Old MacDonald had an Active Offense, but it got nerfed way down.
Imbue, LnL Ego Surge and Cold Sheath used to be the go-tos for AO, but they've been nerfed down or set to work in much more restricted fashions. Now I'm curious what the new AO meta will be. Is Imbue still worth it? Do Aggressor and Intensity have a new luster? Or, are AOs now more a thing of the past or very niche powers?
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Why does Munitions need a AO that gives them 3 stacks of Furious when your primary maintain stacks Furious already?
The hold breaking can still be handy for squishies who might not be able to survive getting held in the middle of a battle.
There is no longer a "this is the obvious one to take on all your dps characters" AO, and that's a good thing. Also, taking multiple AOs as standard is gone, and that's also a good thing. Overall, this opens up more choices for people by not pigeonholing them into doing "the best thing" with every character.
For people who already weren't doing that, nothing much changed. My toons that had 1 AO still have 1 AO; they were fine before so they're fine now. I imagine the only people really affected by this would be the scoreboard junkies that were using multiple AOs. Everyone else is only really effected in that they now don't need to feel like they have to take Imbue if they're going to use an AO.
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There are only so many dots you can take, and you can take them and an AO owo
Unfortunately every time I try to do that, the time spent applying the dot ends up being a dps loss because the dot can't make up for the time lost spamming my primary nuke. AOs have the benefit of not having an activation time, so they don't use up any of that time.
Probably makes more sense to spend that extra power point on something that gives you a bit of utility.
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Getting a dot just for its damage is kinda boring. Get a stun or something, now we're talkin' fun.
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