Shadowy Presence - Useful?

Has anyone played with it? An invisibility where you can't move and can't use powers without breaking it and with a long recharge time seems good for going AFK and that's it. And you can AFK but standing in a cleared room in a mission map or most places in an outdoor map not currently occupied by a mob.

Am I missing something obvious? I don't really care if it's "useless" but I'd hate to miss an obvious application.

I think it's for hiding from the nerf bat.

I noticed after playing a bit that enemies in GR tend to wander around a lot more. I suppose it could be useful in that regard.

Hiding from some of the mega ambushes might be useful too

Activates too slow, easily interrupted, recharge is too long for what it does, accidental keypress will break it.

Doesn't look that good either.

Not a fan.

I agree. About the only thing I see myself using it for is rp.

It's rather pointless IMO--except for RP as pointed out above.

Three of the four stances struck me as rather meh as well. Villain stance 2 is nice and unique though.

The Alpha and Omega sets, particularly the auras, have proven quite useful to me though.

Most useless power ever. The hero stances literally look like a stick is being inserted up your butt too. I stopped breathing shortly after the emotes started animating. The villain ones are nice.

The Omega aura is pretty good, but I have no clue if I'll ever use the Alpha aura, I'd have to make a character specifically for it to see any use.

Overall I'm pretty unimpressed with this pack. Oh well.

I would say GR makes up for that, but I can't currently create any new characters on either of my home servers either so I can't really experience GR in the first place.

For me, that's a filming tool! As long as I can remember to take my hands off the keyboard, this means I can park right in the middle of stuff and just film without worry about getting my face shot off.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I'll point out that Hero Stance 2 looks much better when flying than standing:

Re: The stances

Am I missing something, or are these emotes being repackaged as stances? What's the mechanical difference?

Shadow Presence is to protect you from patrols while brb bio.

Can it be used while Resting?

There's already a semi-stance available for Fly or Hover if you activate /e flip when you're in the air.

Yeah there were several ways to trick out pseudo-stances via pre-GR emotes.
While I like the "idleposes" we got with GR I was hoping we were going to get a real stance feature.

I suppose Champions Online will always have that one thing better than us. *sigh*

You can activate it, but Rest apparently interrupts it once it's on.

I was able to activate Rest then Shadowy Presence, and they worked together.

Shadowly Presence is very useful if you are fighting T-Rex.

Also, on a serious note, I can see using it if you are waiting for toggles/powers to recharge and use only SS to stealth maps.