I wonder how many Blasters will drop this now lol. I'm going to keep it on my SR scrapper as it doesn't really affect him.
I only see electrical brutes and sr scrappers with this.
Affects mostly duel builds tbh.Never had it on any of my toons.
Not suprised with this change since the devs have said it for a long time that aid self was too good and they were always going to nerf it.
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I don't think I have it on any of my toons, but it's a great power for some builds. Rooting's fair, I guess.
Rooting is just gonna gimp it more then it already is, an interuptable heal is bad enough imo. I like my mobility when pvping, and with rooting i might consider specing it out for something else.
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Rooting is just gonna gimp it more then it already is, an interuptable heal is bad enough imo. I like my mobility when pvping, and with rooting i might consider specing it out for something else.
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Thing is, with some Interrupt IO's it's pretty easy to tap the Aid Self button and then almost immediately move. It's a problem power - I don't think it's as overpowered as some people, but I do think that it's a bit too good for a pool power. Extra rooting will bring it in to line a bit without being as drastic as an increase in interrupt time.
(Though I am against rooting in general, I dislike the mechanic).
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Sheesh, someone needs to teach the big fella about what it means when the "Big hand" and the "Little hand" both go past the twelve again. The date was the first thing I checked- "04/02/08 01:45 AM"!! 
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Sheesh, someone needs to teach the big fella about what it means when the "Big hand" and the "Little hand" both go past the twelve again. The date was the first thing I checked- "04/02/08 01:45 AM"!!
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Posting this here because it'll likely affect PvP more than PvE play. Also, bear in mind that the date this was posted was the second of April, not the first.
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Regardless of what Castle does with the actual power or interrupt times, I did fix the animation for I12 so that will now root you for the full duration (~4 seconds if I remember correctly.)
That makes it consistent with all of our other interruptible/windup powers.
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Not a huge change, but it will mean that you can't fire Aid Self off and "just start moving again" right after the animation starts when slotted for interrupt reduction. Might want to keep an eye on that thread too- if Castle does end up extending the interrupt time even slightly, then Aid Self won't be able to heal a toon through the "ticks" of a debuff or a DoT.