Trickshooter

Such is the nature of GIFs; they can only store so many colors. So when you have animated images like yours, where the alternating images each have many, many colors, it dithers some of them by "mixing" pixels of colors already in it's pallette to fake it.

At least its not Comic Sans!

Oh whoops, forgot all about the villain skin. I'll redo it as a PNG with a transparent background instead when I get home.

And yeah, I use Photoshop.

The hero/villain/AT icons are by @Liz! / syrusb and if you guys like them (and it looks like a lot of you do), you should let her know!

This is what the Defender and Blaster versions use, but the Corruptor version is

1 Shriek
1.4 Scream
1 Howl

Shout is the same for all 3.


Let's use the in-game info:

[Corruptor_Ranged.Sonic Attacks.Shriek]

This is the Corruptor version of Shriek.

For a level 50 Corruptor, Corruptor Shriek does 41.71

For a level 50 Defender, Corruptor Shriek does 36.15


[Defender_Ranged.Sonic Attack.Shriek]

This is the Defender version of Shriek

For a level 50 Corruptor, Defender Shriek does 35.03

For a level 50 Defender, Defender Shriek does 30.36

I'm pretty sure this was done to make sure that the Corruptor version performs better. If Corruptors used the same damage scales as Defenders, the difference between Shriek on the two ATs would be less than 4 points of damage at 50.

These sets have higher base damage scales because those powers also take longer to recharge and have higher endurance costs. But that doesn't mean Sonic does less base damage than it should be doing. Shriek and Scream do exactly as much damage as attacks on 3 and 6 second recharges should do (except for Corruptors' version).

If Defender Shriek took 4 seconds to recharge, it would do scale 1 damage, but it takes 3 seconds to recharge, so it only does scale 0.84 damage. They follow the same damage/recharge/endurance formula as most of the attacks in the game.

Though it seems like we might be arguing different things. It sounds like your point was that some Sonic attacks do less damage than similar powers in other sets, and that's true, because they recharge faster. I was just making sure that you weren't saying that Sonic Attacks do less damage than they should be doing, as if they had some inherent damage penatly, which isn't the case. I was just making sure that it didn't become another "Sonic is nerfed out of the box!" thing like what happened when people were convinced the set had an inherent accuracy penalty.

I know it's not over yet, but I'm heading to bed and won't get to jump on before work tomorrow if it's still going.

And pleeeaaase, for now let's not fill this thread with the "i didnt get to do anything because of all the mapservers!!!!11!"

They were fixed in Issue 12.

Look at it.