PrincessDarkstar

Already conceded that point, I mis-understood

24 annoying levels, forced costumes (Legs!) and themes, and massive endurance problems are the likely cause.

Lol I wasn't calling you unreasonable, I just mean you know your mind well, which is good. Sometimes it is good to 'argue' with someone who can explain why they think what they do, I don't often let people get away with not agreeing with me

They have left it with a longer than usual recharge though.

Fair play

I should know not to try to change your mind lol

Thankfully with me scrappers are my fave AT and are far from mistreated (Though not giving my energy melee is a sin they will surely be punished for in due time).

But for me there was once a time when I saw stalkers join the team and prepared to carry a passenger, now I have the same feeling with blasters.

If they do the same damage as scrappers they should be just as survivable. I actually think they do less damage (Excluding certain combo's on both sides) which says a lot.

I can see melting the soles of someones shoes to the pavement (Or as in game creating a big wall of fire around someone), but outside of KB/KD/KU and slow, water doesn't really do much.

I agree with this, people complain about a lot of things a lot of the time and sometimes do it loudly, but compared to how rediculously broken blasters as a whole are I don't think any AT has cause to complain.

Blasters would be far and away the most popular AT if they had the power levels they really should have (In most games melee DPS and ranged DPS are very similar in squishyness).

I am clearly not getting the point across correctly, because I kind of agree with this.

Tools to handle damage spikes are good things to have, but Hybrid simply doesn't work as one because A: It is too weak and B: It isn't up regularly enough to be used as the preventative measure that it is.

Accolade powers are fluff really and so I can understand the long recharge, but incarnate powers are key powers and should be a little more usable than at the moment. You cannot get as much use out of Hybrid as you can say Destiny because even though Destiny wears down to a fairly low buff, the very presence of that low buff allows you to do things you couldn't otherwise do, and that is ignoring the wonderful 'oh dear' button a newly cast Destiny provides.

I don't thing Hybrid should be as powerful as Destiny (Which was stupidly designed imho) but it should give the same ability to go up that next level when thinking about what you can take on. Even putting it on a once-per-spawn timer would allow it to be used as an alpha breaker, or as an after battle recovery tool (With some changes).

In the end I feel like Hybrid hasn't really increased the power level of any of my characters, merely smoothed out some not really deep potholes in the road and is thus entirely missable, and incarnate powers should not be missable.

I am hoping that the taunt aura on the scrapper will be enough, but I only just hit SO's the other night so need to get higher before I find out. I will cry and possibly ragequit if it isn't up to scratch though.

I had thought about going that route, but kept wishing Overload was Power Surge and I think I talked myself out of it without giving it the proper consideration.

I might look into lowering the F/C defence and seeing where that takes me.

I hadn't ran my endurance through the maths but it turns out I am burning just over 1 eps (Not including procs or hasten) so keeping Energy Drain up every ~45 seconds should cover me as well.

I like your thinking on taking all the powers, my last DB toon (DB/WP) was my goto character for exemping for a long time. I will look into trying that myself, but I suspect I won't be able to keep the recharge I want if I drop the Fire epic (Which I would have to).

I have realised I can mess with the levels I pick each power though so it will be a bit more exemp friendly.

I tend to take the more subtle looking pets as well, though most of my toons are pink and blue so the polar lights fit well for me. This is my first toon with proper performance goals though, so I am going for power over looks this once.

I count helping improve one of your builds as a great honor!

Edit: I would be interested to see the brute actually because although I dislike fury I did debate making this a brute but thought that BF and the new ATIO2 (+50% Crit chance!) would give the scrapper the edge in damage.

Those are the type of situation I was talking about when I mentioned a debuff hitting that doesn't normally (I shouldn't have said debuff only) but the point is that Hybrid is unlikely to save you in those areas (And you can't predict which Cyst will half kill you so aren't going to risk clicking early on one cyst because the power won't be up again for the next one on most teams), and they either come so rarely that you aren't going to see much use out of Hybrid, or so frequently that you are waiting on recharge.

What I don't put very well is that while there are times you need that extra layer of survivability they aren't often enough to make an incarnate power that you have to work hard to get worthwhile (I want to use my incarnate powers a lot since I have to work for them), and the missions where I feel that power would be of great use throw up those situations outside of the 2/2 timer so I am stuck while the power is down.

Linking anything to BU means you have to put up with being poor for 110s every 120s which isn't great, and it doesn't really solve the issue of blasters getting killed a lot for daring to try and AoE the spawn before the scrapper or brute.

I like your damage buff idea, blasters do need more damage.

I misread that one then.

This makes sense in some ways but I just don't see the game giving enough situations where the amount of damage you face changes in a way that makes these powers that useful.

If AM gets loose and goes after you no Hybrid power is going to keep you alive, you have to rely on someone else saving you, or having a more powerful panic button, or several panic buttons.

Even then if you know AM is about to get loose and pop your Hybrid power and it saves your life, how do you know if you should toggle it off or keep it on? Either way leaves you vulnerable to AM getting loose a second time before Hybrid is back up.

And that is a very rare situation, most situations have you in a team taking on large groups of mobs and aside from the alpha the damage tends to be very steady and stays the same more or less as you run through the mission. The only time it changes is if you get hit be a debuff that normally misses.

