User talk:PanSola/Power interrupts quick reference

Is this just an excuse to creat ANOTHER page that requires maintenance between skill articles and skill lists. Come on. :( How about "Spell interrupts" vs "Skill interrupts" that's a lot more interesting than "Power Interrupts" --Karlos 01:03, 18 May 2006 (CDT)


 * My intention was to keep track of the mesmer "Power" skills, but didn't want to call it "Power skills quick reference" because warrior has "Power Attack", and somehow "Mesmer power skills quick reference" doesn't sound right either. THus I picked this name. -PanSola, Table of The Lyssa Advocacy Front (sing) 01:10, 18 May 2006 (CDT)


 * Kind of like how other ppl find "Orders" interesting, even though it's not the only necro enchantments, or how "Mantras" are interesting, even though not all Mesmer stances are represented and one mantra isn't even a stance. My interest in the Power interrupts goes along the same line. -PanSola, Table of The Lyssa Advocacy Front (sing) 01:11, 18 May 2006 (CDT)


 * I think people attribute higher intellectual capacity to ANet developers than there really is. They are not 100% consistent with themselves and I think people read into their actions and words more than they themselves put into them. If you look at the "Power" skills, they mostly "imply" something to do with Energy, yet... Power Spike damages (as opposed to Power Leak and Power Drain) and Power Block disables skills (like Diversion) and does nothing to actually "block" power for the target. I don't think they spent as much naming these skills as you are spending trying to read into their meaning. :) --Karlos 06:24, 18 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Well it's a good thing I didn't spend much time trying to read into ther meaning then. -PanSola, Table of LAFT (sing) 06:37, 18 May 2006 (CDT)


 * Couple years late here, but I thought I'd comment on Karlos's complaint about the "Power" naming being /phail. What these skills do is they use the power of the spell being cast and then do something else with it.
 * Power Leak uses the spell's power as a siphon of sorts, to make the caster lose even more energy.
 * Power Flux is similar, except that it causes a protracted flux (flow) of power from the caster.
 * Power Drain disrupts the spell and drains the power away into your own mana pool.
 * Power Leech combines the effects of Leak and Drain to steal energy from the caster
 * Power Spike takes the spell's power and subverts it, spiking it back at the caster.
 * Power Block and Lock also subvert the power, but instead of damaging the caster physically it blocks out part of the caster's memory/mind.
 * Power Return disrupts the power and returns it to the caster.
 * So the names are, imo, quite appropriate. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 18:06, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * btw missing Power Flux 76.188.100.220 17:39, 29 November 2008 (UTC)