The Best Knockback Power
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-07-07 01:29 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
My favorite GTFA power is Force Bolt. 100% knockback, doesn't require any more than the base slot, and can add considerably to the survivability of a solo defender/controller/mm.
-- Rich
* Thresholds CoH: What to do When
* My Comics Collection
I lover knockback, but I'm going to go Power Thrust in Energy Manipulation.
Its a quick activiating status effect that takes out a Boss, available at level 1, and useable while you're mezzed!
It was a staple for my last Blaster (Wundastar - Radiation/Energy). Send the boss flying, then apply Cosmic Burst and another stun from my Energy melee arsenal and they never got a chance to fight back.
You can keep your single target immobilises! 
Quote:
This.... Used well you kb bosses and elite bosses with ease. When you drop and stand up your not fighting.
|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Force Bolt. Base KB mag is almost 19. Highest mag (player) KB in the game, IIRC. Put some KB enhancers in there and watch 'em fly, baby! I love bowling for skullies in AP on my /ff troller.
OMG BBQ LMNOP. |
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
Gale and ForceBolt are my two favorite. I'm one of those people that six slot's those two powers, and most of my AoE/Cone knockback powers with lots of procs.
it's SO satisfying when your Gale does 200dmg instead of 10dmg, and increases your recharge XD. granted that's not always the case but it happens often enough. Also Gale is my *favorite* because it's the most Windy power we have along with tornado [which i slot for recharge and dmg mostly but wish i had more slots for...] come to think of it i might go slot whirlwind now and see what it can reeeeeaaallllly do.
ForceBolt is nice because you can recharge it fast to almost perma-forcebolt XD, and again fill it with procs! and go pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew until the target is dead from being thrown across the room.
and because i know how to use knockback well, my teams usually enjoy watching all the baddies fly into the corner 
Force Bolt as mentioned a few posts ago is one of the few good KB powers when used correctly.
I do have a character who has both FB and Power Push. 
H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD
I have 3:
Hurricane. Used properly you can use it to keep mobs in a corner or as a giant leaf blower to help the tank herd - particularly with mobs that use ranged attacks in open maps.
TK Thrust from Mental Manip. or Hurl Boulder from Stone Melee. Slot for KB and see how far you can fling level 2 hellions across the lake in AP. Never gets old, especially if you six slot the power with a set of Kinetic Crash IO's. Mad fun.
@SteelRat; @SteelRat2
"Angelina my love, I'm a genius!"
"Of course you are darling, that's why I married you. Physically, you're rather unattractive"
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/SteelRat
I like shock wave, but then again I enjoy tossing baddies around and I'm not really all that annoyed by knock backs unless I'm herding and you scatter my pile.
SG: StormRazors
Justice:
BlueClaw Lvl 50 Clw/Invul
ArcBlade Lvl 49 Invul/Axe
StormLight Lvl 29 Peacebringer
Orin Ravenblade Lvl 22 BS/Invul
IGNORE THE WOLF BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
Quote:
Tai Quan Leep FTW...|
Originally Posted by ThrowDown_Kid
Crane Kick still gives me giggles. Bam! Foot to the face and flying foe.
|
(Boot to the head!)
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
I know it's not the best knockback power, but my character Super Ant loves running around a corner into a gaggle of unsuspecting enemies with Repel activated while screaming "Boooowliiiing!" And seeing the whole group blown back in every direction.
I usually only do it once per team. It's never funny after the first time. 
@Captain-Electric � Detective Marvel � The Sapien Spider � Moravec Man � The Old Norseman
Dark-Eyes � Doctor Serpentine � Stonecaster � Skymaiden � The Blue Jaguar
Guide to Altitis � A Comic for New Players � The Lore Project � Intro to extraterrestrials in CoH
Quote:
I like torrent myself, but its not available while mezzed on Blasters.|
Originally Posted by Sparkly Soldier
My Energy/Energy blaster's found Energy Torrent to be really useful as a defensive move. It does decent damage against a mob, has pretty good odds of knocking them away like bowling pins without scattering them far and wide, and is available through Defiance for mezzing emergencies.
|
Boost range is good to pair with Energy Torrent for people who think it scatters too much: from that range everything is basically traveling in the same direction.
[Guide to Defense] [Scrapper Secondaries Comparison] [Archetype Popularity Analysis]
In one little corner of the universe, there's nothing more irritating than a misfile...
(Please support the best webcomic about a cosmic universal realignment by impaired angelic interference resulting in identity crisis angst. Or I release the pigmy water thieves.)
Quote:
Oh, I always just figured it was since it's one of the very first powers available (though not *the* first, now that I look at the chart). Erm, I guess I should really call it a "mez just ended and I gotta get rid of that pesky mob fast" power. | I like torrent myself, but its not available while mezzed on Blasters. |
"Now, I'm not saying this guy at Microsoft sees gamers as a bunch of rats in a Skinner box. I'm just saying that he illustrates his theory of game design using pictures of rats in a Skinner box."
Power Push on a Dom and Trip Mine!
Quote:
It's only the first two powers in the primary, for Energy Blast it's Power Bolt and Power Blast, and the first power in the secondary. (The three powers you could pick from at level 1.)
|
Originally Posted by Sparkly Soldier
Oh, I always just figured it was since it's one of the very first powers available (though not *the* first, now that I look at the chart). Erm, I guess I should really call it a "mez just ended and I gotta get rid of that pesky mob fast" power.
|
@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too
Quote:
"Piercing" wasn't the property of a scalpel he was trying to reflect in his metaphor. |
Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
I'm sorry to be 'that guy,' but are you trying to refer to a scalpel? It still seems like a somewhat odd component to this metaphor in tandem with your use of a 'hammer,' given that there's nothing particularly piercing about launching somebody across a room with blunt force, but I found it fairly distracting from your point nonetheless.
|
Scalpel was a metaphor for "precise".
I would have used a sniper rifle and a B-52 carpet bombing run if I were to make the same metaphor.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
I have to vote Kinetic Melee's Repulse Torrent. Nothing says, kamahemeha, like a fancy animation that sends foes flying off their feet!...What? I like grew up on DBZ, go figure.
- Im Not Talking Fast, You're Just Listening Slow.
- To Each His Own