StratoNexus

I'll never understand why people think Fire/Kins have to run inside some sort of narrow band of content in order to be extremely potent. Fire/Kins are great. I hate teaming with a lot of them, because so many people have made one, that a lot of people play them badly (law of averages and all). But they work great in almost all content. Massively better than other sets? Well, Fulcrum Shift and Speed boost are very, very good and what they bring to any team, in almost every "band" of content is fabulous.

Containment is not the issue, since every character I play that benefits from Fulcrum Shift (which is every character I play, since they all have powers that deal damage) has incredible killing power. You do not need containment to obliterate.

I would think an awful Kinetics would not be calling for a nerf, instead thinking the set sucked. I never understand why people think FS is only worriesome on controllers. When I play my Kin/Elec the team obliterates. Speed Boost is huge, but FS is also a big part.

I always view this issue in the opposite light. If you think FS is only super-strong on controllers (and then only on some controllers), you must be an awful Kinetics.

Melt Armor apparently would be grossly overpowered, since they changed it from a useful power on corruptors to a massive end cost EMOTE when they added it to APPs (although perhaps a low damage tanker gets more mileage out of it).

I think its foolish to argue that FS is not over the top. It is over the top. Is it over the top enough to warrant a change? Is Granite? Is Fortitude? Is a FF defender? Is a Fire/Fire blaster? There are many, many potent combinations that can "break" the game. Is FS (especially when combined with the other 23 powers that character has, and even more so when combined with other players) more egregious than others? Only the devs can know (unless they tell us). It is certainly worthy of discussion, in my opinion, and there is plenty of room for disagreement and discourse.

Shouting it down and claiming it is a non-issue and that it is foolish to even discuss because it is perfectly and finely balanced as is doesn't seem reasonable. Neither is starting a nerf-herding thread with obfuscation.

It also would not work for Electric or Ice blast (Blizzard drains end always and TB has to have at least one target). I am also interested in how the suggestion might affect Archery and AR (and future blast sets that may have those style tier 9s, as I imagine pistols will have).

I once suggested adding 10 or 15 seconds of some mez protection (and allow them to be used while mezzed) to Aim and Build Up when ideas for blaster improvements were solicited. Since AR did not have Aim, I opted to include that ability into Full Auto (since it was the only longer recharge power AR had). Not sure how well it translates here though. The difference in recharge between Aim and Full Auto was 30 seconds base, and after common enhancing was considered, became negligible. The difference in recharge between Nova and Full Auto is 5 minutes base and still very significant even on a super-IOd build.

I do not believe either of those have been soloed, although I'd be interested if you know of it.

I think you understand, but I just want to makes sure. Voltaic Sentinel cannot be attacked and draws no aggro. Anything it shoots will shoot at you (unless a teammate has more threat, of course). It is simply a damage battery that doesn't require you to spend animation time after it is summoned. It's duration is short enough that re-summoning it can be a pain and I would venture to guess that most people find it a pain.

If you do not hit anyone with a nuke, you will not lose any endurance (well, you will spend the end cost, but you will not have a crash).

Alternatively, you could change all (some/most?) attacks which have KB to have no inherent KB, but allow them to accept KB enhancements. KB enhancements could then enhance a powers damage and have a 100% chance to proc x KB. KB enhancers could come in a variety of flavors (0.4 mag, 0.8 Mag, 2.2 Mag, etc./whatever). The only technical hurdle would be making sure multiple procs stacked (I know KB mag can stack from multiple sources, but I am not sure if the system handles it well enough to be usable on purpose).

Will that work with Claws primary? I have Lightning Field and will have Power Sink soonly (level 30 now). I knew PS would solve end issues, but since I have nothing else to drain end other than LF, I didn't think the end drain would be useful normally.

I took Stamina. Energize has not been very helpful in managing my endurance, it has become my belief that Energize should not have an end cost (or it should be negligible like Consume). One should be able to respec out of Stamina at level 36 though, if one wants.

/em golfclap

That is a good question. I do not believe the answer is obvious as you seem to (it sounded like you were being rhetorical, if I misread the tone of your question, well, then I misread it).

Are you solo? If you are solo and have the no bosses setting engaged, then even setting yourself to 8 people will not spawn bosses (there will be boss critters, but they will be downgraded to Lts.).

I would not take 4 holds. My Ice/Elec blaster is level 26. I live on the attacks. Since you don't solo much, I'd much rather be dealing damage instead of control (tankers and controllers do it better, buffs/debuffs make them unneeded).

I'd take Freeze Ray at some point by the 30. Shocking Grasp is an excellent attack. I plan on taking Grasp, I do not have Freeze Ray yet, I may never take it.

Frost Breath + Static Discharge will be a great combo, I encourage you to pursue.

Mmmm, just add Sched B damage to all KB enhancers!

If your rules go farther than buff, debuff, blast, and charge, you have too many rules. Do you have too many rules?

I did call out odd enemy types (and I fight Arachnoids in Warburg from time to time with my heroes). I never said they were common, I was merely challenging the comment that Electric covers EVERYTHING.

As far as Toxic not being hard hitting, you must be one of those people who never fight Vahz because they are "too hard". I ran both Vahz arcs and the Posi TF (at level) with my /Elec scrapper. It wasn't the brightest move fighting stuff I was weak to, but it did illustrate that /Elec does not cover everything, and that Fiery has some overlooked strengths, at least pre-30.

In the low 20s, even warriors, family, and council were more problematic than my experiences with my /Fiery Aura scrapper. Granted, Focus + Spin may not be as good as Divine Avalanche + Lotus Drops, so my experience might be tainted by DAs greatness; OTOH Healing Flames is very, very good from level 12 on, whereas Energize only starts to get decent at level 23, and gets good at level 25 (assuming taking it at 22, and slotting it at 23 and 25).

I figure /Elec matures more late-game, I am going to be taking Tough which will help as well. I am just having trouble seeing how /Elec will beat out Fiery Aura survivability wise late game, but maybe I am undervaluing the Psi/Nrg resists (there are a fair number of nrg attacks late game).

Achilles heel does not stack with itself. I believe, but am not positive, that even from multiple players, it does not stack.

Ever clear a Mayehm mission? I mean the whole mission, not just the guys that shoot back.

Go fight Vahz, Snakes, and Arachnoids.

That is like saying Blaze does a little bit more damage than Barb Swipe.

I have a lvl 50 Fiery Tanker, a mid 40s Fiery scrapper, and a level 29 /Elec scrapper. My experience so far tells me that from 1-30, Fiery is more survivable, does better damage, and is better with endurance use (I know /Elec will win on End use once I make it to level 35).

Electric Armor may mature better than I expect in the late 30s and beyond, but so far, my money goes to Fiery Aura, but I still like and enjoy my Electric Armor scrapper so far.

I wonder how true the thought is that "most" folks choose to cap Acc at 95% and vs. what level of enemies that may be true for.

I have a sneaky feeling, defense debuffs are worth a lot more in many PuG situations than people realize. I discount them a bit myself in forum conversation, because a lot of forumites build for capped Acc vs. +2s at least, but even with forumites I wonder if "most" applies.

I've heard of that guy. He is the one with a /Traps MM and a /Traps Corruptor with which he kills AVs and GMs.

I wonder if he has trouble with running GMs and how he ranks Rad and Traps.