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I'm not upset, I just don't mince words. Explain to me please if it's so egregious why kinetics beats out time so handily. Why isn't everyone taking time with a runaway margin if it's so OP? My Beam Ninjitsu Sent is way more durable than my grav time troller to answer your question. Show me why this being so "egregious" does anything to break the game, nobody stops and waits on farsight to cast. And game OP teams don't even need the buff. Nobody cares but people on here that are royally butthurt for some reason. I'm just really curious why. I honestly just took power boost for the 15 seconds. Once I learned about the interaction in this thread, I don't notice any difference on team whether it's power boosted or not because we are moving so fast. It's definately not game breaking though.

you bet, log into discord and you can reach me or someone at any time

Yeah and the saying goes you can polish a turd its still a turd. theres no way you can upsell what you are advocating for here. so stop pretending like its going to be anything other than an unnecessary nerf and also that you are for some odd reason anything but giddy about it.

Truthfully time is good without power boost - I have a grav time that I didnt even know about this interaction before reading this thread - so I rarely used power boost outside of using it like a damage build up. But just because its good without it doesnt mean it needs it removed, because its a naturally good synergy that doesnt affect anything but the user really late game because the team usually doesnt need it anyway..

Absolutely, would love to have ya!

Yes absolutely, we always are. We are kinda like the Motel 6 we'll leave the light on for ya. Just with bad guys, trying to blow you up, and set you on fire 🙂

**Gently puts blanket back over cage** Sorry friend, didn't mean to invoke dreams of days gone by.

I figured since you were talking about FF and rad, anything was fair game. Cause EM in this discussion is as valid as your comparison of time to rad.

I have a shield build for almost everything. If that feels too slow you can swap total focus for energy punch or bone smasher.

Captain Starburst - Tanker (Shield Defense - Energy Melee).mxd

Yeah, again thats not how any of that works in the grand scheme of the end game which is when you basically get to realize PB+farsight on most builds anyway. Kinetics dominates time on all the FOTM results - thats why none of that matters. Everyone is softcapped already, so the only thing you are handicapping are the solo player or casual player. You get the PB Farsight so late in the game there are way better toys our there at that point and damage is what the goal is in the end game incarnate scope. Its not as game breaking as people whining and complaining about it being game breaking. Ultimately i could care less, im a tanker so it wont affect me either way, but i can tell when something is broken and this just isnt one of them - especially not compared to energy melee, and myriad of other facets of the game like underperforming sets that need a buff. Thats where your attention should be, not gasping over PB +Farsight.

yeah, thats not how it works... at all

That's all you have to do that's such a huge number. Again, time is good but nowhere nearly as good as all the pearl clutching going on in here about it is.

yeah, exactly, with shield you are chasing res and vectored defense, Thats just one spot i chose to chase energy and negative energy resistance.

Just for fun, and informational, wanted to see what you guys had to say. For me it's Shield/Elec - because it's nigh unkillable and massive AOE burst damage that literally gives you a sense what it must feel like to be like Zeus or Thor.

Nah I'm good, have fun partner.

Mah gosh you are being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. I'm not going over this again.

Unless you are fighting enemies that affect your blue bar.

It's not really about slotting differently as much as it is making a strong feature even stronger. Blue bars would never move, they barely move now on most of mine.

No, we have, you just refuse to see it or cant see it for whatever reason. You are ignoring the obvious whether on purpose or not, who knows. At this point I'm not repeating myself again. If you have end issues on a build send it to me I'll fix it for you.

Dang my brain is too exhausted for sarcasm. My bad. haha

If we didnt get stamina for free I might be inclined to agree but the free stamina is huge and cant be ignored when considering the scope of how you slot and prepare for endurance management.

So now we are talking about nerfing defense bonuses because recovery bonuses are too low? You do realize that's 2 separate things right? Also defense doesn't get a free power like recovery does with stamina. End management is already borderline too easy on any powerset because it basically functions and slots the same across the board because of the free stamina and the other ways to build around end management, you can't say the same about defense on every build.

Um pretty much all of them because see comments above about it being easy button now. See said it already. Pretty self explanatory. If there are any unicorn builds out there that are still struggling, its more in line with it being a balance issue around that set than whats available in recovery set bonuses. I havent found anything yet I cant build around to remove endurance issues though. If that is the case, even if you boost recovery bonuses that set would still be broken hypothetically speaking, but in turn the good sets would be even more OP then. That could create a balance issue in itself.