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Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-05-2004 12:23:32 PM
Allright, so I finally hit 28. New power time!

Except I don't know what to get. For those who don't know (Re: Don't give a shit) I'm an ass/dev blaster.

So far, I have this (Without enhancement slots. I didn't want to bother with all the damage/damage/damage etc. crap.)

Archetype: Blaster
Primary Powers - Ranged : Assault Rifle
Secondary Powers - Support : Devices
Slot[01] Level 1 (Starting Primary) : Slug
Slot[02] Level 1 (Starting Secondary) : Web Grenade
Slot[03] Level 2 : Burst
Slot[04] Level 4 : Caltrops
Slot[05] Level 6 : Hover
Slot[06] Level 8 : Buckshot
Slot[07] Level 10 : Targeting Drone
Slot[08] Level 12 : Sniper Rifle
Slot[09] Level 14 : Fly
Slot[10] Level 16 : Swift
Slot[11] Level 18 : Flamethrower
Slot[12] Level 20 : Cloaking Device
Slot[13] Level 22 : Health
Slot[14] Level 24 : Stamina
Slot[15] Level 26 : Smoke Grenade

Now, the obvious choice, is, of course, Hasten. Yeah, I probably should have taken it earlier, but that's for respec.

My question is.. I've actually played around with Ignite, Tripmine, even assault.. but nothing seems to feel right. I'm up to "TSMv.7" on the test server, and I still don't know what power to take.

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Pancake
posted 10-05-2004 12:45:36 PM
Trip mines or hasten. Since you want to respec anyways, trip mines make it so much easier.
Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-05-2004 01:05:13 PM
I was thinking hasten for the respec, actually.. Since I remember someone saying something about a 40 minute fight at the end of the trial.. trip mines may do nice damage, but it's interruptable; I might have better luck putting up hasten and using flamethrower/buckshot to kill ze badguys.

Or something. :/ This is why I can't decide.

Palador ChibiDragon
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posted 10-05-2004 01:33:28 PM
Hurdle. You have the other three powers, go for the full set. It's not some big bonus in combat, but it does make getting around a little easier without needing to use fly.

Aid Other. Because a party can never have too much healing.

Stealth. IF (and only if) it stacks with Cloaking Device. Because being hard to hit is ALLWAYS a good thing.

Tripmine sounds good, if you follow it up with Challenge when you get the chance. Having a Tanker or Scrapper taunt them into it would work too. I haven't messed around with Tripmine though, so I might be wrong here.

Hasten. This is, I think, the best choice. Learn it, use it. Just remember the End hit you take when it wears off.

I believe in the existance of magic, not because I have seen proof of its existance, but because I refuse to live in a world where it does not exist.
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Pancake
posted 10-05-2004 01:37:57 PM
The reason I said to use trip mine is when you get into the reactor, you have a few minutes between every wave, you can mine the doors, and take out a few enemies that way. Hasten is a really good choice also, and you will definitely want to get that.
Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-05-2004 01:51:19 PM
I do eventually want trip mine, but I think that Hasten will be good to take *now* because I can put six slots into it faster. I have a 33 SO recharger that's already earmarked for something similar to that. On top of that, I've already got four slots into stamina (With stamina DOs in each, can't buy the SOs yet. )

A question though.. If I get super speed, does that make me fly faster as well?

Ferret
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posted 10-05-2004 01:55:36 PM
quote:
Delphi Aegis had this to say about dark elf butts:
A question though.. If I get super speed, does that make me fly faster as well?

No.

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-05-2004 02:00:34 PM
quote:
Ferret got bored and wrote this:
No.

Are you absolutely positive? I could swear that whenever I get a +SPD buff (There's one on the kinetics line, I think), I fly oodles faster.. Perhaps it is a misconception..

I've seen people with fly and sprint on.. but sprint specifically boosts RUN speed, not speed in general.. Hence why I am suspect on this point.

Palador ChibiDragon
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posted 10-05-2004 02:32:20 PM
quote:
Delphi Aegis had this to say about Cuba:
Are you absolutely positive? I could swear that whenever I get a +SPD buff (There's one on the kinetics line, I think), I fly oodles faster.. Perhaps it is a misconception..

I've seen people with fly and sprint on.. but sprint specifically boosts RUN speed, not speed in general.. Hence why I am suspect on this point.


The Kinetics boost is a boost to all your travel speeds. (Well, except teleport, naturally.)

Super Speed Running boosts Run speed (and maybe jump speed), but it does nothing for flying speed.

I believe in the existance of magic, not because I have seen proof of its existance, but because I refuse to live in a world where it does not exist.
Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-06-2004 12:57:23 AM
quote:
Palador ChibiDragon got bored and wrote this:
The Kinetics boost is a boost to all your travel speeds. (Well, except teleport, naturally.)

Super Speed Running boosts Run speed (and maybe jump speed), but it does nothing for flying speed.


What I mean is that the short descrip for the Superspeed power is +SPD and the short descrip for the kinetics power has +SPD. If one, then the other.

Or maybe I'm making too logical an assumption on a game.

ProphetofDark
Pancake
posted 10-06-2004 01:24:04 AM
Sadly, SS doesn't stack with fly. :/ I'd say hasten would do you the most good right now, since you don't really have many attacks yet.

Aid Other wouldn't be much use, it's interruptable, and you'd heal for a lot less than a defender/controller, and stealth isn't too useful, just because of the runspeed debuff, combat jumping would be a more useful defense buff, and would give a bigger jumping boost than hurdle.

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