Rocker board toggle killer?

I'm pretty sure "Only Affecting Self" still lets you use any PBAoE powers as well, so most of the T9 Blaster nukes, the Scrapper AoEs (woo, jumping in the air and spinning around!), and many others, would still be usable (usable and dealing damage being two quite different things ). They could work around this by setting up a new 'disable' flag... but you're starting to get to the point where it doesn't seem like it's worth the extra effort for a single item.

In the future they might decide to revamp it- say, if they make a whole series of similar temp powers... but, till then, it seems quite a reasonable decision. Retoggling everything might be a pain for some characters, but for a lot that are sub-50 it's not all that bad.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

If they made it so only some power sets could use some powers while using the board that their would be such an outcry by players using other power sets that's best right now to make nothing work for everybody.

But I agree, rather see suppression than toggle off all powers, not just travel toggles like beast and ninja run does.

I bought it lol but I found out some good info first.

1. If you have a stealth io active and zone that io double stacks and the second stack of it will stay active for the 90 seconds with rocket board active.
2.Hasten stays active while rocket board is active so powers keep recharging faster.
3.Inspirations stay active while rocket board is active, so you can click a breakfree and fly with mez protection.


I love the idea and it seemed to restrictive at first but at a second glance and learning all the info I decided it was worth it.

Some further notes:

* Rocket Board is available at level 2, travels at around 50 mph with no slotting or in-game investment required, and lets you cruise across zones on autopilot while grabbing a bite to eat or whatever. In comparison, Ninja Run / Beast Run isn't available until level 4, requires slotting to get the speed up and is still not quite as fast, and requires considerably more user interaction to navigate around most zones. That said, they're both differently useful, and have very different looks.

* Interestingly, it appears that "suppress all powers" powers don't suppress each other. It's not clear if this is a bug, an oversight, or an unavoidable consequence of the way the power system works; but you can use the Rocket Board to zoom through the new early missions where you're dropped into a Hellions disguise or are "monitoring" the reporter. There may be other interesting situations when having a 50 mph flight power when you're otherwise depowered is useful; I've not explored that aspect much.

Personally, I bought it because one of my new characters is a BR/Time Tech Corr in the general category of "people from the future", and a rocket board accessory is perfect for them while they'd look silly in the Ninja Run pose. (Plus, I bought a block of points to kick up my vet level anyway, so I might as well get some cool stuff.) Besides, how many low-level characters really have that many toggles? I guess if you tend to play a lot of melee types they may have a few, but it's not uncommon to not have any toggles at all until the mid-20s, and those aren't necessarily even critical.

The powers can be buffed, is the common term.