I hate psi melee.

[kelika2]

AoE and City of Heroes go hand in hand, and psi melees weak aoe and worst of all, late AoE caused me to only play it once since it released

 

Boggle is total crap and needs a total revamp.

Idea #1, give it the Touch of Fear treatment where it is a melee range target aoe DoT but with a confuse effect.  targets under the effect give almost guaranteed Insight

Idea #2, swap it with tier9 and make it into a single target high/extreme damage DoT

 

Mass Levitate is underwhelming even with Insight up, try "doubling" its damage by adding initial Psi damage and delayed Smashing damage

 

Melee cones are all kinda crap and I hope that Battle Axe was the beta version of what all melee cones will one day get, psi blade sweep is junk because of how much RNG goes into being able to hit more than one target with it

 

with the proposed changes all ATs should be more fun to play.

Stalkers dont even get blade sweep, but they get Boggle at 18.  if boggle does become a taoe dot most ATs will get it at level 18, and keep it when exemplaring down to 13.  tankers would need to wait until 24, but they can keep it as low as level 19.

[Uun]

Agree that Boggle is virtually useless. Idea #1 could work. Mass Levitate is fine as is. Psi Blade Sweep is balanced as a ST attack (it has essentially the same DPA as Mental Strike and Psi Blade). That said, it is one of the narrower melee cones and I would support its arc being increased to 90 degrees.

 

You overlook Psi Melee's biggest shortcoming. The Insight mechanic is terrible (especially the lockout) and needs a complete rework.

[ShardWarrior]

I would not try to suggest that Psi Melee is the worst set there is, but I would disagree that it is a terrible set.  I quite enjoy my Shield/Psi Melee tankers!  I will completely agree that Boggle is meh and should be reworked.

[golstat2003]

21 hours ago, kelika2 said:

AoE and City of Heroes go hand in hand, and psi melees weak aoe and worst of all, late AoE caused me to only play it once since it released

 

Boggle is total crap and needs a total revamp.

Idea #1, give it the Touch of Fear treatment where it is a melee range target aoe DoT but with a confuse effect.  targets under the effect give almost guaranteed Insight

Idea #2, swap it with tier9 and make it into a single target high/extreme damage DoT

 

Mass Levitate is underwhelming even with Insight up, try "doubling" its damage by adding initial Psi damage and delayed Smashing damage

 

Melee cones are all kinda crap and I hope that Battle Axe was the beta version of what all melee cones will one day get, psi blade sweep is junk because of how much RNG goes into being able to hit more than one target with it

 

with the proposed changes all ATs should be more fun to play.

Stalkers dont even get blade sweep, but they get Boggle at 18.  if boggle does become a taoe dot most ATs will get it at level 18, and keep it when exemplaring down to 13.  tankers would need to wait until 24, but they can keep it as low as level 19.

 

The insight mechanic I found to be so terrible I stopped leveling mine. It was only later via powerleveling in PD that I got one to 50 just to say i did. At 50 even with IOs I found Psi Melee to be so bad shelved it for good. If it never gets buffs I may strip it of IOs one day.

[Chance Jackson]

I like boggle, I find it to be a useful utility power especially when I'm up against a group with force multipliers. I'm not opposed to an alternative power.

Edited 6 hours ago by Chance Jackson

[macskull]

Agreed on Boggle and the insight mechanic in general needing a revamp. Testing has repeatedly shown that using Boggle as it's actually results in worse performance, and insight having a lockout while also being randomly granted makes any sort of consistency next to impossible. Boggle's cast time needs to be way faster and have a higher chance to grant insight, and the insight lockout just needs to go away.

Edited 6 hours ago by macskull