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Afterburner

Hopeling

By Hopeling,
Posted on: 2011-10-10 06:08 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Thank you for Afterburner.

I always thought that Flight should be a fast travel power...and Afterburner is a conceptual godsend.

Thank you.

 

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Totally agree.

I like the little shockwave when you activate it, too.

 

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It's cool and I like the FX, but I really was hoping it was faster. I was really disappointed when I respeced into it on my Kin/ def and found out that it was just as fast a Siphon Speed + Hover. I respeced out of it and grabbed Burnout instead for double FSed Blackstar facemelting.

 

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Originally Posted by Sir Hextor View Post
It's cool and I like the FX, but I really was hoping it was faster. I was really disappointed when I respeced into it on my Kin/ def and found out that it was just as fast a Siphon Speed + Hover.
No, it isn't. Siphon Speed uses the normal flight speed cap, it can never be as fast as Afterburner.

To put numbers to that - normal flight caps at 58mph by level 50. Afterburner can get you well above 80.

Edit: To put more numbers to it, the speed difference between Afterburner and normal Fly is about as large as the difference between Fly and Hover!

 

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Agreed. My level 42 blaster has two 45 fly IOs in it and has a fly speed of over 80 mph. It's almost what they said the servers couldn't handle - a fly speed as fast as superspeed. It's very noticable compared to the 58 mph regular fly cap.

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Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
No, it isn't. Siphon Speed uses the normal flight speed cap, it can never be as fast as Afterburner.

To put numbers to that - normal flight caps at 58mph by level 50. Afterburner can get you well above 80.
Sorry, I should've said I didn't notice enough of a difference. You're right, by the numbers it is faster. And Siphon Speed is kind of an outlier which most characters don't have access to so for the majority of characters who are going to take Hover + Fly, it's a nice boost to get from point A to B faster. I took it on my Fire/Ice Blaster and have been satisfied at the increase over Fly.