MajorDecoy

Security reports having briefly seen someone near the back-up servers. When attempting to bring this up to the supervisor, she was found napping. What is management policy on 35 hour maps and working four consecutive shifts to take them? Does that qualify for overtime?

Well, it's very expensive to run, costing .5 end/sec.

If you have a Super Strength tank with stacking Rage, you won't see full benefit from assault. If you have a Super Strength tank with stacking Rage and musculature, you won't see any benefit from assault.

If you have a controller, defender, or corruptor with Kinetic support, you won't see any benefit from assault (in most situations).

Johnny is essentially arguing that, since the Tanker damage cap is +300% (with typical slotting, that means roughly +207%) assault just isn't worth it because you're rubbing against the damage cap already.

I have one robot character: Energy Pump.

"Energy Pump was just your average, mild-mannered, back-up, wood-fired electrical generator until he was bitten by a Nuclear Physicist."

Energy Pump is technology origin because Electric Armour comes from Energy Pump's function as a generator and Energy Melee is a function of the body the generator is now installed in.

The powers he got from the bite are sentience, near human intelligence, and the proportionate strength of a human.

Yeah, I wasn't really sure about what to do for the level 20 stuff.

They could decrease the per body bonus as well as doubling the recharge.

Perhaps you remember Dr. Shelly Percey's "Steal a Nictus" mission, wherein you steal a Nictus and gain three Nictus powers: Nictus Gravitic Emanation, Nictus Shadow Step, and Nictus Absorption.

With the upcoming "Sorcery Power Pool" opening the way for themed Power Pools, I'd like to see a "Warshade Power Pool" and a "Peacebringer Power Pool" for characters who might be Nictus, Warshades, or Peacebringers, but not lose development of their other powers.

For Peacebringers:
Level 4: Gleaming Bolt
Level 4: Incandescence
Level 4: Energy Flight
Level 20: Reform Essence
Level 20: Pulsar

For Warshades:
Level 4: Absorption
Level 4: Shadow Bolt
Level 4: Shadow Step
Level 20: Stygian Circle
Level 20: Orbiting Death

Or something to that effect.

Beam Rifle is primarily single target. There are three AoEs, but one of them is a 5 degree cone and it's not frequently going to hit multiple targets. Disintegration Spread will give you a bit more AoE potential as well.

I play Beam Rifle/Poison. I probably apply the poison debuffs more frequently than I have to just because they recharge so quickly.

If you want to leverage the cones, you want to try to stay at range, so you want to avoid buff/debuff sets that encourage entering melee.

Radiation wouldn't be a bad choice, if you avoid targeting your anchor, you probably won't defeat your anchor before the rest of the spawn.

I've never said you're incapable of forming a coherent argument. You have clearly stated arguments. It's just that the arguments for increasing tanker damage usually rely on your opinion that it's too low or comparing tanker survivability to brute survivability and tanker damage to brute damage.

And if you've only got one comparison, Brutes vs. Tankers, you can't tell which one is the outlier. So you need to compare Brutes vs. Tankers, Brutes vs. Scrapper, and Scrappers vs. Tankers.

I entirely agree with you on point 1. This is something I think the developers messed up when doing proliferation. At launch, tanker attack sets offered controls and scrapper attack sets offered buffs and debuffs (with certain exceptions). I think that, if they had continued that path, and not just given straight ports of the powers as they moved them to new archetypes, things would be different now.

But yes, some attack sets offer significant damage mitigation.

Point 2: Agreed. A scrapper that can defeat a Sapper in one shot is going to have less trouble with a spawn of enemies than a Tanker that can't. (I do kind of miss the days of 50% enhancement bonuses from Hamidon Enhancements. With 3 Acc/Dam and 3 Dam/Mez, I could one-shot a Sapper with Knock-out blow and I didn't need Rage at all)

Point 3: While everything is accurate, I don't think this is a strong argument.

Point 4: Also not a strong argument. Yes, there are times when having a tanker's ability at Damage mitigation is unnecessary, but there are also times when having a scrapper's ability of damage output is unnecessary, and there are times when the scrapper doesn't have the survivability to leverage her damage potential.

Clearly, the solution, if we're not going to reduce a brute's resistance caps, is to increase a Tank's resistance caps. I'd be happy to go back to the days of tanks having the ability to reach 95% resistance.

Also, give tanks a higher threat modifier and more status protection.