Photon Blast adjusted..

-Gadgets
oCorrected an issue that could make breaking out from Photon Blast more difficult than necessary.

I'm glad they only adjusted the stun and didn't touch the damage (hopefully). Thoughts on the change?

FINALLY. I don't care what Giggles or TheDark says. That power needed an adjustment. Period.

Its one stun now in about the middle of the cast.

I went into a 2 v 2 batcave about a month back. Up against 2 gadgets DPS, both spamming Photon Blast needless to say I was permastunned and my team kinda lost w/o even getting a chance to fight back. Like you said though, the damage hopefully wasn't touched.

Could have solved this problem a while ago by taking base mainframe stuff out of pvp.

Players will still be stunned multiple times because of the Intim procs on PB, but still this is the mildest balance I've seen done to a power. Win win for everyone it seems

It really did. The main issue I have with it is the empowered channeling mod.

You're still in an enhanced state with extra defense/toughness and cc immunity while casting photon blast, the most powerful finisher by far. I don't see how this is even the slightest nerf, more of a fix since photon blast was stunning even after using breakout trinket or having immunity.

this is more like when they fixed how rage wasn't getting properly debuffed, not a nerf but more of a fix

Hopefully when animation times get normalized, they will realize that this move completely stomps out all other finishers and give other finishers a buff or this one a nerf.

Yes it was.
This is literally the only time that a power nerf/fix has made me smile.

I agree with you about the stun getting fixed however I don't think Photon needs a nerf. It's a good finisher and should remain that way, and no, other finishers shouldn't be buffed to photons level. Every power needs their strong points and Gadgets is it's finisher, just like Rage has a really good SC(Bersek) or Quantums CC (able to stun multiple adds at once for long periods of time). Should they be nerfed or should every other power get what they have because it's better than the rest? Absolutely not, we need uniqueness among powers.

I better not see anymore "nerf photon" threads lol, because people are still going to use photon blast like no other. But I guarentee we'll still see of them in the future.

Other then that, since I main gadgets, I'm actually very happy they adjusted photon. Don't have to listen to whiners anymore, hopefully...

I'm pretty sure all the PvP players are happy. Well the ones who aren't gadgets at least...

Once again, I'm fine with it, and I main gadgets. Many people were complaining about the dmg on photon, which I didn't agree was the problem. I examined that the major problem was the hand mod the home turf DLC provides, as it gives immunity to the players for "x" amount of time. Other then that, I can agree that the stuns could have used adjusting, which was a great alternative on the devs part. If they nerfed photon to ____ (fill in the blank) then gadgets would easily turn to one of the bottom tier powers.

As long as there wasn't a damage reduction(nerf) I'm fine with the change. I actually did think the stun was a bit strong.

No, that sounds spiteful.

Im hard light and didn't have a problem adjusting to any gadgets player in 1vs1.

I disagree with giggles on all the points on hl but i dont want anyone else to go through what I went through getting my power nerfed, even slightly because some folks couldn't adjust.

Kinda off topic but I just changed to gadgets like 4 days ago. Any tips for PvP?

DPS? Troll?

Dps. Im not even a good troll in PvE lol

Damage is still:

1. defile: 764
2. snuff out: 703
3. sandblast: 848
4. impaling ice: 703
5. light blast: 619
6. terrorize: 758
7. impaling thorns: 695
8. energy expulsion: 672
9. echain with rage combo: 426 (i blame the weak weapon not imbalanced)
10. final ruin: 728
11. photon blast: 1043

(all stats equal during test)
Forgot who I got this from, but credit goes to him for doing the testing

Well as a dps you have options. Personally for me when I 1v1 I use Cryo foam, Photon, Gauss, Distract, Cryo field, and decoy. Gauss first, to apply your electric pi to get the burning dot from Cryo field and Cryo foam. I use decoy for the damage mitigation/split, and Distract for a pick up plus a small shield, of course, Photon when below 35%. It's also popular to use intimation instead of decoy, in which case, you would clip Cryo field with intim. Other options are stasis field and turret. Do not, and I repeat do not, spam Photon. Many people, especially here on the forums, make Photon sound a lot stronger than it actually is, in the end you'll end up wasting a lot of power.