Nukes and Power Pools and Animations, Oh my!

[OpMegs]

Some details drifting out of the latest Coffee Talk.

Presence still doesn't strike me as a pool I'll take much. Punch/Kick now actually mildly useful and new T5 uses both of them to essentially give you an entire secondary attack chain if you own all of them. 

Nuke. All. The. Things.

That is all.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

[Sweno]

Wow, this is going to make me all kinds of happy, if only because I will be able to emp all the things.

If my math works out, I'll be able to fire it off once a minute instead of once every two.

And now I'm going to have to use my freespec to drop Proton Volley (the snipe) and pick up Atomic Blast (the nuke), cause not having a crash is wonderful.

I may have to respec into the presence pool for Pacify now. Everyone knows all my squishies tend to grab more agro than I can handle. Having a button that says 'stop punching me' will be useful.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Sofaspud]

I dunno, Sweno.  The "Stop Punching Me" button probably works best when you're not rapid-fire hammering the "Kick Them In The Jimmies" button at the same time.

I say this as someone who envies, but in no way desires to emulate, your not-tank builds, I note.

Personally, I'm kind of curious how this will affect Rain of Arrows.  Which was already crashless, so the only benefit will be the recharge speed... which I already had down to ~45 seconds.  How much lower can it go?!

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Sweno]

actually having gone back and listened to the whole thing, I think I was wrong in my initial assumption.

The changes only apply to powers that currently have a crash. They mentioned that currently crash-less powers are also on the table to get re-worked, but haven't been touched yet.

So EMP and ROA won't be tweaked.

But it's still a reason to rejoice, cause respect-ing into a nuke is good
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy