AzureSkyCiel

I like this idea, so I'll /sign it.
But... if we really HAD to make it a challenge to get, how about being able to flashback a mayhem or safeguard of any level range at anytime, but you first had to complete all the arcs in the level range of those mayhem or safeguard.

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Though that would likely just make it painful and frustrating.

I would like to point that to work around the rule... Just follow the link in my sig.
/plug

Now getting to a more serious note, one thought for forcebolt might be basically making it a slottable nemesis staff bolt. I mean why not? So what if a defender, controller, or MM now has a slottable high damage attack with a 100 ft range? None of the above classes are exactly designed to be damage dealers on their own. (Well, the MM's a slightly different case but still)
Though in the end, this is far from saying that the OP's idea is bad for it. I know it would still be nice.

Carni-fax seemed to have a good idea about Detention Field, though perhaps instead of knockback it's a delayed stun AoE. This could go doubly so is we assumed that Detention field bubble was air tight.
Maybe halving the duration like I think the OP said as well as the recharge and that works pretty well.

Now for repulsion field and force bubble, here's a thought: what if the actual field of knockback was much smaller, like Repel (about ten feet radius around the caster) but the outer areas (the other 15 feet of radius) had gave a slow and a -tohit debuff effect effect?

Now for a random thought about PPF, Umbral's right how it does seem weird to give a defender set something that almost seems more fitting for a tank armor, so...
What if while you activated PPF, you had a Debuff aura around yourself that would allow you continue to contribute to the team in the form of a PBAoE pseudo pet that's not effected by the "affecting only self".

Okay, it's nearly 4AM when I wrote this, so... probably not the best ideas. Feel free to disregard.

Bumping this thread because it's cool and important.

/signed

Though there was a thread on this a while ago and BAB kind of shot it down if I recall.

And though it may never be, though we don't actually die...

I would still like one that has our toons, falling over backwards while clutching flowers upright over their chest and a little tombstone pops up above their head where they fall.

Randomly, I wish we had a /em flyemoteCorkScrew or as its more popularly but inaccurately known as: "The Barrel Roll"

Okay, this thread, for starters, is inspired by this thread in the General forums.
It's basically given some thought into the idea that perhaps a revision on the AV system could be considered.
As such this thread will be including suggestions and open to suggestions, including 'nay'-saying.

But for starters, I'd like to point out some of the numbers looked over from Paragon Wiki:
The average boss at as high as level 55 has 2,770 points of HP, the next step up, the Elite boss who, at the same level, has possesses double that number. Fair enough.
But an AV of the 55th level has more than five times the HP of the Elite Boss at 31,285 hit points, this exponential boon in HP can be seen even as low down the scale as level one with 864 points of HP to the EB's 180 and by as low as level 13, they literally will have more HP than a Tanker could ever hope to have.

But why do I bring up HP? Because the argument in the linked thread is that, often, pounding endlessly on the same sack of HP for long periods of time with no variation gets both tedious and tiresome. So, here are my own suggestions for this side of the problem as well as a possible idea to make AV fights a bit more interesting...

1. Increasing debuffs as HP declines: While not a direct HP fixer, I imagined that perhaps as you get an AV down in HP, say starting at the 60% mark, perhaps (thinking along the lines of a bizzaro SR passives), an AV begins to suffer from a building Regen, Res, and Def debuff. This could give a good sense that they're "wearing down" while you're just winding up for the finishing blow and also make an AV hitting their tier nine armor really seem like a "giving this my last shot my all."

On the more extreme side of things we have:

2. AV ATs: Basically have AVs function more like the AT their supposed to be or a close approximation of, complete with some of the functions of their inherent powers while at the same time reducing their HP to something closer to said AT (of course with some buff that scales up based on team size). Like having Ghost Widow need to hit domination, or Synapse use defiance to keep attacking even when held, or Black Scorpion beginning fights hitting only as hard as an Lt. but scaling up to more painful levels of damage as the fight continues.
We can already see this in some AVs, mostly Mako, really, and the down side is certain AVs having inherent powers and so forth that would either detriment them, or simply have no use in a fight. (Positron suddenly realizes how weak Vigilance really is...)
There's also certain AVs that were never designed with an AT in mind, like Dr. Vazhiklok, or Nemesis, and in the end, many AV/Hero class enemies would need to have their powers extensively looked at.

These are just a few possible ideas, and probably the worst we'll see in this thread.

I look forward to seeing everyone else's own opinions and ideas in this thread.
-Azure