Add a new Kinetic Combat Recipe: ACC

Hi:

I am aware that the Kinetic Combat set has only 5 recipes and the benefits provided by the set are at this time limited to having up to 5 enhancements.

I am asking for another choice of a recipe for Kinetic Combat. We still can have that it is pointless to slot more than 5 to get all the benefits for the set, and that is ok.

Let me explain the why of my suggestion:

First let me list the set:

1. ACC/DMG, 2. DMG/END, 3. DMG/RECH, 4. DMG/END/RECH, 5. Knock Back

I happen to be a player very focused on accuracy, after all what good is to hit hard, when you do not hit?

With that in mind, look at the set, and one will quickly realize its rather great at enhancing damage, but it really is kinda weak in ACC.

So why not simply add another choice: ACC, pure and simple.

As I said, while there is no advantage to a sixth Kinetic Combat IO in the set, it can allow the player to better balance the accuracy and damage properties of this recipe set.

I understand that I could simply add one more slot to my power and place an accuracy IO in it, which I most normally do, but I have come with several builds, mostly brutes, where the demand on enhancement slots is great and I much rather use those enhancement slots elsewhere, and frankly I would not be in that situation if the enhancement set would offer me a choice to go heavy damage or good accuracy with not so heavy damage.

My choice if available would be:

1. ACC, 2. ACC/DMG, 3.DMG/END, 4.DMR/RECH

I have resonable accuracy gain benefits and still very good damage gains which would notlikely suffer from ED. I avoid knock back because as a melee, I hate to hit and then chase the target I knocked away to try to hit it again.

Hugs

Stormy

I've always thought they missed a trick in not providing 8 or so recipes per set, to give us more choice in aiming for set bonus'

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

There not enough +acc set bonuses to compensate? After slotting a few powers with sets, it's not uncommon to get around +15% or more. That'd at least even the setup to the vanilla acc/dmg/dmg/dmg/end/rech basic slotting most people use.

Really, low accuracy sets actually give me a reason to pick through those bonuses as useful.

I'd like to think it's a balancing point in the set. The bonuses for having four of the set are ridiculously good, so to compensate the power itself has to be underslotted.

An easy fix is adding one more slot to your power and putting in a Crushing Impact Acc/Dmg/End.

I've always thought that having to choose between good set bonuses and good actual enhancement values made building a character MORE interesting.

A case in point where this doesn't happen is Thunderstrike - great bonuses, great values and its cheap. Consequently, every ranged character I've ever made almost has 6-slotted Thunderstrikes by default. Occasionally I'll go Decimation instead for +recharge, but thats about it.

I'd rather have a number of viable choices that I have to balance rather than one plain obvious choice.
Kinetic Combat's good enough as it is, and part of that goodness is that the set bonuses peak at 4, allowing you to mix some other stuff in as you wish.

Melee attacks are some of the most fun to slot because of the range of good options, including 3 useful procs:

Crushing Impact for cheapness, +Acc and +Rech and good bonuses.
Kinetic Combat for S/L Defence and a useful Knockdown proc.
Mako's for Ranged Defence and a damage proc.
Touch of Death for Melee Defence and a damage proc.

Signed for more acc...and signed for them to look at the rest of the lower lvl IO's and maybe remix them and make them better...for one..melee damage io's, just 2 gives imbol resis/proc..really..for a melee toon