If a character using the Hand ATA is adjacent to blocking terrain or a wall, it is not affected by PW right?

I did my search and it turned up contradicting answers.

per the 2012 PAC:
per the 2012 PG:
In other words:

If there are three opposing characters within range of PW but two of those characters are using the Hand ATA and adjacent to blocking terrain, then it is a single-target PW.

Right on all counts.

PW cannot target Hand/LoA and the remaining dude that isn't using the Hand/LoA ATA or sidling up against a wall/blocking terrain gets the full-on brunt of a single-target PW attack.

I have a feeling its gonna be another one of those "pw ignores everything" answers wich I hate.

Actually, PW cannot target them in the first place.

Oh well then happy day for my Hand team. Sometimes its good to be wrong. :knockedou

Yeah, the thing to remember with the new PW is:
1. draw lines of fire, ignoring hindering terrain and characters
2. ignore game effects of those to which lines of fire are drawn
3. make the attack on those to which lines of fire are drawn

So, someone with stealth in hindering can be targeted because you are ignoring hindering. And someone with the Hand ATA that is against a wall or blocking cannot be attacked because you cannot draw a line of fire to them and you cannot ignore the ATA because you cannot draw a line of fire to them to begin with.

SO how is this different than PW being utilized with Unspoken's Slave Engine?

1. you draw line of fire to Unspoken, ignoring characters and hindering
2. ignore Unspoken's SP and other game effects
3. make the attack on Unspoken

This also applies to the Fast Forces Batman & one of the Max Lords, who cannot have LoF beads on them due to other conditions, so PW wouldn't target/kick in on them.

I love reading these rules questions to see if I get them right. I do good most of the time but guessed wrong on this one. I figured the Pulse-Waver would have been able to ignore the (A)TA so would have been able to target. I also wouldn't have understood this as easily without the above breakdown.

The Order of Operations is a great way to identify this- Thanks for the clarity.

Ninja Rep!

But according to the new wording on pulsewave, it uses improved targeting ignoring characters before drawing lines of fire so the hand ATA shouldn't work right?

From the Players Guide:

Lines of Fire
- When a character has the ability to ignore the effects of other characters for line of fire purposes, it refers only to the fact that character bases do not affect the line of fire. This ability alone would not allow the character drawing a line of fire to ignore powers or abilities by other characters.

No. Ignoring characters means they won't block LOF to another character. It has no impact on this question.
The first thing you do with PW (after declaring the action) is draw LOF to every figure in range that you can and then you ignore game effects used or possessed by those characters. But the Hand ATA (and a few other things) say the LOF is blocked, so you can't draw that LOF. No LOF, no ignoring effects.