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Originally Posted by Talen_Lee
Mass Hypnosis -> Fulcrum Shift -> Rain of Arrows
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A) I'm biased.
B) It's more damage.
C) It's safer.
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Because you can activate RoA from out of LOS, I think.
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That and the damage tics (and thus the sleep breaking) happens in a short, quick burst instead of a long, drawn-out, rooted animation.|
Originally Posted by Trickshooter
Because you can activate RoA from out of LOS, I think.
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With RoA, you fire it off and can move right about when the arrows are landing and thus the foes are waking up.
With FA, you're standing still for 3.3s. All while those enemies are now awake and returning fire.
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RoA can hit 17 targets and has aim in the same secondary; FA can only hit 10 in a narrow cone. Base recharge for both is the same. RoA > FA.
While I tend to agree that RoA is better than FA I think it's worth considering the fact that AR also has Flamethrower which I tend to think is more useful than Aim.
Both would be great fun.
Personally I think full Auto will suit my defender playstyle slightly better. Its much easier to line up a cone between buffs (or after laying debuffs) than go through the RoA animation, and patch creation.
Blaster wise its the other way round, in that I can be much more pro-active in ROA placement on a team, and time the rain to take out the minions when the melee folks are arriving.
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With my AR/En Blaster, Boost Range+Build Up+Full Auto against a group of white minions -- I use this regularly against the formations of Nemesis in Peregrine Island -- will leave me standing at 40%-60% HP with a pile of Nemesis in front of me. FA by itself without the Blaster damage advantage is going to leave a Defender with a lot of annoyed mobs in front of him; Flamethrower then FA might be enough to drop them, but the added 'stand there and tough it out' time will likely get him faceplanted if someone else doesn't have aggro.
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Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
That and the damage tics (and thus the sleep breaking) happens in a short, quick burst instead of a long, drawn-out, rooted animation.
With RoA, you fire it off and can move right about when the arrows are landing and thus the foes are waking up. With FA, you're standing still for 3.3s. All while those enemies are now awake and returning fire. |
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Personal preferences here, folk, but which sounds more fun?
Mass Hypnosis -> Fulcrum Shift -> Rain of Arrows or
Mass Hypnosis -> Fulcrum Shift -> Full Auto?
I'm wondering.