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Edit: Uh. Holy [censored]? PSYCHIC SHOCKWAVE? Are you kidding?
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
woot!
looks so awesome
*wonders what the psi blast powers are going to be replaced with since it can't be a straight port of the defender set*
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Neat. And first post after a mad scientist
Edit: Uh. Holy [censored]? PSYCHIC SHOCKWAVE? Are you kidding?
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Build Up and Psychic Shockwave...along with Drain Psyche for lots of +regen and +recovery. And what looks to be a %-for-Confusion damage toggle. With about 20% more hit points than a Dominator and higher damage.
Yeah, I'm not seeing any balance problems with this set if the powers are directly ported.
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Drain Psyche...wow.
Scare...double wow.
Omgwthdunnoboutit factor...wow. 
Poor poor villains... 
Um... normally I am not the first guy to call doooom, but why not just give them an I win button... coupled with Sonic Blast this will be a pocket controller with blaster damage, res debuffs, and psi damage.
Subdual Immobilize
Mind Probe - Recharge slow
Telekinetic Thrust Knockback
Drain Psyche Debuff hit point and endurance recovery
World of Confusion Mass confusion
Scare Fear
Psychic Shockwave Mass recharge slow and disorient
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Holy dang, I got a direct red-name reply to a question. This inflates my ego!
Now I'm really looking forward to Issue 12. I mean, I already was, but now I'm doing it more. I've got a character in mind who I can just see laughing like a maniac amid a mass of bad dudes trapped in her little World of Confusion. 
And she's such a shy, tiny little slip of a thing, too. It's always the quiet ones. At least she's more or less on the side of justice, right?
BackAlleyBrawler: I can't facepalm this post hard enough.
ShoNuff: If sophisticated = bro-mantically emo-tastic, then I'm going to keep to my Shonen loving simplicity dammit.
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Build Up Greatly boosts your attacks for a few seconds. Slightly increases Accuracy. Recharge: Long
Drain Psyche You Drain the Psyche of you nearby foes, thus weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Recharge: Very Long
Psychic Shockwave Psychic Shockwave is a devastating Psionic attack that wracks the minds of all nearby foes. Affected foes may have a reduced attack rate and may be left Disoriented. Damage: High Recharge: Slow
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Well I see that we're going with that name change of the game to City of */Psi Blasters that was talked about in a dev meeting.
/sarcasm
Knowing how well these powers work for Doms, I think the Blasters are going to be quite powerful in the days to come. PLEASE PLEASE keep a close watch on this in the closed beta.
huge -regen/-recovery confuse, fear and other goodies.. Well, I guess EM is going to have a competitor.
However, giving PSW to blasters is just insane.
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The same can be said with moving Illusions to Masterminds as a Primary powerset.
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Can I just say, please, please just give Illusion to Dominators... Please? I don't care if MMs get it too, that would actually be pretty rad, BUT I really want to play it on a Dom.
Illusion powers in comic books are something that can work very differently depending on who is wielding them. It would be cool to have 2 different Illusion sets that work so differently between ATs. One are old favourite Illusion Control, an Two, our new favourite, Illusion for Masterminds, which would have controllable pets and hopefully some nifty Psi attacks.
Villians shall die by the truck loads.
Rolling a Sonic/Psi and saying lol to PvE the second I12 hits.
And people didnt think Psi would be overpowered in PvE...
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Rolling a Sonic/Psi and saying lol to PvE the second I12 hits.
And people didnt think Psi would be overpowered in PvE...
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Yeah, I checked but Drain Bamage was already taken.
I figured it would be, but still...
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Sigh. This is just ridiculous, of course, the h to v balance wasn't even remotely addressed in the post. Villains are really screwed now.
Storm, and even Empathy for villains wouldn't save them for the disaster that is looming anyway. I'm trying to figure out what the point of playing any villain AT outside of a stalker is now in PvP.
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WHY NO EMP FOR CORR? ELF_STALKER
Empathy isnt a villainous trait, generally speaking. From a fiction standpoint, it will likely never be given to Villains as a set.
Back to thematics Empathy isnt really a villainous trait. From a fiction standpoint, it wasnt our first choice to port over and the reason corruptors didnt receive it in the first place as part of the release of City of Villains. If we were to add an Empathy Like set, it would need to be all new and not a port of it, to make it fit into the Villainous theme. As such, that fell out of the scope of Issue 12s powerset proliferation and is why it wasnt included.
