Devastating Strike Energy Cost problem.

hasukurobi

On my character and one other on a different account I am aware of at Rank 3 Devastating Strike costs 146 Energy to activate. Here is screencap of the tooltip of its cost on my character: Image

shadowolf505

I wouldnt call this a bug as my character who uses it costs about 91 energy at Rank 3. I think it has to do with your stats to reduce the cost as well as your gear for cost discount to be honest. Not totally sure but that's just from my perspective.​​

lezard21

I've seen a lot of people encountering this problem which I found really weird, since on both toons I tested it (both geared with Merc or worse, no heavy investment in cost reduc specs, no AoAC) the cost at r3 hovered around 80-90.

Maybe something else in the build is triggering this unusual behaviour?

pantagruel01

Testing on a character with no gear and no specs, devastating strike costs 141 energy. With a form active that increases to 155, with athletics as well it increases to 160, with flight (the worst discount among travel powers) it increases to 173. With the same setup gravity driver costs 165, meltdown costs 193, a full maintain of fury of the dragon costs 164. A full ego blade pandemonium costs 204 but lets you energy build.

It's on the high end for ult costs, but not absurdly out of line. There are lots of ways of getting cost reduction.

hasukurobi

shadowolf505 said:

I wouldnt call this a bug as my character who uses it costs about 91 energy at Rank 3. I think it has to do with your stats to reduce the cost as well as your gear for cost discount to be honest. Not totally sure but that's just from my perspective.​​

It is way out of line with what it should cost. It is primarily a Melee Single Target attack. Most UP (Which are ranged AoE) cost only around the 80 to 90 range to activate so 146 is insane. I am rather certain it is not meant to cost that much.

lezard21 said:

I've seen a lot of people encountering this problem which I found really weird, since on both toons I tested it (both geared with Merc or worse, no heavy investment in cost reduc specs, no AoAC) the cost at r3 hovered around 80-90.

Maybe something else in the build is triggering this unusual behaviour?

That may be the case but I have no idea what. I know of a friend with the same problem and their build is not the same as mine.

pantagruel01 said:

Testing on a character with no gear and no specs, devastating strike costs 141 energy. With a form active that increases to 155, with athletics as well it increases to 160, with flight (the worst discount among travel powers) it increases to 173. With the same setup gravity driver costs 165, meltdown costs 193, a full maintain of fury of the dragon costs 164. A full ego blade pandemonium costs 204 but lets you energy build.

It's on the high end for ult costs, but not absurdly out of line. There are lots of ways of getting cost reduction.

Then why is at 149 on my character without anything running that should increase my cost? When Form of the Master is on it jumps to 165.

pantagruel01

hasukurobi said:

Then why is at 149 on my character without anything running that should increase my cost? When Form of the Master is on it jumps to 165.

Whoops, my test char had 50 points of Int which was giving about 10% cost reduction. Doesn't matter though, since all my numbers were with the same setup so relative values are the same.

theravenforce

I have been wondering this for a while now, for an Ultimate ability which is literally single target...it has an incredibly high cost. I would have thought it should be in line with UR's cost at least.

When I have some free time, I'll have a closer look at my own build and see what could be causing this, if for some, there doesn't seem to be a cost issue.

theravenforce

Just an update on this...I've recently retconned my character and the energy cost issue seemed to vanish...?