Is Power Thrust worth slotting for damage?

Here's a bit of a dilemma I'm facing right now. I'm respeccing an old Energy Blaster I haven't messed with for years and I'm trying to sort of rework her build to Include Repulsion Bomb instead of Repulsion Field. That has made me sort of strapped for slots, and I was wondering if I couldn't just rob the three damage slots I have in Power Thrust.

Here's the thing with Power Thrust - it does rather a bit of damage, but it's... Not actually very good when you look at its numbers. It burns a lot of endurance for little damage, its DPS is crap and it costs rather a lot. About the only saving grace it has is that it has decent DPA, but even that is sub par, especially compared to something like Energy Punch or Bone Smasher. So I was thinking, why not just scrap my three slots that I had in there and up a few other things?

So, what do you think? Will I lose out if I don't have Power Thrust as an attack?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

It depends on if those other things need extra slots.

Power Thrust is the closest thing to the old ET, damage slotting it would keep the memories golden.

I really wouldnt worry about losing out on Power Thrust as a damaging attack, most people use it for it's kb. In the past i've used it to mule the kinetic crash set, giving you kb protection and a nice global rech bonus. You've got plenty of better melee atks in EM and you should have more than enough kb in your primary to negate the loss of power thrust.

Best use of slots in Power Thrust (if you're not slotting Mako's Bite for ranged defense) is Kinetic Combat for some cheap KB protection.

I know you don't use IOs Sam, but that's one set you might want to look into if you don't have room in your build to take Acrobatics and have issues with knockback.

If not that, one accuracy and maybe an end reduction should do fine. Damage isn't the point of Power Thrust, though you can use it to kill a minion with a sliver of health and save your bigger attacks for the LT breathing down your neck.

Or you could slot the bejeezus out of it for knockback and have fun playing Hellion Golf.

I am rather happy with my final build and my Nrg/Elc/Force. It is no way amazing and it has plenty of flaws but I am happy.

In it I have it off the top of my head 5 slotted with Exp blast and 5 slotted with Rep Bomb, which if you cast Rep Bomb and then Exp Blast they almost appear to hit at the same moment which is very fun and handy.

I do have Power Push 3 slotted with a KB set and have my Energy Torrent I think slotted with dmg.

I would be very happy to post the build once I get out of work, prehaps you could give me some idea's on how to tweak it more?

Well, I'm hardly an expert at these things, since my standards tend to be low, I avoid using Set Inventions and tend to not go for the BEST possible build. That said, I did just run some numbers on Energy/Energy/Force that I can share if anyone cares.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.