Samuel_Tow

I'm getting a little tired of reiterating this. If Soul Reaver's Raziel and Waterworld's Mariner can jump out of water just fine AND look good doing so, I see no reason to keep bringing it up. Swinging through open air, on the other hand, has absolutely no way to make it look even remotely reasonable without resorting to the stupidity I saw on the Champions board where someone suggested something to the effect of shooting balloons and swinging off them.

That's the big problem. This right there eliminates more than half of City of heroes (more like two thirds) and a great big part of City of Villains, both of which, incidentally, have large sections of open ocean. This would make swinging even MORE situational than Super Speed, and that is situational enough as it is.

I have no idea what you are talking about

I already took it out of my planned build for when I get around to doing a respec (which will likely be some time next year with next week looking like I16's Launch Date), and yet I'm still running short on slots. I'm looking to skip something else, but I'm not sure what that should be. I actually have my eye on Hot Feet, largely from experience using it. Yes, it's nice in the mitigation it gives, but it seems like my Fire Blaster just causes too much scatter for it to work, even with Hot Feet slotted for slow and working effectively. It's nice in conjunction with Rain of Fire, but Rain of Fire itself has pretty unimpressive danage. Or at the very least, I might drop my planned damage slots from Hot Feet. Its damage contribution is minimal, given how fast battles typically go. Anything that survives Fireball + Fire Breath + Combustion + Fire Sword isn't really worth running Hot Feet for anyway. Then again, I only really need two enemies to make the thing endurance-efficient, so I don't know.

I was thinking of dropping Burn, but that'll only earn me two extra slots (three damage, can't slot it for accuracy) and I've had a lot of fun with it. I had one mission where I got webbed up by Knives of Artemis literally once every fight, and every time I'd Burn my way out of it. And it looked AWESOME! I also saved myself from a bunch of Spines Protectors that way, burning through their immobilizing ranged attack before they could close into range and hitting them with Ring of Fire. Plus, as noted before, it's effectively damage for free. Can't really give that up.

Well, I guess I'm more angry that all the other ATs I like playing have a much easier time fighting bosses, and I'm usually excited when I meet one. When I meet a boss with a Blaster, it's more panic and inventing new curse words. Of course, the other ATs I play are Scrapper, Brute, Mastermind and Stalker, so I may be biassed. I tried my hand at Peacebringers, but Controller hit points and the lack of an inherent (I don't team much at all) ruined it for me. I tried new Dominators, but the lack of AoE damage and overal punch compared to Blasters, coupled with even LESS self-protection and my apparent inability to control the 5-6 opponents that my favourite difficulty spawned ruined it for me at around level 31. I could have waited for level 32, obviously, but the unreliable status protection mechanic and the reliance of control over killing just didn't sit well with me.

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That said, the "new" Blaster Defiance changes are pretty much the only thing that allows me to play Blasters at all. Before the changes, I got a Blaster to 34 on the bugged Smoke Grenade and found myself unable to play another one at all. Now, they have so much extra damage over everyone else that they're just about playable

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And you know what the worst part of Hot Feet is? It keeps getting shut down. I'm a Blaster. I don't HAVE status protection. That Mentalist over there? He won't fee a tick of it. Oh, hey, that group of Rikti over there doesn't have a mentalist, maybe... Stunned. Thank you, Headman Gunman, for your GOD DAMN 10 SECOND STUN!!! Freaks have sleeps, Devouring Earth have mushrooms, Rikti have holds, sleeps, stuns and immobilizes, Malta have... Everything, Carnies have stuns and holds, the Nemesis Army have stuns from time to time, it just goes on and on. I literally can't sneeze without having Hot Feet shut down, and if I DO manage it, it drops from lack of endurance. AND I have to land to restart it. Ugh...

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Sorry about all the edits, but I'm posting this as it occurs to me. For the bulk of this Council mission, I've not used Hot Feet. Council spawn too scattered for it to be effective, and even the ones I manage to tag with the fringes end up running away fairly quickly. That, and werewolves are all but immune to slows. I don't think I've gotten more than three-four ticks on any enemy so far. The one time I found a big and clumped enough spawn to use it on, they scattered as soon as I tagged them with Hot Feet and left within two seconds. I might end up dropping that, too. And that WILL give me all the slots I need.

