Need help fighting the dreaded MinMaxer.

[Phantasm]

Does it have Selective Fire or Selective Area?

p.B108, under "Rapid Fire":
Selective Fire: You may designate a
RoF 5+ attack as Selective Fire, allowing
it to fire as if it had RoF 1-3. This
costs an extra +10%.

also p.B108, for Selective Area (+20%):
You may add this enhancement to
any Area Effect (p. 102) or Cone
(p. 103) attack. It lets you choose
which targets within your area are
actually affected.

and directly under that, because the name is so similar and is relevant later, for Selectivity (+10%):
This enhancement lets you turn a
trait’s other enhancements off and on
at will.


It seems that someone is mistaking Selective Fire for Selective Area or vice verse. Without seeing the build itself, I can't say for certain.

As it is, Rapid Fire, Selective Fire dials it back to semi-automatic fire, which lets him limit the number of shots fired, but he has to choose that when he uses the ability. Note that suppressive fire with this ability may be possible, due to its high RoF, but that would use the full RoF; I personally would insist on adding Cone and Selectivity to the build if he planned on using it that way on a regular basis. With Cone, everything in the target area would get hit.

Selective Area would mean that he wouldn't hit bystanders in an AoE attack, but the Area Effect or Cone would have to be built into the ability to be able to add Selective Area.


Clear as mud?

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by tbrock1031

Does it have Selective Fire or Selective Area?


It seems that someone is mistaking Selective Fire for Selective Area or vice verse. Without seeing the build itself, I can't say for certain.

As it is, Rapid Fire, Selective Fire dials it back to semi-automatic fire, ...

Theres selective effect in Power ups 4 pg16:

• Attacks with Rapid Fire. An attack with Selective Effect
and Rapid Fire can hose down an area that contains both
friend and foe without risking a “friendly fire” incident.


Can't dodge is a +300% god-like cosmic "4 eye" effect, as is ignores non cosmic DR (the two combine badly of course)