Some powers issues.

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• ninjapiff Posts: 283 Arc User

  June 2016 edited July 2016

  I kinda like your idea of "multiple scaling SS bonuses" for Forms (I use quotation marks because this is what I'll be calling them from now on. Or maybe I should think of something shorter. An Acronym, perhaps?). Like, for instance, Focus granting damage bonus based on Dex OR Str, but if Str is chosen it'll be a lower overall scale. I suppose it'd mostly depend on how the returns diminish, and at what point the "better" option would be (ie. if a 300str gives +10% bonus and 300dex gives +15% bonus, the system would know that a character with 300str and 250dex would benefit from the buff scaling off of Dex even though the Str stat is higher*). Concentration already scales off of Ego or Intelligence, whichever are higher, and I could see some of the Melee DPS forms working like that, too. ESPECIALLY if something like Enrage and Form of the Master (well, not "something like", EXACTLY Enrage and Form of the Master) scaled off of Str/Con and Dex/Con respectively, whichever was higher.
  
  
  
  *I know that the above example isn't in any way reflective of how the game works, as CO's blah blah blah Diminishing Returns blah blah blah damage not proc'ing blah blah blah Hitler did 9/11 blah blah blah stacking bonus falloff blah blah blah. I get it. I'm trying to be practical, here.

  Post edited by ninjapiff on July 2016

  It makes sense, if you don't think about it.
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• maatmons Posts: 347 Arc User1

  June 2016 edited June 2016

  I could get behind more Forms having an “or” for which stat they scale with. I think it might even be a good idea to go farther, and have all forms scale with “your superstats,” the way most passives do now.
  
  Of course, some might say that this homogenizes forms. But I say they were doomed to be samey from the moment it was decided that nearly all of them should provide virtually the same benefit (+X% damage per stack and +Y energy every Z seconds).
  
  Just because we passed up the opportunity to create interesting differentiations between these powers doesn't mean we need to keep the poorly-designed ones.

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• chalupaoffury Posts: 2,559 Arc User

  June 2016

  100% with you on auras getting a range boost. For that matter, some of the heals probably could do with one too. Right now we only have iniquity spam to hit outside the 100 foot mark, and it ain't like a 150 foot healing maintain is gonna ruin game balance.
  
  But as for the forms, you just gotta think outside the box. My main's a STR PSS, using Aspect of the Infernal and ranged dps, and she still throws 4-5k dps without a drop of Ego. I've even seen some gunslingers using Form of the Tempest, because "blah blah blah Diminishing Returns" pretty well covers it and even having *a* melee attack can make the concept work. Most of em do stack off of multiple SS' though, but yeah. Not saying that homogenizing the forms would be a terrible thing, some of us already use em that way.

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