powers: is it OP?

[Mumbo]

does tiny still bh ?

[Buzzo]

does tiny still bh ?

does anyone?

[nerdly]

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[Mumbo]

nerdly don't think people are complaining. I think they are observing and discussing.

[chompbacca]

Thats the damage that just the lightning in powers does to a TKM Doc which 48% ls resist psg, synthsteak, Pikatta pie, canape and double brandy

[Mumbo]

damn. would love to see the same but the lightning bolts direct against master defender jedi. pretty sure the numbers will be a lot higher

[Awesome]

after a few rounds of testing powers vs Mdef, I think its more force defense (the skill attribute, not the class) that needs love. Speaking from this class only there's no way a MDef should incur 1700 damage from lightning with foods up. Pretty sure Tiny said the EMU hasn't addressed the force defense issue. I wonder if our devs can add it back in, seems force defense is acting like +0. That would also help MDef in the mind blast issue as well as these are all force attacks. Non jedi vs powers (mind blast specifically) I think the mind blast skill should revert back to random pool, the fact it can target one pool specifically the mind, destroys any non jedi vs powers pvp, unless non jedi can start healing mind without a CM. Introduce mind stims, that would solve it too. I thought Bloodfin EMU had that years ago. Powers builds are glass cannons they cant sit there spamming these attacks as they are very high force cost, powers is all offense but with a short shelf life. Most powers builds ive engaged hit mind blast 6 times at me instantly hoping to get the quick kill, then they have to retreat and regen. We have to be careful in not gimping this class yet once again, in group pvp I can see this class being very scary on the battlefield as theres no class that is immune to it, that class used to be defender. Defenders were virtually immune to powers from very high force defense. If you have all wondered where did the BHs go, they left Dodge, im pretty sure cause they couldn't beat Spartacus and felt everyone jedi being picked off by BHs would soon grab powers x4xx for their builds, where there is smoke there is fire. Im very comfy in my build, but if mass pvp were to break out tomorrow I think I may consider a powers variant.

[Buzzo]

i would hate to ever see powers go back to how it was, but i genuinely think that it needs another look now that people are using it. we dont really want a completely unbalanced system, well i dont anyway. i think that maybe lightning damage is a touch high, and mind blast needs to be reduced just a bit, i dont know if it makes sense for MIND blast to target random pools, but f the mind blast damage was dialed back just a little bit then i think it would be around the same as say headshots from a swordsman or rifleman, still very effective but maybe not OP as all hell

[Awesome]

if you read the description of mindBlast skill in crtl-s under powers tree, it describes it as random pool

[Buzzo]

ya i know what the description says, if you read previous patch notes then you would know that that description is outdated.... also there are a lot of the descriptions that are waaaay off. if its gotta be a random pool then re-name it to force blast instead of mind blast hahahah