Is thre a way to respec a vet power choice?
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Posted on: 2009-10-26 10:31 in Player Questions
As far as I know there is no option to change once you have chosen a vet power for a character.
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No, but on the bright side you get a second chance to get it at 54 months.
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Hi,
what happens when you change to your second build?
Do you have to use the first builds vet power or can you choose again?
Just a thought
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No, sorry - the choice is for the whole character, not just the build. it doesn't reset to allow a different choice.
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Originally Posted by jacktar
Hi,
what happens when you change to your second build? Do you have to use the first builds vet power or can you choose again? Just a thought Cheers |
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Did you take a break or something? You don't qualify for the 54 Months Vet Reward yet (see Eislor's post above)?
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For what it's worth, I find that I usually only use my vet attacts at lower levels. Once a character gets fleshed out with their powerset choices and pools, the vet powers start seeming really "meh". I think that fact that they are unslottable is a big factor in this. What's so great about Sands of Mu when it misses half the time and the animation delays you from firing something off that might actually hit?
Picking the "wrong" vet power can be annoying, but it's hardly a character breaker.
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Odd, I still use Sands of Mu quite a lot on my lvl 50 ma/sr scrapper. It gives me some extra aoe potential, catching two or three critters in it's cone. Sands of Mu is also a nice negative energy damage source in case I run into some critters with high smashing resist. And with a Kismet unique and 74% global accuracy it doesn't really miss that often.
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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
For what it's worth, I find that I usually only use my vet attacts at lower levels. Once a character gets fleshed out with their powerset choices and pools, the vet powers start seeming really "meh". I think that fact that they are unslottable is a big factor in this. What's so great about Sands of Mu when it misses half the time and the animation delays you from firing something off that might actually hit?
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I use the sands of Mu a lot on higher level toons. Great on my dom.|
Originally Posted by Sheline
Odd, I still use Sands of Mu quite a lot on my lvl 50 ma/sr scrapper. It gives me some extra aoe potential, catching two or three critters in it's cone. Sands of Mu is also a nice negative energy damage source in case I run into some critters with high smashing resist. And with a Kismet unique and 74% global accuracy it doesn't really miss that often.
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It depends on the character. Melee ATs generally have no shortable of attack powers, while Controllers, Masterminds and the like have fewer pure damage powers.
I'm really enjoying the axe right now, when half the stuff that pops out of a ToT door counts as undead 
I usually pick for thematics, though if I know I'm going to be fighting a lot of CoT I'll take the axe. If I don't have any particular plans I'll lean towards the sands.
My methodology has always been Sands of Mu, whichever weapon gives the origin bonus, and then the Undead Slaying Ax. The first two are huge boosts to low level characters with few attacks. The Ax is just gravy for whenever you encounter pesky undead, throughout the game.
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Yeah, one consolation is that the axe is really very good for killing those annoying COT ghosts. Especially if your other damage type is primarily lethal.
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True, *BUT*, my most-played character has about 40% global accuracy plus the Kismet +to hit unique and Tactics. His vet attacks don't miss very much.|
Originally Posted by Tealeaf
For what it's worth, I find that I usually only use my vet attacts at lower levels. Once a character gets fleshed out with their powerset choices and pools, the vet powers start seeming really "meh". I think that fact that they are unslottable is a big factor in this. What's so great about Sands of Mu when it misses half the time and the animation delays you from firing something off that might actually hit?
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Also, there are situations where the vet attacks are really useful. On a Superstrength character, when Rage drops you have a 10,000% damage debuff. However, just as the vet attacks can not be buffed, they can't be debuffed either. They work at normal effectiveness while all your other attacks will be hitting for 1-2 points.
So, yes, for most characters they start to suck at higher level. For some builds, though, they range from useful to priceless.
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The axe is absolutely nuts against those guys. On a ghost, it does more damage than fully slotted Headsplitter.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
The Ax is just gravy for whenever you encounter pesky undead, throughout the game.
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And when you've got the 54-month vet reward, you have three of them, which pretty much fills up the 10-second crash period. It's like its own tiny little attack chain.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
On a Superstrength character, when Rage drops you have a 10,000% damage debuff. However, just as the vet attacks can not be buffed, they can't be debuffed either. They work at normal effectiveness while all your other attacks will be hitting for 1-2 points.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
The axe is absolutely nuts against those guys. On a ghost, it does more damage than fully slotted Headsplitter.
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I actually took this on my Sonic/Traps corruptor (still lowbie). When I was actually able to hit, it did crazy-damage. The perfect tool for zombie invasions.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
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No matter how carefully I line up my attack, 95% of the time I get a resounding "MISS!" above the other critter(s) in the cone. |
Originally Posted by Sheline
Odd, I still use Sands of Mu quite a lot on my lvl 50 ma/sr scrapper. It gives me some extra aoe potential, catching two or three critters in it's cone.
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It is almost Urban Legend material. On the rare times I catch multiples, however, it is sweet indeed.
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I find them useful until i start getting SO's slotted. I do have three alt's that use them heavily:
A speedster toon for concept: He uses shadow maul, sands of mu, and flurry. I really wish there was more of a speedster power set for punches.
Willpower/SS tank - rage crash - you need something that does damage and sands of mu is my goto.
Mace tank - again for concept, he is an ancient weapons specialist, so he has a mace, the GS Axe, fists wrapped like ancient cestus, and right now he has a longbow from a safeguard and an sword from a croatoa mish.
Thank you for the kind responses...
Since most of my alts are heavely IO setted, I have lots of Accuracy gains from them. So I find using Vet attack powers at high levels to be very reliable. It is at low levels, when my IOs are not quite there, that my Vet powers are a bit random.
In my case, I sadly chose the axe for my energy blaster, who primerely fights from range. If something comes into range of my axe, I am in serious trouble. The reason I prefer the Sands of Mu over the axe, is two fold: 1) It does more damage than the axe in general; and 2) Its a cone, where the axe is a single target.
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Perhaps I should suggest to devs, when one does a respec, to include the vet power choices; what do you all think?
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Originally Posted by Melancton
No matter how carefully I line up my attack, 95% of the time I get a resounding "MISS!" above the other critter(s) in the cone.
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Hi:
Earlier in the game, when I received vet powers, I had a choice between Sands of Mu and Ghost Slayer Axe. Sadly I chose the axe, and truly regret it; is there a way to switch my axe choice to sands of mu?
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