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Dumb Question about Patron Pools

danomal

By danomal,
Posted on: 2009-09-24 12:00 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

Posted

Ok,
I think I read or was told at some point many moons ago that the patron powers counted as one of your 4 pool powers. That if I had taken Fighting/Flight/Fitness/Leadership before 41 and tried to take a patron power I woulkdnt be able, it would treat it as a 5th pool, is this true?

I've not had a 41 before and am getting close with one of my toons, so I was wondering if i had already screwed up by having 4 pools selected.

 

Posted

I couldn't find any mention of that on http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Main_Page (bookmark this, it is your friend), but I didn't do an exhaustive search either.

I do not think that having 4 pools will lock you out of the Ancillary or Patron Power Pools, though as stated above, I am not 100% sure as I have never taken that many pools before.


 

Posted

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I have fighting, speed, jumping, fitness and soul mastery on my Brute. You can have four plus one.

 

Posted

thanks guys, now I'll have to do a little rewrite on my build but thats ok, it'll just make him harder to kill hehehe.

 

Posted

Yep, epic pools don't count against your 4 allowed power pools. If they did, my blaster would be even more frustrated at not getting to take 5 or 6 pools.

Rule number six of an empathy defender is NEVER underestimate a blaster's ability to die. I don't care if he has CM, Fort, both RAs, bubbles (both FF and Sonic), and is fighting next to a Storm defender with hurricane on. If there is a way to die in that situation, the blaster will find it.