Ion is a new Incarnate power that is bugged currently. It deals significantly more damage than it is supposed to. There is a patch being downloaded to the servers at this very moment which may be a fix for that.
ok ya im pretty sure ION is bugged right now and all the chain jumps from the power are buffable just not the intial strike. Further more (and this part is WAI as far as I'm aware) it can jump to the same target more then 1 time.
And ya every AT is gonna have a crashless nuke soon that apparently does the same damage in pve as pvp so MM are like next to worthless.
edit: oh ya and the incarnate nukes recharge in 90 seconds.
Its been about a year and a half since Ive been in game. I popped back in to get a taste of pvp again, and headed over to RV for a few hours last night. I had a fairly rude introduction to post i20 lvl 50 PvP. My SS/Inv Brute took an 8 tick hit for 521 points of damage per tick, for a total of 4,168 damage. Needless to say I dropped dead. If I recall it was a power called Ion something? My understanding is this is some kind of Incarnate power that Ive yet to read all the details on. Playing a master mind in RV now is a pointless endeavor, as many of the tankers in zone seemed to have an AOE Incarnate power that 1 shotted all my pets, virtually every time I left base. Is this intended or a known bug?