Help? /EM or /MM for my blaster?
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black_barrier,
Posted on: 2010-02-04 19:04 in Everything about PvP
EM.
Yeah, boost range is that good.
either would be fine...psi/em is more widely used because it takes alot less skill to use than mm....but really depends on personal preference and the /em will probably be a bit cheaper to build
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Money's no object, but Im curious, what makes it so much better? Is it really just that, like the fellow above said, boost range is THAT good?|
Originally Posted by The Second Coming
either would be fine...psi/em is more widely used because it takes alot less skill to use than mm....but really depends on personal preference and the /em will probably be a bit cheaper to build
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EDIT: Thanks for the super-swift answer!
Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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boost range is amazingly good...as is the Power Boost+ Total Focus combo...but a experienced /MM will drain psi like a beast...at least with /mm u have a chance to kill lolregens hehehe
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Originally Posted by Valentyna
Money's no object, but Im curious, what makes it so much better? Is it really just that, like the fellow above said, boost range is THAT good?
EDIT: Thanks for the super-swift answer! |
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in 8v8s you'll never ever ever use drain psyche unless you're a beast like jimmay.|
Originally Posted by The Second Coming
boost range is amazingly good...as is the Power Boost+ Total Focus combo...but a experienced /MM will drain psi like a beast...at least with /mm u have a chance to kill lolregens hehehe
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and if your name is not jimmay, you will not get picked in kickballs with a /mm secondary.
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lol jimmay with his "goodness"|
Originally Posted by black_barrier
in 8v8s you'll never ever ever use drain psyche unless you're a beast like jimmay.
and if your name is not jimmay, you will not get picked in kickballs with a /mm secondary. |
you must train...and train hard to master the art of drain psi'ing.....
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Total Focus? Really? I had rather written it off. I dint see a lot of value in something that took 3.5 seconds to animate and did the same damage as my tier one blasts... in melee! I'm sorry for having to ask, but how exactly does Power Boost make it good? Surely not just the 2-second stun?
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Originally Posted by The Second Coming
boost range is amazingly good...as is the Power Boost+ Total Focus combo...but a experienced /MM will drain psi like a beast...at least with /mm u have a chance to kill lolregens hehehe
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Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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Watch warily: there lies/
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Deep in her green bright eyes..."
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Once the bug gets fixed, there goes your set. Sure, the chances of it getting fixed soon are slim, but eventually most stuff does get fixed.
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Originally Posted by The Second Coming
but a experienced /MM will drain psi like a beast...at least with /mm u have a chance to kill lolregens hehehe
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more of a pwr geared towards zone and teaming...most of the time u wanna stay as far away as possible but with PB and 1-2 acc/mez or dam/mez hami's u can get it up to around a 5 second stun...so a 5 second stun...450 dmg (without aim+BU) is nice...if u cant finish off a stunned opponent who just took almost 500 dmg something is seriously wrong lol..wit BU and Aim it does near 900 dmg..so it is a very useful power to keep
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Originally Posted by Valentyna
Total Focus? Really? I had rather written it off. I dint see a lot of value in something that took 3.5 seconds to animate and did the same damage as my tier one blasts... in melee! I'm sorry for having to ask, but how exactly does Power Boost make it good? Surely not just the 2-second stun?
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lol devs "fixing" stuff...just how they "fixed" pvp :P
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Originally Posted by Supermax
Once the bug gets fixed, there goes your set. Sure, the chances of it getting fixed soon are slim, but eventually most stuff does get fixed.
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Yes, just that. It makes it a whopping 4 seconds.|
Originally Posted by Valentyna
Surely not just the 2-second stun?
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Personally, I don't know any EM that takes power boost. Myself, I use TF maybe 1 time per like 10 hours of playtime on the blaster. Like you thought, there's really not much reason for it, when you can do better damage from range. But in very rare situations, it can be useful. Like finishing off a runner, where you know you can only get off 1 attack.
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It does sound lie fun, but IM still skeptical. Kick and Jumpkick both do almos th same damage with 1/3 to 1/2 the activation time.|
Originally Posted by The Second Coming
more of a pwr geared towards zone and teaming...most of the time u wanna stay as far away as possible but with PB and 1-2 acc/mez or dam/mez hami's u can get it up to around a 5 second stun...so a 5 second stun...450 dmg (without aim+BU) is nice...if u cant finish off a stunned opponent who just took almost 500 dmg something is seriously wrong lol..wit BU and Aim it does near 900 dmg..so it is a very useful power to keep
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*le pause* You know... not for nothing... but Im seriously considering taking JUMPKICK! This new PvP is going to take getting used to!
Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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True. Of course, you could make the same argument about sleep/placate and Psychic Blast. Something I learned back in Ultima Online was to play the game the way it is now, not the way you expect it to be "soon", and definitely not the way you hope it might become.|
Originally Posted by Supermax
Once the bug gets fixed, there goes your set. Sure, the chances of it getting fixed soon are slim, but eventually most stuff does get fixed.
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Also, not for nothing, but... what bug? *le blush*
Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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jumpkick doesnt have the stun and the epic animation dummie :P
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Originally Posted by Valentyna
It does sound lie fun, but IM still skeptical. Kick and Jumpkick both do almos th same damage with 1/3 to 1/2 the activation time.
*le pause* You know... not for nothing... but Im seriously considering taking JUMPKICK! This new PvP is going to take getting used to! |
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My mistake! |
Originally Posted by The Second Coming
jumpkick doesnt have the stun and the epic animation dummie :P
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Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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oh yea and /MM gets...TK THRUST!!! OOOOOOOOHHH!!!!
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Never actually seen the animation. Isn't it fairly functionally identical to Power Thrust, though? Or whatever the t1 from EM is called?
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Originally Posted by The Second Coming
oh yea and /MM gets...TK THRUST!!! OOOOOOOOHHH!!!!
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Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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oopss.....just realized that tk thrust is moar epic on doms...in the animation u stick ur hand out and a bunch of purple circles come out of ur hand and send ur opponent flying...does nice dmg with some very nice kb
Go EM.
Boost range IS that good.
TF is garbage. Nuff said.
If ur doing zone, PB is a life saver, the addition to ToHit is somewhat noticable, but more noticable is the increase to run speed. lol if you want, but it has saved my skin in zone more times then Hibernate has.
Power thrust > Tk thrust.
/MM has a good power, in bugged DP. But that involves melee.
It has a good fear, but lolfear.
Nuff said.
So far it seems pretty unanimous! Ill bow to the mob then: EM is its! Mmm... FotM... yummy! XD
Im curious though - whats wrong with fear? It always used to be quite nice.
Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
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we are all enlightened by your knowledge epsilon..|
Originally Posted by Not_Epsilon
Go EM.
Boost range IS that good. TF is garbage. Nuff said. If ur doing zone, PB is a life saver, the addition to ToHit is somewhat noticable, but more noticable is the increase to run speed. lol if you want, but it has saved my skin in zone more times then Hibernate has. Power thrust > Tk thrust. /MM has a good power, in bugged DP. But that involves melee. It has a good fear, but lolfear. Nuff said. |
but tk thrust is better than power thrust in every way...they have the same kb but tk thrust has more raw dmg..oh powet thrust has faster animation time tho...so i think Power thrust=TK thrust
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nothing is wrong with fear...fear is haxx its almost too gewd
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Originally Posted by Valentyna
So far it seems pretty unanimous! Ill bow to the mob then: EM is its! Mmm... FotM... yummy! XD
Im curious though - whats wrong with fear? It always used to be quite nice. |
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Exactly, but the fact that TK thrust < Power thrust is by virtue of the powers other then that. Power thrust will be better then TK, becuase its in a better set. The power vs power debate is slightly stupid in itself. Considering they are both pretty horrible becuase range + blaster is good.
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Originally Posted by The Second Coming
we are all enlightened by your knowledge epsilon..
but tk thrust is better than power thrust in every way...they have the same kb but tk thrust has more raw dmg..oh powet thrust has faster animation time tho...so i think Power thrust=TK thrust |
Hi!
). PvP is obviously a bit different since I13. Ive been going over things and decided on a Psi/* blaster, but I can't peg down the secondary. As the game client downloads, I turn to the experts (or close enough) for advice.
Im just recently returning from Champions after a long break (such great potential... such massive disappointment
MM has a higher damaging attack chain with Subduel, A fear (yay for CC), and Drain Psyche (though that might not be a big deal if it can't be perma'ed anymore).
EM has. Boost Range, and... thats more or less it, so far as I can tell. Is there something else I'm missing?
Which one do you all recommend?
Thanks so much in advance.
Lady Valentyna Penderghast, Archmage
"Love her not, lovely though she be/
Watch warily: there lies/
A glint of ghoulish ancestry/
Deep in her green bright eyes..."