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Out of curiosity have you played lightning rod on a shield tanker? If not, I would highly suggest that because LR + SC + TS is one of the most powerful AoE combos in the game. Another cool AT interaction is shield stalker - so it has a great ST attack in AS - combine that with LR SC - doesnt break hide then AS and chain induction its a very powerful combo also.

Spring Attack from the leaping pool is similar also - i use it on a couple of toons.

After all the time I waited to get ET back to what it is now...

Everything you need to know about Tanking in one video.

Because he can

Please, back in the good ole days I've hiked many a level 1 to portal Corp to level in the battle maiden map, and that wasnt an issue - flying over head is 100% safe unless you stop moving and well that really isn't the powers fault.

Ahhh mystic flight thats how I missed it. Many thanks!

curious, how do you do this? Switch off the server tray that is.

They already explained that, like it or not that's the point of balance they feel is necessary, I agree with it myself.

Yeah, but you can technically do that if you wanted to. And I started stating the part about beta fly+EvM > live Fly+ab on page 3 I tried I tried. lol. Started on page 3.

But it's a lot better than it was, it cant be perma because it wouldn't balance well. Eventually the others come back to earth. Its not a nerf when you can go at live AB speeds with just fly - and then AB makes that faster in bursts. 90% of the time the .9 mi AB will give you will get you where you need to go. In the shard is the one zone I can think of it may not, but fly still has the advantage there.

They arent going to run or jump across the shard - thats why the Eagles are always > the Earthworms. lol

i just tested this myself and can confirm this - i thought something felt off about it. good catch!

how will it increase long distance flight times?

Some other tidbits i am discovering: This bind works well for me to activate AB now /bind mousechord "powexecname afterburner" Also new AB allows you to fly at that speed for .9 miles until recharge - thats pretty good that will get you pretty much anywhere you need to get to in zone - aside from a talos, IP or shard zone traverse. Even when it drops at that point you are still going at previous Live speed caps.

yeah jump height is the only downer really, but - meh lol i can get past that. i just moved three slots to kuji in rin and put the BotZ set in it to get the bonuses and movenent buffs plus one recharge so its perma. didnt really lose anything to do it but increased to near live levels in all aspects but jump height as i said.

That is beta without athletic run - i can work with this. I mean its not awesome but ill take this if any change had to be made.

I should have ran the beta number without ath run, give me a bit and i will - but i normally ran it with ath run anyway - with the Endurance click of ninjitsu it was never an issue of endurance honestly.

I was a little concerned about the ninjitsu change but i just tested it on beta and live and i dont think its a horrible change with some creative slotting changes - not too difficult also. The largest area hit will be the jump height - but only if you are using Athletic run or another P2W power - but i understand the reasoning behind that also. The good news is now that you can run both Ath Run and CJ you will have more speed, and better jump height with slighly better defenses because you dont have to detoggle one or the other now.

I agree, plus it makes sense that if you are evading you wouldnt be noticed until you interact anyway - then you have 10 seconds to create distance - evasion to regain the bonus - seems fair to me.

so what i am seeing now with it restoring if evading the fight in around 3 seconds will not be the norm?

I just ran an interesting test on Evasive maneuvers Setup: Kat Nin Scrapper 60% def to AOE MELEE RANGED EvM boosts that to ~75% Running Sprint, Ath Run and EvM Maria Jenkins Infernal Mission +4/8 When you attack the defense bonus drops, same as when you are attacked. If you evade you will regain the bonus back on average in 3 seconds - so unless you hang around - you will retain the EvM defense bonus as long as you keep moving - literally a few yards away from the engagement.

Stealth +Celerity will do that for ya too though, but Honestly if you are moving at 87 mph old or new they aren't going to get at ya.

It shouldn't be as fast as or faster than other travel powers - do you think it should? It wasnt truly combat related defense then - you couldnt attack back while it was on - if its a retreat power you want the new AB gives you 30 seconds of near SS level speed and if you can't get away in 30 seconds you werent meant to my friend - but you can also activate hover - get its bonus and still get out at breakneck speeds. Again the old Fly+AB performance is less than the new Fly+EvM performance - the short burst is even faster than that - its a bonus - look up bonus and free and that's what new AB is. No, 3 powers are the same as before just renamed with slightly different function but greater performance - the third power is again a bonus - free - and a performance additive. That wouldnt balance out for fly to superseed SJ or SS Heroes I'm comics have short burst of super feats - its reflective of that in my opinion. But Again this is a net gain numerically over the live numbers even if you never used the new AB. Unless You can demonstrate otherwise, and please do post numbers because this affects 48 of my characters I would like to see the evidence for me not to like these changes. I'll be waiting.