Thundering Blows

[Babbles]

Thundering Blows is supposed to fire every round in which the character misses a melee attack, right? I'm not reading the description incorrectly?

[Kasa]

Once per round when they miss on a single attack.

[MagnusGrey]

Its really nice early on on harder difficulties to help your tanks hurt things with high AC, but tapers of a bit by midgame. Still not a bad choice.

[Cyborg009]

Yeah, you read it correctly.
Instead of Whoosh, Whoosh, you get Crack/Peal/Rumble of thunder.

[ptirodaktill]

This feat is a noobtrap, the dmg of these blows is so low, it won`t make a difference anyway.

[Raigavin]

Originally posted by ptirodaktill:

This feat is a noobtrap, the dmg of these blows is so low, it won`t make a difference anyway.

It's quite useful when you get the choice to choose it, you can re-train it off later to select something more useful late in the game.

[Edstyles]

With a full meele team im sure it does some damage . Not to mention its aoe damage

[res judicator]

Doesn't the low damage just get negated by DR?

[There is no Mango]

Yeah, most enemies have damage resistance that will negate that.

The ones that don't are usually basic the basic mobs around.

Last respec of sheelah I gave her that and the one where you deal your force modifier every time you miss and it has 0 impact on mobs that present a threat.

[Babbles]

Hmmm - I am sure it wasn't firing against the Vescovar Queen, I only took it on one character (cammy) and it seemed to be good against the swarms because they have vulnerability to sonic (despite being immune to Ear Piercing Scream - go figure) but the animation never showed, maybe to much was going on on-screen.

I don't think much in the game has more than 10 sonic resistance though so it isn't too much of a throwaway ability.

[T.W. Hamill]

Originally posted by res judicator:

Doesn't the low damage just get negated by DR?

No, because AFAIR, there is no Sonic resist. Its Sonic damage.

[Babbles]

Originally posted by Raigavin:

Originally posted by ptirodaktill:

This feat is a noobtrap, the dmg of these blows is so low, it won`t make a difference anyway.

It's quite useful when you get the choice to choose it, you can re-train it off later to select something more useful late in the game.

I can't retrain on Hard :( - luckily I thought I would trial it on only one minion and see how it went.

[Raigavin]

Originally posted by Babbles:

Originally posted by Raigavin:

It's quite useful when you get the choice to choose it, you can re-train it off later to select something more useful late in the game.

I can't retrain on Hard :( - luckily I thought I would trial it on only one minion and see how it went.

Use Toybox to respec.

[urartu]

That ensures your misses do not go to waste. And, there are enough bosses and mid-bosses that will get affected from sonic damage.

[IKerensky]

Given the itterative attack you are nearly garanteed to miss one of the last ones anyway.... So let's it do some damage :p

[LArc7thHeaven]

Dice rolls sometimes suck so it alleviate a bit pain by giving you "hit"