'Number of enemies' scaling powers
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-08-09 15:42 in Player Questions
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This is power specific. In general aura-type toggle powers (such as the ones you mention) are auto-hit but click style ones (such as Soul Drain) are more likely to require a hit check. Rough rule of thumb, if it doesn't take accuracy enhancements, it's probably autohit.|
Originally Posted by Madadh
1) Do these powers need a to hit check of any sort for their efficacy to improve?
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| 2) Do pseudo-pets count towards the number of enemies in range? |
As an example, In Maria Jenkins arc there is one map which has a lab with fires. I have seen Mastermind pets attack the fires despite the fires being untargetable by players. Given that it's possible that those would count for the scaling auras.
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Invincibility, Rise to the Challenge, Against All Odds, and the (coming soon) Entropy Aura are all autohit. (I'm pretty sure Entropy Aura will be autohit, I see no reason why it would not follow the pattern of the first 3) |
Originally Posted by Madadh
1) Do these powers need a to hit check of any sort for their efficacy to improve? |
I'm pretty sure Chilling Embrace is as well, but I'm not 100% on that one.
Any damage aura in the game, however, does require a to-hit check.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
CE is auto-hit indeed.
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Soul Transfer, Rise of the Phoenix, and the corpse-targeting Warshade powers are auto-hit as well.
The reason for the rezzes being auto-hit is when you are dead your enhancements have no effect, so any accuracy slotting would be pointless.
And the corps-targeting Warshade powers are auto-hit because normally you can't target a corpse, so a to-hit roll on something you aren't allowed to target makes no sense.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Enhancements still work when you are dead, fairly certain. And you can target dead bodies. I do it all the time.
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Several powers in the game scale based on the number of enemies in range. I'm thinking of several of the auras specifically, like Invul, Shield, and WP. I have 2 questions about them. The first I know I've seen somewhere it's just a matter of looking about, but the second question I've not ever heard addressed.
1) Do these powers need a to hit check of any sort for their efficacy to improve?
2) Do pseudo-pets count towards the number of enemies in range?