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Sounds like this player has invested in 4 powers - 3 of which he choose, and most of which he has probably slotted more than 6, and he still cannot fly. How much more of an investment did he make compared to your 1 power? How much did he have to give up compared to you and he still cannot go vertical.
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To be fair, you must admit that most people have to take Swift (or Hurdle, but then if you're not Super Jumping you usually take Swift) to have Stamina that most people will want (and even moreso SR Scrappers with all these toggles), and that both Quickness and Elude are great powers that would be as great even if they had no speed boost with them. So with that in mind, it's not really 4 powers instead of 1 (2, really, since you must also take Hover or the air punchy thing to have flight) but 0 powers and a few slots instead of 1 power and a few slots.
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No matter how you slice it, flying is ultimately safer than super speed, and offer an undeniable vertical advantage over super speed (or in this case, 4 other speed powers). If flyspeed had the same max as runspeed, why would anyone ever take superspeed?
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Granted. Both in combat (with a Hover/fly keybind) and in smooth traveling, going precisely where you want and with the path you want, Fly is far superior than the other three.
HOWEVER.
A)It's more costly than Superspeed and Superjump, Endurance-wise
B)The difference between 80Mph and 50Mph (not even taking into account the fact that Fly needs MORE SLOTS to reach its poor speed cap than the other 3) is a drop of nearly 40% !
C)Fly is the ONLY Flying power to carry a (HUGE) Accuracy Debuff --With Aim, and Accuracy Enhancements, I'm still MISS-ing a lot if I forget that I have fly on in a fight-- while Superspeed has even a great side-effect to it (stealth)
So. I know we flyers are the most practical, and that everybody else is jealous because WE LOOK SO DAMN COOL, but to be fair, this travel power is clearly NOT balanced with the other 3. Sure it needs some of a downside. But Huge Acc drop PLUS 40% Max speed drop PLUS Needing more Enh to cap Speed PLUS Being more costly than the others (except TP) makes it a kinda weird imbalance...
Give us flyers some love. Pretty please ?
