Plasma Cutter needs a Damage Boost

hasukurobi

Plasma Cutter is one of these skills intended to finish a target by ending a large number of DoTs and deal a lot of damage. The problem with that is that even with full stacks of Particle burn on the target and fully charged it deals about the same damage as one hit of Laser Sword but takes about 2 hits of Laser Sword to fully charge. This means that you are ending the DoTs and wasting time when what you should be doing is just continuing to use your Combo over and over again. This means that either Plasma Cutter needs to gain a notable boost to its damage output (based on the stacks of Burn it consumes preferably) or it needs some other reason you would ever bother using it.

aesica

The whole PA melee set just needs a redesign, and I seriously hope it's next on the devs' list. Hopefully in that redesign, the "consume stacks of plasma burn" gets removed entirely because we really don't need 3 different melee sets that use the same (stale) mechanic.

But yeah, it's not just Plasma Cutter that's underwhelming right now. Literally any laser sword power that isn't Laser Sword (the ability) is rather poopy. Well, Particle Smash is decent for a quick AoE burst of damage, but everything else is hurting right now and needs some love.

dakrushmor

Not only melee PA spike blows, but also ranged one - let'z look at fire all weapons. On mah build tooltip states: 1513, which means R3 would deal 1513*1.44=2178,72. While plazmabeam (R3) & minigun (R2) deal altogether: 333*2+221*5=1771. Add chest beam to that 6353/5=1270.6. 1771+1270.6=3041.6 Deeps per 0.5, not counting crits or debuffs. So it's almost +50% base damage comparing to FAW, not counting debuffs, which are significant part of Deeps. You may argue, that FAW is AoE, but the rest of PA build too by now. Why would l waste point on a power, that has horrid cooldown and is weaker than just spamming plain combo all that way?

flowcyto

FAW is alright as a wide burst AoE dps cd. Obv if ur already running a 3-slot PA build it won't really be that worthwhile, but it can have uses in other types of builds.

Laser Sword mini-set prob needs a re-vamp, but atm I prob wouldn't put it as a high priority given how well the basic combo does. I do wish they'd re-visit the old 180-degree melee cones like Lightwave Slash, Scything Blade, or EBF, though.