Signature powers... for players -- I had this idea
By
AaronH,
Posted on: 2007-01-06 20:29 in Suggestions and Ideas
I'm amazed Ultimus actually came up with an astonishingly great idea like this...I mean Ultimus of all people...
If Turbo woulda came up with it, all the signature powers would have to be bright and shiny!
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If Turbo woulda came up with it, all the signature powers would have to be bright and shiny!
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And you're ignorant as always.
You post a pointless post basicly saying Ultimus is an idiot and you can't believe he thought of this.....but I'm ignorant? Why don't you just go back to ripping on peoples costumes in the screenshot thread and leave this thread to the grown ups.
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You post a pointless post basicly saying Ultimus is an idiot and you can't believe he thought of this.....but I'm ignorant? Why don't you just go back to ripping on peoples costumes in the screenshot thread and leave this thread to the grown ups.
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Anyone that knows Ultimus knew what I was talking about and for the record I only rip on costumes that are entirely black and detail-less. Don't you remember the huge thread we had in the art forum on about it where the majority agreed that you were wrong.
Turbo is correct..usually Ultimus threads are inane (no offense ultimus, but its kinda true) however this is one of the best Idea threads in recent memory to recieve a sticky, mild dev attention ( dont know if one qualifies but the sticky counts). In short way to go ultimus!
Oh and turbo...list your characters sig power please!~
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
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Oh and turbo...list your characters sig power please!~
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Assuming it's flexible enough to fit the concept...
Dark Ice Armor - once every 30 minutes, very high +Recharge +DMG +DEF +recovery click with a -range debuff on all attacks to make them melee range only. Lasts for 3 minutes but has a 100% end crash, -recovery debuff, Immoblized, and large -DEF and -RES debuff for 1 minute afterwards.
it may need to be tweaked a bit, Turbo.. but altogether it sounds do-able! granted.. i didn't go back and check if the points and pluses/negatives add up. but still.. seems reasonable.
side note: i'm sure Ultimus takes it all in good stride. 
My first MA: It's a No Good day. (Arc ID: 92684)
@CybinMonde: Nethershift - (50) - Dark/Regen/Dark scrapper (Infinity)
@Solunis: Desumater - (27) - Elec/Dark brute (Pinnacle); Syrah - (23) - DB/WP scrapper (Pinnacle) (proud member of Pinnacle on Tap)
as for Turbo-Ski's partner's in crime...
Project Reaver
Ability name: Nano-Assimilation
Description: 60 feet radius PBAoE confuse with a +Dmg buff attached to the confuse effect. Once every 30 minutes and 30 second duration.
Sarix the Devourer
Ability name: Soul Feast
Description: ST Melee Extreme damage attack followed by a very high +DMG +ACC buff for 2 minutes
/e waitpatientlyfordevresponse
/e puppydogeyes
My first MA: It's a No Good day. (Arc ID: 92684)
@CybinMonde: Nethershift - (50) - Dark/Regen/Dark scrapper (Infinity)
@Solunis: Desumater - (27) - Elec/Dark brute (Pinnacle); Syrah - (23) - DB/WP scrapper (Pinnacle) (proud member of Pinnacle on Tap)
You thought about this in a day?
So if I get my lvl 50 Archery/Devices blaster will i be able to make a combination of rain of arrows and exploding arrow or something?
Or some kind of melee blaster power that you wack the bad guys with your bow?
Or maby even have a dual shot power that you shoot their eyes and give them some seriouse DMG and Acc debuff?
The possablilities are phenominal, especialy with powers such as energy.
But overall I love the idea, sure will make me wanna get to 50 faster. The only issue is that there will have to be a whole issue update to comprehend such a thing, and you will need to make alot of possable powers, like those listed above. But ya, find a dev and yell at him to check this idea out.
There's 4 kinds of smarts. Street smarts, brain smarts, survival smarts, profession smarts, and Me.
Ok, sooo, if Im a Invulerability/Stone dude, what would he get? Its an awesome idea but I mean, you would have to come up with combos for every possibility. The reason it can be done with AVs and SHs is cuz there arent that many of them (least compareably), but with this idea you would need one for every combo of archtype, then for the differend point value sets, and then some. It would be a cool idea to see, but it would take forever to finally get out there.
All in all, I hope to see it done, but it isnt gunna happen for a long time if ti dose get done. (Waits to see this in issue 25)
Great idea, someone might base a whole MMO around that idea.
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I like MOSt of this idea, although I do have an idea I'd like to tag on. First off, I don't like the idea on making your signature power something you can make a temp power for another player. I understand the reasoning behind it...showing off all your hard work and all...but I'm just uncomfortable with the idea. I'm afraid someone will find an exploit and be able to pass it along to everyone. Besides, it's supposed to be YOUR signature power - your trademark. Why give that to anyone? Just my thought on the matter.
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Not really, you could just treat it like the patron powers villains get, I mean Robin uses a lot of stuff the Batman comes up with.
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Well the way I saw it was loaning an invention or device, sharing a secret training technique, imparting some magical power, etc. on another person.
