StratoNexus

It is odd to me that it only gets the one.

8 Feet, a bit longer than 2 seconds.

On my Kat/Fire, FE + BU + Caltrops + Burn + Lotus Drops has always been good, and the new version has not displeased me in the least so far. I look forward to PS+FE+(some single target attacks)+Burst+Burn.

Well, a few issues a go they added slow resist to temp protection (although its pretty small) and this issue they added end drain resists to Consume.

Controls of all kinds have frequently affected a power's damage value. Clobber and Cobra Strike for example. Even Knockout Blow originally had no/low damage, IIRC. Repulsing Torrent, from a brand new set, even has lower damage than it should by the formula; I have to believe that is because of the knockback.

Every blaster set except for Rad and Fire have an extremely low damage single target control power. Fire, of course, has none at all and Rad's control is also it's big hitter.

It would be interesting if all the blaster single target controls got the Clobber/Cosmic Burst treatment. Tesla Cage would be much more awesome if it also did decent damage.

Imagining Freeze Ray dealing scale 1.2 damage...

That is interesting and might be an issue if they reduce the recharge down to one minute to match Power Sink. If they reduce the recharge to two minutes, I think it's a definite non-issue.

Want. Even if it is not a blaster that gets it.

Dang. I was hoping you were right and I just missed a patch note.

I just ran a STF with my Kat/FA scrapper. Getting sent flying occasionally was the least of my concerns and that is despite the fact that our team left the blue tower up while we killed Recluse. I got knocked back, I ran back at Recluse. No big problem.

The fact that I had a blinky red health bar was much more disconcerting.

Is the duration on the recovery buff really 30 seconds? It was only 15 seconds the last time I played with it (and I am pretty sure the blaster version was 15 seconds as of Saturday the 14th).

While Burn has only hit 5 targets per tick for a long time, each tick could hit different targets. When something died, Burn was no longer "wasting" damage on the dead thing, instead it started damaging something else.

You could drop a burn patch and have two near dead enemies only eat up a small portion of Burn's damage. Now, if two near dead targets are hit by the initial tick, a fair chunk of Burn's damage is going to be "wasted".

What was fixed? If you are referring to the auto-hit and self-damage of the first tick, I can assure you that, as of Saturday, August 14th, the blaster version of Burn was not fixed.

Edit: And because I had to check, on the blaster version, the initial tick is still auto-hit and still hits the caster as of two minutes ago.

You have convinced me you are not lying. Ignorant it is. Claws is a very good set. KM's mitigation is higher and not by a margin that is hard to see.

Burn is still a pet you drop at your feet. It also still has a decent DoT component. However, a lot of its damage has been moved to an initial hit right as you place the power (and its currently bugged so that initial strike is auto-hit and it hits you too).

I have gotten quite used to being able to rely on my Shield companions keeping aggro off me. I would be sad if they lost that.

Actually, I find the experience to be very rare. Most people run slower than I want to go and most people do not want a TF to be played by one or two peeps on the team. I want to go fast, but I want to go fast together (mostly, splits happen at that speed, but splits are different than having 6 people wait for 2 people to play). I have no problem with speed runs, but I prefer it when they are whole team speed runs.

However, I was not telling that story to try to indicate that there is a problem where people are frequently relegating squishies into non-players. I do not think that is happening frequently. People seem quite happy to have blasters and while most teams do not bother to protect them very well, most teams do have a tank of some sort and simply letting them go in first is usually barely enough protection. I was simply demonstrating that I undertsand when you say that blasters have limitations that armored ATs do not have, while I was also stating that those limitations are frequently not a big deal.

When he said pull, I am pretty sure he was talking pulling an entire spawn in order to gather them up, much as you were saying a scrapper would do in order to cause spawn collapse.

Teaming is not actually seen as a disadvantage by most people. Therefore most people don't consider the fact that you may need a team as a limitation, since they were going to have a team anyway. I understand your point though and will tell a story to illustrate.

I logged onto a level 46 Fire/Fire/Force blaster I felt like playing and joined a LGTF. At one point, as the team formed up, I asked if they wanted me to switch to a scrapper or tanker. They said, "No, a blaster is perfect." Once we started the TF, they started running a speed LG. They spent precisely zero time buffing and the brute on the team ran to the end room. The rest of us were waiting at the beginning. Then in the second mission they started employing the same tactics and I kept up for two rooms, but rikti mezzing gets a bit much and the brute and scrapper were just charging at the EBs activating all the spawns in the room, but not actually aggroing anything. The leader then said, "Wait for x and x to get to the end room and TP the rest of us."

I was left with two choices. Play "watch other people play" or leave the team. When I asked if they wanted me to get a scrapper or tanker, I wish they would have said yes.