Calash

With Positrons recent announcement of the Super Sidekick option the dynamics of teaming have changed quite a bit. Now level issues are a thing of the past, but so are gaining the mentoring badges.

While this is a great step forward (imho) I feel that it takes away a bit from the idea of a “Sidekick” as you see it in comic books. The old style sidekick feature, for all its flaws, much better reflected this dynamic. To lose this option seems like a bit of a waste to me so I suggest it be given a new purpose.

My proposal is to change the function of the Sidekick feature. Instead of acting as a level modifier, the function now replaced by Super-Sidekick, it will act as a power modifier.

How it would work:

As a mentor you will have the option of selecting a power from your power sets to be the “Mentor” powers. You will start with the ability to pick one power from your Primary or Secondary but as you gain Mentor badges this will eventually increase to a maximum of three powers.

When you Sidekick a lower level player they will gain, as temporary powers, the Mentor Powers you selected. The power benefits will be at stock levels with no enhancements being counted. As long as the Sidekick stays in range the power will work and give some extra abilities.

Not all powers would be available for this option as some of them would really imbalance the game (Granite, I am looking at you!). Such imbalancing powers could be picked up and excluded in testing.


Why?

The idea comes from a simple and well known CoX fact. Combat level is only part of the equation for being effective on a team. Sure you can bump your level 7 up to level 45 but how much can you really contribute to the team with your limited powers? A mentor being able to grant you one of there powers is a small step but it would be some help.

It also allows for the mentoring badges to work as they do now, allowing one-on-one mentoring to matter. Gaining the ability to assign more powers as you increase your mentoring badges provides a tangible reward for the badges.

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A bit long, but remember it is a first draft.

Knockdown in Hand Clap would make it a bit more useful. Could also use a bit of spicing up in terms of animation and effect.

Then again, that would make SS/SD a monster in terms of mitigation. Shield Charge, Hand Clap, Foot Stomp timed right could take large groups out of the game very quickly. Stack in Energy Torrent epic and some global recharge and it would be deadly...fun but deadly.

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Funded most of my mains build out there. Boring? Oh yeah, but it gets the job done.


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I see the Hand Clap supports are late sleepers and have not assaulted this thread yet

It has uses and in the right hands can be a very valuable tool. It will give you a bit of breathing room, stun, and acts as a nice secondary taunt.

All that being said I found it was redundant once I took Foot Stomp. It is a relyable knockdown with damage and a great aggro management utility. The only real benefit offered by Hand Clap over Foot Stomp is the stun. If we could slot for -kb it may be useful but to most the stun is not worth scattering the mobs.

I would only slot it if you were looking for a place to put IO's for set bonuses.

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Social networking is all well and good but it should never replace a real website. Sure it can augment it, add value to it. However replacing it is a bit no-no in my book.

As long as the website is the primary source of information I can care less what gets tweeted.

Odd. I will give it another run tonight. Fort has been pulled so if I spot any odd buffing it will be from something else.

I removed Fort from the healing mobs, however in testing I can not get any ambush mobs to cast it on the EB.

Are you sure it was Fort that you were seeing on the EB, or was it just the extra boosting of the patrol mobs that caused problems? I want to make sure I was not missing some other buffing going on.

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I would like some feedback on the final mission of my arc from anybody who has played it.

The intent is to bring a bit of thinking to the missions. In that a problem is presented during the optional EB encounter. Drones with healing abilities spawn during the battles. 1-2 for a solo player depending on the difficulty level. If they get into melee range they like to fire off Recovery Aura and increase the difficulty of the encounter.

This mechanic is doubled against the final EB as well as having the healing mobs there at the start.

This presents a challenge to the player that I had hoped would inspire different strategies. The first being simply the targeting of the ambush before they reach the target. The other mobs in the ambush are intentionally weak to allow focusing on the healing mobs without too much danger.

There is a second option as well. You can gather allies to provide more damage along with some debuffing. This helps to break up the ambush as it arrives between the targets as well as reduce the +regen.

My question to those who have played the arc is if this is working as intended. Do the ambushes, along with hint text provided, create a different encounter and is this difference entertaining?

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Yup. Noticed that in the AE forum. We can also delete our posts now. Very happy days.

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