A fun thought experiment; Burnout in Beta

So I would imagine when Burnout was first concepted the original design likely instantly recharged everything then people started to do obscene things.

Imagine with me that you are in closed beta before Burnout, the new tier 5 speed pool power which recharges all primary/secondary powers, was changed to primary/secondary.

How would YOU break it?


I'd like to think that
[Eye of the Magus][Drain Psyche][Inferno][Burnout] Repeat would have been insanely fun.

Supposedly it only affects Primary/Secondary powers - not accolades or temps.

And it's on a 1 hour timer, so you can't spam it.

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

I don't know if I could break it.

First thing that comes to mind is Phantom Army. Well, we can already make that permanent, and a second copy isn't a possibility.

Next thing is Soul Drain or Rage. We could get more stacks of it... but there is still a damage cap.

Could do neat tricks like using the AoE holds twice in a row? It'll always hold bosses... but that's what Domination or Overpower and single target holds are for, so I don't see a huge benefit here.

Godmode powers: Things like Unstoppable are pointless to stack. One with Shield or Strength of Will might be interesting. MoG could essentially be 30 seconds long and have a second application of Instant Healing.

I'm out of ideas. I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

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Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague Besides, I already have a way to instantly recharge [Eye of the Magus]. Switch builds (once every 15 minutes).

You know, that doesn't exactly work in combat like the OP is talking about. Also, I have a character that can use Magus every 8 minutes or so.

Well there was a discussion in a scrapper thread about using it to constantly have either your tier 9 or eye of the magus up (requires recharge cap from slotting and worked only with Sr or electric), but it has since been said that burnout's recharge won't be reduceable, making it generally quite useless in my view.

I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but this is the first I've heard of Tier 5 pool powers.

Are these for real? If so, is there a list somewhere?

In another thread, someone used the f bomb, but asterisked out, in their thread title. That expletive was vital to the story that ensued. A mod replaced the asterisked out word with phrasing that made the story incoherent. Player pouting caused the mod to replaced the expletive with 'pancake', thus restoring sense to the story and ensuring lots of 'pancake you' jokes. Then, seeing how players thought that a hoot, a mod took that a step further by replacing the auto-asterisking of naughty words with the word PANCAKE for each asterisk.

That is funny as hell.

Test...
I want to eat her PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE all night long. I want to pour my syrup all over her PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE!

Burnout would be fun on my cold/ice defender with crazy recharge already (16 second recharge on sleet) and will really shine with multiple av's like at the end of LRSF.

Aim, Infrigidate a AV, Benumb same AV, sleet, ice storm, Heat Loss, Blizzard, pop a blue, Burnout and repeat, but change av's and save 2nd heat loss after blizzard. May be able to fit in another sleet in between due to its fast recharge.

My wife and I ran are colds on a LRSF with this attack chain without the burnout of course and I have never seen the Freedom Phalanx drop so fast.

+rech from hasten doesnt stack last i remember.