Made a video preview of Marine Affinity / Water Blast, from the Beta server! deets in the comments

[supersonick]

• Youtube link - https://youtu.be/8FNCZumjmdM
• video you see here is a lvl 27 Defender, using only Single Origin enhancers, and poorly slotted at that. still seems to do great
• Marine Affinity seems really, REALLY good as a defender set. I tried it has IceBlast/Marine Corruptor and found survivability to be less, but of course, over all control to be much stronger. 
• the overall set is SUPER fun. The move that lets you teleport to the enemies and knock them down is very fun. Water Blasting is a perfect match up as well as it adds more knockdown, and self healing from Dehydrate. 
• The sets sound effects are cool, but on the other hand, the constant "dolphin sound" is a bit much. they need to lower the amount the sound effect fires off IMO. but if they don't, to me, it's tolerable and fine. 
• i did NOT have the power, Brine, which would have helped with the LT/Boss damage you see towards the end. 
• i did NOT have any form of endurance reduction slotted, but with IO's and smarter slotting, this set would do just fine. 
• with recharge reduction from globals/set bonuses, this set would be bananas i think
• Brace yourselves for Aquaman rip-offs. But the good news is, you'll love teaming with this set. you'll do a lot more damage with Marine Affinity on your team, and you'll have some healing and +DmgAbsorb/+EndRegen/+HPRegan/+DmgResist. Every team will love this set

AMA! or log onto beta yourselves and check it out. 

 

I would not be suprised if there were nerfs to the set before it's released. it struck me as VERY strong, and again, i'm only using SOs at lvl 27. 

 

Does anyone know how long, on average, a power set sits on beta before it moves to live? 

[Glacier Peak]

 

[Techwright]

I'm confused by the visuals of that pet.  What is it supposed to be?  Moving reef rocks?

[supersonick]

yup! i think the move is called Barrier Reef. i was also suprised to see that it follows the caster around. it gives the entire team +Absorb. it's really good. 

[Techwright]

16 hours ago, supersonick said:

yup! i think the move is called Barrier Reef. i was also suprised to see that it follows the caster around. it gives the entire team +Absorb. it's really good. 

 

Such an odd thing to be a mobile pet, and I realize the irony of such a statement given the rest of the game's design.

[ZacKing]

Looks like a fun set.  I'm looking forward to trying it out myself.  I'll definitely actively avoid teaming for a while once this rolls out though since everyone and their brother will be rolling new alts for it and the already over saturated VFX will get a whole lot worse on teams, much like when Seismic Blast was first released. 

[Yomo Kimyata]

Semper Fi