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After getting ganged up on once, I realised one VERY big difference between having Hot Feet and not having hot feet - the Avoid aspect. With it, when I dive into melee, everything runs. Without it, when I dive into melee, everything attacks me. I considered simply not slotting the power for damage (or accuracy, since accuracy only governs the damage components), but then something else occurred to me - I can get the same effect via Rain of Fire.

Interestingly, both powers scare enemies in different ways. Hot Feet casts 4 seconds of mag 3 "Afraid" every two seconds (though it doesn't self-stack), which is the old Fear mechanic before Terrorize became the order of the day. Rain of Fire, on the other hand, casts 0.75 seconds of mag 5 AVOID every 0.5 seconds (which also doesn't self-stack), which is an entirely DIFFERENT mechanic as found in things like Burn, Ignite, Caltrops and so forth. So Hot Feet is a fear power, whereas Rain of Fire seems to be just a power to avoid. I'd need to know more about what that actually means, but for the time being I think I'll do just fine casting Rain of Fire over myself and sparing myself five extra slots and two thirds of my total recovery in endurance cost. While I'm not dropping it yet, I intend to play without Hot Feet for a while.

Most of those things you only see once in a long while, and a lot of them make sense. Dropping robots are heavily implied to be air-dropped or launched artillery-style, manhole covers are implied to simply be part of the scenery and Mercenaries Spec Ops are not "climbing down," they are rappelling down, and from the looks of it it seems to be assumed they are rappelling out of a helicopter, which is a pretty standard scene in fiction. In fact, the GIs from CNC: Generals could do just that - rappel out of a Chinook helicopter and clear out buildings.

Granted, a lot of those don't make much sense, like the Commando parachuting inside a building or robots emerging out of the ground in Oranbega. Out into the open, it's easy enough to claim that the crafty Mastermind just has secret robot-delivering hatches built all around town and one just happened to be there, but in off-world locations or ancient catacombs, it DOES look out of place.

But again, that happens once, and these henchmen last 99999 seconds, or a little over 27 hours. And with them zoning with you as of I16, a good Mastermind will be recalling rather very rarely. Swinging is not something you do only rarely once in a while. Swinging is a repetitive process you do continuously over and over as you travel. The way it's implemented in Champions Online would probably put it at a little over flight speed here, which means that if you want to swing from Talos Island to Circle Island, you'll be grappling the heavens for a good 30-60 seconds. And heaven forbid if you want to get from Nerva Archipelago to Thorn Island. You'll be "swinging" over open ocean.

And that's completely ignoring the face that the way Spider-Man swings is completely impossible from a physics perspective. You can't stand on the ground, grapple a rooftop and launch yourself into a violent swing that takes you almost horizontal of your grapple point. As a general thing, a swing will on its own will never take you higher than the height from which you started. Granted, a "miracle excuse" is in order a lot of the time just for the sake the rule of cool, but even Spidey often finds himself in trouble because there are no buildings around for him to swing from, and he has to resort to stupid solutions like making balloons or parachutes out of web.

The Statesman may be portrayed as a jerk, but I've not seen a single instance where he was portrayed as a tyrant. And since when was Recluse's DICTATORSHIP about expression personal freedom? Unless you count a Darwinian survival of the fittest as "expressing personal freedom," more specifically the freedom to commit wanton murder, theft and jaywalking, the Rogue Isles are a cesspool of lawlessness, oppression and complete dictatorship by the nation state.

Also, last time I fought him, Recluse displayed invulnerability, super-human strength, the ability to fire an array of energy blasts AND quite a sizeable amount of reinforcements. Last time I fought the Statesman, he pretty much just punched really hard.

I'm afraid I've given on Blazing Aura entirely. There's no chance in hell I'll have the slots to devote to it, and even if I did, there's no way I'd be able to run that, Hot Feet, Fire Shield and Hover. Just Hot Feet and Blazing Aura break my recovery. And, as a matter of fact, I'm not getting much mileage out of Hot Feet right now, either. Even on narrow maps, enemies are always scattered, and I lack the means to cause them to bunch up. And they will certainly not bunch up through Hot Feet, itself.

I have a friend who says the same thing about his Fire/Fire Blaster. I'm not seeing it, myself. I do enough damage to KILL an entire spawn in one-shot, yet whatever survives just calmly shoots at me, or chases to hit me. I dive in with Hot Feet running and kill, say, five out of seven enemies, and the remaining two run for a second and a half, then turn around and shoot me. I very, very rarely get true runners, and even then it's usually one odd enemy out of the four who remain shooting at me. At most they'll run 10 feet back and then start shooting.

