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blumoon8
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One of the major responses in the latest Ask Cryptic was that if we were displeased with something, we had to gather together and become united to make the issue a greater priority. So, here and now, I'm making a thread for us to collectively discuss the powersets in the worst state.
Telepathy single handedly is the one powerset that needs the most work, followed by Claws. I think this is without debate. Telepathy has no major passive and every benefit it has offered has been utterly crushed by the nerf hammer. Claws has gotten its skills tweaked on PTS, the only time it has really been touched since I can remember, but we haven't seen any overall synergy birthed like we did during the TK pass. There were no new skills and I'm honestly not even sure how it handles now.
Other sets I think needs tweaking is Sorcery. The aura pass was really great, even if Arcane Clarity still lags behind, but we need more. I think Sorcery needs its branches more diversified and it needs some spots filled in to make the playstyles different.
And that's my opinion. What do you guys have to think?
One of the major responses in the latest Ask Cryptic was that if we were displeased with something, we had to gather together and become united to make the issue a greater priority. So, here and now, I'm making a thread for us to collectively discuss the powersets in the worst state.
Telepathy single handedly is the one powerset that needs the most work, followed by Claws. I think this is without debate. Telepathy has no major passive and every benefit it has offered has been utterly crushed by the nerf hammer. Claws has gotten its skills tweaked on PTS, the only time it has really been touched since I can remember, but we haven't seen any overall synergy birthed like we did during the TK pass. There were no new skills and I'm honestly not even sure how it handles now.
Other sets I think needs tweaking is Sorcery. The aura pass was really great, even if Arcane Clarity still lags behind, but we need more. I think Sorcery needs its branches more diversified and it needs some spots filled in to make the playstyles different.
And that's my opinion. What do you guys have to think?
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Yes, telepathy needs the most work far and away. I'd say celestial is rightr behind it.
YES, Celestial does as well. So sad full pass got cancelled. Now when will it get touched?
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The three main issues I see with it is...
Lack of a useful energy unlock. Some kind of "reverb" power that gives energy on some magic or paranormal effect
Lack of a magic based damage passive. Sorcery is pretty much limited to Shadow form or Seraphim. or Ego Form. Either full light or dark, noting more neutral. Or you have to be a mentalist rather then a magician.
Sigils that does magic or paranormal damage. Sigils and circles are really the powers that set sorcery apart from other sets. And yet, the two main sigil powers do out of set damage. Fire and Electrical. It really limits set synergy to have signature powers that don't mesh with set passives.
Sorcery is fine atm, at least it has the auras, unlike telepathy.
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Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
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There's no need for Grimoire to stay in hybrid role anymore, it should be in support.
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Replace Hex of Suffering (which is now mostly useless thanks to the nerfs on holds) with a resurrection power (the arcane one, not the celestial one) and it's all fixed up!
Now Mind on the other hand needs some serious help. AoRP is strong, Mindful Reinforcement is good, but that's it. Weak damage, weak healing, and where it used to be about controlling the battlefield, now the enemies just laugh at the attempt and come to kill you.
I would like to see Mind get telekinesis powers actually, and buff that up a lot. You think having a flying metal shipping crate or van would hurt the enemies a LOT more honestly. Right? :biggrin:
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Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
Force right now seems to only consist of one viable attack: Force Cascade, which ironically works best with an out-of-set passive, Quarry or AoPM, and Cascade spam is very annoying in parties.
Sorcery needs an Energy Unlock and a Quarry-like passive that works with Magical, Fire and Lightning damage. Basically something that plays nice with Sigils of Primal Storm and Pyro Blades and the other elemental damage attacks in Sorcery, so that Sorcery characters can run in the Ranged Damage role.
Telepathy right now feels like half a set that needs to piggyback on Telekinesis to fill out its holes. Which really isn't that bad, except it's a little out of theme seeing a Telepath summon pink glowing swords rather than generic swirly things.
Dual Claws also feels like half a set that needs to rely on another set, although it isn't as thematically off to see a Dual Claws character using say, Dragon Kick (or Boomerangs >_>) as an AoE, so it's not as bad.
I'd also like to suggest a re-work of the Supernatural set. Separate the "demonic chains" of the Infernal from the Toxic/Poison powers. Mix Infernal with Ebon Sorcery to make the Infernal set more demonic and flesh out Toxic on it's own to allow for more plant-llike powers. I think Supernatural would be the natural place for Plant powers. Bestial could be fleshed out so that it doesn't have to rely on Infernal as much. Point is: Supernatural seems to be trying to do 3 things. Toxic, Infernal and Bestial. Each of these could be fleshed out in unique ways.
Telepath is pretty weak by itself. It could be altered to allow for non-support builds without mixing TK into the build.
The different "flavors" of Sorcery feels like they each could use additional Powers that better define that specific branch of Sorcery. Energy Projector, Technology, Brick, Mentalist, Martial Arts all seem to have defined concepts. The Mystic Power Sets sort of feels like a dumping ground for unfinished ideas which need better definition.
The answer to your thread is clear. Telepathy, it has no block...no passive..no Active Defensive or Offensive. It is basically is just a list of underpowered and broken pink powers.
It needs THE most help out of all the powersets in CO. If you run a telepathy build and put it up against any PSI villains you'd see you are insanely outmatched if it werent for defenses.
There are many levels of nerfing but no powerset in game has ever gotten a telepathy grade nerf, which ultimately would destroy the powerset. Anything good about telepathy has been crushed or blown to bits, a set defining power such as Ego Storm was nerfed into oblivion and now NO CC in game works apart from Gadgettering CC.
If telepathy by some sheer magic was to get a review and the almighty buff it needs..I'd like to see the Ego Blast Pose used alot more in the powerset, for something like Telepathy their needs to be something done about crowd control as it currently is useless and the gear for it doesnt work well or at all.
Being a telepath needs to have an air of power around it as you control every mind around you, you should be able to know when an enemy is about to attack and pinpoint their weaknesses, aid your foes, use psionic shields to protect yourself and others, call back someones lost psyche from the astral realm (rez) etc. It needs to be powerful. I could be done but I doubt this powerset will be touched before every single OTHER powerset is looked at and buffed.
Also Force, as previously said it only really has one very powerful attack. Force Cascade. It's Defensive "passive" Personal "Force Field" is still horrific compared to other defensive passives. It's not really a passive OR a force field, just more like a damage shield with a small recharge every so often. This "passive" also has stacking issues with other in set shields such as Protection Field and basically all forms of defense are layered beneath it except for dodge I think. This makes IDF not work productively with PFF, also the passive has NO damage mitigation/resistance or reduction, which makes it the only defensive passive not really defending any one for more than 6 seconds at best when not blocking.
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Other than that, I believe minor changes are needed for many sets, as Secksegai says.
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Also, might needs it's "Might" back! Put back the damage taken away after the alerts!
Because as of now, Might/Brick is a joke.
Telepathy however needs the most work all. Not even worth playing a little bit.
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Tried working Ego Storm into a maintain build fueled by Overdrive... Ego Storm doesn't seem to trigger Overdrive. :mad:
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