Shock Treatment's Power Surge

Continuing my apparent habt of pointing out the insanity in this game, I present to thee one of the most groan-inducing characters in the game: Shock Treatment.

Upon first encountering her, I assumed she was a typicla member of the generic rogues gallery. Nothing too spectacular, a fairly standard Elec-based enemy. Therefore, it came as little suprise when she used Power Surge. Following my typical strategy for such occasions, I ignored her and killed everything else in the immediate area.

Seeing that it was still active after I finished wiping out all the adds, I though to myself "Huh, that lasts awhile. Oh well, I'll just kite her around and mess with her line of sight til it wears off."

Roughly one minute of kiting later, the woman is still at capped resists and status protection. Still, I am in no danger, this is just becoming grotesquly unnessecary.

After what feels like five minutes, she finally becomes vulnerable. Of course since she's an NPC who gets ot cheat, she completely avoids the downside of Power Surge and retains her HP and End. Whatever. Just murder the b**** and get it over with.

THIS IS NOT HOW YOU MAKE A CHALLENGE! Waiting several minutes until I can play the game again is not a challenge, it's nerve-gridingly irritating and absolutely zero fun. There is no reason why a non-story-centric NPC should have that long a period of nigh invulnerability, it's a pointless waste of time that brings an otherwise fast-paced game to a grinding halt. If you want her to have Power Surge, fine, but there is no reason for it to last so long.

Waiting is not a challenge, it's an annoyance.

Was this recently? Because more and more recently I've had Gallery NPCs, like Miss Thystle, run out of things like Unstoppable and suddenly lose HP, End and stagger around stunned. I'm fairly sure Shocky was another who fitted into that group.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Hmn, that doesn't sound like it's WAI. The vast majority, if not all, of the Rogues Gallery, at least in my experience, now have crashing and stun-crashing godmodes. Least ways the ones I've run into have.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Mistaken impression Techbot. What you're running into is Invul NPCs who have the old version of Unstoppable.

AkuTenshii- I've fought Shock Treatment recently and the godmode didn't last that long at all. Additionally there were some cases where NPC godmodes were putting them over the Resistance cap, and a lot of those were fixed. When I fought her last, I would have been able to hurt her but it wasn't worth the Endurance since I was myself an Electric Melee.

I've fought her a few times on my Electric/Fire Scrapper recently, and observed that she gains around 1/4 of her health bar back while in Electric form. I usually just run rings around her with superspeed waiting for it to wear off. I agree that is does take a long time and its mildly annoying having to wait.
She doesn't lose any of this regenerated health in a crash when it wears off.

(On my Dominator, of course, she never enters electric form.)

I have to say, I like her a lot more since playing the Rogue missions where she helps you, and makes all the bad puns with the word SHOCK. That and once I figured out to just avoid her until she loses her electric form she's been much less trouble.

im fairly sure this is working as intended and has been for a long time

the standard duration on most tier 9s is 3 minutes which is why it feels like it lasts too long (which when solo it does drag on, on teams they have the dps to kill them through it)