And I do very much what you do.

Right now I think I've hit my stride, so to speak. Blazing Aura stays off, waiting for me to find a whim and respec out of it. For the most part, depending on enemy density, I'll either do what you do and go Fireball + Combustion from melee with Hot Feet running, or I'll open from range with Fireball + Fire Breath + Rain of Fire while I run in to keep enemies from spreading too much. On the occasional two-enemy spawn (+1 lieutenant, +1 minion), I tend to resort to Blazing Bolt and Blaze for the lieutenant, and the minion is usually easy after that.

Bosses remain a problem. They just hit too hard and are impossible to kill fast enough.

The notation for damage numbers here is given twice, because I took damage with and without the additional 80% chance extra damage that a lot of Fire attacks have. For all damage statistics, the one on the left is without the extra damage, and the one on the right with it. Where you XX.XXX, that's a power that doesn't have an extra damage component.

With that said, here's a reprint of a rather long post I made earlier today on a forum where writing code was easier:

What observations did I make? Firstly, both Fire Blast and Fire Manipulation powers are balanced without including the chance damage, which means that they show baseline efficiency (a DPE of 12.031) when the effect does not trigger. This means that a LOT of the time, a Fire/Fire Blaster will be more endurance-efficient than any other Blaster, and not by very little, as well. Additional damage can add up to 50% extra efficiency, which is a LOT.

As well, it should be noted that Flares, though it lacks an additional damage component, is HUGELY efficient even without it. However, the power is also immensely costly, realistically matched only by the equally "small" Ring of Fire and the absurdly expensive Hot Feet. Unlike them, however, Flares has the single highest sustained damage over time of all of Fire Blast and Fire Manipulation. At the efficiency it comes with, using it as much as possible seems like a very smart plan to save energy. You end fights faster AND it costs you less per unit of damage. Win/win.

When it comes to AoEs, that combo's single best is Fire Breath, at an efficiency so high that hitting as few as two enemies makes it more efficient than a single target attack without its extra damage. That's a LOT. Combustion, slow and unwieldy though it may be, is a close second, with a HUGE area of effect and some of the best AoE efficiency you're going to get, again at a around two targets hit to break even. Not only that, but these two powers are relatively cheap to run AND have a very decent damage over time for area effects. By comparison, Fireball is TERRIBLE and Fire Sword Circle is pretty bad, at three and four targets hit to break even, respectively. Counter-intuitively, they are also more expensive to run AND deal less damage over time. They are, however, both pretty quick attacks, even if Fire Sword Circle is quite short-ranged, so that may make up.

Amazingly, Rain of Fire is a very solid power, with an efficiency such that it takes three targets for it to break even. Given that Rain of Fire is a 25 foot AoE, that shouldn't be too hard to achieve, though that's if the targets suffer the rain's entire duration, which is hard to achieve given that the AI wants to run out. Hot Feet can be used to slow enemies and prevent them from leaving the rain, so there's something to be said still. But the power is overall cheap and not very damaging in the long run, so its main use is a fire-and-forget extra damage at an admittedly not too steep a cost.

Blaze is a nice surprise, being naturally a little over-efficient, as well as dealing some of the sets' best sustained damage, and reaching ludicrous levels if its extra damage fires often. This is definitely a VERY solid power that should be used as often as possible. It saves endurance, it does good damage, but it is a bit expensive to support if you never stop to rest.

Blazing Bolt is outright disappointing, with average efficiency, pitiful yield gain with it s extra damage and quite a poor damage output over time for a single-target power. And that's assuming you can use it every time it recharges. It gets worse when you consider it's interruptible. It does a lot of up-front damage, granted, and it's useful as an opener, but its contribution to prolonged fights is minimal.

Ring of Fire is quite a bit of a surprise, as well, being a little over-efficient and doing a LOT damage over time. Of course, this comes at a pretty steep cost, with the problems of limited range and damage delay, and there surely are other powers that can be spammed in the same time, like... Flares! Flares does about the same from a longer range and for a LOT less endurance cost to the damage. Still, when all else fails, resort to this, I guess. Mine isn't slotted yet, so I shy away from it.

