Test Discussion Episode 43: Ally - Death Metal Batman

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With the way Black Lantern Energy Steal is currently setup, you can keep it going with almost 100% uptime:

Has it been confirmed that the power field is intended to proc in dps role for troll powers and if it’s intended to only give power to yourself?

I've heard on test that the pool from the black lantern energy steal only gives power regeneration to the user and not other group members standing in the pool. Is this intended or is this being fixed? If it's intended, then what would be the purpose of it being an aoe effect? Thanks.

In the last build that was pushed to test, Black Lantern Energy Steal was providing power to group members.

That's a huge improvement glad it's changed.

Haven’t been able to get on test due to work and the new dlc. Has it been updated to only give power back in troll role or is it still working as dps too?

It currently works in both roles, I don't feel that the power back is strong enough to warrant locking it only to controller role. But I can think on it a bit longer.

Well you will be surprised how much this effects gameplay id suggest being carefull i think you guys also didnt expect eye of gemini to give us almost unlitmited Supercharge.

Thanks for the confirmation. Wanted to be clear about what was intended and what wasn’t

As it is right now I think it's fine in DPS, even if it's toned down in DPS I think this should be more an artifact for trolls. I do feel however that troll role the cooldown is too long in that sense? I can see this was adjusted from previous builds. I was thinking of using this for my battle troll but as it stands with a 30 second cooldown I don't find it as useful as I thought. Maybe a compromise between the non stop spam of it of before and too long of cooldown could be reached?

I did some testing on Black Lantern Energy Steal again today.

You can keep the Black Lantern Energy Steal effect going with almost no downtime in Controller role with the right build.

The odd thing is that in the current build, the caster gets the power ticks immediately. Group members that are literally standing right beside you don't see the extra power ticks until after the visual effect disappears. So the caster can keep a steady stream of power ticks while group members see more inconsistent bursts. In some of my testing, group members were able to get back-to-back stacks of power ticks from Energy Steal. Sometimes they didn't.

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It is still really easy to get Cloak of Erasure to proc at very short intervals. Here is a demonstration using Taser Pull and Photon Blast:


So you can keep your damage mitigation and detaunt going with almost no downtime.

It feels like there could be some exploit potential here.

Passive 1's timing should be fixed but I'm fixing this as well, I mistakenly had thought it was only passive 1 that had timing issues.

Could you explain how do you achieve this? I've not been able to reproduce what you're saying.

The behavior that allowed the constant upkeep on Energy Steal was fixed a few days ago.

Black Lantern Energy Steal triggers the Power Over Time effect in DPS role.

Is that intended to also work in DPS role??

Yes.

Source: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/dc...death-metal-batman.322063/page-5#post-4505093

Yeah that's what I was refering to, it's not worth it as it is right now.

This support ability where up to 3 groups members get a heal when an enemy dies is not working. I can see it giving me the heal but no one I’m grouped with gets it. Is this broken? Thank you?