Does this mean that characters hit by the 'splash' will be able to roll for super senses and shape change?
Sounds like a no on the shape change, yes on the Super Senses. Correct?

Also it sounds like Energy Shield/Deflection will also provide defense against the splash damage? As well as hindering terrain.
Im not sure if any of this is even different from before. The power doesn't seem to come up much and i just want to make sure i get it right from here on out.
Thanks!

EE has always triggered ES/D and Supersenses and never Shape Change.

Not true. EE was never considered an 'attack' against charactrers that received splash damage before. Now the PAC makes that distinction, so they would now get to roll for Super Senses.

It still won't trigger shape Change, as they need to be 'chosen' for the attack, not just attacked.

This is what I was thinking, but like I said it's been some time before i've given it any thought.

According to the BN PAC, it was. I will have to go through my PAC's (have most since IC) and see when the change was exactly made. But, I know that BN had it worded as an attack.

What about the Mystic TA? If I shoot with EE against one target with two enemys adjacents and all 3 have the Mystic? Will I take 3 feedback damage?

Im suprised nobody mentioned the big change....NO DAMAGE

Yes you will, and this has always been the case as long as the Mystics TA has existed.

It's worded as an attack against the initial target, but not against the 'splash' characters. For those you were simply comparing the roll to their defense values. They weree never 'attacked. Looking at the PAC from BN right now.

Pretty sure this isn't the case either, as splash damage never 'targeted' a Mystics figure (per the BN PAC). It was one of the slick ways to avoid Mystics damage as I never 'attacked' them.

However, now a mystics team will *utterly decimate* an EE team.

In case you dont get it trun to page 9 of the rules:

Imperv/Toughness/Invuln none of that works against EE....EE just got a HUGE power boost.

I don't think that counts as damage reducers REDUCE damage not modify it, but I could be wrong.

I don't think so. It's still dealing damage.

"Each character hit is dealt damage equal to the number of times it was hit by this attack"

It would be something if it ignored damage reducers, but I don't think that's what just happened.

No, it wasn't. Mystics doesn't care if you target them or not, nor have they ever.

From the Players Guide:

"MYSTICS
When a character using the Mystics team ability takes damage from an attack, the attacker is dealt 1 unavoidable damage. This damage is not an attack."

Energy Explosion has always been an attack, it has always dealt damage and thus is has always triggered Mystics feedback. It's never been a way around it

The bolded says that it is indeed an attack on the adjacent characters as well. You are targeting the main one (or two/ three) character(s), but it is still an attack on all adjacent characters.

It doesn't outright say it like it does now, but it was an attack before on adjacent characters. Also, Mystics would trigger as they take damage from the attack.