Comments on: City of Hybrid Damage Dealers

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:08:40 +0000

Brutes are anti-Tankers in a different way from Scrappers. More or less: Tanker hp and attacks, Scrapper defenses, and Rage. Rage builds up with every attack (on them or by them, hit or miss), and it is a damage buff; when it peaks, you are getting a Scrapper crit on every swing (I think). It rises and fades quickly, so go rampaging from group to group until you collapse in a pool of your own blood.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:54:35 +0000

It was so unfair to Stalkers in Siren’s Call last night. While there, you get a target, and you are told his location every 15 seconds or something. Hmm, there is an assassin within 100 yards, pop a yellow pill and I can see him. BOOM. Plus, because there were not many villains, several people got the same target. After running out of yellows, there were still six people orbiting the Stalker whenever a location update appears. Harsh.

By: Captain Wonder

Captain Wonder — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:33:39 +0000

Healers may be common in rpgs, but not in comics. Outside of Raven in Teen Titans I can’t name another. Good riddance! It should be all about punching kicking and blasting…

So the brute class is a hybrid tanker scrapper? It’s kind of what I was looking for in my hero character. I sort of wish there was a super strength scrapper option. There’s no real reason for tankers and scappers to be seperate classes that I can see.

By: Glazius

Glazius — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:07:54 +0000

Well, the thing with Stalkers is that there are hero powers which buff perception and debuff stealth, in addition to the IR Goggles on sale, and Assassin Strike is interruptible. PBAoE powers like Arctic Air, Quills, and Hot Feet (which I believe are counted as ‘melee’ attacks instead of the range AoEs and thus don’t get dodged as well by Hide) will prevent a Stalker in their area from unleashing an Assassin Strike. I don’t know if they’ll be sufficient countermeasures, but people are giving Assassin Strike more due than it’s worth.

In practice, it may not be an opening shot but rather a finishing blow, doing a huge amount of damage against a held target to take them down quickly.

–GF

By: Ethic

Ethic — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:08:56 +0000

Yeah, I can see Stalkers being pretty powerful in PvP. I say leave it alone for PvE but change it in PvP. Never works that way though. They always seem to have to nerf the skill in PvE in order to fix the PvP. I HATE games that make changes to PvE because of PvP.

By: X

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:57:52 +0000

Overall the classes are pretty well balanced. The only weaknesses i see are:
1. The dominator class. With holds being nerfed this class needs some help.
2. The cheapness of Stalkers in pvp. They can kills with little to no skill needed.

By: Winter

Winter — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:25:48 +0000

Yeah, I’d say they will do the Cryptic bait and switch, get you hooked and then say, oh wait, we never meant it to be like that so have a big cup of nerf.

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:15:08 +0000

I sense a disturbance in the force… expect that capability(s) to be “balanced” soon. Afterall, as Statesman would say…. “It’s how we originally envisioned the game…sucker”

Sorry, I’m still smarting over I2…..