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<blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 4405369" data-attributes="member: 78"><p>Well, I was thinking about other things like damage to objects and breakout saves. If you punch someone with super strength, there's no difference if you normally do 15 damage or if you power attacked for 5 to get it. On the other hand, if you switch to a Stun power, then there's a massive difference in the two attacks since the rank 15 stun has much harder breakout effect. </p><p></p><p>Sure, you can readily use a cheap form of attack to fuel Power Attacks, thereby saving points on your power. However, if that's not a serious problem on a normal damaging attack against a person-like target, then why is it suddenly especially problematic when you switch to a non damaging power or try to blow up a bank vault? Especially since it seems like the normal damage attack against a person is the standard case.</p><p></p><p>Plus spending more points on the power isn't necessarily a bad idea, since it makes for a wider array and thus more effective APs. A Blast 10 based array holds a rank 6 area blast. A Blast 15 based array holds a rank 10 area blast. It does cost more that way, but the extra expense does provide some fairly significant benefits that can come up quite often. It's not like the added cost is coming to nothing (often the case for buying generalized attack/defense).</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------</p><p></p><p>When will that Gather Info be coming up? While I realize that the skill takes time, we're not exactly talking about the most significant opinions considering the nature of her search.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victim, post: 4405369, member: 78"] Well, I was thinking about other things like damage to objects and breakout saves. If you punch someone with super strength, there's no difference if you normally do 15 damage or if you power attacked for 5 to get it. On the other hand, if you switch to a Stun power, then there's a massive difference in the two attacks since the rank 15 stun has much harder breakout effect. Sure, you can readily use a cheap form of attack to fuel Power Attacks, thereby saving points on your power. However, if that's not a serious problem on a normal damaging attack against a person-like target, then why is it suddenly especially problematic when you switch to a non damaging power or try to blow up a bank vault? Especially since it seems like the normal damage attack against a person is the standard case. Plus spending more points on the power isn't necessarily a bad idea, since it makes for a wider array and thus more effective APs. A Blast 10 based array holds a rank 6 area blast. A Blast 15 based array holds a rank 10 area blast. It does cost more that way, but the extra expense does provide some fairly significant benefits that can come up quite often. It's not like the added cost is coming to nothing (often the case for buying generalized attack/defense). ---------------------------------- When will that Gather Info be coming up? While I realize that the skill takes time, we're not exactly talking about the most significant opinions considering the nature of her search. [/QUOTE]
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