Please change devour psyche to pbaoe

[WindDemon21]

Honestly it makes zero sense this power is a cone ever (even if the tanker/brute version didn't exist), but there is no reason but to be annoying to have it as a cone instead of pbaoe. Enemies surround you, that's when you need/use a heal like this. This power should be pbaoe for scrap and stalkers. It has a large enough radius to not have any issue hitting the mobs like if they were around the tanker and not the scrap/stalker on a team. So please just fix the power to be pbaoe like it should!

Edited Wednesday at 09:09 PM by WindDemon21

[Shin Magmus]

   I, like many people (who were loud about it both on Closed Beta and during Open Beta) agree with you.  The issue is that the devs don't.  The HC devs clearly really want Fake Psyche to be a cone, even though it is clearly less convenient and less fun for most players.  The requests to change this were ever-present, and yet they all fell on deaf ears.  Nobody will ever know the real reason beyond "one of the powers devs wants you to deal with it being a cone."

[kelika2]

if you are totally surrounded try jumping a little bit and then using the power

if you are grouped with a controller just spamming immob then

if you are grouped with someone with a lot of knockback then

if you are grouped with someone who has a repel power on all the time then

if you are grouped with someone who has a lot of fear(not terror) powers then

[WindDemon21]

2 hours ago, Shin Magmus said:

   I, like many people (who were loud about it both on Closed Beta and during Open Beta) agree with you.  The issue is that the devs don't.  The HC devs clearly really want Fake Psyche to be a cone, even though it is clearly less convenient and less fun for most players.  The requests to change this were ever-present, and yet they all fell on deaf ears.  Nobody will ever know the real reason beyond "one of the powers devs wants you to deal with it being a cone."

Well besides the obvious that they suck and have absolutely no idea what they're doing (just look at tanker aoe change where they didn't increase the cones radii wtf), yeah it's completely stupid. They need to get a clue already. People have already left for dumb decisions like this. Way to make a sets main power completely f'ing annoying to use. Seriously someone please fire whoever is making these terrible decisions already. So sick of it.

[Shin Magmus]

   Probably should've just made these been mutually-exclusive picks, then posted the pick-rate among players publicly after 2 months.  Seeing a 99.97% pick rate for the PbAoE version would've been funny.

[WindDemon21]

3 minutes ago, Shin Magmus said:

   Probably should've just made these been mutually-exclusive picks, then posted the pick-rate among players publicly after 2 months.  Seeing a 99.97% pick rate for the PbAoE version would've been funny.

Like, i could *verrrry* minimalistically see it being a cone on stalkers, since they're not *supposed* to have any of the aggro on teams, of course this still screws them over solo, or if the person playing the stalkers knows what they're doing they'll still draw aggro on them. But all this goes to show is that they for sure have absolutely no idea of how scrappers (or any toon in melee in general) are played, and stalkers for the most part.

[Kaika]

I can kinda understand this on scrapper they want you to use it when approaching the group. I still disagree but at least I can understand the use intention here. On stalker the cone makes ZERO sense, as you basically always start combat from stealth, in melee. The ideal time to use devour would be when approaching from a distance but as a stalker, that's literally just giving up your opening AS/Crit, which you would basically never want to do. So as is now, you need to jump in, do your out of stealth opening stuff, then awkwardly reposition to hit the cone to get the most of of a single use so you can get back to damage. Sometimes you get lucky and enemies are just played out in a way that allows this but often you can't.

 

It's a shame because I love everything else about this set on stalker it's a power house and really fun to play, except this single thing that is extremely annoying. Since closed/open beta practically every other single peice of feedback was "this should be PBAoE" and they still went with this and I cannot fathom why. I regret not testing it more on stalker because it feels like it was not.

Edited 18 hours ago by Kaika