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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ceraus" data-source="post: 4735456" data-attributes="member: 76818">This is intentional. From experience, player at-will damage scales pretty well. Strikers always one-hit kill if they can deal their extra damage. Cleave is less effective but stays useful; its slack is picked up by the many powers that cover wide areas or deal automatic damage.The average level 30 minion has 35 HP. By then, a player can deal about 10 (2W) + 8 (stat) + 6 (enhancement) + 3 (miscellaneous) = 27 damage. Some characters will do less, some much more.So the minion HP rises quite a lot, but player ability to cut through that HP scales too. Ah... there we go. I hadn't encountered such a situation yet, but this is a real problem.First, a single damage source cannot hurt a minion for more than his max HP. This prevents most realism issues with my system and is compensated by giving minions little HP and the shared HP bank. Powerful single-target attacks are wasted against minions, but multi-hit attacks are optimal (as things should be).A quick and dirty solution would be to flavor-kill any minion hit by ongoing damage. Like saying "the minion catches fire and runs around panicking" and just deal max damage to that minion. As ongoing damage cannot be at-will, I figure the system won't break.Another solution would be to apply the ongoing damage once and forget about it afterwards. This will look flashy (insta-ongoing!) and only make minions more resilient to ongoing damage. Those attacks would probably have killed the target minion anyway, so both dirty solutions might have the same effect in pratice.Other suggestions, or evaluation of those two, are welcome.</blockquote>

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