#Add "Break Free" Effect to Certain Powers

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brisk gull
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So it has always kind of bothered me that, powers like Rune of Protection and the epic pool version of Indomitable Will can't be used while mezzed. They have to be used preventatively, but can't be used reactively. On my ill/rad, I have enough recharge to make Indom perma, so it's not usually a problem, but when you consider things like challenge modes where you lose your recharge bonuses, powers like this become less useful since you have to use them more sparingly, and having to use it preventatively means you can often end up using it in a case where you wouldn't have been mezzed anyways, making that cast a waste. Then there's Rune, which has such a long recharge that you can never have it perma anyways, and since you can't use it reactively, by the time you find yourself mezzed, it's already too late to use it.

I think being able to use these as a "break free" in your pocket would make them much more worthwhile power picks, because I feel like I don't see a lot of people taking these powers in their builds. If there any other long recharge click powers with mez protect that this would apply to, I'd suggest the same for them, although these two are the only ones that come to mind at the moment.

worldly glade
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I agree! I've also found it annoying that I can't use Shield Defense's Active Defense power while mezzed, but I wonder if that's supposed to balance Shield Defense's other strengths (and I'm pretty sure a lot of tanks get it to perma usage anyway).

brisk gull
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Not sure how I didn't think of Active Defense (I've played a lot of Shield Defense scrappers over the years), but yeah I would add that to this list too.

lament root
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So, you want clicks that have a mez protection component to be useable as a reactive mez-clear or preemptively rather than only preemptively?

brisk gull
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Correct - I think that would make these powers a lot more useful. Especially when it comes to challenge runs, where most squishies don't have any method of freeing themselves from mez effects. It used to be a case of "just keep a few break frees" but that no longer applies in this case.

brisk gull
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Just for the sake of further clarification - the break free effect would be in addition to the power's existing effects. So for example, you get mezzed and activate Rune, it breaks you free of the mez effects and grants you the same mez protection and resistance that it always did.

lament root
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It actually keeps in line with what I've wanted to do forever for all mez prot clicks.

lament root
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To be clear, this would make these powers work the same as a BF. Absolutely nothing about the power would change outside of the fact that it would be castable while mezzed. And will only be able to break mezzes that it has protection to and only the amount that they currently protect against.

brisk gull
hybrid wigeon
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This also relieves the need for click mez protection to be slotted to Perma

slow bay
lament root
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Note: there was some debate about adding Rune to this list. We decided to err on the side of caution and excluded it for the time being.

One thing we have to consider with QOL like this is how it affects the overall environment. While it is a significant investment, Rune is already considered a go-to power in many builds. We don't want to tip the scales further with QOL and turn it from "desirable" to ubiquitous.

brisk gull
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Wow, that was implemented much quicker than I would have expected! While I would still like to see Rune of Protection on that list, I'm just happy to see this was addressed so quickly - thank you!

lament root
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It helps that it was already something on my to-do list. It was something that bugged me about Practiced Brawler in the live days and I always felt it should have been this way. FWIW, -I- didn't do this one. It was all @bright plover . I've been AFK for the last week...I just pushed the idea forward 🙂

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We will be monitoring the power environment to see how things continue to develop. Rune isn't necessarily a forever "no", just a "not right now".

brisk gull
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In all seriousness though, I'm just happy that one of those powers got the effect (since I have both on my ill/rad's challenge build now, so at least she has something she can use now). Thank you to @bright plover for doing that! And thanks @lament root for pushing the idea ahead!

shrewd kernelBOT
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Gave +1 Inf to @bright plover

slow bay
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Does the Fate Flawless Genesis let you activate it while mezzed?