Craftable Temporary Powers, who uses them?

Temp Powers I tend to use include:

Kinetic Shield - who doesnt like s/l defense?
Recovery Serum - I tend to find use in these on end heavy sets before SO's
Backup Radio - occasionally useful on my less offensive oriented characters
Ethereal Shift - I like having panic buttons without wasting power picks
Envenomed Dagger - regen reduction is always handy for tough opponents
Med Pack - some of less defensive characters find this power useful when inps run low
Plasmatic Taser - yay aoe
Hand Grendade - yay more aoe
Resuscitator - handy for teaming on characters who dont have a res.

Before Freedom I often made the jet pack for new characters till I chose a travel power.

I don't bother crafting them mainly because they're temporary.

ya there should really be an increase in variety of craftable powers, and especially craftable costume pieces and weapon alt models. more arcane and mutant or nature-natural powers would be great additions, a 5x charge of carrion creeper seeds, a crossbow, a staff with the flash effect, a short sword... you know... things that could totally also fill out the epic pools that has yet to happen :/

it's an underused great facet to the rewards system. especially for the costume/weapon models.

Craft the hell out of grenades, stun grenades, and the -Regen Envenomed Daggers (which have even proved surprisingly useful against such behemoths as Mot and Ru-Paullu. Er, Ru-Wadelu.)

I use as many as I can get on my lower leveled MMs.

I also used to go through Envenomed Daggers and Recovery Serums religiously on my stalker but ever since I slotted out my incarnate powers there's been less use for either.

Actually, I'm a big fan of hand grenade recipies. I've found that they are a nice little extra something for mid to low level characters.

Other favorites from the temp power list?

Backup Radio: For those days you're playing a controller and you'd like to solo just a bit faster, thank you.

Recovery Serum: Looks Painful, but it gets you back into the fight.

Baseball Bat: Because even with your high tech armor, or vast mystical powers, or unlocked mysteries of the mind... sometimes it just feels right to whack somebody upside the head for being stupid.

Med Pack/ Resucitator: Since I have a habit of playing like a Defender even when I'm not actually playing a Defender...to the point of people reminding me "you know you are the tank today? right?"

I do occasionally use some of these, mostly ones other folks have already mentioned. Analyzer Mk III, Recovery Serum and Phase Shift all have regular spots I put their icons in my power trays. They're mostly there for contingency/emergencies, and are rarely actually activated. I also sometimes keep Med Pack handy on characters with no self heal.

I carry and use the Resuscitator often on melee or other characters who can't normally rez allies. I don't make a habit of trying to be the 1st person to rez the fallen since it's a crummy rez, but if no one else seems to be available, I'll use it on teammates. Of all the temp powers, it's probably the one I get the most use of, both in terms of activations / time and in terms of real utility.

Edit: I do get frustrated with seeing rare recipe drops only for most of them to be these powers, most of which I end up deleting. (The ones I delete aren't worth selling on the market even as a courtesy - there are hundreds of most of them for sale for extremely affordable prices to all but the most raw of new players.)

I do.
The obvious:
Envenomed dagger, obviously.
Backup radio on a few characters.
Recovery Serum and Etherial Shift, not quite as much, but sometimes.

After that, it's flavor. I've got several who enjoy using the hammer and the bat on stuff - the Emp/Psi I was working on for a while would run into melee and finish stuff off with a good smack. A few use the pistol as well. Melee, with something with a sliver of health running off? *Bang.* Dead.

Others like grenades, if I get them, I'll craft them - but might nto use them (usually from having a power window full of powers, so they get lost.)

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I'll occasionally craft grenades or one of the knockback powers because they can come in handy.

Other than those the only one I'll craft regularly is the St. Louis Slammer because something about whacking an enemy with a baseball bat (and that awesome 'thock' sound effect) endlessly amuses me.

reading through this thread again, what strikes me is the wasted effort invested in a potentially interesting reward system very few players seem to bother with.

If the idea was to give a bump to 'power gamers' I guess it works okay- the savvy players know what the "good" recipes are and keep a couple on hand. But those are players that don't really need a leg up.

If the idea was to help out our ever-needy friend the 'casual gamer', I don't think they bother with crafting, let alone crafting something situational with limited uses.

If the idea was to make an inf sink, the powers should be better so more people would bother with them.

If the idea was to make an interesting reward pool, it needs more stuff and it needs some better stuff.

Right now it's just sort of half-baked. Even the players who use it don't seem that enthusiastic, which is a missed opportunity.

I planned on making a "Millionaire playboy" character that only used craftable powers purchased from the market (and brawl), just to see how far I could get on such a build.

Ends up I couldn't get very far. "Millionaire Playboy" wasn't available. Nor was "billionaire playboy," "trillionaire playboy" seemed a bit much, since most craftable temp powers can be bought and built for chump change....

The dagger is nice. The jetpack is nice in theory, but I've still never used the full 2 hours of the bank mission one, so I've never bothered to make one. And the end recovery is nice depending on build.

I often use the recovery serum power on characters with bad end problems. Other than that, I occasionally use the jetpack power for characters only using Ninja Run since there are times when that just won't do it.

I use them on a specific "inventor " toon. Honestly they need to:

-Decrease the cost. alot of these powers use rare salvage. While thats okay for the really good ones, its still a pain if you want to regularly use these things. I wont bother crafting rezpowers anymore because how plentiful every other form of rez has become in this game, yet teh temp power is still expensive to craft.

-increase the power. Maybe let them Scale with your level?

-let us stack them. If I want to go and craft 50 pistol recipes back to back, I should be able to.

They should also consolidate the power analizers. The lower level ones are too expensive for the level range, and honestly pretty situational.