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Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Let's presume for a moment that I'm already not fond of Psychic Scream. If I go fire/psi/fire with a build that gets around 90% recharge + hasten, you think I can live with just fireball + PSW + Rain of Fire as my AOE damage output?
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Sure. Psi Scream is a nuisance of a power, especially for a build that likes to be in close to use it's PBAOEs like Fire/Psi. You're better off dropping it IMO and thus streamlining your playstyle.
Spring Attack might be a worthy replacement / filler though.
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Whoah, seriously? I admit, I haven't run the numbers on the power - I saw 'pool power shield charge' and assumed it was godawful.
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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Spring Attack might be a worthy replacement / filler though.
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Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Whoah, seriously? I admit, I haven't run the numbers on the power - I saw 'pool power shield charge' and assumed it was godawful.
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Feedback I've seen from people is that it's a nice enough filler power. It'll basically work as a nice way to get into PBAOE range.
Whether it's worth 2 picks to get to really depends, if you're taking Combat Jumping and Superjump anyway it could be well worth it, if you've to sacrifice things to get to it then it probably isn't.
Well, my doms tend to build for so much recharge that so far they've all got the concealment power because I don't tend to need filler powers. That said, as a teleport that does sound nice and saucy. If it did the knockdown I'd be sold.
It's worth trying at least. And jump kick can hold a knockback set, and we know Talen loves socketing him some Kinetic Crash.
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50% chance of 0.67 knockdown. and it takes Knockback and pbaoe sets.|
Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Well, my doms tend to build for so much recharge that so far they've all got the concealment power because I don't tend to need filler powers. That said, as a teleport that does sound nice and saucy. If it did the knockdown I'd be sold.
It's worth trying at least. And jump kick can hold a knockback set, and we know Talen loves socketing him some Kinetic Crash. |
I've put it onto my Ice/Thorns and it's quite nice. Does about 10% more damage than Thorn Burst to those really close (8 feet I think) and less to those further (I think 1/3 of that but I'm not 100%)
The downside? A 2 min recharge. But if you're building for recharge out the wazoo you could have it up every 30-40 seconds I guess?
2 minutes recharge becomes 1 minute with 95% enhancement, and with 125% global that pulls it down to... yeah, something like 25 seconds?
Oh, remember it uses a pseudopet, like the other TP attack powers, which means Forced Feedback chance for +Recharge is useless in it.
I believe it also means the damage is the same across all ATs, which is interesting. I'm getting tempted by a Fire/Time/Stone controller-who-thinks-he's-a-domi with Jump Kick and Spring Attack. If that is true (that the damage is the same across the board) it makes it very tempting indeed for Brutes. They might have created multiple versions though to allow for this.
I have a Plant/Psi/FIre (well second is Plant/Fire/Ice) on Virtue and have just a few comments The new signature story arc is a pseudo-tf that brings you down to 20. I'm thinking most of the arc is going to be sub-50 and therefore lacking in a lot of powers. I'd rething completely cutting Psi Scream completely out unless you have another build for low level play. If it's a set mule, the Targeted AOE can go into Fireball or Rain of Fire if you don't have them there already. I've got about 143% recharge on mine before hasten even kicks in and Spiritual T4. Of course, it was more about seeing how over the top I could go on recharge.
Plant is a bit different since I have to align myself for Seeds of Confusion and can immediately follow with Psi Scream before rushing in to Drain Psyche and PSW. Psi Scream still does a good chunk of damage but I'd say remove it if you don't like it or it goes against the "center of the mobs" play style that /Psi really pulls off like no other.
Let's presume for a moment that I'm already not fond of Psychic Scream. If I go fire/psi/fire with a build that gets around 90% recharge + hasten, you think I can live with just fireball + PSW + Rain of Fire as my AOE damage output?