But nobody ever takes Repel...
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one observes it, does it make any sound?
I really should do something about this signature.
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I think the sound for repel or similar power should be changed. I suggest "Skidoosh!" 
Discuss 
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No Pandaisms please. 
I use repel.
Knockback protection IO = 15,000,000 plus.
Four slots of Kinetic Crash give a mag 3 knockback resistance, the above mentioned IO only gives four. What is more it can be fun in the right situation and never needs to be switched on for the knockback protection. What is more all four slots can be filled for less than a million.
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I use repel.
Knockback protection IO = 15,000,000 plus.
Four slots of Kinetic Crash give a mag 3 knockback resistance, the above mentioned IO only gives four. What is more it can be fun in the right situation and never needs to be switched on for the knockback protection. What is more all four slots can be filled for less than a million.
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Yeah, but I can put a KBprot IO into CJ or any other def power at a cost of only one slot (and the only other things I tend to stick in CJ are Kismet:ToHit and/or occasionally UnbLeap:+Stealth, so its not like I'll notice the lack of that slot towards % boosts) - your way uses an extra power pick (something a lot of people wouldn't take) and 3 extra slots, which can be very hard to find on some builds.
Besides if you're patient you can get a KBprot IO for 6-7million - I've got two at that price-point in the last two weeks, and 3-4 in the month before that for under 10mill, and that was all redside - blueside must be cheaper (or at least easier to get bargains with the extra trading traffic).
As I also pointed out it has uses. I figured when I specced it into my semi farming fire/kin builds that I wouldn't even have it on the tray but have found since that point that in a number of occasions it can be quite useful. Body pulling isn't the easiet of things to do when my damage powers either stun (Fissure) cause a fear effect (mobs run away from Hot Feet) or in the case of the rest of my attacks are stunned/held/immobilised/etc... Repel lets me run to a mob, knock it on it's bottom, thus making me safer from attack, agro said mob then run round a corner. I have pulled.
It can be used for fun, though I know many don't treat this game as fun any more... 
It can even be used a: 'OMG I've pulled way too many X and they're all beating on me.
And while I could trade repel in for a greater power, I don't have enough spare slots to slot that greater power to be much greater use. As such it would probably be a power that I hardly ever used anyway.
I use repel because simply put it's excellent melee defence. They gotta be near you to hit you
Thelonious Monk
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Four slots of Kinetic Crash give a mag 3 knockback resistance, the above mentioned IO only gives four.
[/ QUOTE ]Protection, that amount of resistance would be wothless.
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Four slots of Kinetic Crash give a mag 3 knockback resistance, the above mentioned IO only gives four.
[/ QUOTE ]Protection, that amount of resistance would be wothless.
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Oops. 
I think the sound for repel or similar power should be changed. I suggest "Skidoosh!"
Discuss