Vel_Overload

See what you did? You bumped the thread again! Wait, I was set up! NOOOOOO...

Darth Vader quote made my day. I love you.

Yes, council need to be less generic. They look cool, fo' sho' and have that cheesy G.I.Joe feel to them, that makes them cool already. More giant robots needed I think.

You can say it's better than earthquake all you want but it is -still- Earthquake, better or not. It has a massive rehcrage that makes people ask themselves 'blow my 5 minute cooldown power now? or later?' Dominators had the same problem with domination wwaayy back in the day. They had to juggle when to use it. It wasn't fun for anybody. Liquefy is in the same boat. It's Earthquake, better or not: it doesn't fit in sonic resonance at all.

EDIT: It seems it does less than Earthquake according to Tex above me. the -def and -tohit are nice but it doesn't do the yummy knockdown as often, which is the beauty of such powers. All the while having a higher recharge.

I guess I could make the same arguement about Phase Powers: If only groups would community more.. they would be useful. Or, If only teams would be perfectly synergized, then just mabye, we could completely skip healing and support powers. Your assuming that this is a WoW raid or something where every single move is planned. To be blunt: This game is like Diablo 2 meets WoW: Get a group of 8 people and blow through missions like it's no tomorrow. That's just how the game is usually played. Yeah things slow down on tough TFs and even in non-PuGs. But in all honesty, with this logic, every power would be useful. Be realistic, not everyone follows instructions (for better or for worse sadly), not everyone wants to play a tactics game with a knockback power and not everybody wants to waste their endurance on a power that could potentially ruin one of their more important power's effects if their Sonic Repulsion target makes a mistake.

Do you honestly want to buff 7 people with 3 different buffs and keep up 3 toggles? This is fun? Yeah some people would consider this fun (Cheers, Westley! We miss you). But in all honesty, its tedious keeping up with 2 buffs as it is on 7 targets combined with the 2 toggles we're apparently suppose to keep as far away from each other as possible. And even that uses endurance at a decent pace. Clarity's uses are good, but generally not worth keeping on allies. It's almost always turned into a reaction device: Only being used after an ally gets mezzed. Too bad that's not very often or very long. It's useful for certain groups like Malta or other mez-heavy enemies but outside of them: it's hardly used.

Comapring it to Empathy's Clear Mind: It's the same but each set plays drastically different. Empathy's only applying Fortitude on targets while healing, So theres more time in Empathy's (I guess what you'd call) rotation to get Clear Mind in. They also have the endurance to spare quite easily. You could also arguement a mental state of active protection while the sonic player is about passive protection.


I agree. But I'm on a crusade to change Phase powers so I must remain vigilant! Shorter duration with a shorter cooldown would make them much more beneficial. Take a boss out of a fight for 5 seconds: high mitigation. 15 second cooldown.

Oh look! The Failtrain is coming to town. I wonder who is going to get on it this time!

Seriously, it's beneficial to read a post before posting. To be realistic, if this thread was 17 pages long; you could probably get away with reading just the OP's statement. But we're not even done with page one...

Her hair has a chance to proc server crashes. I've seen it happen.

Who says it isn't stupidly overpowered? My Bot/Storms is the equivalent to having a team full of 5-6 controllers who don't let anyone get hurt. Shame on you for letting my Bot/Storm be so damn powerful! shame on you!

I would say this is a great idea, but if your not Defense capped then in a heated situation you could be interrupted. Then, if you ARE defense capped then your probably not going to need the self heal anyway. Expecially since you have a reliable heal already.

Oh, Teleport Ally is a great power if your running TFs a lot with a team. Expecially since you have Super(ior) Invisibility

agreed.

But considering many of the PBs powers aren't very useful to the AT as a whole, I doubt we'll see much of a boost to their performance besides a slight damage buff. Many of those powers need to be either given additional effects or taken away, and right now, the devs won't do that.