Are there any powers that work on phased enemies in PVE?
By
GavinRuneblade,
Posted on: 2010-07-16 16:04 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Can't you use powers on phased enemies if you yourself are also phased? Or is that PVP only? Alternately am I just drunkenly misremembering a patch note from a while back? 
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i believe it is only in PvP.
It's only PvP. I haven't testing in i17, but during i16 I had a build with Phase and for kicks tried to hit a carnie illusionist. I was disappointed.
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To clarify a few things, Detention Field and Sonic Cage are not phasing powers. They are more appropriately called caging power. They apply three statuses to the target: Untouchable, OnlyAffectSelf, and Immobilize.
Dimension Shift and Black Hole are enemy phasing powers and apply the Phase status. When affected by Phase, you can affect others in the phase status. These powers are also paired with the Immobilize status and the Intangibility status (which seems to remove the hit collision boxes from enemies and makes them translucent). The Phase portion of these powers cannot be resisted; the immobilize and intangibility can be resisted. As a result, enemies sometimes seem to not be affected by DS and BH because they are free to move and occupy space though they are phased.
Enemies that use a phase powers are not using true Phasing. Instead, they are affected by Untouchable. Phantom Army is always under this effect. Enemy powers that cage affect the players with Untouchable and OnlyAffectSelf. You can use a Phase power during this, but it will not allow you to affect anything else.
Anyway... to answer Tex's original question. No, when enemies phase they become Untouchable. As the name implies, there's nothing you can do to them at that point.
I'm wondering if there are any powers in PVE you can tag a phased enemy with.
Reason I ask is because if so I have a suggestion: add Intangibility/OES/Phase protection and resistance to Force Bolt and Sonic Siphon so that you can knock an enemy out of your intan-cages and move these powers into a position of being more useful. It would also give these powers a use against some very annoying enemies.
This isn't quite a suggestion, yet, because I want to know what the actual mechanics are and whether the system would support this.
[EDIT: Clarified first sentence.]