Spring Attack: the Charleston Chew of pool powers.

I did a second build (well...actually i respecced my first build as i was using my second build) and worked SA into the mix on my elec/elec dom. Got it 5 slotted with SO's, 1acc, 2dam, 2rech...and honestly...it's not really all that bad.

I'm inclined to agree with Kitsune on Mids having some screwiness with SA. IIRC it was showing about the same damage on a dom as it was with the scrap...~30ish. On that particular piece of paper...it looks like total crud...but in practice...i'm finding it rather nice. My dom is only lvl 24 right now...so i don't have any AoE damage i can toss out, and SA is helping with that, even if it is only once every 70 or so seconds. Hopefully i'll be able to squeeze some more out of it if i ever manage to figure out one of those high recharge, near/or permadom builds without having to dip heavy into a bunch of powers i don't wanna take.

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Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe ::looks at RaikenX's signature:: Something funny.

love the Charleston Chews, one of the cool candy bars when I was a kid because it appeared you got so much more candy for your nickle, and in my days a quarter could get you a charleston chew, a loaf of bread, some ham, a bag of chips..but then they had to put in those damn cameras..however I like SA on my rad/dark blaster a great set up jump in knock down some baddies drain, then ground zero baby...

Well I make a point of moving at least a few feet, especially with shield charge

And also count me as someone who loves Chartleston Chews

Those are so good! I used to get those with my sister all the time when we were little!

FWIW, I wasn't able to fit in Spring on my alt that it would have fit perfectly for theme wise. It was a close call, but the very long recharge time and low-ish damame made it a no brainer to dump this power.


Does that mean the power sucks? Not at all.. It just doesn't measure up to non pool powers, usually, which is fair. If anything, it shows that some pool powers are OP..

To be honest, I would almost rather they drop the damage even lower in favor of an even higher recharge rate.

I have a Fire/Fire blaster who barely gets scratched when I use this. Mostly because anything that gets sat down dies before it can get back on its feet again. The knockdown is priceless.


Hell, if I could get it up every spawn I'd even forgo the damage component completely. I spew enough AoE without it. Teleport in, everyone has a seat and then the roller coaster starts.

Definitely don't go by Mid's yet with Spring Attack, as the damage numbers are off. On my Dominator, it does more damage at base than Fireball does from the APP, albeit with a much higher recharge.

Also, the animation is hilariously awesome. You spring straight up off the screen, and land in the middle of the spawn, making a crater far more impressive than that piddly thing Footstomp does.

Have been gone for almost a year and came back to a whole bunch of changes and this fun little attack adds nicely to my AoE fights. I am using it on a BS/SD wasp themed character and so far love the added AoE attack + knockdown.
Thanks to the devs for adding more flavor, choices, costume pieces and making this great game FREE (even though I am VIP and will stay that way as long as my rig doesn't freeze up whenever a text window opens...)

Managed to figure out how to fit this into my Ninja stalker with minimal impact. Fun power. I can BU+SA into a group, then a Fireball crit (because SA doesn't break Hide), then go to work on whatever is left. Not every time of course because SA has that long recharge, but still fun when available. It also let me slot another Scirocco's set for some more badly needed AoE defense.

Anyone try Spring Attack + Whirlwind?

The pool powers could use a revamp. I half expected to see "sleeping" in there.

Does anyone choose anything other than flying?

I don't expect a third line of primary powers. I do expect a pool set I could choose actually having some appeal to it.

I think they could find other pool powers to offer that are more appealing but not game breaking.

Enjoying Spring Attack on my stone/inv brute. Gives him some AoE where he's lacking, and with some global recharge, spiritual alpha and ageless, its up reasonably often. I wouldnt complain if they shaved a little more recharge time off of it, but its liveable with certainly. Could see myself fitting it into an MM build or two as well.

SA -> FS -> HoB = My heroic DP/Kin might just like Charleston Chews!

And as a pseudopet it doesn't break Hide either, huh. So now you can make any nuke into a tele-nuke! Or a tele-mini-nuke if you just have Fireballs and Ball Lightnings. I'm going to have to re-think a few alts of mine...