Protonman

As a travel power group, I can see vehicles being used, but in a very restricted manner.... they could appear just like some toons do on mission maps... they come (or go) a certain distance and fade into (or fade out of) existance. You enter (or exit) a vehicle just like entering a mission, the door opens and you jump in, (jump out). To make it feasible it would: 1) be an outside power only, 2) take you from your current position to active mission door location, 3) you could not do anything while being transported. In effect, it would be like TPing there, but safer (can't hurt others or be hurt while in the vehicle). If there needs to be a trade off, (travel without risk of injury for something) then perhaps a high end usage or make it slower than the faster travel powers... (but safer - useful for the lower levels....) I would not make the vehicle something that you could drive yourself, it would be assumed you would be going to a very specific location. You could even have it work that once activated it pops up with a menu (like train stations or the ferry) with specific locations, like train station, ferry, wentworths, arena. To minimize the graphics, use a standard car, but to indicate its a "power pool" car, maybe it has the character logo on hood and is color matched to current costume.

I like the idea of two powers from each power type, (fire, cold, energy, neg energy); however I think to keep it balanced (with other blasters) you'd need to have a nuke/nova like power. I can see it not having a sniper attack ,(no way to really aim down your staff without sights), and perhaps no buff/aim ability ( because you didn't specialize in any specific field.).. But you need a nova-like power to keep the damage equivalent to other blasters... don't think RPing concept would be enough draw to keep people interested if you dropped it. Also, without getting into a lot of cinematic issues, a couple power trees have some very close up/short range attacks, it might be interesting to have a melee attack or two thrown in... perhaps limit to fire, ice and energy attacks with a pummel and round-house style attack (could even take the graphics from one of the martial art moves, but super-impose the staff into it.)