO would be largely wasted.

Of course, I still haven't quite grasped the importance of doing low level TFs at high levels in the first place.

This I agree with.

New content?

I'm assuming the mothership interior would be some sort of instanced map? Because otherwise I'm fairly certain it would lower performance during ship raids pretty badly.

It even showed up on Live, briefly, and yeah, it showed there was no real restriction in offering helmetless Wolf Spiders. Please give us helmetless Wolf Spiders. *puppy-dog eyes*

And I'll throw in another vote for "legacy non-shiny metallic, etc". My problem with the shiny pieces is that the shiny versions wash out their colors really badly. And considering that I have three (and soon to be four) versions of the same cyborg that uses the metallic texture extensively, I'd love to keep her look as-is.

Knockback doesn't actually affect Sleep, IIRC. As long as you use a non-damaging knockback power, anyway.

Except if they told us. Which they have, previously.

Marketing would never let them do such a thing, I'm fairly certain.