Fire Sword is... Diappointing. It's efficiency is below average, meaning it wastes endurance every time you use it, its damage over time is low and the cost to support it is fairly high. This power is pretty bad when you think about it. It's good for shock damage, but it's certainly not something I'd want as a regular part of my attack chain. It's not worth the cost and it's not worth the time investment. It's not BAD, mind you, I'd certainly take it an use it, but it isn't nearly as good as one might think.

Blazing Aura is embarrassing. It is only marginally more efficient than Hot Feet, does LESS damage over time and is almost a THIRD of its radius. Just to give you an idea, Blazing Aura covers ~201 square feet, whereas Hot Feet covers 1256. Hot Feet also has both a Slow and an Avoid component, and while it has a ridiculous endurance cost, it's just much, much more potent. If it comes down to it, I'd keep Hot Feet and drop Blazing Aura like a hot potato. In fact, considering I'll likely run out of slots, that's probably what I'll end up doing anyway.

Burn is a funny power. It's ludicrously cheap to support, has fairly low damage over time, but the damage it does costs you NOTHING. The efficiency of this power is ABSURD, which is only compounded by the fact that it's AoE. If you team with a Controller and drop a Burn patch at the feet of, say, three enemies, you've essentially done as much damage as if you fired off 10 single-target attacks, and all of that at the cost of Brawl. I never realised how much endurance this saved me. I'll slot it and use it more! And remember - the same set that has Burn also has Ring of Fire.

Interestingly, Bonfire is a fairly efficient damage dealing power, at an efficiency of about two targets to break even. However, given that it deals constant knockback, the chances of getting any decent damage out of it are slim. The power is, however, fairly cheap to run, and if you happen upon an enemy that cannot be knocked back, it's also a pretty decent damage dealer over time.

Char looks like a decent damage dealer on the surface, but that's a single-target attack which is half as efficient as its baseline AND has pretty crappy damage over time at a not insignificant cost. I'd stick to using that as a hold and not worry about its damage, personally.

Melt Armour looks incredibly interesting. It doesn't do damage, but the cost of running it is ABSURDLY small, owing to its really, really long recharge timer. But if it really does -250% damage buff to an AoE range of 10 feet as the unofficial Mid's Hero Designer claims, that might be pretty significant. Suffice it to say I can't decide if I want it or if I can skip it for something else.

And that's about all I have. That was certainly an interesting experiment, and it just might change the way I play this character in a fairly big way.

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And this finishes something I've been doing quite literally ALL DAY.

Courier, you say? So, just add Courier to Code blocks? Sweet!, let's have a look!

Hey, sweet! It works! Thanks a bunch

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Just to illustrate, here's how the same looks in this font:

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Yes, but that still reformats the text, and I can't stop it. For instance, the horizontal size of a dash - is a low smaller than the horizontal size of, say, a capital W. So if I had a row of ten - and a row of ten W, then the row of W would be nearly twice as long. That's a big problem when trying to make a presentable table, because it prevents me from making straight columns.

Once upon a time, [code] used to force all symbols to be given equal spacing, so that smaller ones simply had more room around them, like you'd see in pure plain text. That does not appear to be an option any more, and I can't seem to find a font that does that.

Interesting. A few points of note:

*You do know you can just click on two glowies and both will count down at the same time, right? If you have multiple glowies in range, you can just click on them all and they won't interrupt each other.

*Huh. You're skirting the line almost more than I am. You do pretty well, but I kept an eye out, and you run out of health and endurance a LOT. Granted, I'm not expecting to be able to play at full everything all the time, but I saw you face more than a few REALLY close calls there.

*You seem to have Tough and a lot of the Leadership powers. Do those help? I have none of those (I literally have only Fire Blast, Fire Manipulation and two powers from Flight). I'm not sure how much these helped, as you did seem to be getting hurt about as much as I was, but it's important nonetheless.

*How do you scare enemies so much? Does Blazing Aura have an Avoid component or something? It seemed like every time you dove into an enemy group, enemies would take one shot then scatter like cockroaches. I can never seem to achieve this effect.

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*Are you playing on Unyielding? You're doing about as well on what looks like Unyielding as I am on Tenacious. I must be doing something wrong. Either that, or Blasters don't scale up in difficulty as poorly as I thought.

