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<blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 5540668" data-attributes="member: 63763">As long as you ignore all the benefits for specializing in the first place, then sure.&nbsp;Pyromancers turn their burst/blast attacks into zones that deal damage. Now, it would be nice to say, immobilize people in those zones. And guess what? You can't do that ... unless you can just swap one energy type for another.&nbsp;Even if the reason they originally gave various damage types their &quot;schticks&quot; is flavor insted of balance, as long as they keep doing it, it does create a balance of it's own. The powers still need to be balanced, and thus, if it has an effect, like slow, immobilize, or dazed, it is offset by other things, like number of targets, whether it leaves allies out of the burst, size of the burst, ammount of damage, etc. They aren't always perfect (freezing burst vs. scorching burst), but there is some balancing act at work. Similarly, part of the balance of specializing in ANYTHING is that you are giving up other options.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WalterKovacs, post: 5540668, member: 63763"] As long as you ignore all the benefits for specializing in the first place, then sure. Pyromancers turn their burst/blast attacks into zones that deal damage. Now, it would be nice to say, immobilize people in those zones. And guess what? You can't do that ... unless you can just swap one energy type for another. Even if the reason they originally gave various damage types their "schticks" is flavor insted of balance, as long as they keep doing it, it does create a balance of it's own. The powers still need to be balanced, and thus, if it has an effect, like slow, immobilize, or dazed, it is offset by other things, like number of targets, whether it leaves allies out of the burst, size of the burst, ammount of damage, etc. They aren't always perfect (freezing burst vs. scorching burst), but there is some balancing act at work. Similarly, part of the balance of specializing in ANYTHING is that you are giving up other options. [/QUOTE]

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