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Having trouble finding the numbers for tactics

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2012-06-21 13:19 in Blasters

 

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My search-fu is apparently not as strong as I thought it was, and my lunch break is running short.

What is the Blaster modifier for the leadership power pool, tactics in specific?

I'm trying to figure out if I'll be able to get perma fast snipe with Kismet and Tactics, or if I'll be stuck a couple of percentage points short. I'm strongly suspecting it's the latter, but I want to make sure.

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Base: 7%
3 slotted: 10.92%
6 gaussians or adjusted targeting: 11.03%

 

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http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...hip&at=Blaster (the dropdown boxes are buggy, switch to another AT and then back to Blaster to see the actual values).

In any case Blasters get a base of 7% so even if you six-slotted Tactics with 50+5 To Hit IOs and took Kismet you will not hit 22%.

At the moment only three secondaries can do perma-FastSnipe
Devices can do it easily with Targeting Drone
Energy can do it by taking Tactics and Kismet and then rotating between Aim, Build Up and Power Boost (PB increases the To Hit from Tactics while it is up)
Dark Manipulation can do it with perma-Soul Drain (although this requires EXTREMELY high recharge).

 

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Ouch, that's worse than I thought it was. Not all that surprised, really, but definitely disheartened.

I'll have to go do some hard build-diving tonight to see if it's worth drastically altering my Elec/Energy blaster to take advantage of it. Somehow, I'm guessing that I'll wind up saying "You know what, no."

Ah well, it was a nice dream while it lasted.

Thanks for the answers.

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Originally Posted by Arkyaeon View Post
Well... just team with 1 other and boom there you go? Or is it self buffs only? Don't forget yellow insp.
1 other person who took a specific power that I don't see many people using at the moment.

It also helps create the situation where you may find it great fun being on a team where you get perma-snipe then find it disheartening when you have to solo, which is never really a good situation.

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Originally Posted by JChaos View Post
My search-fu is apparently not as strong as I thought it was, and my lunch break is running short.

What is the Blaster modifier for the leadership power pool, tactics in specific?

I'm trying to figure out if I'll be able to get perma fast snipe with Kismet and Tactics, or if I'll be stuck a couple of percentage points short. I'm strongly suspecting it's the latter, but I want to make sure.
Sadly, won't happen unless they raise blaster to hit buff in tactics or make new/change IO sets to add to hit buff.

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Originally Posted by Codewalker View Post
Try http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...=Class_Blaster instead. The bug would be on whatever page that link came from, mind telling me so I can fix it?
That's a very good question. I thought I had gotten there from the Blaster AT page but I just checked and the links there are all correct so now I'm not sure.

The worst part is I've seen that bug before but now that I try to replicate I can't figure out where from.

For what it's worth the link was originally http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...Leadership&at= without the Blaster on the end I tried typing that in to see if that fixed it and didn't bother to remove it before copying it to the forums.

 

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Originally Posted by JChaos View Post
Ouch, that's worse than I thought it was. Not all that surprised, really, but definitely disheartened.

I'll have to go do some hard build-diving tonight to see if it's worth drastically altering my Elec/Energy blaster to take advantage of it. Somehow, I'm guessing that I'll wind up saying "You know what, no."

Ah well, it was a nice dream while it lasted.

Thanks for the answers.
If you don't already take powerboost, which would make it relatively easy for energy manipulation to get there, I should point out that /energy is also getting an energize variant in place of conserve power. While its heal is going to be smaller than the melee version (and its regen increased to compensate), it will in fact have a heal that is enhanceable. And power boost buffs heals (not regen).

So powerboost will make it easier to insta-snipe, and boost the healing of energize. I would suggest looking for a place to put that power if you don't normally take it.

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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
That's a very good question. I thought I had gotten there from the Blaster AT page but I just checked and the links there are all correct so now I'm not sure.

The worst part is I've seen that bug before but now that I try to replicate I can't figure out where from.

For what it's worth the link was originally http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...Leadership&at= without the Blaster on the end I tried typing that in to see if that fixed it and didn't bother to remove it before copying it to the forums.
Okay, if it was blank then it should be fixed. I actually fixed that bug a while back, but um, kind of forgot to actually push my changes to the live site until I went and checked after seeing your post... Grumble grumble.

If you see another link that sends you to a wonky AT please let me know. I know Titan Weapons/Assassin Strike redirects don't include it and need to, but other than that I think the pool powers and such should be fixed. Still need to refactor the effects display, but it's hard to motivate myself to do that when I'd rather be working on the backend revamp that will invalidate most of it.