Bill Z Bubba

Yup. My fire/nrg blaster had the KB-KD IO in power thrust as soon as I was able to slot it. Why would I want to knock enemies away from my other melee attacks? Not if it's applied to every power. Yes, it would be a horrific pain in the ass to code, obviously, but energy blast could be made where each attack was a choice that nullified the other choice. I choose either Nrg Bolt w/ KB or Nrg Bolt w/o. Continue on for every blast. +0/x6 with light form on auto and permaed? Sure, I can absolutely see that working. Thus the request for a new IO that does the global fix. It leaves OF and SA KB-KD alone to use granularly for those that want it and a new one that fixes the issue for an entire set so EBlast and PBs aren't unduly punished slot-wise.

Just as we can kick people from teams for using KB or quit from said teams for the same. Just as we can start playing a given powerset and finding that it lags behind other powersets in performance and complain about them on the forums and find that sometimes they actually get fixed.

Can we at least cut the damn difference? Make it so you only need one of the damn IOs per build so that peacebringers and energy blast users don't need 5 or more? Is even that too damn much to ask? Edit: Or the creation of a new one so that those who want to shut it down on only one power can continue as is?

Fair enough. My apologies. The devs could, yes. And they could do it without the IO tax. We know we can choose Master Brawler instead of Practiced Brawler on Sentinel SR, so too, could we choose knock and non-knock versions of the same power. Edit: But we both know: ain't nobody got time for that. Concerning Peacebringers... if anything in this game DESERVED some gorram power creep, it'd be Kheldians.

Truth is truth. My hatred of it has indeed grown over time. Probably in direct correlation with how much I play my peacebringer. It was also never a problem for me on live since I soloed 99% of the time where now I'm teamed far more often.

That's probably because most of the time it absolutely feels like trolling. Even when I'm on my PB and I click Dawn Strike accidentally, sending the entire spawn flying because I don't have room for that damn KB-KD IO yet. And yet when any of my SG does it, we giggle it off, everyone takes the blame for doing it from time to time and, yet, even that light-hearted response shows that everyone is thinking the same damn thing: "yea, funny, amusing, haha, still annoying." Edit: I've been informed that the word "everyone" is false and some just find it damn funny all the time. And then you have the folks that actually get off on being annoying with KB/repel. But at least we can gignore them or quit teams that have them around.

I'll be sure to throw mud at you the next time we're playing in the rain together. Oh, sorry, you're in your prom dress and didn't want to get dirty at that particular moment? Oh well.

So you admit that the enhancement tax on knockback powers is a real thing while declaring that knock is a detrimental effect put in place specifically to balance a given power's overall effect. And yet energy blast's (the entire set) damage is one of the few that follow the original damage/end/rec equations (mostly) so in that case it's just being penalized by your own logic. Are there powers that would become useless were the player to choose a Null option that disables all knock and repel? Yes, of course, and it would be insane to choose to take a power that relied on knock/repel and then choose to disable those features. As for players being ostracized if they choose to play a peacebringer or energy blast user without disabling knock, guess what, we're all being affected now. I'm affected every time I have to waste a slot turning KB into KD. I'm affected every time someone blasts a spawn out of my damage patch, aoes, taunt aura, etc. I'm affected every time someone is running repulsion field while sitting next to the main aggro manager. Why are only YOUR feelers important here? I have my coffee, Lumi... what's your excuse?

It really shouldn't be. It's a game. Vast majority of us play it for fun and escapism and when our fun gets shit on by other players or game mechanics we're left with few options. The psychotic aversion some people have to allowing a fair option to be rid of a nuisance is what continues to surprise me. So if the new problem is "you just want your cake and to eat it too," fine, make the Null version disable knock across the board on a character. No knock, no repel. Edit: No up, no down. Sounds great.

"Have you tried not being a mutant?" (I'm doing my damndest to avoid being political here.) Edit: Quotes added. This is a line from a movie. I'm not implying that Luminara is a mutant. In case there's any confusion...

But that's my secret, Sai... I'm always benchmarking.

Practiced Brawler. It's your mez protection. Helps a ton, I swear. (Seriously, SR is one of the most powerful armor sets, especially these days. PM me if you'd like to know more.) The majority of my bad build decisions come from concept. I have a boxer that refuses to take Rib Cracker, Spinning Strike and Shin Breaker. I have a swipe-only/inv scrapper. I built and enjoy a DA/Stone tank. The end suckage on that combo is downright insane. Less so after cardiac radial, thankfully. I have a peacebringer.

Except when the social norm is to be intolerant toward the differences. Hell, I'd argue that in many cases we'd all be better off with a lot MORE intolerance towards certain behaviors/beliefs.

Bzzt. Wrong. You can choose not to take the powers that cause the popup tray.

See? Same thread, every damn time. Make the Null option turn off knock completely. I'm fine with that as well. Sounds like a fantastic compromise. Barring that, how about we make the forums automatically delete any post that mentions knockback? No other secondary effect in this game has the negative outcome that comes with KB. No other secondary effect prompted the creation of an enhancement to lessen its annoyance. No other secondary effect causes this level of constant back and forth and vitriol on the forums.

How else are we supposed to get that sweet, double-double XP?

Anti-jranger. I'm so very sick and tired of this discussion and all the idiotic reasons NOT to do it. We can block other people's team teleport and team fly. Why? Because it was annoying the hell out of us. We can disable the travel power and Kheldian form shifting pop up power bar. Why? Because it was annoying the hell out of us. We can set ourselves to always accept or deny mystic fortune. Why? Because the popup request was annoying the hell out of us. I, for one, want to keep what hell I have in me. Knockback, as per the weekly thread on the topic, obviously, also annoys the hell out of many of us, and those that wish to continue using it may do so, and I can avoid teaming with those people while having my enjoyment of many powers greatly increased by not having to waste a slot on them to make them stop being ridiculously annoying. So, yes, signed, agreed, please, I personally implore you, HC Developers, add the ability to Null the Gull to turn all of a character's KB into KD and let's just be done with this shit once and for all.

Base diff makes everything a cakewalk. 🙂

And Cypher from the New Mutants.

When I hear Werner and Rules together, I think of the Werner Rules ITF which is not specifically a scrapper based thing at all. It means: Solo No Insps No Temps No Faceplants Enemies Buffed +4/x8 w/ Bosses and AVs Variations include: Yes or No to Amplifiers Player Debuffed Personally, if I can succeed with no insps, temps, faceplants and solo at max diff, I'm a happy man. I have barely a handful of characters that have done this.

I'm gonna have to test it but it's starting to look like going BF-SS-AS-repeat, even if there's a larger pause before the next BF, is going to be better than BF-AS-SS-AS especially if SS is actually getting a triple stack of BF anyway.

I've been doing this a lot more lately. It's one of the reasons I choose flares over fire blast. Unfortunately, every time I do it, a fight breaks out in my brain starting with, "ya know, you could be killing this guy faster..." And 383% recharge is unreachable solo. So BF-AS-SS-AS is generally the best DB single target chain along with BF-SS-TE for AoE. Now if you can get *enough* recharge above 313% where the pauses in BF-SS-AS still lead to better DPS than BF-AS-SS-AS, as you can with DB/Nrg, then dooooo eeeet.

Nah, it's get 383% total recharge in BF and then go BF-SS-AS-repeat.

Molecule Man

Ant-Man