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Rather than carry on fruitless arguments with people who I'm not going to be able to convince, I'm just gonna say this: if Force Field gets buffed, even if my suggestions aren't what happens (incredibly unlikely, I know ) there's going to be changes to some of its powers that will change their use and functionality. There's only so much you can do with knockback and repel, and Force Field as-is is proof of that.

Dropping the radius reduces its current usefulness for its only use now, when as I said the point of my suggested change is to change the current use to a better one.

I suggested some, take a look and let me know what you think.

Force Field is a good set, but it's being almost entirely carried by 3 powers. Its other powers need some buffs to be more desirable.

Force Bolt: Becomes a real ranged attack. Damage increased from scale 0.2 to scale 1, add 20% chance for Mag 3 stun.

Detention Field: Becomes a toggle. 1.04% end/s, can only be active for 30 seconds. Recharge time reduced from 60s to 30s.

Repulsion Bomb: Animation changed to Hand Clap animation. Animation time reduced from 3.07s to 1.23s. Projectile effect removed; now affects targets instantly after activation time.

Force Bubble: Radius reduced from 50ft to 20ft. Non-stackable 10s 25% damage debuff to target effect added.

This is my second attempt to make Hamidon enhancements more desirable. There'd be a new kind of HO, only earned from Hamidon raids; there'd be no Synthetic version. Let's call it the Recombinant Hamidon enhancement.

A Recombinant enhancement doesn't do anything by itself. However, when you combine it with another HO, that HO becomes a Recombinant version of itself. For example: slotted Centriole Exposure + Recombinant Hamidon Enhancement = Recombinant Centriole Exposure. A RHO becomes Unique and can't be traded, so once you use it, you're stuck with it unless you delete it.

What are RHOs good for? They're basically Wild Card IOs. Slot them in a power with other set IOs and it will count towards that set's set bonuses.

Now, obviously that's quite powerful, so Recombinant Hamidon Enhancements would be rare like Ribosomes or Microfilaments, and not common like Centrioles.

Super speed doesn't make sense as a melee set. Why would someone with super speed stand in the thick of it where they could get punched when they could be far away doing hit & run tactics? It'd make much more sense as a Blast set for Defenders, Blasters, and Corruptors.

You'll probably want to skip one or both of the immobilizes since they'll nullify the knockback from your energy blasts, which will be one of your primary sources of mitigation.

This thread has an awful lot of views for one with no responses. What's THAT about?

I was playing my Bane Spider, when I noticed an odd message in my combat log:


Basically what you're looking for is the message in the Healing Delivered channel about Pulverize critting for 2 points of Smashing damage. I have no idea what that's about. I've never heard of Pulverize having a random chance to do more damage, and 2 points of damage is nothing at 50. Plus the healing delivered channel is a weird place to report damage. So what the heck is that?

That would have the exact opposite effect that the useful salvage warning is meant for and that this suggestion would help achieve.

Instead of having the salvage interface include every recipe on you in the list of reasons for you to keep salvage, a better idea is to have a checkbox for each recipe in the Recipe window for "Intend to Craft." Then, if you try to delete or sell salvage, only salvage used for recipes marked as such would trigger the Useful Salvage window. The window would also have a new button: "Save what I need." This button would then delete, sell, or store all the salvage in that stack except what you'd need to craft your recipes. It would make the system a lot easier to use, I think.

No more booster packs, and instead have the artists work on stuff that everyone gets to enjoy!

Fridays work well for me too.

I always liked how getting that villain badge on a hero by killing Longbow while confused handily explained itself in-game: you were mind-controlled!

You wanna give them passive mez protection?

I'm only posting here as a matter of course, because I'm sure you already know I'm in.

Nah, I kept the set bonuses and just took the 50% reduction in damage enhancement.

Ah, I guess the Bruiser doesn't taker Recharge-Intensive Pet sets. Which means the damage from Gang War's gonna have to take a hit, but at least I get to keep the control.

Which do you think would be better on my Thugs/Pain MM? Two Stun IOs in the Bruiser for his Hand Clap, or the two Recharge Intensive Pet Aura globals? (I already have the two Pet Damage aura globals.)