New AR/Dev trick


brophog02

 

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So learned a new AR/Dev trick... or at least it's new to me.

While toe-bombing a group with Trip Mine, it struck me that the Mine wasn't going to be quite powerful enough to kill off all the minions. So I queued up M30 Grenade on the target closest to me. Trip Mine's slight delay before detonating was just long enough to pull out the AR and perform the To-Hit calculation on M30 Grenade. The result is that even as targets were flying away from Trip Mine's knockback, they were also getting hit from M30 as if there was no knockback. Combining the two powers proved to just enough damage to wipe out all the minions.

So, start Trip Mine and queue up M30 while you're still in the middle of the bad guys.

Cheers,
Mack


 

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Full auto does it for me

Personally for an AR blaster, if you ignore full auto then i tend to go a quick double of flamethrower + buckshot + m60, that SHOULD destroy most mob groups.


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This isn't a new trick. It applies to any two powers queued up because they work at time of activation.

Same thing applies for Energy Blasters for Torrent + Explosive Blast. Fire torrent, queue up Explosive Blast and you'll hit the original targets with both, even though the knockback would suggest to you that was impossible.


 

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I do something similar on my Bow/Energy, and it's even sillier. Power Thrust->Total Focus->Stunning Shot basically neuters any boss that tries to melee me.

The hilarious part is watching Total Focus hit 4 seconds after the target has flown through the air and hit a wall 4o feet away.


 

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M30 would be the powah I skipped!


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I can understand the excitement. When I realized this trick with Explosive Arrow, I had to do it almost every mob. Energy Torrent + Static Discharge is another fun combo.

My favorite now though is to queue up Explosive Arrow with a Chance for +Recharge Proc while Rain of Arrows is firing. Its check goes off just before the first wave of rain, so with large enough groups it procs almost every mob. (And of course everything goes down)

It's lot less sneaky than Trip Mine, but just as satisfying.


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Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure View Post
I do something similar on my Bow/Energy, and it's even sillier. Power Thrust->Total Focus->Stunning Shot basically neuters any boss that tries to melee me.

The hilarious part is watching Total Focus hit 4 seconds after the target has flown through the air and hit a wall 4o feet away.
This is my combo to any melee'r who gets near me in pvp.

Power push + Total focus, while they are flying I am using the long activation ot total focus to kill half their hp and stun them