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Defenders have dark, not very hero like.
Scrappers have dark melee, not very hero like.
Very nice FAQ, Thank you
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WHY NO EMP FOR CORR? ELF_STALKER
Empathy isnt a villainous trait, generally speaking. From a fiction standpoint, it will likely never be given to Villains as a set.
Back to thematics Empathy isnt really a villainous trait. From a fiction standpoint, it wasnt our first choice to port over and the reason corruptors didnt receive it in the first place as part of the release of City of Villains. If we were to add an Empathy Like set, it would need to be all new and not a port of it, to make it fit into the Villainous theme. As such, that fell out of the scope of Issue 12s powerset proliferation and is why it wasnt included.
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Defenders have dark, not very hero like.
Scrappers have dark melee, not very hero like.
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That is consistently and intentionally overlooked. They just don't want to give empathy to villains.
All I request is that the Psi hole found in all melee defensive sets and relevent buff shields be filled.
As far as PvP is concerned /EM will still be chosen over /psi, unless Boost Range is nerfed.
As for /Psi itself...it seems a bit control heavy, like stepping into control archetype control heavy. I'd tone it down a touch...
Actually Legion, there's at least two superheroes I can think of that had 'dark' powers. Cloak from Marvel had them, he's practically the posterchild for them. And there was a member of the Legion of Superheroes over in DC that had them (cant' remember her name though). Mind you, I'd still like to see Empathy brought over in some, but just sayin'.
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Castle said, No, never!
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Castle's a doo-doo head. Come up with a better reason than "Whaaa I wanna be a singular and unique snowflake". 
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Subdual – Subdual deals moderate Psionic damage and may leave the targeted foe Immobilized for a brief time. Immobilized foes cannot move but can still attack. Damage: Moderate, Recharge: Moderate
Mind Probe -- Grip the minds of your foe with a Mind Probe. You must be in close proximity to pull off this attack that wrecks havoc on your foes synapses, dealing moderate Psionic Damage while reducing his attack speed. Damage: Moderate, Recharge: Moderate
Telekinetic Thrust – A focused attack or intense mental power that violently sends a nearby foe flying. Deals minimal damage, but can be very effective. Damage: Minor, Recharge: Moderate
Psychic Scream -- This howl of Psionic energy resonates in the minds of all foes within its conical area of effect, inflicting moderate damage. Damage: Moderate, Recharge: Slow
Build Up – Greatly boosts your attacks for a few seconds. Slightly increases Accuracy. Recharge: Long
Drain Psyche – You Drain the Psyche of you nearby foes, thus weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Recharge: Very Long
World of Confusion – This toggle powers allows you to cause psionic damage and cause confusion within a group of foes, creating chaos. The chance of confusing an enemy is lower than then chance of damaging them, and it may take multiple hits to affect stronger opponents. All affected foes within the area will turn and attack each other, ignoring all heroes. You will not receive any Experience Points for foes defeated by Confused enemies. Recharge: Moderate
Scare – You entwine a single foe within his deepest fears and cause him to helplessly tremble for a brief while. Recharge: Medium
Psychic Shockwave – Psychic Shockwave is a devastating Psionic attack that wracks the minds of all nearby foes. Affected foes may have a reduced attack rate and may be left Disoriented. Damage: High Recharge: Slow
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Interestingly, the first thought that crossed my mind when reading this was: Psionic Scrapper. My guess: people will be begging for this to be "proliferated" to the melee archetypes before it even exits beta.
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All I want to know is.... why the heck can't blasters have radiation blasts? It seems beyond silly to limit this only to defenders.
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woot!
looks so awesome
*wonders what the psi blast powers are going to be replaced with since it can't be a straight port of the defender set*
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I'm very confused as to why Psychic Scream is in Mental Manipulation.
My only guess is that they just swapped it out for Aim.
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Normally I am the last person to call something overpowered but it is official the devs are truely smoking crack. Looking at what all the other blaster secondaries can do this is just flat out insane. They get a regular nuke, drain psyche and PSW, and hell I dont even want to talk about the new powers. All I can say is with all that how can anyone talk about balance whether it is pve or pvp.
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Last week my great discovery was unveiled to you all, but many of you had some pressing questions.
Well, better late then never, I'd say! Here are the answers to some of the good ones (and the ones that seemed to keep cropping up!)