*Why all the temporary powers? I mean, I can see the benefit of the Nemesis Staff or... Is that the Iron Sword? I can see the benefit of them when you're lower level and don't really have many attacks, but at level 37 you ought to have more than enough, all of them better than the Nemesis staff. How come? Why the Iron Sword instead of your Fire Sword? Why the Nemesis Staff instead of Fire Blast and/or Flares?

This is something I can really get behind, and I can't quite understand why it isn't the case. Generally, when comparing powers between Blasters and just about any AT not using Blast sets, AoEs on Blasters are bigger. For instance, look at how things changed between Fire Breath and Breath of Fire, and how much smaller Kheldian Human Form attacks are as compared to Blaster/Nova Form attacks. Given that, you'd think Blazing Aura would be huge, supersized like the rest of the Blaster AoEs, but instead it's small. As small as the Tanker version. Now, melee AT damage auras work just fine, because the character is in melee anyway. Blaster damage auras are bit... Wonky, however. Blazing Aura, being as small as it is, really requires you to get up close and personal with a lot of enemies if you want it to be worth its weight in damage. In fact, I think it's time I did another "cost vs. effect" comparison for Fire/Fire/Flame, just as a reference point.

Generally, I would like to see at least Blazing Aura's ticks increased to one every second or one every half second, and see its size increased to 15 feet. Either that, or make it a location-summonable entity like a ranged Burn or something. It's just that it's both so hard to use, so costly and so inefficient that it doesn't seem to be worth the power pick. In fact, if it comes down to that, I'll drop it when I run out of slots to give out.

Sacrificing endurance is out of the question, definitely, but what about sacrificing accuracy? I considered that, and I have been advised to skip accuracy on damage auras in the past, but are you saying that is a very bad idea? Certainly, if the power ticked a little more frequently, skipping accuracy may not be such a problem, but with a two-second tick time, it does indeed seem like accuracy is more important than damage.

So, essentially, because rule violations still manage to slip through, we should just abolish the rule altogether? Can you not see how that is an EXTREMELY bad idea? No rule in the history of mankind has ever been entirely adhered to, and only a VERY few have ever been adhered to even mostly. We have speed limits in the streets, and even with ten different ways to catch violators, people still speed. Do you think the solution is to just do away with speed limits so the state can save on traffic law enforcement expenditure?

This happens, but it's against the rules AS WELL IT SHOULD. Think about it - if I don't want it now and report every spammer I can, how are you going to sell me the notion that I should want it MORE if this became official? I don't want it AT ALL, official, unofficial or in the form of divine intervention. And, frankly, I'm glad PlayNC are making the effort to ban these people, not give them competition.

This is a question of opinion. If you're going to react with bile and personal attacks to disagreement, you might as well walk off now. You will NOT get anybody to agree with you with that attitude, nor will you really get people to consider it at all.

I might have thought it was worth contemplating, but it doesn't seem to be worth the bother if THAT is what your responses are going to be like. The name is just fine.

I have a BIG problem with this, and it's the same problem I had in Champions (when I wasn't waiting in line). I'd seen a couple of missions build up to a big fight, I go to this foreboding location and go to spawn my bad guys and... I'm in a huge crowd of people taking turns to fight him. I spawn mine, someone else rushes in, kills him, and I discover that, anti-climactically, my mission is over. Great. My entire mission was fighting this one guy, and it's over without me doing anything. Thanks for ruining it for me!

To me, having your mission complete if someone ELSE kills or clicks is no different from me walking away from the computer and having a team-mate finish the mission for me. Or, even worse, little different from using the Mission Drop feature.

Until I see a fool-proof system for ensuring I can avoid interference if I so desire, I'm afraid I cannot support this idea in any way.

Well that'd just mean I'd never do them ever in a million years. We have more than enough "beat up waves of enemies" encounters in the game. Some of these events, more specifically the Steel Canyon Fires, are actually cool because you can deal with the waves quickly and focus on the event itself.

That, and I refuse to be killed by a bunch of level 10 Hellions on a high-level character.

As an example, the command to switch to your third costume slot using, say, the lightning emote, would be:

/macro Cos1 "cce 2 cclightning"

Note that's 2 for the THIRD costume slot, because they count from zero.

