Powers that bug you

Having played this game since inception, I just felt like addressing specific powers that have issues that seem so obvious that it downright irritates me. Feel free to jump in and contribute.

...now, this is by no means a list of all issues, far from it, I just wanted to point a big finger at those that just bug me:

Dimension Shift/Black Hole/Sonic Cage/Detention Field - Dimension Shift & Black Hole in particular - just using these powers can get you kicked from teams and rightly so - these powers just do not go with the flow of combat at all in this game. I vote these types of powers basically just hit enemies with a high mag placate. How cool would that be? They would need to be short lived, naturally, with a decently long recharge.

Snipes - ugh - I can sorta see how someone might want one for soloing, but all the numbers point to a loss in damage per second if a player insists in using a snipe vs other abilities. They aren't truly awful but I refuse to ever take one - not even the psy or dark ones. I have one as a set mule in my fire/fire dom and that's about it as I never use it.

Time Bomb - Probably one of the worst powers in the game. Massive recharge, massive interruptibility, and the timer on it is so long that most mobs would be dead by the time it fires in a team setting. Clone the Omega Maneuver and put it in it's place!

Serum - This power barely gives any damage and the recharge on it is insane. Once a pet is 6 slotted decently, they won't get much out of the recovery either. Actually, mercenaries in general could use a buff - they take forever to kill anything compared to other pet sets. Change Serum into Swap Ammo! That would be sweet, can you imagine all the bullets changing to ice/toxic/fire?

Liquefy/Melt Armor - love these powers but the recharge on them seem a little unreasonable when compared to other sets.

Dark Regeneration - Cut the heal and end cost in half, PLEASE. You already have a very end hungry fear aura, which I am fine with, but with Oppressive Gloom stealing health effectively causing you to use Dark Regen more often, there is no need for such a strong heal with one of the largest end cost powers in the game. I think that would pretty much make me completely happy with Dark Armor.

Dark Pit - the accuracy nerf on this power is completely silly to me. It needs disorient to make it meaningful, it needs recharge to make it useful, why make it have such horrid accuracy on top of everything?

Icicles - this should be cold damage, not lethal, although I can see why someone could argue this. If it stays, give it some slow, like Quills. Still irritates me though.

Triage Beacon/Spirit Tree - given the recharge and immobile status, I still think these two should grant some small recovery and would add to their usefulness and desirability. I nagged Castle constantly about it - it's thematic, would make people stop debating if they are worth it, and offers additional slotting options.

Clarity - kinda seems pointless. With the bubble in Sonic, it only comes in when someone is put to sleep. I think Clear Mind type powers could be made AOE like the shields all were recently, but that's just me. I used to believe in them but now I tend to skip them.

Ignite - just make it do most of the damage up front, like Burn does. It can keep the fear - I don't care. Ignite could become the missing high damage/short range attack for the set, in case you don't have an immobilize. I am fairly happy with it, but this would be a plus in my eyes. AR tends to be a little underrated.

Targetting Drone - should give a very small damage buff to all powers and not just have code to give damage to Sniper Rifle in one powerset. I am talking like 10% damage at most.

Umbral Torrent + Tenebrous Tentacles - needs just a little adjustment for better synergy for the blaster port. The ranges seem a little out of whack and that's about it. I know people argue against anything with knockback, and this is worse since you knock the mobs all over and hold them there in tentacles, but I think the range adjustment would be fine for me, although the kb doesn't have to be as high as it is - I mean they are REALLY thrown. You don't really want to skip this power if you can help it as Night Fall + Tentacles were the reason people wanted dark blasters to begin with.

That's just off the top of my head.

Sonic Repulsion.

Hasten

and Domination

those are the big ones

Yeah, Sonic Repulsion - I give it to blasters that tend to get hurt but two out of three times the blaster has noticed the effect and then purposely runs into groups to throw them all around the room, destroying my end bar. :P

Yeah, I am mostly happy with Ignite - I just wish it did most of the damage up front, but if not that's ok.

I don't get the hate about hasten and domination at all.

Earthquake's long animation time bugs me.

Stalagmites bugs me by requiring me to be on the ground, and not having an alternate animation to its footstamp.

Power Sink bugs me by having an endurance cost of 13 - which often makes it difficult to fire off when you need it. I know, think ahead, but it still bugs me.

That's another good idea, for the regen alone.

Never understood the concepts behind black hole and sonic cage... You can't attack the enemy when you use them anyways >_<

The power I hate the most but is handy in missions ONLY is those damn ice shields D:

Beam Rifle. I'm not sure exactly which power it is, but the sound drives me crazy. If there's someone on my team with beam rifle (and right now, there always is) I have to turn the sound all the way down and just listen to music while I play.

I'd quite like to see Targeting Drone add a chance to crit to all attacks. Pick a % value that'd be slightly lower than the overall damage boost having Build Up provides.

Ice shield..

Hate it... -hate it-

In a game so centered around making your own unique apperance, why make a power that hides away the entire team in ice cubes?

Yea, I know, you can make it kinda-sorta bearable by messing with it's colors, but more often then not when I end up in a team with somebody who has it it's a team of solid blocks of ice time.

Grant Invisibility.

Eavesdropping and Surveillance Camera.
Also Hidden Microphone/Wire.

Targetted toggles annoy me.

Energy Transfer. Bile Spray. Burn. Traps->Poison Trap.

Elixir of Life - I dislike having my Robot and or other 'Never sick' concepts puking after being revived...

Flash - Because it recharges so slowly.

Hmmmm, powers that annoy me?

The sounds on some of the Beam Rifle powers I find very grating. I am actually considering taking advantage of the ability to Silence specific sounds, something that I have never even briefly considered before.

I will add my vote to the "Sonic Hula Hoop" power as well.

Healing powers. Pretty much all of them. I absolutely HATE having to watch other players' health bars so that I can use a power effectively. I will probably NEVER play Empathy or Pain Domination as a result. Other sets that only have ONE heal are okay, because I don't feel as if as much of my job is healing... I suppose that is why I love Trick Arrow so much on my newest Defender, and why I prefer to have sets like FF on my MMs so that I don't have to watch my pets' HP as much either.

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Originally Posted by JayboH Sonic Cage/Detention Field

I love these powers. I can't even begin to count how many times [Detention Field] has saved my bacon as a solo player on my Grav/FF... or how often it has made challenging content a breeze when I am duo-ing. A friend of mine and I took down all the the RV AVs (2 or 3 at a time) just the two of us... and it was made possible by me caging the AV we weren't fighting yet.

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Icicles - this should be cold damage, not lethal, although I can see why someone could argue this. If it stays, give it some slow, like Quills. Still irritates me though.

It doesn't really make any sense for it to be cold damage. The cold is not what is damaging anything... its the sharp and pointy things jutting out of your body. Have you ever noticed just how SHARP ice can be? Also, Ice Armor is in NO shortage of Slows, so adding one to that power doesn't make much sense either... [Chilling Embrace], anyone?