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elfrings
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Bat Flight has to be one of the most useless travel powers of them all. A complete waste of the points spent on it, and the slot it's assigned to. It's slow, and you can't attack while it's active, but everyone can attack you.
At least one of the following three things MUST be done to Bat Flight in order for it to be worth assigning as a travel power:
1) Make it MUCH, much faster.
2) Allow the player to AT LEAST make energy building attacks while in bat form.
3) Make the player immune to attack while in bat form, and basically turn it into a skin for the Teleport travel power.
At least one of the following three things MUST be done to Bat Flight in order for it to be worth assigning as a travel power:
1) Make it MUCH, much faster.
2) Allow the player to AT LEAST make energy building attacks while in bat form.
3) Make the player immune to attack while in bat form, and basically turn it into a skin for the Teleport travel power.
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Complete agreement.
'Caine, miss you bud. Fly high.
I sometimes wonder if anyone in charge of anything ever checks this section.
I support "Sell Z-store items individually" & Japan Zone
Although i do admit being able to either attack, or with lack there of, have a much better dodge rate or something would be a nice touch. Most people rarely turn their travel powers off so it would be nice to at least make this happen.
Oddly enough I feel that they did improve on COH's teleport (by scrapping it) with the implementation they went with for CO's version of the power.
That said, I wouldn't mind a second teleport style TP that functioned more like the COH version.
'Caine, miss you bud. Fly high.
Because it sucks.
Let it use Psi Lash as an energy builder and attack with melee contact ego sprites.
Sad, considering that's really the only type of hero who's really likely to use Bat Flight.
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As for teleport, it just seems useful in pvp, and beyond that it seems like a halfassed flight that makes you less visible. Kind of like you CAN fly, you just don't know HOW. I honestly can't take it seriously in game so i never use it, although being the darkness character, the original concept would have used it in place of traveling through the shadows. If they can make it more instantaneous like teleporting should be as well as add in a cool "into the shadows/from the shadows" effect, i'd gladly drop Zen into getting that power.
I like this hehe... make them awesome in their own way.
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This was awesome while it lasted
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They ought to add a feature to Teleport powers which allow you to set "waypoints" which allow you to instantly teleport to set locations so long as you're not in combat.
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What I suggested in the Cape Flight thread (while it was in development) was to turn TPs that don't have any combat value into devices like the Antigravity Boots device. This will make people more willing to buy them (no retcon needed) as well as not take up a TP power point. I doubt this will break anything as well since those TPs have 0 (ZERO) combat value. The only reason to have them is because of their look.
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I use it on my low-level blade character The Scarlet Pippistrelle and believe me it sure makes things harder.
While she has been rescued
what diabolical mastermind
was behind the devious brain-napping of
the Volterrific Dr Cerebellum?
Drannic supposedly reads it, but I'm not sure if you can consider him "in charge". ^^;
And yes, Vampire Flight is useless. I think it should be changed to work just like Scarab Flight or at least be made faster. Vampire Teleport is a good idea too, but that should be a whole new travel power.
I really think BF should make you invisible to enemies since it's a non-combat TP, or at least have a higher speed, give bonuses in stealth and dodge, specially in darker places.
I love this TP and have it in my Void character, but since it has this problems, I ranked it to level 3 and use it only for longer distances, while using Shadow Wings for combat.
Curiously, I found out BF works normally in Lemuria main zone.
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I agree. Nice theme travel power, but it's actual use is so limited
Making you invisible to enemies like tunnelling or allowing attacks like the Insect flight power wouldn't be unfair or unbalanced in any way.
There are lots of vampire heroes in this game, i'm sure a fix would be popular.
Also i notice that the become-vampire device has more bats and better looking bats in it's bat flight.
While she has been rescued
what diabolical mastermind
was behind the devious brain-napping of
the Volterrific Dr Cerebellum?
Support this completely and love all suggestion so far SPECIALY the Shadow phase teleport, I think the Bat flight has a few seconds of that when u appear out of it. Even made a thread on it. :biggrin:
I have to say that Darkness Wings don't strike me I prefer Phoenix Wings with its aura covering the Hero. Mix that up with Shadow Form and it turns into a Beautiful Black color when u enter combat. Darkness Wings seem half finished just darken the wing spam but not the Hero, I would have not mind if they recycled the Dark Aura with the this half finish wings.
Totally agree on the Vampire device and would not mind to pay if some of dose combo powers mechanics could be added to the our supernatural/darkness pool powers, specially since Mental Powers got its Psymon version transformation, I like to have that feel too in supernatural/darkness pool powers.
Become Vampire Device HAS this TP, and you can use it to ATTACK and works perfecly as Scarab Flight!
My faithful Munitions Expert use this TP... as a Secondary!
This TP need to be FIXED ASAP!
I've done that with just teleport and one of the super speed powers. Man, can you cover a LOT of land that way (it's great for zipping through zones for UNITY missions).
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Speaks something how utterly wasted and worthless is this TP.
Could be worse. I never saw anyone using this skull flight from Q vendor. IIRC it's yet another "non-combat" flight TP?