Power Boost

Am I mistaken or did Power Boost get changed sometime back? The reason I ask is because I know that I have used Power Boost in the past and its increased my flight speed. I could be confused and thinking about Power Build Up, but I am not sure.

Of course PB won't increase flight speed if you're already capped due to slotting.

Only recent change to PB was that it no longer affects knockback.

I was mistaken. There is a change in speed when I activate the power. I realized that I was already in hover when I actived the power and it wasn't going any faster, but once I toggled it off and back on I moved faster according to power information in game.

Thank you all for the responses.

Check also, if you have the jump jet from the GVE edition, that will also increase your flight speed in hover/fly mode. So see if your speed increases when using that if you have it, if it doesn't, then you're probably at the cap. Can also see if someone speed boosts you if it changes.

Also, powerboost did get its effectiveness lowered too. Its at the 78%ish boost that someone above mentioned, used to be, what? I dont have the exact numbers but like 125% or something like that? But the 78% should still be enough to notice when you use it. I just wish that it also boosted regen/recovery powers like health and stamina when you use it to give the power more of a purpose so more blasters could actually utilize the power.

Not related to why you need it, but it also got changed to remove the knockback enhancement. Even though in the description it still says specifically that it increases knockback.

Thanks for making this thread. I was going to ask a similar question about my fire/nrg. All my powers deal straightforward damage, so I guess I can skip it.

For the most part I am finding the power absolutely useless but with my high global recharge I can keep it up with very little down time so I was thinking it could be used for increasing my Hover speed otherwise I will end up respecing out of it.

My SG leader was saying something about using Power Boost then Conserve Power, then Nova to have less downtime after using it, but I can't tell if that is doing anything or not because I always use a blue right after using Nova, Blizzard, etc on Blasters.

Well *if* it can be boosted, then it could be used to draw out a single small blue as if it were about 2/3 a bar of endurance, by the time you killed that you'd probably be regaining end again. So in the scenario where that works, that's a very reasonable use for it.

Of course that means before nuking you have to hit (lets think the best order) Power Boost, Conserve Power, Aim, Build up, which is a good many clicks and short timers ticking down. But it would be useful as far as magnifying the (usually devastating debuffs/stuns) effects of nukes as well.

Powerboost will not affect conserve power. Powerboost will only affect enhanceable attributes to powers, like holds, end drains etc. The end discount in Conserve Power is just like a damage buff, nothing will affect it.

It will also increase the stun duration from Dreadful Wail and Total Focus, and don't forget how nice it is with Aid other. Lots of uses for a blaster.

Well that makes sense if they use it for the stun protection.

I personally like to stick to my regen bonuses and mitigation techniques

Actually I will be keeping it after all. I completely forgot that my build has Personal Forcefield in it so that alone is more than enough of a reason to keep Power Boost.

Is there a list somewhere of powers that were debuffed for PvP purposes only that never got changed after the PvE/PvP power effect split? If there's not it would be nice to see one created. I feel like I'd come across the problem a couple of times, but not remembering off the top of my head would make it hard to start that thread.

It's possible Dev's might actually pull from that a bit. They've worked with us in other similar ways before.

Also, I too miss energy punching clockwork across atlas park with the vanguard medal and powerboost active.