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Trick Question. The answer doesn't matter. It has the same psychological effect that a one-shot does.
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Bingo. This was exactly my point.
PvP is a very fine balance and there are a lot of ways to creatively combine powers for extreme effect. Assassin Attacks, while powerful, are only the most visable (irony?) example. There are others which are worse and whatever solution we come up with for 'The one shot problem' has to address as many variations as we can identify.
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First of all for heroes, only /devices blasters (1 power set from 1 AT get this) can do the cited example.
Sorry but players are morons if they repeatedly run into a caltrops field and get trip mined. TP Foe hardly has a great range. Ive seen this happen a handful of times. I've seen stalkers 1-shot people 100+ times easy. Stalkers consist of 1 entire AT and are a huge population in PvP for villains.
Who wants to bet that 99.X% of all one-shots are by stalkers? The devs have this information, care to share? Thought not.
One-shoting by another ATs is extremely hard to do and requires teams, or massive amount of insp eating. Stalker can take powers in their primary and secondary and accomplish this easily solo. (No you don't need stealth as it has no effect on damage; it only makes the setup easier).
I find your statement that there are worse examples of one-shoting amusing. The player base (not forum base

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