Yeap, Shocking Bolt is the Ghostbusters Ray.
I think you understand, now, at least one reason I feel so strongly about it. It LOOKS cool. It's my favourite power visual effect, period. =P
But yes, Nene can get it now. If you manage to cram both Tesla Cage and Shocking Bolt in, you'd end up with the ability to lock down bosses - or hard-lock two lieutenants, which, on top of the sapper abilities she already has, should be pretty nasty.
That kind of holding ability is why I like the power on a mechanical level. Glass Lass is an Ice Blaster, and so I have a couple of ranged holds in my primary already. But one of 'em has a long animation, so having the extra APP hold was invaluable. If you haven't seen it, if I ignore blasting entirely...I'm still able to 'tank' for a three-man team by holding 3-4 mobs, dropping ice patch for knockdown, and smacking the whole lot with a cone slow. That's how much I value my utility powers. Add to that the fact I still have three single target ranged blasts, a large cone AoE, and my nuke...yes, I really really like my Blaster as she is, can you tell?
So...well, yeah, that was an angry rant for me. I don't usually descend into frothing mouth levels of profanity. When I get worked up it comes out like that. The argument is probably dubious and highly rhethorical, but hey...
Suffice to say, I was really unhappy in general about powers simply being taken away from us. It's one thing to alter the functionality of a given power, as has happened in the past... Moment of Glory was changed significantly in recent memory, for instance, so was Total Focus, to cite a positive and negative example.
It's quite a different story to completely take that power away, and force you to take something entirely different. That's rarely happened, and when it has, it's only affected a select number of players. This kind of broad and sweeping change would have cut across many people's characters - I mean, from the boards alone, Foxboy and Ankhani too would have characters hit by this.
Of course, they're not being so draconian now. Hopefully this whole 'you can keep your old stuff, we're just adding new options' thing will make it in for the launch of I13. Given they've already committed themselves to it, I trust that they will.
(I now have 'PLACATE' and purple bubbles over my head.)
-- Acyl
I think you understand, now, at least one reason I feel so strongly about it. It LOOKS cool. It's my favourite power visual effect, period. =P
But yes, Nene can get it now. If you manage to cram both Tesla Cage and Shocking Bolt in, you'd end up with the ability to lock down bosses - or hard-lock two lieutenants, which, on top of the sapper abilities she already has, should be pretty nasty.
That kind of holding ability is why I like the power on a mechanical level. Glass Lass is an Ice Blaster, and so I have a couple of ranged holds in my primary already. But one of 'em has a long animation, so having the extra APP hold was invaluable. If you haven't seen it, if I ignore blasting entirely...I'm still able to 'tank' for a three-man team by holding 3-4 mobs, dropping ice patch for knockdown, and smacking the whole lot with a cone slow. That's how much I value my utility powers. Add to that the fact I still have three single target ranged blasts, a large cone AoE, and my nuke...yes, I really really like my Blaster as she is, can you tell?
So...well, yeah, that was an angry rant for me. I don't usually descend into frothing mouth levels of profanity. When I get worked up it comes out like that. The argument is probably dubious and highly rhethorical, but hey...
Suffice to say, I was really unhappy in general about powers simply being taken away from us. It's one thing to alter the functionality of a given power, as has happened in the past... Moment of Glory was changed significantly in recent memory, for instance, so was Total Focus, to cite a positive and negative example.
It's quite a different story to completely take that power away, and force you to take something entirely different. That's rarely happened, and when it has, it's only affected a select number of players. This kind of broad and sweeping change would have cut across many people's characters - I mean, from the boards alone, Foxboy and Ankhani too would have characters hit by this.
Of course, they're not being so draconian now. Hopefully this whole 'you can keep your old stuff, we're just adding new options' thing will make it in for the launch of I13. Given they've already committed themselves to it, I trust that they will.
(I now have 'PLACATE' and purple bubbles over my head.)
-- Acyl