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thelostone0
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So, I was looking at passives and a lot of the newer content. I was also reading about the new Fire and Ice alert and how every player's going to be 25 feet or more from the others. I looked at the UNTIL Sky Carrier mission, where people have to split up a lot and a healer is probably stuck babysitting the engines while the dps flies around handling the waves, popping up to heal the vent as needed. I looked at the Lemurian invasion where everyone's fighting in a MASSIVE arena.
I looked at all of that and finally came up with this idea - while in Hybrid role, support passives still grant their miniscule buffs to anyone within 50 feet. While in Support role though, they buff anyone within 100 feet, allowing the people masochistic enough to roll with AoPM, AoRP, or AoED in support role to buff people while they are responding to the many and varied insta-death fields being thrown around by event mechanics. Please include IDF in this as well. I hate trying to play a support char and seeing my role completely wasted because no one can afford to sit within 50 feet of me long enough for it to matter.
I looked at all of that and finally came up with this idea - while in Hybrid role, support passives still grant their miniscule buffs to anyone within 50 feet. While in Support role though, they buff anyone within 100 feet, allowing the people masochistic enough to roll with AoPM, AoRP, or AoED in support role to buff people while they are responding to the many and varied insta-death fields being thrown around by event mechanics. Please include IDF in this as well. I hate trying to play a support char and seeing my role completely wasted because no one can afford to sit within 50 feet of me long enough for it to matter.
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The problem is, as you mentioned, when people are everywhere (Hi-Pan Custom Alert comes to mind). Suddenly, it's not a straight line anymore. If your group has the boss inside a pincer formation, where do you place yourself for maximum benefit? At best, you could stand next to the boss and cover everyone attacking within 50' or less. The 100' attackers would be out of luck, but you'd still be able to heal them if you have a 100' heal. But there may also the issue of your own survivability since you'd be in the middle of all the action.
Of course, it can be argued that you'll be running around responding to whatever needs responding to anyway. And if you're far away from your group, should they really benefit? There aren't any player PBAoE powers with a range greater than 50' other than Smoke Bomb and the Gravity Pulse vehicle weapon and those have their own issues. And likewise, it can be argued that if everyone else is constantly pushing forward, they might not need reinforcing. People low on HP tend to wait for their HP recovery (powers, items, out of combat regen... all the same) or for someone else to take point. Part of running support is figuring out who needs it the most. Another part is realizing that master-of-all-trades/self-sufficient builds are quite common and coupled with the game's general lack of difficulty, you might not need to do much support. It's pretty much the same gripe the crowd controllers have.
The everlasting adage of support characters, "If I can't see you, I can't help you", still holds true. Unless you're running exclusively click heals and bubbles, I'm sure you've had the "wonderful" experience of people getting out of range while you're trying to heal them. It's pretty much an extension of that.
It'd be nice to have 100' support auras (it might be overpowered though), but I understand the 50' range.
Note #1: I noticed that you omitted AoAC. That's what real masochists run with!
Note #2: This is probably better off in the Suggestions section of the forum, rather than the Combat and Powers section.
As for why here instead of Suggestions, that's twofold. One, I wanted people used to looking at powers to at least think about it, and two, the Suggestion forum is mostly where good ideas go to die and be buried under a flood of "make me OP" posts, IMHO.