Question:
Power burst instead of blast?
I'm a pvp noob here but I'm not getting it.
You have much greater range on blast. Burst is fairly gimped in comparison being close to 50% smashing damage. The short range is a killer.
If you're picking up total focus, that will cover your short range and blast gives you another 80 ranged attack with comparable damage.
Something I'm missing?
Conflict, a a friend and myself checked out a stun duration in the arena with powerboost. It seems DR hits Mez duration hard.
Scenario
Him controller, negligable stun resist 2.8% or something. Me using fully enhanced flashfire and fully enhanced for mez Total Focus. They both should stun for an 8 second duration.
Flashfire alone, stun was 7-8 seconds as expected
Flashfire + Powerboost was 8-9 seconds
Flashifire + Powerboost + Domination was still 8-9 seconds.
Flashfire + Domination was 8-9 seconds again
Results were the same for Total Focus. I should try this again w/ my hold too.
The name of that accolade evades me atm, but I didn't have it and I would of liked to try it in conjunction w/ Domination and Powerboost, I'll bet I still only get an 8-9 second stun.
I was a little miffed seeing you got about a whopping 1 second from powerboost and domination if your mez is fully enhanced.
Now, i'm assuming this would translate to holds as well and other mez types, although, we didn't test that.
So the assumption was to get some benefit from PB and diversify the holds slotting, slot to around 30% hold duration, PB's 80% buff would bring you basically to the DR mez duration cap.
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Originally Posted by ConFlict
I can tell you after seeing someone's hold that is slotted strictly as a hold, both with pb, that the slotted done last a noticeable length of time longer than mine that is not.
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No offense Conflict, I know you're here to help, but that post was completely unintelligable to me.
So you're saying the power that was slotted for hold lasted noticably longer than your hold that was not slotted for hold and this was with PB on both?
I'm gonna go with Mike's numbers below. Seem about right what I got on test. 7-8 second hold fully slotted with PB, 6-7 without. I realize how much a 2 second longer hold can make in an organized spike but it's still painfully underwhelming.
I still feel base hold duration should be 2 seconds in PvP yet with slotting for mez and set bonuses it can be improved. the first hold should apply for the entire duration inwhich you slotted your mez for. and then begin diminishing with each successive application. Otherwise as said before it isnt' "Diminishing returns" it's just "Diminished returns."
But, we have what the Devs have given us..in their infinite wisdom.
P.s. You're thinking of Megalomaniac Accolade power. It offers +special for 60 seconds. Curious as to whether if DR hits everything the same way across the board or accolades may be an exception.
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Originally Posted by Mayax
Question:
Power burst instead of blast? I'm a pvp noob here but I'm not getting it. You have much greater range on blast. Burst is fairly gimped in comparison being close to 50% smashing damage. The short range is a killer. If you're picking up total focus, that will cover your short range and blast gives you another 80 ranged attack with comparable damage. Something I'm missing? |
Power Burst is Superior. I'm going to be following up total focus with Power burst, so I will already be in close range. Here's my chain: Power Boost+Power Push+Total Focus+Power Burst+Power Bolt
Depending on the AT I may opt to throw in a hold into that change just to make sure they are rooted.
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| No offense Conflict, I know you're here to help, but that post was completely unintelligable to me. |
Posting on cold meds and half asleep ftl
sorry about that.Quote:
| So you're saying the power that was slotted for hold lasted noticably longer than your hold that was not slotted for hold and this was with PB on both? |
Yes.
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| I realize how much a 2 second longer hold can make in an organized spike but it's still painfully underwhelming. |
I promise you even in a one on one setting you don't want to give a good pvper an extra two seconds. Its alot longer than it sounds.
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| P.s. You're thinking of Megalomaniac Accolade power. It offers +special for 60 seconds. Curious as to whether if DR hits everything the same way across the board or accolades may be an exception. |
Megalo will add another couple seconds on top of slotting +pb. About the only time I use megalo any more is when I am using an aoe mez on a large group in zones.
Hope I was more understandable today ;_;
Duel me.
I will work on my sig pic more when I have time.
I can tell you after seeing someone's hold that is slotted strictly as a hold, both with pb, that the slotted done last a noticeable length of time longer than mine that is not.
Duel me.
I will work on my sig pic more when I have time.