Thanks to the insightful labeling abilities of the devs, Kinetics Repel (the power) isnt repel (the effect). Neither are repulsion field of power mastery and forcefield powerset. All the three actually cause knockdown/knockback instead of repel. Examples of real repel powers are telekinesis, hurricane and force bubble. Iirc singularity also does small repel but Im not sure. Knockback can still be useful, but its not nearly as effective.
The range of bodyguard mode is roughly the same as leadership toggles like assault and tactics.
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Thanks to the insightful labeling abilities of the devs, Kinetics Repel (the power) isnt repel (the effect). Neither are repulsion field of power mastery and forcefield powerset. All the three actually cause knockdown/knockback instead of repel. Examples of real repel powers are telekinesis and force bubble. Iirc singularity also does small repel but Im not sure. Knockback can still be useful, but its not nearly as effective.
The range of bodyguard mode is roughly the same as leadership toggles like assault and tactics.
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Singy does Knockback. He basically has the Kinetics "Repel" power without the Stamina drain.
Well I dueled my Merc/traps MM friend last night as part of an sg event. I didnt allow him to fully get set up to start, but he did have all of his troops out and had laid down a triage beacon and caltrops by the time i found him. Admittidly an MM isnt his fave AT to duel with, and i dont think he used every trick he had to his advantage.
After popping elude I managed to use ToF, placate and soul storm to good effect, causing chaos mostly, and managed to get enough of his troops out of the way to then wittle his HP down, and i think i never actually got an AS off on him, possibly once or twice on a minion that had strayed too far from the pack. I just managed to defeat him before elude crashed, and then had to leg it. THen thanks to the joy of SS I got elude back up in the 10 mins (hasten and quickness ftw!) and got him another 2 times.
However I do feel that if he had been on form, I probably wouldnt have stood a chance, esp with trip mines, seeker drones, tactics, caltrops and force field generators. I think in future, if i go against an MM, ile def be taking TP foe, seems about the only logical way to really get one over on all types of MM.
Thanks for all the tips on how to take out MMs though, was usefull!
Beware of the Sturdy inspiration, resistance to teleport foe apparently. Google cheatcodes for infinite supply.
Im not sure, i fought a force mastery blaster who had the same idea, it diddnt work, which surprised me. though that could be because i had the time to debuff.
I assume repulse would break hide, so perhaps, i quick scattering of minions followed by placate and AS (or ET for those lucky nrg melee stalkers)could do it.
I would like to see how a spines stalker would fair... they may be able to cut a few minions down quickly, leaving the MM in some trouble