Oathbound

It's already been stated as such by the Devs, with regard to Devices being able to hit the magical ToHit number by overslotting Targeting Drone.

I'm not sure if they considered Time Manipulation's ability to hit the ToHit reqs permanently for the entire team by power boosting Farsight, or running Farsight and Tactics, though.

If anything it annoys me more because my character is demonstrably stronger than her. That just goes to show that there's absolutely no possible reason she should be able to read my mind. And yet she does.

Yes. Yes it is.

Along those lines:

My prospective build has Dehydrate slotted with the 3 Thunderstrike triples, a level 50 Damage IO and 2 level 50 Heal IOs for 42.4% Accuracy, Endurance and Recharge, 95.9% Damage and 83.32% Healing enhancement.

I didn't slot it for a 6.25% Recharge bonus, because 7 out of Water Blast's other powers can be slotted for that bonus, and don't have additional aspects that need enhanced.

I highly doubt it. Soldiers and Widows still have access to the Leadership pool, so they can get the new 5th power no matter what. Kheldians are completely locked out of the Flight/Teleport pools, so they only way they'd ever have access to the new 5th powers was if the also got added to their powersets.

Aqua Bolt is 0.84scale 1.188 Arcanatime
Hydro Blast is 1.48scale 1.848 Arcanatime
Dehydrate is 1.744scale 2.112 Arcanatime

That gives them DPAs of:
0.707scale
0.801scale
0.826scale

Dehydrate actually has better DPA than Aqua Bolt or Hydro Blast.

Honestly, I'd have to say that no set shows it's age more than Forcefield.

It's really a relic that's practically unchanged since a long forgotten time with completely different design goals and principles.



Edit: That's not at all to say that I don't think TA needs some dramatic buffing. It really could use it.

It would yeah. Aqua Bolt's DPA is really only very slightly lower than Hydro Blast. Including the -Res proc would boost the damage of all of your attacks and would easily overcome that.


Enhanced Water Jet would also be 1.188, since it uses a 1s activation time.

Begging for it more than Earth, Fire and/or now Water?

I would never skip Distortion Field, personally... but that's just because it takes Basilisk's gaze...

Due to the Damage/Recharge scaling of Aqua Bolt and Hydro Blast, Hydro Blast actually has better DPA than Aqua Bolt. (0.84scale/sec for Aqua Bolt vs 0.886scale/sec for Hydro Blast.) So the optimum damage chain for Water Blast will likely cycle Hydro Blast over Aqua Bolt.

That said, the difference isn't that large, and I simply prefer the animation of Aqua Bolt over Hydro Blast.

Another factor that serves to complicate making a static chain for Water Blast is that any misses derail your chain, as you don't gain the necessary stacks of Tidal Power. You need to adapt your chain on the fly to accommodate this.

You forgot the

The Lich's torrent was changed to knockdown some time ago, so slotting the proc there won't have any effect on it.

I can only imagine you're talking about possibly not liking new animations (Since there's zero other reason that this straight up buff would upset anyone).

They show the animations in the coffee talk... they appear to be the same as the current animation, just sped up. They're essentially no different.

Quite.

Nope. No animation changes.

The new power, Cross Punch, uses the same animation as Sweeping Cross from Street Justice. (Just FYI.)

Must own the other Fighting Pool attack powers to get bonuses. All bonuses, damage or otherwise.

Err, oh yeah, the second part I had skipped over in my last post... woops.

No, RoA's recharge is staying the same.

I'm pretty sure it's actually the other way around.

At 31:12ish direct quote:

"... and the recharge time has been reduced -we use the normal formula but we increase it by 50%, and if it's a targeted AoE instead of a PBAoE we increased it by 75%..."

Judging by the recharge time we saw for Nova, the "normal recharge" for nukes was somewhere between 90 and 100seconds then tack on the extra 50% that got us to 145s (2m 25s).

For TAoE (Thunderous Blast, and I'm assuming Blizzard) it'll probably be around 170s (2m 50s)

**He was speaking a bit haltingly right about there, so it's a little hard to follow.

I really, really, really wish that I could skip boxing and just take Tough and Weave instead.

Ah well, I'll take what I can get.

I.... but.... WOULD YOU PEOPLE STOP FORCING ME TO ADD NEW POWERS TO MY BUILD!!!1














(Seriously, I already have to respec my Time/Fire Defender to fit in Blazing Bolt and Inferno... now (depending on numbers) I need (strongly desire) to figure out some way to add the Presence pool too. THE PRESENCE POOL!)

Pretty much this, for me.

I never wanted Bonfire+Proc nerfed into oblivion, I simply wanted it brought back in line.

Then as far as I'm concerned... you can't respec soon enough!