Silas

All mezzes have target caps, just like Tanker AoEs and Taunt. Unlike Tanker AoEs and Taunt, most have incredibly long recharge times so they can't be spammed to catch whatever the first cast didn't hit. I personally think it's a little silly that Taunt has such a small target cap, but that doesn't stop bad Tankers from opening with it so I suppose its largely moot.

The second point also arguably holds for Controllers too. While you can hit a spawn with your AoE hold and then your AoE stun, they're still out of the fight. You've just wasted your AoE stun. That is an advantage to mezzing ATs like Dominators and Controllers, since they can control spawns over their aggro cap if they use their powers well. AoE hold first spawn, AoE stun+immob (or KD/sleep/confuse/whatever) another spawn. To that end, I think Tankers having a larger aggro cap wouldn't be amiss.

If Tankers are going to get a buff, I think it should be towards making them somehow more Tanky. I know I rant and rave about Tankers being far too tough, but still. If you want to be pretty tough and deal damage, make a Brute. There's no need to make Tankers deal more damage. I see this thing about Tankers not being like their comicbook counterparts all the time and while nice, it can't work that way because MMOs need to be somewhat balanced.

If you can have the toughness of a Tanker and the damage of a Brute/Scrapper, why would you ever make a Brute or Scrapper? If you want to be utterly invulnerable as well as a god of death, go play a singleplayer RPG. I hear there's at least a couple.

Which goes back to some people just wanting Tankers to deal more damage while maintaining their toughness. Or are primadonnas and want the team to revolve around them and their part in the holy trinity.

Great news, when will you start learning how to play them?

But it helps my posture!

Don't worry, I'm working on it. Not as close to done as I'd like to be, but have been crazy busy with work/travel/health.

If you want to make a Time Manip character with Fire, I'd go with the Corruptor. I know I'm biased and all, but Time Manipulation ensures you can keep mobs in RoF, which does much more damage for Corruptors. Since with PB Farsight you can still get softcapped defenses to all three positions the Defender has less of an advantage. In fairness to the opposition, a sizeable advantage Defenders have is that they need far less in terms of IOing to hit the softcap, meaning you can softcap on a much smaller budget and build more for other things like +hp/recharge/recovery.

It's like knowing how to swim. All babies are a little bit Silas, but the vast majority forget and must relearn it. Si, by virtue of her name and the fire blasting, is already closer than most

In seriousness:

• Write guides for all support sets
• t3 Incarnate out all my main dudes
• Kit out my solo SG base
• Get seen rollin', get hated

I dunno, I'll give it some thought and try to come up with some more.

That's Tanker logic.

Oh, for the record I agree that being able to turn KB into KD would be a huge buff to certain sets of powers. Particularly SS and Claws.

It just seems there is a disconnect between KB is a good thing, provides good mitigation, useful tool etc etc, but it's a balancing factor preventing certain powers/power sets from being overpowered. Which would imply its a 'bad' thing, so to speak, like balancing a high damage attack with high recharge or endurance cost.

Wait, what? Defenders should need far less than 32.7% defense to softcap with PBed Farsight. For Corruptors you generally need 22-23% defense to whatever type/vector to softcap with PBed Farsight.

The way I work it out is find out how much defense you're getting from slotted and PBed Farsight (slot Farsight, turn PB on, check the defense value in the power info) then subtract that from 45.

Whatever number you get is how much defense your other stuff needs to give you without PB turned on.

So if PBed Farsight gives you 22% defense, you need 23% defense to all from your toggles/bonuses without PB active to be softcapped. Defender PBed Farsight is about 32% defense, so you only need about 13% defense.

AoE attacks do more damage to groups than a ST one? Imagine my surprise.

Fireball and Firebreath do boatloads more damage to groups than Blaze does. I still wouldn't skip Blaze.

Edit: ouch the endurance use on that build, even with Cardiac