Stats Revamp: Power Costs

SUPER GREAT!!!

Why not take it a step further and actually display the Base Value power cost in the description of all powers? Tell us the multiplier per CR so we can math up our own conclusions in our loadouts?

Also adding the cooldown to the descriptions would be nice too. (Which still need to be reduced for healing - See my million and one posts regarding elec on the feedback thread x) )

This is a great progress.

Thank you for this post! We appreciate it and it helps a lot!

I gotta agree with Celestial Powers, if possible, can we have the base power cost and cooldown? This does help us understand a good loadout scenarios. Penryn's cheat sheet was very effective for me testing mental.

Which brings up the same result I had said in the mental thread. Right now, even if you switched to all low power cost options, you still have to spec completely to power. And then spam the lowest options. I feel that the damage still will be subpar with the other two options you have. It is definitely completely opposite of what we have now.

I believe there was a post once, where the devs discovered the UI had a character limit to power descriptions. It was during the Atomic reveal livestream maybe. More info on power costs would be greatly appreciated, but I'm not sure it's possible?

Just to add in, that would also mean to change the descriptions for the power cooldown reduce time mods. Just saying "10% reduction" the average player won't know what that means nor know how to do the math to get the base number.

If the description of the power cooldowns are likely to be added, just a reminder to change the mods also. A small thing to make things more understandable.

Mepps...this is exciting and I use electric and weapons currently because it is fun and skillful work....it really makes you feel like your electric dps ing if you are a weapon and power user.....but here is my idea.....if WIRED is gonna be a high power cost then please make the buff last for the whole 12second cooldown....you cant get off weapon damage in 6seconds ...talked with other peeps that have been keeping ELECTRIC (still since day one)alive in the game and alot of the electric community agree that the WIRED buff and the other powers weapon buff needs to be THE WHOLE 12 SECOND cooldown....please think about it.....if it's gonna be power heavy then I rather a trade off of a whole 12 second cooldown......

positive feedback from a vet since beta...I still push electric never changed it.....soooooo looking forward to the revamp progress....

So without PI and without sparring target its hard to create lodout. and without AM you just forcing us to use weapons

But yet it returns power for essentially 0 cost...

what i can hit i don't have any stats into power all my stats are in my Might and Crit's.

Note: i am doing this without a troll.

i can hit,note this is a list of everything i could think of to get out my bar after doing each one my bar was empty.
5 low power cost and 1 Medium.
2 low power cost and 2 Medium.
1 Large and 1 Medium and 1 Low.
4 Small and 1 Large.

Note: not all these are dps powers.

i did try different things such as:
4 Low and 2 Mediums was out of power.
3 Lows and 2 Mediums wasn't out of power but did not have enough to hit my 2 Medium spell.
1 Large 2 Medium was out of power before i could hit my 2 Medium.
5 Low into a 1 Large didn't not work did not enough power to hit my Large spell.
As for hitting 6 lows not possible considering we dont have 6 low power besides mental.

Why is this exciting news did I misread something

It's news because Some Players like BumblingB and myself are struggling to maintain power on test with the Current Power-regeneration.


Despite us specing into Power, we couldn't maintain it.


With this list of High, Meds, and Low Power cost we can better determine a rotation and see if the power-regeneration capabilities are good enough to work with in all forms of content.

Hope this clears that up

-Jacob dragonhunter

I would say even though you can already make out what powers cost high or those that doesn't. The better news is that it seems they are really considering putting in descriptors for power cost and cooldown timers if they have mepps having to make a post like this. Not as big news as saying we're buffing elec and nature on live for the fun of it, but knowing power costs and CDs is a major thing for loadout creations, guide updates, math on how much powerto spec while doing rotation x1.

Quick update: Telekinesis and Terror Tendrils will have a Low Power Cost and reduced Cooldown in the upcoming push to Test!

This would be awesome.
It would help the player base understand the game a lot better if you put numbers on everything. Not everyone knows how to figure out the calculations. Being able to look and cross reference numbers within the game would help immensely. Besides helping testers find issues that someone might have missed.

Dps wise. Again i am full crits and rest of my SP are into might.

Mental:

3 low and 1 Medium,
Massive Levitation Telekentic Push, Mass terror,Physic shock.
don't have enough power to go get another Medium and don't have another small to do dmg.

3 low and 1 Large.
don't have enough power to put a medium inside the loadout to hit, and as before don't have any more small that do anymore dmg.
Rotation is Levitation Telekntic push, physic shock, and Telekinetic bolt.

if you notice i ran out of power with 1 medium is strange to me cause shouldn't two medium make 1 large?

idk.. i'm confuse like crazy right now, some base values would be nice.

thank you for letting us now that.

Feedback:

• Power cost for abilities still feel too high. I'm only using two abilties for ice: One low, and one Medium: These being Resonating gale and Arctic gust(Sometimes I'll use snowball if I get interrupted) But the point is I can't get through one rotation in the Faust boss fight without resorting to using weapons. I've died at least 3 times on this boss fight due to this problem.
• Using Breakouts are going to interfere heavily with said rotations. There are a number of times you'll find yourself CC'd and you spend a good amount of Power having to breakout. This is problematic because you need that power to sustain your DPS if your playing from the tray(Can't speak for weapons because I haven't tested that out yet)

My Character has 55 sp in both power and might, with the rest of the SP maxing out my crit chances and crit damage.


Sidenote: If you developers can confirm how much SP you'll need to spec into power to get enough to sustain your rotations, that'd be greatly appreciated.