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They seem to attack whoever they see first, which sucks because if you cast them before the fight, they tend to only hit the first few targets but if you cast them in the middle of the crowd to get the most damage, most of the enemies are knocked the way f!@#$ back.

If I can drop seekers in first (doing it out of sight), then they can eat some alpha for me and do some damage and then I jump in to hit. Making a "droppable" attack doesn't mean you can't drop them around you when you run in, so it's really a win-win situation. If some people prefer how seekers are throw out currently, they can still do so with the white circle.

- Singularity's cast time for Crush has been reduced from 3.1 seconds to 1.33 seconds.
- Singularity's cast time for Gravity Distortion has been reduced from 3.2 seconds to 1.83 seconds.


That's a HUGE improvement. I didn't know Singy was that bad. lol

It's actually 70 lethal / 30 exotic? Mmm, that's terrible ratio? If the strength of Swamp Ammo (which replaces Aim) is to be able to change damage type, then the exotic part needs to be more potent.

I like some of the ideas presented here.

1. Make Cryo and Chem bullets do more % of exotic damage than Incen. 20lethal/80exotic sounds good! And fire ammo can do 50/50.

or

2. Add some minor DoT to Cryo and Chem as well (just like what they did for the two Psionic and Toxic interface).


I only have one old dp/cold Corr. I haven't touched him in a long time. If they improve DP, I think I'll go with Blaster instead. The redraw animation is on the long side for me. Yes, I am extremely picky about weapon redraw.

I just know when I played my Corr, I tried to use Toxic ammo more because I feel if I am only using Fire (which is probably the most common usage), I might as well play Fire Blast. I like Cryo ammo too but again, I feel I can play Ice Blast instead. Chemical Ammo is the only blast type that has -damage debuff, although I have to say I can't really tell the effectiveness and toxic is soooooooooo resisted by robots? T_T

The only problem I see in this statement is that "too much" knock back makes the gameplay frustrating. I am known to make builds that are less popular. I am used to gimping myself and still enjoy the gameplay a lot (IE Stalkers), but I really think PB has too many knock backs. I can try to knock mobs to a corner but I can't stand Solar Flare's pbaoe kb.

Peacebringer is frustrating to play than anything IMO. I find shifting having too many delays and shifting from Nova/Dwarf to Human drop the shields. It is just a frustrating design! In fact, why should there be "shifting delay"? It's not like each form is inherently stronger and you have to put penalties on them. We have to slot EACH attack in EACH form. Isn't that enough penalty? And then they put restrictions on Nova/Dwarf form not being able to use even the simple powers from Power Pool. It's like enough restrictions already! Do they seriously think that if Nova can carry Assault, it's going to break the game?

Let's not talk about being overpowered because if a build is frustrating/annoying to play, I don't care how powerful it is.


Let's fix the "frustrating" part first.

I am a weirdo in a way that I enjoy playing "unpopular" sets. (hence I only have several lvl 50 Stalkers and no brute/scrapper/tanker!)

I enjoyed Gravity because of wormhole. That power is such a gem. Yes, sometimes it sucks on a large team because other melee ATs don't like it when you move the mobs but I usually run teams myself and I would start alpha with wormhole to the corner and then the team can unleash aoe on them.

In fact, my only perma dom is Gravity/Fire and one of my friends (who is a huge fan of Dominator) saw my toon and he made one himself and it is now his most favorite dominator combo as well. He loves wormhole and great fast range attacks from /Fiery (Lift, Fire Blast and Blaze).

I never like DS and I can care less what the new version is going to be. lol I am so confused by what the current version is like. I know my perma dom doesn't have room for it so I am not sweating over DS.


Yes, Singy's current attack chain uses the old animation time which is a lot longer than the current Gravity control. They've made it so the activation time in single immb and single hold are a lot faster. It shows when I tested Singy on beta because you would see more "burst" dot damage from Singy and a bit more pauses because less activation time means the attacks come back quicker in the long run.

It has greater improvement for Controller than Dominator but the changes are extremely nice. They've done more upgrade than I was hoping for! (I really don't care how DS is at this point. I just won't take it and it won't affect how I view Gravity because I've been playing Gravity without DS for a long time!)


Controller's Gravity was really bad. Dominator has assault secondary so he can bypass the damage from Lift and Propel. Controller does use Lift and Propel for damage but they were way underperforming.