Understood. The thing that brought this about was that using Breath of Fire effectively requires range, which actually fits in well with the range on Fireball, but if I rush into melee, the power is really difficult to get much use out of, hence why it becomes a choice of one or the other. Granted, I've taken to opening from range and THEM moving into melee. Especially on a team, Fireball + Fire Breath + Rain of Fire + Combustion + Fire Sword Circle makes for some very pretty sightseeing

I've heard the arguments about consume, myself. I believe it follows the model of Dark Consumption, which is a power in an attack primary, and is as such said to be penalised for it. I'm certainly not going to claim one way or the other, but I do believe Consume has a significantly larger AoE radius than Energy Drain, and considering it's in the same set as no less than two "Avoid" powers, a larger radius is actually a very good thing.

Beyond that, the set does feel a bit... I'll-staged. Hot Feet seems to be a great boon, but it comes so very late, while the rest of the set is filled with... Oddities, shall we call them. I would certainly be open to a revision of Fire Manipulation at some point just to shape things up a bit.

Using just common IOs (or SOs) I'd go 2 End, 1 Slow, 2 Dam, 1 Acc (in that order). The slow is auto-hit, but the damage needs Accuracy. This power is great for Frankenslotting set IOs, but I can understand if you want to avoid them. I am kind of interested in how you do without +recovery IOs (or maybe you have them).[/QUOTE]

Interesting... I have a habit of slotting three damage enhancements, but I can certainly see myself getting away with two, especially if there is something that might be a lot more useful. I'm assuming the slow is to prevent enemies from scattering? I do know that how slow they run has no effect on how frequently they turn around to shoot (it's a lot like Afraid/Fear, being that it used to be very much the same mechanic once upon a time), it just changes how far they travel before they do. I'm seeing that Hot Feet is unable to keep an enemy from running in, hitting me and only THEN getting caught by the Avoid effect, though I suppose with more slow that might be mitigated.

Should I be slotting slows in Rain of Fire, then? Can I even do that?

See, here's what I don't get. Why Fire Sword Circle? I keep seeing that combo suggested to me a lot - Firebll + Fire Sword Circle, and I can't quite figure it out. Why not Fireball + Fire Breath + Rain of Fire, even? Fire Breath does more damage than Fire Sword Circle, even if you account for the 80% chance extra damage. Fire Breath is 109.8 damage at level 50, while Fire Sword Circle is 102.88. And Fire Breath has both a bigger area and one that's easier to full out. A 40 feet, 30 degrees cone comes out to around 418.67 square feet, while Fire Sword Circle's 10 feet AoE is only about 314. That, and Fire Sword Circle can only really hit things immediately around you, whereas Fire Breach can reach quite a ways out.

Obviously, I'm not trying to claim one is better than the other, but if I'm going into melee for the sake of Fire Sword Circle, wouldn't I be better off firing Fire Breath from range, staying away from danger and potentially still hitting more people? Granted, from melee I also have the benefit of Combustion, which is a quite a large AoE at 15 feet radius which comes out to about 706.5 square feet, so trust me when I say it is massive. Granted, its damage is somewhat less, at 83.41 at 50, but with easily over twice the land area of Fire Sword Circle, it sounds like a pretty significant AoE, and is one in practice. In fact, whenever possible, I like to use that power and set everything alight. Like Incinerate, it does take some time to deal its damage and that BLOODY LONG animation are really annoying, but I wouldn't call it a bad power.

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Overall, having just taken Hot Feet, I can see why people were touting the power's virtues. Currently I only have it slotted with a single thing, which is a endurance reducer (and even so it still costs more than most entire defence sets), but I'm already seeing what I was told to look for - enemies run away a lot of the time, and they do so in slow motion. The bad thing is that I'm not seeing nearly the amount of mitigation I heard about, as enemies turn around to shoot at me roughly every two seconds or so (which is fairly normal, from what I've seen of avoid mechanics) and for some that actually matches their attack cycle anyway, but it DOES keep melee heavy hitters off my back, which is good. It does cause some scatter, but I use Rain of Fire, so what's a little scatter anyway?

I haven't had much chance to test it extensively, other than to tell it KILLS my endurance bar, but what I'm seeing so far is encouraging. This might be the change that turns things around, or at least holds me over until I can grab Fire Shield.

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Say, here's an interesting question: If I want to slot it only with single-aspect enhancements, what enhancement should I give Hot Feet? From the looks of it, two endurance reducers are absolutely necessary, and maybe damage at some point would be nice. How about accuracy, though? What about slow?