Wavicle

Originally Posted by MaxXavier

I would expect a Seismic Attack set before something like "Earth Blast". There are only so many ways you can throw rocks, but extending the concept to the ground in general could -- with a little creativity -- fill a ranged set. But I digress. I've had no issues with Stone Spears, personally. I really like it, actually, due to its knock up. I've survived some sticky early level situations thanks to it.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

I went to Test and was just reading through the numbers/descriptions.

I am surprised that Stone Spear is actually a "foot stomp with stone spike" coming out. I thought it was going to be like throwing a Jarvelin (like those Rome warriors) or something.


My only concern/question is a lot of /Earth's secondary effect is knockup (one knockdown?) so when Domination is on, does it become a knockback? I hope not because I have a lvl 40 Mind/Energy and one thing I dislike about using Power Push as an attack is that when Domination is on, Push becomes a very serious push. Mind has no -kb. T_T If there is a wall, I'll try to push to the wall but sometimes there is no obstacle and Power Push is pushing way too far. I hope Earth Assault has less of this issue.

Other than that, Earth Assault is pretty much what I anticipated = a heavy melee set.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

You're right! it might even be worse
propel = 3.7 cast, 28.02 DPA
Stone spears*= 2.244 cast, 23.54 DPA

*really wish they'd take the "S" off as it isn't plural

Wavicle is correct afaik when he says Stone spears is the worst st attack Doms get in terms of DPA. In fact it is matched by only one other power iirc - Fossilize. But that is a long duration hold with huge -def and not really an "attack".

Admittedly I'd say propel is still worse in actual use because it locks you out of using anything else for so much longer.

IMO if they want to keep calling it Stone SpearS it should have a little 5ft aoe on it.

Anyway, as predicted earth is a horrid ranged set. I wasn't expecting it to be as bad as it is, but was still preparing for something awful and boy did they deliver. However, it has some of the highest DPA attacks possible in the st melee ones so I think that just about makes up for it.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

It is the tier 1 attack so it does ~56 damage. The reason it has crappy DPA and DPS is because it has a 2.1 sec cast time, which is 0.77 seconds longer than any other tier 1.
DPA is bad because it activates slow.
DPS is bad becasue it cycles slower than the others.

My only real issue with the power is that I can't use it while I'm off the ground, so jumping, flying, end of a teleport, w/e. That and it uses the footstomp animation which I personally feel should be reserved for powerful attacks like footstomp, fissure, fault, rather than a piddly spammed st attack. But I raised that issue when it was first announced and even commented on how repetitive an earth/earth build would be with 3 "must have" powers using an identical animation.

Originally Posted by macskull

It's actually a very good power. You don't fight flying enemies all that often, really. Trust me. Unless you derive your entertainment from fighting custom mobs consisting of nothing but Longbow Eagles, I think you'll live. It's not like you'll have your pick of, oh, 17 or so other powers to neutralize that enemy.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

That works fine for inf but what happens to enhancements, inspirations, and salvage? It's much easier to go over the character limit on those items.


Remember in the suggested scenario the person doesn't bother to check his emails before deleting them. It's not hard to believe the person in question won't bother to check if he has room to store anything else, so what happens to those items?

He emails a complete set of LoTG to a character but forgets that it is currently carrying 8 enhancements. So he hits "Get All" then cleans out his email list, and discovers afterwards he only had room for 2 enhancements from the set.


There's got to be a better way to do this than emails.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

You also have to be on the ground to activate stone spears...

Originally Posted by Katfood

You all have such naughty minds!

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Just curious... I thought I16 is in Open Beta now?

Maybe I'll check it out tonight.

Originally Posted by New Dawn

Assassin's Thrust would be a better name for it I think.

Originally Posted by Support

I can only think of one reason why not right now that has not bemm mentioned.

E-mail Spam.

Do you know how many E-mail I get after one day of not logging in. Whenever I log in, I just press delete 20-50 times just to clean out the E-mail box from RMT (Real Money Traders). I can imagine the following scenario :

1) Log into character and and see lots of SPAM on Inbox.

2) Not bother reading, I delete all the E-mail. 1 of them was an influence transfer.


If one was an influence E-mail, I would have lost millions of influence by not reading the E-mail. Then we would gripe more for losing influence whether it came from myself or even a friend. Even if there is a feature many of us would like to have, there would always be flaws.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

The only other ones that don't notify to my knowledge are Sleep Grenade from Blaster Munitions Mastery, and Spore Burst from Plant Control.

Using those two as a template, it would be a reasonable guess that any sleep power that does no damage would not notify, but those are the only ones I am sure of.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I suppose I'm not a fan of knockback. It's the only status effect that can actually be detrimental, and the only real way to get by is to negate it entirely. If the only way I can use TS is to make sure enemies don't get knocked back first, that defeats the purpose of the secondary effect entirely. I feel that way when I play my Energy Blaster. I feel as though I may have well just gone Fire, because I try to party with Controllers who can negate my knockback, at which point I'm not even contributing anything but damage.

Originally Posted by Atheism

Because it's EM me thinks. I mean, there's no real reason to go EM anymore.

Originally Posted by American_Valor

I agree.

Now my question is how many of you who have 50's are willing to do a TF run Dr Q sked with a lvl 10 any AT race, and they have to do the missions not door sit?

It's SUPER SIDEKICK time!

Besides the FF Defender who would you bring and why?

Valor

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Not even that. Just annoying. Thus the deletion of a multi-year old level 50.

Originally Posted by Rieze

I was thinking dissapointing. Mind you, I could find use for the power if it turned out to be a regen/recovery passive. I would rather it be a def power like a clone of shadow meld. I find it cheaper to slot for recharge exclusively then it is to go for recharge and def. This would work well with /regen and res based sets. Unless the 5th power in darkness mastery is shadow meld. If that be the case, then I'd be able to deal with that. Even though I'd rather have to get foc acc or conserve power over pet gaze or torrent. But that's just me.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I also don't like only having one AoE. Technically I have two, but the AoE splash on Thunderstrike does trivial damage. It also does knockback and throws enemies to the four corners of the Earth.

Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire

This isn't challenging at all though, it's just annoying.

Originally Posted by Quinch_NA

Why don't you just ask for a "Lvl to 20" button, maybe that would be easier for you?

I take it you missed the part right before it where I object to the XP boost? Unless you now gain XP from resting... I dunno, maybe I missed the memo?

Originally Posted by Black_Marrow

Play a Hero and you'll never fight Blasters again. Except in Warburg.