Dechs Kaison

Actually it's quite easy to do with some simple macros.

Have you considered turning your inspirations to greens and passing them?

... it's full of trolls.

Damnit! You owe me a fresh can of Mountain Dew. This one tastes like keyboard.

Cheerio mate.

You need to ask yourself why that power gets put in the tray unused.

It's because the power is terrible compared to the other powers those characters get.

If there was a ranged version of Boxing, it would still be terrible.

Fix'd better.

Because it's hard to miss a cruise ship that big.

Especially if you're an iceberg.

And... who's surprised by this announcement?

*crickets*

Didn't think so.

That's pretty much what makes it useless. This is a flat out terrible build considering your goals. In fact, considering just about any goals, this is a terrible build.

I don't see the first upgrade to your henchmen. What are you thinking? EDIT: There it is, at level 47. What are you thinking?

The Grave Knights are your largest source of damage and have no damage enhancement.

You took Chill Mastery, but bypassed its best power, the defense shield.

Heals are completely overstated. The medicine pool needs to go.

Defense debuffs, especially in powers that require a tohit check, are all but worthless. If you need the defense debuff, it's because you can't hit your target. If you can't hit your target, you can't land the debuff.

Seriously, I cannot overstate how awful this build is, but I'll try anyway.

This build is phenomenally, monumentally bad. Crossing the streams bad. Straight into the air and blow up like Challenger kind of bad. New Jersey air quality bad.

...

It's worse than The Last Airbender was.

You could even be self defeating and make it an Ice Armor tank.

If you wanted to throw knives, you'd pick natural. It's pretty much the only effect origin has on your character.

Why not? There are plenty of people I know that do this purely for the concept reasons. Many more people craft them simply because they're extremely useful in the early levels of the game.

You're asking the wrong question. The right question is "Does adding a ranged attack to the fighting pool provide significant increase in game experience compared to the cost required to implement it?"

But yes, it is that big a deal. The power would need to be balanced, coded, and animated (you cannot assume it's simple copy/paste). What other pool power has five powers? There could be code that needs re-written to allow more than four powers in a pool.

Dark Armor represent!

... Wait... I wouldn't even pick any of my DA characters as my two...

Well, it's a good thing I won't ever be limited to two characters. I have enough premium rewards to play at least 8 characters. More than that, of course, I just reactivated my yearly sub.

You mean like the temp powers you can craft or the one that comes with your origin? Yeah, we already have that.

Not at all. Didn't you hear about how the AoE buff rule is affecting Heal Arrow?

Are you using bodyguard mode?

That's what I'm saying though, I don't even use it when I'm on a melee character. My melee characters have a melee attack I don't even put in my tray.

If your secondary or primary powerset has ranged blasts, any ranged blasts at all, a Fighting Pool ranged attack will not be in your tray either. It will have less range (all the throw knife powers do), much less damage, and cost more endurance. Look at Boxing or Kick compared to every other melee attack. It's just not worth using, and neither will your idea.

It's not worth the developer resources to add something to the pool that still won't be used. What you are proposing will not have the intended effect. At the end of the day, you'll still have an attack that you do not put into your tray.

I use the fighting pool on almost all of my melee characters. I still don't use boxing or kick, or even put it in my tray. It doesn't make sense for me to use an under-damaging, over-costly attack. I don't slot it on many characters unless I really need another Kinetic Combat set.

Believe me, you don't want a ranged power in the set because you still would not use it.