Obscure Blade

As I recall, several of them WERE listed as banned after the move to the new forums. I expect that Statesman still is for the reasons already mentioned.

We'll all be killed by cows with guns!

An immobilize using a highly resisted damage type. And the pet is generally considered substandard.

It has Spirit Tree and the sleep; both pretty useless. And the pet is so-so.

I agree; Gravity is a set with actual problems. And oddly enough I don't think the solution to Gravity's problems is "Nerf the other sets !"

Gang War isn't broken; neither would this.

Except that I've played defenders, and deleted them. They aren't in balance with other ATs; they are weaker. Nearly crippled solo; they are almost the only AT that I hear begging people to team with them so they can complete missions. "I'm a Defender, I can't kill **** " to quote one recent player.

And the game has changed, and the other ATs have generally gotten buffs.

They are weak, not balanced. If the other ATs played as badly I'd quit the game; they simply aren't fun.

Because Kheldians can do damage. And Kheldians do benefit from having each other on a team now; slow resistance IIRC.

That would be level 20 not 26.

Actually, Longbow got nerfed a bit several issues back. Their resistance debuffs were made weaker is one change I recall, which should help /Elec.

Here's the Claws custom skin page from Paragonwiki. None seems to quite match what is in the picture. They do look like Hero Claws coming from the knuckles instead of the back of the hand.

We are speaking of controllers versus defenders, as they are now; not some transcendent "guaranteed truth". So your comment is irrelevant, especially if you aren't willing to "suggest that is the case", and especially when that "case" is wrong.

The problem is that defenders are underperforming compared to all the other ATs with with the same buff/debuff powersets. You could remove controllers from the game outright and I doubt it would make people play defenders much more; controllers are not the problem. Nerf controllers and people would instead play masterminds, or corruptors, or scrappers, or Khedians, or whatever; not defenders. And I frankly think it's pretty obnoxious to essentially try to force people to play defenders by kneecapping another AT that has nothing to do with the problem.

In other words, no nerfs. If people aren't playing Defenders it's unjustifiable to nerf Controllers in some attempt to coerce people into playing Defenders.

1 or 2 endurance reductions generally. With three slotted you apparently didn't notice, but they also increased the endurance cost by a big chunk. It's a net endurance efficiency gain when upgrading a whole crowd of pets, but it's also used up all at once and not over 5 upgrades.

Mastermind pet upgrades these days are AoE; click on one pet and if in range all other pets get that upgrade.

I expect the links went dead when the forum moved. The Going Rogue FAQ is here in Announcements, but there's almost no information there.

After reading the " Defenders vs Controller Disparity" thread, it's occurred to me that one result would to be to make defenders even less desirable when Going Rogue comes out. Right now one of the few advantages Defenders have is that they get their buff/debuff powers earlier. If exemplared characters keep all their powers then that advantage vanishes when it comes to exemplared characters; an exemplared level 50 Controller/MM/Corr doing a low level mission will have the same range of buff/debuff powers as an exemplared level 50 Defender.

In a possibly related bug, I've repeatedly had the Aid Self animation demonstrate a similar jerking-to-rest effect.