Is beta Decay a big fat 'kill me' button?

[Frostweaver]

Is that Taunt for real?

[Maslow]

I wonder the same. However I saw someone rocking in a fire farm that had that power, idk if it was for sets or for use. The player was amazingly resilient too.

[Novacat]

It doesn't seem to actually taunt according to the ingame window, but a lot of things don't appear in those details if they're caused in some indirect fashion like "that mine is actually a pet" or "multiple modes"(snipes) and other stuff like that.

 

That said, it lowers their to-hit a bit, handily speeds up your recharge, and you've got a pair of PBAoEs in the set that help there too. Paired with the right set, things might be clustering in the middle of a damage and mezzing storm.

[Generator]

Is that Taunt for real?

 

Honestly, I don't think it is for real.  I think that's just a copypasta error from the Tanker et al. power it's cribbed from.

[Frostweaver]

Right. well. I have played around with it a bit and it doesn't seem to cause any EXTRA aggro on top of the massive amounts you ttend to draw as a blaster... and it doesn't overcome Chilling Embrace's innate taunt, so that's good enough for me.

[Generator]

Well yeah, you're debuffing their ToHit and Defense; no one is gonna take kindly to that part.  :)

[SwitchFade]

I'll refrain from using the word taunt here.

 

It does cause aggro above what a blaster normally pulls from attacking. I notice that its threat level is easily eclipsed by other things. For instance, I have tested moving into melee and going passive, getting aggro, then waiting while scrappers set in, and controllers buff... I then lose aggro quickly.

 

So, it does draw attention, but it is much lower threat level than most other things.

 

Mainly, it negates invisibility when trying to ghost.