I know the aggro-less and 20' radius in Wormhole is a HUGE buff for Dominator. Dominator with domination can teleport all bosses (Controller can't?). I thought we either get bigger radius or aggro-less but not both!

They've also changed Propel's Splash effect from knock back to knock down to make it more appealing for Dominator to use. It gives one extra soft control if you are not using for damage.

Gravity control buff is great for both ATs really. They've also buffed Singularity a lot.

To be honest, the only thing I really wanted them to buff for Dominator is making Wormhole radius larger. Everything else is just GRAVY. :P

Oh! Gotcha. Yeah, you spend less time for double damage so the increased % should be better.

Which reminds me that I still need to keep pushing for damage debuff in CE for Dominator! If they don't want to add it, then it shouldn't cost the same endurance! Even Blaster's version has 14% damage debuff.

I truly believe /Fiery Assault is much superior than other assault sets due to great range damage and embrace buff. If the proc buff can happen under certain attack powers with control (like Seismic Smash), then that should balance out each set a bit. Seismic, Midnight, Total Focus should be able to proc it 100% chance.

Mmmm, Icy Assault has no control effect. It only has debuffs in slow and tohit.

The key is Power Boost. You have to take it to push /FF value way over soft-cap because your ninjas are lower level than you and they have no resistance to defense debuff.

With Power Boost, I would rate Ninja/FF as 4 stars. Without it, I would only rate 3 stars. With incarnate powers, I've soloed Pylon (no lore pets) and soloed a giant mushroom in Monster Island with lore pets. Without lore pets, my Genins ran out of endurance after a long while and lore pets help me finish off. The funny thing is during that test, none of my pets died! That's how high my defense is. Only I got hit!

In typical gameplay, Ninja/FF at higher level is very good. Take Musculature to boost their damage even higher and Reactive Interface because when they critical, the damage is double. (By the way, Beast's critical is only 50%!!! Not sure how many of you know that but Beast pets themselves should critical more often on their own).


Now, there are counters. If you mean "high level" game play as in itrials, then there are situations where your Ninjas just melt. Defense is less effective in itrials and I am sure Super Reflex users will tell you that. Other high level contents like LRSF or other SFs are ok. I will not bring my Ninja/FF to Apex ever! ITF is alright except for the last fight where auto damage soul drain will own your pets. You may need to wait out until the first phase is gone or ask somebody to taunt away that soul drain. LRSF should be alright. You are providing the team excellent defense. Barracuda should be easy since councils don't have much -defense debuff. Tin Mage is alright. Those trip mines may hurt too much. I have not tried it with my Ninja/FF in Tin Mage.


By the way, Synapse said he knows Ninja and Merc are under-performing and Necro may need some help. :P I will keep pushing the issues until they are being looked at again. LOL

I love Ninja/FF because it's more of a cast and forget set. I like to keep throwing smoke flash and I find trap's FFG hard to keep all the ninjas inside as they run too fast. I have not tried Ninja/Time.

I have a hard time believing an "easy-to-maintain" 60% damage buff is as "designed". That is even better than Tier 4 Alpha. And just from one single proc?

Yeah, Scrapper's superior version is definitely an improvement. Stalker's regular proc already gives AS 100% critical (will need to test this again once the new change is live) so the superior version doesn't really improve anything unless you put the proc in an attack that has less than 15s recharge. To avoid "interruptable" assassin strike during attack chain, the best place to put it is still Assassin Strike IMO.

Well, maybe other ATO procs are too good? I mean I can't imagine allowing a 21ish% damage buff to stack up to 3 times? That's like a constant 60% damage buff? Excuse me?! I really don't think a single proc can provide up to 60% damage buff. That just doesn't sound logical to me. It's either bugged or the stacking icons don't actually give 60% damage buff.


A single proc that gives a critical once every 12-15s sounds good.

A single proc that gives 21% damage buff for 10s sounds good too.

A single proc that gives up to 60% damage buff sounds ridiculous!

You use assassin strike then concentrated right after? Weird. I thought I tested this last week and I couldn't get 100% critical right after a-strike? I need to test Kinetic more. Maybe Kinetic is different?

Oh ok. So it's like Kheldian that once you slot, the bonus is there. I thought you have to hit to make it happen like Stalker's, Dominator's, etc. Never mind.