Dominator Radiation Assault - The Smallest PBAoE

[KayMarder]

Looking at all the PBAoE attacks in the Dominator Assault sets, they all seem to be 15ft Radius...

 

...Except for Atom Smasher in Radiation Assault, which has a much smaller radius at 7ft.  Was this an oversight in translating the Radiation Melee version (7ft radius, as most all the other PBAoE in melee sets), or intentional? It does do a little more damage (raw) than the other PBAoE attacks, but also has an animation that's a little on the long side, balancing that out to some degree.

 

(Also how about raising Dominator damage cap to 500%, alongside Blasters, Scrappers and Stalkers?)

 

Edit: Atom Smasher has a 10ft radius on Dominators, which is still not 15ft like the main PBAoE attack in the other Assault sets.

Edited November 18, 2021 by KayMarder

[Uun]

Atom Smasher has a 10-foot radius. 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=dominator_assault.radioactive_assault.atom_smasher&at=dominator

[KayMarder]

Fair, though 10ft is not 15ft meaning it's still behind the curve on AOE, and the tooltip mentions a 'Power Range' while others don't. Weird formatting.

[Uun]

44 minutes ago, KayMarder said:

Fair, though 10ft is not 15ft meaning it's still behind the curve on AOE, and the tooltip mentions a 'Power Range' while others don't. Weird formatting.

Not sure why the 7 ft range is there. Most PBAoEs have a range of 0 ft since you don't have to target an enemy to use it. I agree that the 10 ft radius is an outlier and it might not have been adjusted when it was ported from Radiation Melee. 

[KayMarder]

2 hours ago, Uun said:

Not sure why the 7 ft range is there. Most PBAoEs have a range of 0 ft since you don't have to target an enemy to use it. I agree that the 10 ft radius is an outlier and it might not have been adjusted when it was ported from Radiation Melee. 

Yeah, if nothing else, updating the power to remove the range from a PBAoE would be a bugfix on this.

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May be nonstandard because radiation assault has the contaminated effect.

 

In theory this could potentially add a bunch of aoe damage on tightly grouped mobs (and thereby justify the crappy radius of atom smasher).

 

In practice contaminated is a rather lacklustre.