If Hybrid was predictable and reliable then you could deliberately aim to take on challenges that you know now you cannot face. This includes being perma or just having it recharge so it is there when you want it.

Having several panic buttons and adding Hybrid as an extra one is not a playstyle that I see very many people using or talking about.

Edit: Just re-read and saw you mention OWtS, the joint most skipped power in the /Shield set ...

Some notes:

Attack chain will be BF > AS > SS > AS repeat. There is a tiny gap that I can't see anyone removing.

Lore doesn't really matter, but I picked Cim's because if I ever want to use them I want to use the good ones!

Power Slice and Thousand Cuts are picked because the Sweep combo will give me some breathing room if I ever need it and add a bit of extra AoE, but I won't be using it that much so am happy with the way they are slotted (Obviously if you can improve the slotting without harming the build then great!).

I am counting 1 in range Energy Drain and Entropic Aura for all my numbers, and don't want to count stacked Energy Drains (Even though for endurance purposes I will possibly have to stack them!).

I don't want to use +5's if I can help it, but will use a few on cheap IO's if I have to.

Spectral was picked because it might just stack enough to keep things still while I cut them to pieces (And Reactive makes things run).

Yes I want a travel power.

I have the 6th Obliteration piece in Typhoon's Edge instead of Thousand Cuts because I think I will use that power more, but will swap it round depending on how it plays out.

The Fire epic is purely as set mules, so if you can change that and still keep the numbers (I think 17.5% recharge and 2.5% nrg/neg defence from 2 powers is great though) then that is ok.

I think Agility alpha is pretty much needed, because I want i-capped defence to take on trials and DA content (Not to mention the recharge for perma-Energise).

Rebirth Core was picked for the +MaxHP, but I am not sold on that just yet.

I am unlikely to run Tactics unless I want the Confuse protection, so that is the one power I would gladly slot differently. Ideally I want the BU proc in BF instead of the ToD proc and would slot Adjusted Targetting in tactics maybe, but that leaves me needing more defence. This could maybe be done by putting the spare slot into Energy Drain, but I think mids calculates Energy Drain with 1 target wrongly (I don't think it is counting the slotting for the 1st target).

Hybrid will probably be Assault or Melee, or neither if I am honest since I hate it.

Have any of them completely changed mechanics though?

I don't see any single target judgement powers appearing, or perma but weaker lore pets, or toggle destinies, so I don't see hybrid giving toggle options either. Or at least without the devs admitting a mistake and that being the most face-saving way of conceding the point.

For an incarnate power that we need to jump through a lot of hoops to unlock I would expect it to be saving me an awful lot, not just once or twice though.

But then even if it was an awesome 'oh dear' button because of the unusual duration/recharge it doesn't let you actively take advantage of it being there because you can't go looking for higher levels of challenge without accepting that you will need to wait 2 minutes without fighting whenever the power drops*.

Assault I think is 'ok' because it works just like Build Up - though I would expect better, if Destiny gave damage we would all be damage capped the second we clicked it (Even brutes!).

Control I can see as being quite powerful, but aside from the design flaws that give some sets an unfair advantage you are still in a situation where you are unable to increase your difficulty without accepting that you can't do anything while the power is down*.

Support suffers from the same problem if you are using it for solo purposes (Like most people who take the Leadership pool most likely) and the additional problem of needing to be co-ordinated in raids in a game that hasn't previously needed any co-ordination.



*And if you don't need to take those 2 minute breaks then the power isn't doing all that much.

You also use this site though, I never suggested taking all content from those sites, but simply to use the facilities this website offers to its maximum.

Only if you want to leave it up 24/7 like the forums, having it only active during set times removes the need for that.

And the rush to embed stuff without having to use other software (See html5 (I think) replacing flash) is because people don't like having to change from site to site, download other software, or give away personal details.

I am in the same boat, I think it is lazy to include a video/audio clip without a text summary.

I work in a college and have to explain to people how to use powerpoint quite a lot, then I see what they are using it for and have to resist doing their work for them.

For the form powers they have been counted as temp powers since day 1 which allows the 'feature' of doing a respec and slotting then as if you had them at level 1.

But as with most things recently, you will be able to do the thing you want 'later' but for now you are forced to do it the devs way (Is Jack back?).

The personal details thing was a jab at them talking to us over Facebook and Google+ instead of talking to us in the place we already congregate for the specific purpose of talking about this game.

Also the reason they should create a chat feature (Not expensive because I assume they have web design staff on their books, and probably easy enough to find open source code for anyway. And even if it is expensive it should be considered worth it seeing as a forum subscription is part of a VIP subscription and thus technically revenue generating. But then by extension why are they bothering to have a forum at all because that is equally as expensive) is because it puts the feature at the heart of their community and has everything all in one place, which was the point of websites in the first place.

Having information spread around and then linked defeats the purpose.

Also I like the 'chose not to' because it is another example of how the 'choices' they make are getting further and further away from what I used to enjoy about this game.

I just realised we are waaaay off topic though. So I will shut up for now. And sorry for all those who care about Nature Affinity and had to read my rants.

DP sucks for waaaay more than that lol.