Verastis

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whay are pistols so asked for? Is there some popular preteen pistoleer cartoon hero I don't know about?? I mean of all the boring low graphical effect powersets to ask for...
yeesh.


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< :P > And shields are somehow better? How can that appeal to anyone but captain america fans. "I've got this big round thing. You better watch out or I'll put it between me and you. And if you make me really mad, i'll throw it at you". Must be an over-the-hill thing
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As for the topic though, I still stand by sword pistol. You may not get state's power of zeus or whatever, but you can be a ss/invuln tanker. Imagine if that was the first video you saw of CoH before playing it, got the game, and then found out nothing like that set was in the game.

No one seems to have pointed this out, and here seems as good a place as any.

Look at the CoH Korea video. There is a hero using a sword and gun. Not just for one super special move, his main thing is sword and gun. Now imagine if you are Korean for a second and see this video. "That looks cool, I want to play with a sword and gun". If they -don't- have a sword and gun set they are pretty close to false advertising. Also, it seems like a response to the desire for the pistol scrapper set. ANd its only half a new set. A set has 9 powers. I'll bet it has 3 katana powers, build up, taunt, 3 gun powers, and a final gun and sword power. Thats only 4 new powers that have to be made from scratch. As for the lighting thing, probably not. The Iconic characters are allowed to have something cool we can't. But not a whole power set.

As for the others. Foreshadow is obviously MA, but also has "chi blasts", which could be considered any of the energy melee powers, but right now ther is no way to combine those. Maybe a "Kung Fu" (as oppsed to ma :/ ) tanker and brute set? The stuff the girls showed off in the trailer seemd super specialized, so I'm guessing its epic power pool/at stuff, assuming we will see it in game at all.