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Well I would let people give out the power to one player only once, or I can only give my power to X once, but after his wears out I could give my power to XX. You could make the power last only a certain amount of time like an hour and after that time period. That player can never get that power from YOU again, but if that player wants to try sombody else's they might want to buy the invention from them. Even though it is an hour you might want to try sombody else's before you go make your own.
P.S. GREAT idea I hope the devs look into this.
I like the idea for signature powers but to trade it is a problem. You see, it's your power, your ability, your trademark in this crazy world, it's what makes you kick [censored] uber leet. I cant see how instantly trading that power with someone can make you any more unique. I will however defend it if they have the same power, for example a lvl 50 archery blaster can teach a lvl 50 trick arrow/ archery defender how to use a signature power via the archery powers. But the defender cant teach the blaster a super uber leet trick arrow cuz, the blaster doesn't even have that power. Get my drift?
If you want a relation to a real world you cant give a kid a gun and expect him to do some crazy one-man base raid without him even knowing how to hold it right.
In brass tax, if they cant shoot once, they cant shoot twice.
There's 4 kinds of smarts. Street smarts, brain smarts, survival smarts, profession smarts, and Me.
/signed
I would like to note that we probably won't get this in its entirety. We will probably be able to pick the power type, animation/sound, and enhancements. I can't imagine they would allow us to gift the powers and I don't see them increasing the level cap, so the Dev's are going to have to find another way for us to do the signature power things.
I love the idea though!
I love the idea signed +2
Anything involving customization is great for the game. The idea is great cause it is after lvl 33.
did a dev see this yet? I still like the idea, just not sure about sharing the power yet.
There's 4 kinds of smarts. Street smarts, brain smarts, survival smarts, profession smarts, and Me.
Ooooooh, I just thought of a great one for my Plant dominator... Which will probably be rerolled as a Plant/Storm for issue 12, but anyway:
Petal Storm
-Summons a storm of razor sharp petals to whirl around your foes, causing lethal damage over time and creating confusion among your foes.
-Location AoE, High Lethal DoT, Confuse
-As for the animation... a pink version of blizzard. Although that would pose a problem as it would require color customization for the animations.
Virtue - @Kabuto & @Kabutops
Main heroes:
Dark/Psy/Psy Defender
Grav/Storm/Power Controller
Ice/Storm/Ice Controller
Plant/Rad/Psi Controller
Earth/Rad/Earth Controller
Main Villains:
Ice/Cold/Sharks Corruptor
Elec/Shield Brute
Fortunata/Soul Widow
/signed
Since I've fallen in love with warshades...moar corpse buffs!
Orbiting Chaos
Toggle, can only be activated once every 15 mins for duration of 1 min.
Does ticks of PBAoE damage and slight Confuse based off of the number of initial enemies around. Whenever an enemy is defeated, I am given health and end. Kind of like a mixture of Orbiting Death and Stygian Circle, with confusion thrown in.
or you could just have the animation be that of flying petals swirling around like someone has hurricane on and is tossing em around, maybe with a bit of wind animation though.
There's 4 kinds of smarts. Street smarts, brain smarts, survival smarts, profession smarts, and Me.
maybe energy blasters should have a real laser beam as a signature, and i mean a big one. Kinda like..
Damage arc: equivalent of energy torrent
Damage type: Energy/smashing DoT
Damage: superior
The user charges up (like a assassin strike) and then shoots a huge beam of energy over the next 5 sec, all foes within the path of it take superior damage over time and are moderately disorientated. Easily interruptible. Recharge long
animation: a longer, larger, more energy like, blue and white fire blaster snipe animation.
this is debatable but its just an idea.
There's 4 kinds of smarts. Street smarts, brain smarts, survival smarts, profession smarts, and Me.
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maybe energy blasters should have a real laser beam as a signature, and i mean a big one. Kinda like..
Damage arc: equivalent of energy torrent
Damage type: Energy/smashing uh
Damage: superior
The user charges up (like a assassin strike) and then shoots a huge beam of energy over the next 5 sec, all foes within the path of it take superior damage over time and are moderately disorientated. Easily interruptible. Recharge long
animation: a longer, larger, more energy like, blue and white fire blaster snipe animation.
this is debatable but its just an idea.
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Like Samus' final smash in Smash Bros Brawl? 
Virtue - @Kabuto & @Kabutops
Main heroes:
Dark/Psy/Psy Defender
Grav/Storm/Power Controller
Ice/Storm/Ice Controller
Plant/Rad/Psi Controller
Earth/Rad/Earth Controller
Main Villains:
Ice/Cold/Sharks Corruptor
Elec/Shield Brute
Fortunata/Soul Widow
You have an awesome mind, Ultimus!
I love this game for the originality it allows you, and often take extra time to creat less commonly used power set combos, simply for the sake of still being at least a bit original. I would LOVE to see this added to the game!
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So the Devs have never made a comment on this idea at all? Did the motto "Give the players what they ask for" go away when NCsoft bought them out? They should at least post something. How about we are looking into it, or it won't work with the current game engine. Either way, I for one would love to know.
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The only comment was made in game by the Ghost Widow developer. (Playing the Ghost Widow model)
On the forums, no comments have been made but this is stickied as you can see so it has been seen and recognized.