Water Blast and Hover


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Hi, when playing ranged character I have a strong preference for hover blasting and looking at the water blast animations I was a bit concerned.

In Water Burst and the nuke the character jumps up and smashes the ground, do these powers work while hovering, or are they like footstomp where you have to be on the ground?

I might seem like a trivival question, but I'm trying to decide if I should buy the set or not, so I can't check for myself.


 

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The description doesn't mention ground only.


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Originally Posted by Broken_Wings View Post
Hi, when playing ranged character I have a strong preference for hover blasting and looking at the water blast animations I was a bit concerned.

In Water Burst and the nuke the character jumps up and smashes the ground, do these powers work while hovering, or are they like footstomp where you have to be on the ground?

I might seem like a trivival question, but I'm trying to decide if I should buy the set or not, so I can't check for myself.
If you're VIP, you might investigate installing the Beta client so that you can test things like this out yourself. Everything on the Paragon Market can be bought on Beta for zero points.

Unless the power description says ground only, it should work fine in the air. The animation for Eye of the Storm (from Staff) has the character rolling around on the ground, but when you're flying an alternate animation is used. I'm guessing that the Water Blast power has a similar alternate animation.


 

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On beta just now, I was indeed able to use Geyser while flying with a Raptor Pack. So no, it doesn't appear to require you to be on the ground.


 

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On beta just now, I was indeed able to use Geyser while flying with a Raptor Pack. So no, it doesn't appear to require you to be on the ground.
Thanks a lot for your help! And I'm very happy to hear that.


 

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Wut? Can I have Foot Stomp while flying then too? And Rooted?


 

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Wut? Can I have Foot Stomp while flying then too? And Rooted?
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And Fault, and Fissure, and Stone Spears, and Hotfeet(activation), and...
And fly! I can't believe the devs would limit my character concepts so much. I have a stable of alts waiting for the day when they can use fly without having to fly.


 

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I just wish I could summon a razzlefraggin' Oro while hovering, or vanity pet, or crafting table. I can summon any of my combat pets or pet-like entities while in the air. WTF is the issue behind the ones we can't?

Honestly, I do want to know if it's just been an oversight all this time or if there's a mechanical difference between the types.


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I just wish I could summon a razzlefraggin' Oro while hovering, or vanity pet, or crafting table. I can summon any of my combat pets or pet-like entities while in the air. WTF is the issue behind the ones we can't?

Honestly, I do want to know if it's just been an oversight all this time or if there's a mechanical difference between the types.
I'm in agreement with you...I'd like to know too!


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I think there were some people using their out-of-combat pets/tables/etc. in an exploit-y kind of way, like a bunch of people summoning them and blocking areas, for one example.


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