Hopefully I can have more answers for you in the coming weeks!
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"So, Lighthouse, any chance of us finding out what-all powers are in Mental Manipulation? Bitt Player
Subdual Subdual deals moderate Psionic damage and may leave the targeted foe Immobilized for a brief time. Immobilized foes cannot move but can still attack. Damage: Moderate, Recharge: Moderate
Mind Probe -- Grip the minds of your foe with a Mind Probe. You must be in close proximity to pull off this attack that wrecks havoc on your foes synapses, dealing moderate Psionic Damage while reducing his attack speed. Damage: Moderate, Recharge: Moderate
Telekinetic Thrust A focused attack or intense mental power that violently sends a nearby foe flying. Deals minimal damage, but can be very effective. Damage: Minor, Recharge: Moderate
Psychic Scream -- This howl of Psionic energy resonates in the minds of all foes within its conical area of effect, inflicting moderate damage. Damage: Moderate, Recharge: Slow
Build Up Greatly boosts your attacks for a few seconds. Slightly increases Accuracy. Recharge: Long
Drain Psyche You Drain the Psyche of you nearby foes, thus weakening their Hit Point Regeneration and Endurance Recovery and boosting your own. Recharge: Very Long
World of Confusion This toggle powers allows you to cause psionic damage and cause confusion within a group of foes, creating chaos. The chance of confusing an enemy is lower than then chance of damaging them, and it may take multiple hits to affect stronger opponents. All affected foes within the area will turn and attack each other, ignoring all heroes. You will not receive any Experience Points for foes defeated by Confused enemies. Recharge: Moderate
Scare You entwine a single foe within his deepest fears and cause him to helplessly tremble for a brief while. Recharge: Medium
Psychic Shockwave Psychic Shockwave is a devastating Psionic attack that wracks the minds of all nearby foes. Affected foes may have a reduced attack rate and may be left Disoriented. Damage: High Recharge: Slow
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I would like to see a red name explain why heros get cold and therm and villains get double storm. jeffg316
Originally, Castle only wanted to allow 9 powersets to be shifted around, while others wanted to open things up much more completely. After much debate, and back and forth discussion, we came to a compromise on which sets were proliferated and which would be delayed to future updates. The sets that were chosen, ultimately, were easy to port across, and tried to fill thematic holes where appropriate. Balance was mainly a factor in which sets NOT to port immediately things like Kinetics for Masterminds would be extremely dangerous to port directly; many changes would need to be done to make that one work. The same can be said with moving Illusions to Masterminds as a Primary powerset.
Ultimately, it came down to What would be fun, but not too game breaking?
After we had that mantra, we matched things on a thematic basis whenever possible. Hence, Fire/Fire Scrappers, Controllers who had Fire Control getting access to Thermal, Corruptors getting Elec/Storm, etc.
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WHY NO EMP FOR CORR? ELF_STALKER
Empathy isnt a villainous trait, generally speaking. From a fiction standpoint, it will likely never be given to Villains as a set.
Back to thematics Empathy isnt really a villainous trait. From a fiction standpoint, it wasnt our first choice to port over and the reason corruptors didnt receive it in the first place as part of the release of City of Villains. If we were to add an Empathy Like set, it would need to be all new and not a port of it, to make it fit into the Villainous theme. As such, that fell out of the scope of Issue 12s powerset proliferation and is why it wasnt included.
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What if testing proves a set port didnt work en masse like ice brutes in CoV beta. They obviously made it through your internal testing and QA but in practice it was found they didnt work.
If something is found NOT to work, what is the plan? Plasmastream
If something doesnt work, well adjust it, rebuild it or cut it, depending on what needs to be done. I dont suspect this to happen in most cases.
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Is the Corruptor version of Electric Blasts going to be colored red to match the theme of villain electricity? Blackavaar
Of course! They even get their own version of Voltaic Sentinal.
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Any Red name wanna come out and let us know if Elec/Elec tank is going to be added? Lady_Dee
Castle said, No, never! and Positron said, Yes, do it! In the end, the decision of which sets to give everyone bounced back and forth multiple times. The next question is, Why did Castle say no?! At the time, he wanted each AT to keep certain sets so they were only found on that AT Ninjitsu for Stalkers, Elec/Elec for Brutes, Ice/Ice for Tankers, etc. Ultimately, that concept was set aside later in the process, but some aspects of it remained in the initial pass of Proliferation.