Concentrated strike error. (Scrapper/T9)

[BuildsAllTheThings]

Let me start this by saying, I'm not sure if this is intentional - and just miscommunicated. Or, if this is a real bug/mistake. But regardless:

 

The tier nine power "Concentrated Strike", for scrapper Kinetic melee does not function as described. It reads thus:

 

"Concentrated Strike is a slow, but incredibly devastating attack that can knock out most opponents, leaving them Disoriented. Due to the exhausting nature of Concentrated Strike, recharge time is very long. Concentrated Strike Criticals do not result in  extra damage, it instead instantly recharges the Power Siphon power."

 

It's this last line, we're interested in. A quick check in City of Data, and a round of play tests on the open beta confirm that the actual mechanic is entirely different. Concentrated Strike does not, on a succesful critical hit, instantly recharge power siphon. Rather, whether or not this recharge effect fires is entirely dependent on a flat 20% chance that is randomly rolled.

 

As an aside: This is slightly problematic, on account of it being a 2.83 second cast, (3.036 with arcana time), in the context of scrappers. Where this power eats effectively, half of your crit strikes window in attempting to use it. 😅

 

Recommendation for fix: 

 

Either

A.) A lowered cast time + text correction, so that it better fits the kinetic melee single target chain,

Or,

B.) Adapting Total Focus' coding structure to ensure functionality of stated original effect.

 

Thank you for time, and have a nice day!😊

 

(Edited for typo's.)

Edited Saturday at 09:19 PM by BuildsAllTheThings

[Koopak]

This has been brought up a few times and really should be clarified. Its fine to call it a "critical strike" potentially if we also clarify that (due to the lack of the requesit tags) it is unaffected by crit boosting effects

[arcane]

Good catch but only a full Kinetic Melee revamp will be acceptable.

[BuildsAllTheThings]

I don't know if I'd go thaaaaat far? At least in the context of scrappers and the current enhancement sets we have. A few powers might need to be brought into line, and have their cast time's reduced! As, this would pretty handily increase their over all effective dpa, and make them pretty passable. ESPECIALLY with how interesting power siphon is.  For brutes, tankers, and stalkers. Errr.

 

Yeah, okay we'd have some discussing to do lol.