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So I'm down to...
Submitted by circeus on Sat, 10/09/2004 - 12:13pm.
Choosing between Consume or Invisibility for my power to train at level 38 (already leveled, but haven't trained yet).
Consume does a little damage, and if you have about 3 even cons in your range you can get a full tank of end out of damaging them (if all 3 get hit -- its an AoE). Thing is its a Player Based AoE. So you have to be in close. Would be very useful after a Nova, but mostly while soling as we have a lot of people I team with regularly that have Recovery Aura which is a much better counter to the -REC from Nova.
Invisibility. To me this would be, as FarmAide called it, a Superior Energy Form (to Stealth which I call Starmaster's Energy Form). I played with this on test and found it useful maneuvering solo in places like the Abandoned Sewer. I was able to get all the way down to the plaque that's in there unfettered. I'm more leaning toward Invis right now.
Thoughts?
Powers I ruled out and why:
Hot Feet. Its kind of a "meh" power for me. The sfx are nice. I really don't get having to be on the ground to activate the power but then once active you can fly/jump/teleport with it without issue. In fact you can position yourself hovering quite high over ground based mobs and it will still affect them. I think the powers broken because of this. Besides I kill things much faster than its output helps, and if I want stuff running from me I have Burn (which is a much more effective power to me).
Power Push. Another power that I love the sfx on. It does very little damage (2 hits to an even con for about 12 each +/- for prots/weaks) but to make up for this its supposed to have +ACC and KB 100% of the time, but it only does about twice normal KB dist for Energy Blast. To me it should be a lower power in the power set rather than the 7th one.
Fire Sword Circle. Its a sword. Sorry, but that's just not in my character concept. The damage is nice, but its not got nearly the DoT that Combustion has. Though it does have a bit more up front damage. It also has a smaller AoE.
Blazing Aura. I droped this when I repsec'd. Nuff said.
Fire Sword. See above.
Health was dropped at respec.
Superspeed, not in concept.
Group Fly. Well its been fixed now so speed enh work, so it was tempting, but I'm just not ready for it yet. It could be very useful in the shadow shard. Conceivably it could be my level 41 choice.
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Consume would be quite nice f
Consume would be quite nice for post-nova, but you have Stamina, and FA has AB, and I will be getting it soon. I would say Invis has more applications, and I would maybe get consume at 41.
I did end up liking Hot Feet a lot more with 2 SO Damages in it, but I did respec out of it, and don't really miss it. I have the ability to AE Immobilize though, so that would help me out a lot in regards to Hot Feet. I'm sure, as you say, Burn is more effective than Hot Feet.
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Killowatt, Electricity/Devices Blaster
Pyromaniac, Fire/Empathy Controller
Yep, I figured this out when
Yep, I figured this out when i kept trying to attack and noting was happening.
I fixed my fly wiht 3 speeds 1 end reduction and 6 slotted stamina. I fly as fast as before an can do it invis all day long . I like it. I tried without th end reduc in flight on test and slowly burned off end as iflew invis.
I have no idea what the DEF values is with stealth and hover, but it is way better than nothing. I'd say about 20-25% bette at least. Just guess though.
Stat tracker my find some answer if I remeber to use it.
FA just remember you can't at
FA just remember you can't attack while invisible. So to do nova I'd still have to drop invisiblity first.
Online no one seems to know how much +DEF it offers, but I did find that just slotting it with a single End reducer lets it be kept up with Fly on (well that is also with 6 slotted Stamina).
I have 3 slots in Fly and 2 in hover. All Flight Speed. And, even Stealthed, I move faster with Hover like that then I did prior to my respec.
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Circeus, Friendly/Neighborhood/Site/Admin
Starmaster, Mutant/Blaster/Energy/Fire
Mighty Quinn, Magic/Tanker/Invuln/Stone
Maddest Cow, Science/Scrapper/MA/Reflexes
As I am sure you'd no doubt g
As I am sure you'd no doubt guess . . . invisibility!
Of them all, I like invisib
Of them all, I like invisibility best. It's very useful an I think it can fit in with your character.
I had a mission the other day to rescue someone. It was timed. Instead of fighting, I just ran through it found the guy in 25 min and was done. Invisibility would have made that much easier.
Going invisible before going Nova may help you out to.
>>>Ok, after posting this, I went to test and respeced to get invis. Before my last respec, I had stealth but thought it was too slow unlessI sprinted. Well that problem is partly solved with swift.
All in all I really liked invisibility. Since I have 2 wasted slots in Flight, and I like invis, I'm goin for it. It will make my soloing sooooooo much easier. I'll probably drop terrify. I use it more as an amusement most of the time and it's only been helpful a few tmes.
I also found tha stealth and hover work very well together and I take a lot less hits.