Don't have time to do a full search right now for this answer.

Here is the situation:

FACTS

Opposing character has 7 range and Pulse Wave.

I have one character adjacent to the opposer and another character that has Perplex and is 4 squares away from the opposing character.

QUESTION:

If I use Perplex on the range of the opposing character, does the Pulse Wave still ignore the perplex when he activates it?

MY GUESS ON THE ANSWER:

If I were to try and perplex attack/defense values, the Pulse Wave would obviously ignore the perplex as it is within the 4 range (7 halved, rounded up)

However, since I am perplexing range, the effect on the perplex stays outside the Pulse Wave range, because the Pulse Wave character has to go through the whole replace with the halved value (From 7 to 4) and then the modifier (from 4 to 3) BEFORE Pulse Wave checks who is within the range of the blast.

Sounds legit to me.

You are correct, the character would not have his perplex ignored until after he is a Target at which point he would be outside the range.

Thirded ...

That's what I thought until I had that very situation ruled against me.

What if you perplex down the attack? Is that ignored?

If LOF is actually drawn to a perplexer, anything it used perplex on is no longer modified.

(except (insert oddball corner case where it still is here))

Indeed. Just remember that the Perplex doesn't go away, it is just ignored by the pulse waver

I can't believe I never thought of this before. Good catch!

I'm actually thinking on using it on my own Pulse Waver, in those cases where the range is actually too much to isolate a single enemy. I never thought about perplexing range on PW before this thread.

Is the same true for Probability control? Meaning I can't have the the Pulse Wave-er re-roll the attack roll unless he / she is outside the blast zone?

Yes.....................

LOF and within PW range though, right? I thought if you're out of the bubble stuff still affects said character.

He means if you have a line of fire drawn to you during pulse wave. (or at least I assume that's what he means.)

He was answering a question about attack not range. You both are correct, just about different things.

If said character is within range and LoF, everything is ignored.


If said character is not within range and LoF, nothing is ignored.

No, I thought we were talking about Squirrel Pulse Wave. Nobody has the authority to limit that.

If we're talking about the ordinary pulse wave, then you don't draw LOF's to characters out of range at all during those puny outbursts.