rsclark

For a set I would buff? Empathy

1. 6 of 9 powers are worthless solo. 2 of the useful ones are up 1/3 of the time without billions spent on a build - and even then it's only a little over half the time.

2. on groups the powerset is good at low levels and weaker than buffs the higher you go. It also does not scale to larger teams. Fort and AB are the best powers in the set, but (for obvious reasons) didn't get the group buff treatment for incarnate content. That still leaves the 2 best powers only buffing 3-4 and 1 people out of 24 on a raid, making them distinctly less useful than something like cold that retains full effectiveness no matter how many people you have in the group.

3. half the powers are reactive in a set that provides nothing in the way of CC resist or even defense.

Solution:

Both RAs get duration doubled, but get the Destiny treatment of diminishing returns. Have it full strength for 60 seconds, half strength for 60 seconds and quarter strength for 60 seconds. In the grand scheme of things, it's only a 16% buff in damage healed/end recovered and that's stretched over an extra 90 seconds. But it can be made perm now. Solo play is more stable instead of the god/mook thing we have now, and the powers aren't completely eclipsed by the Destiny's.

HO, HA, and AP get the Blaster inherent treatment allowing the Emp to heal others even when held.

The rez is currently the worst rez since all of thme now give full health and this one gives nothing else. Make it so it targets self if you are dead. A self rez makes this another power usable solo without a huge power boost. Even better, make it buff live targets with a long duration, single use auto-rez, so you can buff targets likely to die and not have to break to do it during a fight. (that last one might be a bit much, but I really like it)

Give clear mind psi resist (and the area buff to go with it). It's the only break free I know without some added benefit, and psi makes sense given the name. Also would give the set a resist damage mule.

Fort gets duration and recharge doubled (or even tripled, putting it at around 4 minutes like other buffs). You can't keep it on more people than before, but less rebuffing. Not so much a buff to the power, but a QOL feature.

Correct. The softcap is not something they built into the game and calculate. It is simply something that emerged naturally from the facts of the underlying math.

Nope. The sopftcap is the soft cap. It doesn't matter how you get there, it is still the cap.

30 def + -20 to hit is just as much overkill as 50 def.

The real cap is at 5% base chance to be hit, not at a particular defense number.

That is correct except when the -to hit is resisted - which is against anything worth using the power on.

But without resistance, they are equivalent like that.

Solid F with occasional leaps to low E. Definitely in E if you count my purple table.

The highest tier pet should obviously be a tiger painted black to look like a panther. Duh.

I just thought of what else would make me consider buying the travel power - if they started grouping basically identical powers and giving a discount.

Own Beast Run? Buy Ninja Run for less, because it's just a cosmetic bonus at that point.
Same thing for Rocketboard and Magic Carpet.

That would make the Coyote shift a one time buy-in for future quadrupedal travel powers instead of an overpriced waste that could easily be replaced by something I like better in the future (like happened with the rocketboard I bought and the carpet that I would rather have).