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That's probably because they can't miss.

I don't know that they can't miss, but I'm pretty sure.

Probably not.

Upgrade? Eh. But it's so ridiculously easy now. I liked it when it was hard!

But you're not allowed to bump old threads.

Or a padded bra.

Geez, you'd think people had never seen a pushup bra before.

The patch wasn't supposed to fix the multiple hits bug.

Incarnate trials don't do that -4 shift thing, and you can unlock and make your alpha with the new trials as well. (Scroll down in the recipe section, you'll find recipes for alpha powers that use threads.)

So you're just assuming the worst, and then concluding that if that's the way it is now, the suggestion is hopeless because it's not like things like that could ever be changed.

If we went with my idea of having the increased rarity support pets get self-power boost to def buff and heal, it could be fixed by giving the Partial Radial the T4 level of boost instead of the T3 level.

I guess you don't know how it works when one pactmate is lower than the other. The higher level guy gets exemped to the lower level guy permanently until the lower level one catches up.

Lore doesn't work well now, and that's what's important.

Praetorians aside, a lot of people don't like Lore. They think it sucks. This is justified. Let's look at some things that could be done to help it out.

Reduce the recharge. The number one thing. 15 minutes, non-reduceable is ridiculous! Seriously! Drop it down hard, to around 7 minutes. This is roughly the recharge you'd have for a patron pet fully slotted for recharge plus some global recharge buffs as well. This puts it at a greater than 50% percent of uptime, which also improves the feel of the power. If it's helping you more than half the time, it seems a lot more worthwhile.

Buff the support pets. These things are weak. The extra damage you get from upgrading to a Boss pet in the Core branches far outweighs the survival benefits of grabbing a support pet from the Radial branches, plus those bosses with their high damage and Boss HP can take a hit, which allows them to also help survivability. The heals should be changed to heal a percentage of HP, instead of a flat amount; I would probably have them be equal to the strength they're at now when used on a target with 1000 max HP. That would make them equally useful on, say, Tankers as on Masterminds. Second, the buffs to defense and the heal amount should increase as the rarity of the power increases. This should be as simple to implement as giving the pets an auto-power that power boosts these effects in the summoning powers.

Reduce the damage of the boss pets. "Heresy!" I hear you say, "This was supposed to be a thread about buffing Lore!" Hear me out. The boss pets are really the only compelling reason to take Lore. In fact, they're a little too strong. The damage is nice at base, but then players start throwing damage buffs on them and they quickly get insane. What I would do is reduce the base damage of the Boss pets' attacks by half. Then, give them an auto power that gives them a 100% damage buff (150% for the boss pet in Core Superior). This makes the Boss pets' damage the same out of the box, but makes them less ridiculous when damage buffs start getting applied.

EDIT: In fact, the boss pets should probably also just have a general damage reduction. They're so ridiculously strong that if we want to have the pets up more often they'll pretty much have to get nerfed. I think it'd be worth it.

Make pets not die with you. This is a big problem on my squishies with Lore pets. I summon them, and then a boss steps on me. Oh well, that's that casting wasted. Maybe I'll have better luck in 14 minutes. No fun! I know it's technically possible for pets to stay alive when their owner dies, but there would need to be work done so they behave right without you around and attach to you properly when you come back. Still, these are special pets and the convenience would be worth it.

Make the Radial Superior support pet able to attack. Right now, your choices for Radial rares make the support pet either invincible, or able to attack. When you go up to Very Rare with Radial, your only option is an invincible support pet, no option for an attack-capable one. Why can't we have both? There's already an invincible, untargetable pet that transfers aggro to its owner in the game (good ol' Voltaic Sentinel), so why can't these pets do it too? It's not like it would step on the toes of the Core Superior variety of pets, since those pets have inherent damage buffs.

Individual pet fixes. The Clockwork Dismantler's Anti-Matter beam has a very long, 30s recharge because it's actually a tiny cone like Piercing Rounds or Head Splitter. However, as an NPC it's far too moronic to actually use it as such, so it should get a break on the recharge costs of AoEs.

The Clockwork Dismantler's Particle Burst power works really weird. It grants a power to the target and has the target attack itself and enemies around it with said power. This makes it leech XP, do much less damage than the Dismantler's other attacks, and fail to do anything at all if the target dies before the attack "hits."

The Battle Orb should have its Shield Generator on ALL THE TIME if it's going to be so appallingly weak.

The Battle Orb's Deploy Stimulant should give high amounts of mez resistance if it's only going to last 5 seconds, because it'd be much more useful in the long run that way.

This thread gets my seal of approval.

So right now you can only level pact two characters together as long as both are under level five. Even when this system was introduced they told us they were looking at removing that limitation down the line. So what's the hold up? After the introduction of Super-sidekicking I can't think of any exploits letting us pact at any level would allow, and even before that it seemed fairly benign. So yeah, pact at any level please!

But why stop there? Let's remove more limitations! Let us pact up to, I dunno, 50 characters! Just a random number I picked because that's the most players that can simultaneously experience content together (Hamidon raids). There's nothing wrong with super-teams, why not let them make it easier to stay together?

Oh and I don't know if it does this already and neither does this wiki, but they should allow sharing of Physical and Psychic XP, too.

I see I'm gonna have to lay some knowledge down. Fair enough.

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Ion Judgement has a bug where its jumps from the primary target are affected by damage buffs. That makes it quite a bit stronger than other Judgements, but even without that it still has a big problem: it's possible, and in fact very likely, for enemies to get hit by multiple jumps from the same casting, multiplying the damage they take.

In the very likely event that the second bug can't be fixed, why not use the adage at the beginning of the post as the paradigm for the solution? Make the chance for multiple jumps an integral part of the power. Get rid of the chance to crit in the Core varieties and make the draw for that side be an extra jump (for 4 jumps instead of 3), increasing the chance for multiple hits on the same enemy compared to the Radial branch. Reduce the damage of the individual jumps to keep it closer to other Judgements, and you have Ion Judgement no longer leaps and bounds ahead of the others.

I have to agree with the general sentiment of this thread, Stone should have more of its strength spread throughout the rest of the set. Though I probably wouldn't "nerf" Granite so much as, buff its debuffs. Something like, leave its defense values as-is and increase the recharge and damage debuffs to 100% and 75% respectively, but give a power boost to taunt effects so tanking isn't inhibited.

I think you mean Wookin' pa nub?

Fly's a good spot for the Winter's Gift or Blessing of the Zephyr globals, since there they don't take up a spot that could be used for a Karma -KB or LotG +Recharge.