Fissure is ranged, activates over a second faster, costs slightly less, does more damage, stuns, and recharges faster than Tremor. Considering with IOs and a FF proc, it become nearly spammable, no, it is not a let down of a teir 9.
The only thing underwhelming about Fissure is the smaller radius, which more often than not misses hitting the max 10 target limit for it.
vs. Controller Fissure which is 15ft radius and hits 16 targets.
yeah fissure my not not like much in terms of damage, but when you factor in that it has a stun, a knockdown, and 2.1 cast time... verses to just a knockdown and 3.3 cast time. plus it comes back 2 secs faster.
when you compare it to a dominate power like psychic shockwave, it hold up fairly well
PS: 70 base dmg; 15ft radius; 18.5 end; 20sec rech; 1.97 cast; effects= stun, -rech
Fis: 61.8 base dmg; 10ft radius; 15.2 end cost; 16sec rech; 2.1 cast; effects= stun, knockdown.
not bad imo. not too mention you can put some nice procs in it w/o gimping the power.
also, on an earth/earth it couples well with Stalagmites and earthquake.
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Psy Shockwave also has a 16 target limit vs. Fissure's 10. There's a reason why Psy is still the goto for the best AOE damage.
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Originally Posted by android33
yeah fissure my not not like much in terms of damage, but when you factor in that it has a stun, a knockdown, and 2.1 cast time... verses to just a knockdown and 3.3 cast time. plus it comes back 2 secs faster.
when you compare it to a dominate power like psychic shockwave, it hold up fairly well PS: 70 base dmg; 15ft radius; 18.5 end; 20sec rech; 1.97 cast; effects= stun, -rech Fis: 61.8 base dmg; 10ft radius; 15.2 end cost; 16sec rech; 2.1 cast; effects= stun, knockdown. not bad imo. not too mention you can put some nice procs in it w/o gimping the power. also, on an earth/earth it couples well with Stalagmites and earthquake. |
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no doubt PS is still the truth when it comes to doms' AoE... i'm just saying that Fissure isn't trailing that far behind in terms of being a let down of a tier 9 pwr.
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Originally Posted by tarrantm
Psy Shockwave also has a 16 target limit vs. Fissure's 10. There's a reason why Psy is still the goto for the best AOE damage.
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Thanks for the constructive feedback guys. I appreciate it.
I'm lovin the Earth/Earth Dom.....I have a level 50 Mind/Psi with perma.
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yeah this is a good point... i don't see why they shouldn't be the same.
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Originally Posted by tarrantm
The only thing underwhelming about Fissure is the smaller radius, which more often than not misses hitting the max 10 target limit for it.
vs. Controller Fissure which is 15ft radius and hits 16 targets. |
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Controllers really don't have access to any attacks until they get their Ancillary pools, so I don't have a problem with their powers being better.
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Originally Posted by android33
yeah this is a good point... i don't see why they shouldn't be the same.
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Originally Posted by Angelwing
Controllers really don't have access to any attacks until they get their Ancillary pools, so I don't have a problem with their powers being better.
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*PPs are inherently weaker than primary or secondary powers. Otherwise you'd have Brutes running around with Darkest Night that's better than the Defender version or Scrappers running around with Melt Armor that puts Thermal Corruptors to shame or Dominators with better Dark Consumption and Dark Embrace than Brutes and Scrappers. But we don't see that because the *PP powers are weaker, have smaller radii, have higher endurance costs or cooldowns or have several of those limitation. Somehow Fissure seems to be the exception.
Now granted Controller Fissure has 2s higher cooldown, but it has a larger radius, hits 6 more targets and with containment achieves better DPS, DPE and DPA than Dominators.
Ok, so I just reached level 38 with my Earth/Earth Dom. I love the AT but I'm curious as to one thing.
Level 50 base damage on Tremor (tier 3 secondary is 58)
Level 50 base damage on Fizzure (tier 9 secondary is 61)
I realize Fizzure has a stun aspect (33% chance) but still, don't you think the base damage should be a little more significant for a tier 9 power?
All other aspects of the 2 powers are nearly identical, including recharge, activation, endurance cost, etc.
Anyone else feel that Fizzure is a little underwhelming as a 9th secondary?
BRC