let us skip 1st power of secondary pool

Please let players skip the first power of the secondary pool, and pick a different power instead if they choose to.

I don't like having to waste a power slot with several of my blasters on a single-target immobilize. Same for my defenders, whose attacks are already weak, being forced to take the weakest attack power in their secondary pool. Or scrappers having to take a defense power they don't want, or tanks getting a weak attack they don't want. These are just examples off the top of my head from toons I've played recently, but I see this as a problem for many of my characters.

Being forced to take the 1st power in the secondary pool just seems like some dusty old vestigial remnant from the earliest days of this game under Cryptic, and with a lot of improvements already having been made to character customization, I'm just hoping that this power slot will be freed up one of these days.

If it lets you take the second power in the secondary instead? Sure, go for it, I'd love to skip the useless Entangling Arrow for the infinitely more useful (proportionally speaking anyway) Flash Arrow on my Grav/TA Controller.

If it lets you in anyway skip your secondary completely? Heck. No!

thats not what he is talking about. he is talking about getting a choice like you do in your primary. now with that said, i would love to see him keep his scraps and blasters alive through the lower levels without that forced pick..

There's a few first-picks for Scrappers where a second would be more beneficial. For example, if I remember, Invuln's first power is a passive instead of a toggle. I'd rather have the toggle first.

As for Blasters... well, if the Blaster doesn't die then something's wrong.

Hm. A Stalker without Hide...

I always like options. While it would be rather stupid to skip something like hide, there have been a few occassional builds where it would have been easier to be able to skip the first attack - especially with tanker's melee attacks.

The first power taking enforcement is there for a reason.

Also, I can't come up with a single T1 secondary power that I would consider a bad power pick. I know some might disagree with things like Punch or Gale, but I honestly can't think of a single T1 secondary I don't find useful.

My level 46 plant/rad troller would love to get rid of Radiant Aura. As it stands now, it's only used as a "stat stick" (to borrow a WoW term) - she has two slots in it for a +recovery set bonus. I almost never use it, mostly because I'm too busy using other stuff and also because it's such a pitiful heal to start with on a Controller it's hardly worth slotting anyway; I'm much more likely to turn the tide of battle with Spirit Rree's fairly considerable +regen.

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Whether the power's good or not isn't really the issue. Some people might just not want it. I play a Cold/Cold Controller and I'd have happily held off on Infrigidate or perhaps even skipped it entirely if given the option. And for Tankers, Defenders, Blasters, and Dominators, a lot of attack/assault/manipulation sets have rather weak first powers that just don't stay in your chain at high levels. The simple issue is, we've got one power we're absolutely required to take, and it's just randomly annoying. Are we calling this a major balance issue between sets? If so, then sets with a weaker first attack should be significantly better on Brutes/Scrappers/Blasters than on Tanks/Defenders who are forced to take the same power first. Instead, it's more of an annoyance than anything else. That Jab or Beheader you didn't want to take (neither are used in ideal attack chains for their sets) doesn't really do much to make you worse at attacking, it just makes you sacrifice something you didn't want to sacrifice. And it's not even balanced well because the elec guy was totally planning to use Charged Brawl because it's awesome.

So are we saying here that Super Strength and Battleaxe need to be weakened on tanks because they're too good? Or are we saying that they're accidentally weakened by the system? If it's the former, well, that's fine, but I never thought Battleaxe was that overpowered, and didn't think SS was until Shield came out, long long after the system was implemented. If it's the latter, why not fix that part of the system to give a bit more strength to secondaries that are accidentally gimped by this characteristic?


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no, what we're saying is that a relative few, outlying powers including Jab, and a couple others need to be buffed a little, and a couple ought to be switched in order, RPD > Temp Invuln for example. there are cases where the power isn't that good, but the general idea is a sensible balance mechanism.