RoTP is Overpowered

OK the thread title is trolling kind of.

Even if I kind of agree with it, in a twisted way.

Whenever this power is recharged I feel like "I can do anything. I have a get out of jail free card." So, while it doesn't increase your stats or anything, the amount of freedom it provides constantly surprises me. And I find myself sometimes wondering if dying and rezz nuking isn't sometimes my greatest contribution.

So much love.

One of the hidden benefits of blasters that most people don't seem to understand or appreciate is that they get the best self rez in the game. I don't think I would have put that in an ancillary pool were I in charge of balance but I'm glad that whoever was felt differently. If anything the power usually feels like overkill in that a standard rez would suffice, but who could complain about blowing away the silly NPCs that thought they'd won the fight while proving them so very wrong?

Rise of the Phoenix and Soul Transfer are good fun. Even if they kill you, you still win.

Why do you have to print things like that where the devs can see it!?

That split second where you can still die before the "unaffected" part of the power kicks in is a real buzz kill :\

Yeah, RotP is made of seven kinds of win and awesome. Definitely best self-rez in the game, and very little is more fun than taking the enemies who *thought* they had won and blowing them to kingdom come. My fire/stone tank has RotP on auto.

I'm very glad more ATs than just meleers have access to it. I don't care too much for fire armor on scrappers/brutes (even though I loooove RotP), so it's nice to have access to the power on more than one character.

On another note, according to city of data the rez in thermal summons the same pseudopet when it rezzes someone. It sounds like an awesome mix of fallout and a rez - for anyone who's played thermal, is it indeed that awesome? The idea of blowing the spawn to bits at the same time as rezzing an ally sounds very fun.

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Originally Posted by Mr. DJ That split second where you can still die before the "unaffected" part of the power kicks in is a real buzz kill :\

Note that the delay (which I agree does suck) is only in the ancillary versions of the power (which also revive you with slightly less end/health than the regular ones). It's annoying, but if you wait a couple seconds after dying to hit it (long enough for the enemies to start losing interest) it seems to mitigate the issue of getting shot and dying during the rez.