So... Is Smoke Flash and Blinding Powder any good?
Does anyone have first hand experience of using smoke bomb or blidning powder?
Smoke Flash
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Click | Target | AoE( 25 Ft )
Cost: 20.00 Act: 4 Rchg: 120.00 Dur: 20.00
Blinding Powder
---------------- Base Power Stats -------------------
Click | Target | Cone( 40 Deg. )
Act: 1.8 Rchg: 160.00 Dur: 15.00
Doesn't seem to bad to me, but I guess there aren't that many people at a high enough level to have their say yet. After all you need to be 28 and 35 for these two powers.
Smoke flash is 4 sec ACT. I wonder if it can be interrupted. 4 sec is a very long time when you have several mobs aggro'd, and I guess that is when you would want to use it.
Bliding powder looks better with 1.8 sec activation time.
Doesn't say anything about it being interuptable in Villain Builder. And 4 seconds is alot faster than waiting for hide to kick back in.
I have Smoke Flash, and I've been trying to find the best way to use it... and to be frankly, I simply can't! Most of the times the mobs still come running after me... the Smoke Flash is NOT interruptable. U can even run while doin it... I still need it to test it some more, but let me tell u right away, that something is wrong with it... it's pretty much useless! In about 10 situations, only once I managed to placate the enemies... and you don't get hiden... Besides, if you ARE Hiden, and use it, you'll come out of Hide...
I donno, let me tell u, that if I don't find really soon the magic book of "How to work with Smoke Flash", then I'll just put it aside... I'm really disapointed at it!
Jacen The Oni - Stalker lvl 29
I geuss you have to actually "hit" the enemies with it to placate them? If thats the case then even if you miss one it screws up or soemthign?
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I geuss you have to actually "hit" the enemies with it to placate them? If thats the case then even if you miss one it screws up or soemthign?
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Just had a look on hero planner and the only enhancement it lists for it is recharge reduction. If this is correct and it doesn't accept accuracy that would mean that it's an auto-hit power so technically you wouldn't be able to miss. Unless you're on a big team and have more than 15 mobs around you then I think the AoE limit code would probably kick in.
If you can move and use it, maybe its the same as all other powers like that - it activates when u first click it.
Its like when you do the scrapper spin around attack whilst jumping, if you click it whilst jumping into a group of mobs and the animation ends as you land in the middle of them, itll still hit the mobs around you when you first pressed it.
Are you activating the smoke flash - then running into a group of mobs?
I hope this power doesnt suck cos i picked ninjitsu almost purely on the back of it being good :S
I had visions of running into a group of heroes, standing behind someone and going
AS + placate + soaring dragonfly(crit) + Smoke flash then running away grinning 
I have heard neither of these powers are any good due to the long animation times, and wanted to get some opinions on it.
If you take these two powers out, then Ninjitsu becomes a watered down version of SR (ie gimped version of a gimped power set) and has got me worried.