Oathbound

As a matter of fact, every single power in the game with Repel, Repulse or Repulsion in it's name is knockback and not repel.

Why I couldn't say.

Nope. Not even remotely the same.

Psionic Tornado is just a target AoE attack which has a chance to knockup.

Tornado is a pet summon that left unchecked will wreak untold havoc and chaos upon the field.

It's not about putting Bonfire back into the powers graveyard.

It's about Bonfire+proc basically outperforming entire other control sets on its own.

One power plus one proc = permanent AoE total lockdown. That's absolutely broken.

Again, you're saying that because Bonfire+Proc don't break iTrials that everything is fine, without regard to the fact that incarnate trials are in and of themselves outliers in general game performance, and still only a small portion of the overall game.

As someone who leveled an electric/ controller through Praetoria, I can assure you that non-incarnate Seers are just as vulnerable to Knock* effects as rank and file Hellions.

Soo.... this isn't ridiculously overpowered, because it doesn't work in situations where no other control powers work?

This sums up my position pretty well.

I mean, I don't really care one way or the other, but Developer time could definitely be better spent on something other than tracking down a bajillion bits of random code and changing four letters (f-i-r-e) into four different letters (h-e-a-t) for what amounts to not a damned bit of difference.

While Singularity does use Repel (the power), none of the powers in the entire game with Repel or Repulsion in their names actually are repel (the effect) they are all knockback.*

Thus the proc would work in Singularity... and since it doesn't appear that Singularity's Repel has the self -End penalty when it knocks a target, it wouldn't absolutely murder his blue bar, like such a proc would do to a player if it could be slotted into Kinetics' Repel.**


*Repel: Knockback
Repulsion Bomb: Knockdown
Sonic Repulsion: Knockback
Repulse (before it got changed to Disrupt): Knockback
Repulsing Torrent: Knockback


** Though thinking about it, I'm not sure whether the proc actually would have any affect on Singularity's Repel at all, given how slotted enhancements work with pet powers. Yes you can slot it into Singularity, but since Repel deals no damage I don't think it matters.

Fixed that for you.

Also, corsages as a chest detail:


And boutonnieres for us menfolk:

Yeah. You need the voice for it to work, otherwise it's a total groaner.

Electric Assault used to be good, before the devs practically gutted it in their misguided attempt to make Energy Assault king of single target assault sets.

Really Electric has barely any more AoE damage than Energy, and now has terrible single target damage to go along with it.

The only plus to Electric Assault is that come issue 24's sniper changes, every once in awhile they can use Build Up and hit insta-Zapp.

I could also see it being more like the Warshade Dark Extraction power which targets a defeated foe, rather than your own defeated pet.

I believe that the way it works is that there are four temples (North, South, East, West) two for Men (North, South) two for Women (East, West) and that they follow a fairly migratory path from one to the other.

When and where they meet up to make baby airbenders I have no idea.

On the male model at least, the blade most often extends from your middle/ring fingers, through the flat of your fist (Ouch!).

Honestly, I don't think they would need to change it at all. The extendable blade is there for probably less than a second, it's not exactly a big flashy effect.

None of the claw customization options cover the flat of your fist (they all attach to the top of your hand), so it's unlikely that the extended blade would clip with them.

I don't think that simply using the exact same animations with the other claw options would really be that big of a deal.

Oh I agree, Gravity still needs improvements. Particularly since the last batch of updates really just made Gravity better at the niche it already filled (single target damage) without really doing that much to improve it's overall control. (Dimension Shift is never going to be a go to control power, and the massive KB in Wormhole still sucks.)

I just doubt we're going to see any more any time soon.

I might suggest pretty much anything from Two Steps From Hell.

My personal favorites at the moment being Exodus, Archangel, Nemesis, United We Stand, Divided We Fall and Nero. (Admittedly Nero may not exactly be epic combat music.)

The piece from them people are most likely to recognize is Freedom Fighters.

The fact that GD negates knock is exactly WHY it was used as the trigger. Impact is basically just an apology for making your primary hold negate your soft control powers.

"Here, have some extra damage to make up for that."

Impact actually has a larger benefit on Lift that Propel, also. Both powers trigger the same 0.3scale Impact damage, but Lift animates and recharges faster, so sees a higher increase in overall damage output.

Honestly I do agree that Lift would have made more sense as the AoE soft control than Propel does, but 1) The devs weren't going to give Grav an AoE control(even a limited one) at level 1 and 2) They wanted to add it to Propel to make it "worth taking" particularly on Dominators, who have better attacks in most of their secondaries anyhow.

You, me, and thousands upon thousands of others.

Hell I've never even been able to play the last deck I made, cause the only people I really played with aren't exactly on speaking terms with one another anymore.

I'd say it's too late for that... the damage has been done... <see SSA1>