Healboy

Nice guide. I was especially interested in the part about the targeted AoE knocking away from the player, not the target. This is counterintuitive, but more manageable.

A minor quibble on wording. According to the in-game help, the "PB" in PBAOE does not stand for "point blank"; it stands for "player based". I have seen this mistake quite often in many guides and posts. You can see it in menu>help>powers>power descriptions. Of course, no one will be confused by the incorrect terminology, but "player based" and "point blank" are not synonymous. For instance, you would never hear about a person being killed by a gun fired at "player based" range.

I'm sure most people couldn't care less about the terminology, but I do prefer "player based". After all, it is more descriptive. Also, I think that "point blank" is actually incorrect, in this sense: If by "point blank" we mean, "emanating from the player", then a snipe would also be "point blank", since it emanates from the player, but this goes against common usage of "point blank". Basically, I think it comes down to this: "point blank" describes range, which is not what we want for PBAOE. We want to describe the origin of the power; in this case, the player.

Wish I had something useful to say about gameplay. Anyway, again, nice guide. Force bolt FTW!

Hi McBoo, thanks for the reply. I'm a little late in getting back to you.

To explain what I mean about stealth not being as great as it used to be, I'll quote a portion of the guide:

"Stealth definitely isn’t as useful as it used to be. Super Speed + Stealth offers complete invisibility, and while this is useful, it now suppresses the moment you begin an attack; this means you can no longer run into the middle of a group and start Short Circuiting undetected, because the spawn will aggro you as soon as Short Circuit begins animating. Stealth is still useful as far as powerpools go. Pick it up if you want to invis through to mission objectives, or if you find it easier to position yourself for Short Circuit when you can take your time setting it up."

I'm guessing from your post that you don't have much trouble dealing with the suppression. Now that I think about it I doubt my suggestion of using teleport would help this issue at all, anyway. Thanks for your thoughts.

I abandoned my E^3 in the twenties somewhere. I just didn't have the guts for it. Someday...

Thanks for the great guide.

Question: There have been some grumblings about stealth not being as great as it used to be. Would someone discuss the pros/cons of using teleport to teleport into the spawn and start blasting the aoes, etc? A previous guy said he had TP but no one responded. Any benefits to doing that over using stealth? Thanks.