Would be nice to have Staves eventually, but it's yet-another Smethal set for the melee ATs... I'd personally like to see some exotic damage sets for Melee ATs before then.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
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In the "Power Suggestion Thread" stickied above should already be a suggestion or two for a staff-style fighting set.
I'd imagine that the nine powers would include:
Mostly Smashing damage (a frequently resisted damage type).
Stun or Knockdown components in many of the attacks.
Slightly-longer than normal range for a melee attack.
Incompatible with the Shields defensive set, due to being two-handed.
Build Up.
A PBAoE "foot sweep" kind of thing for knockdown.
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Would be nice to have Staves eventually, but it's yet-another Smethal set for the melee ATs... I'd personally like to see some exotic damage sets for Melee ATs before then.
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You know, I feel the same way about a Street Fighting/Brawling set. I'm sure it' be great fun if done well but yeah, it'd be another smashing/lethal set for melee ATs. Worse yet, it'd most likely be single target focused, have a couple of mixed effects like Martial Arts and most likely be brushed off as mediocre after the 'new set shine' wears off. And the kicker, IMO, is that you can already make a brawler/punchy guy by taking certain powers and pools and mixing them with Super Strength or Martial Arts.
PS: Even if Staff melee would be another smashing/lethal set, at least you could customize the weapon. It'd probably open the door for other cool 2-handed sets like spear, halberd, Big F#%!ing Sword and SCYTHE!!!
I guess to mix it up, they could put in some kind of energy damage to it, I recall Deathstroke has a power staff, and I could have swore i've seen a hero or villain in a comic book have an electric tip to theirs also.
Doesn't have to be on all attacks, maybe just a few.
I am new to the game, and while I found there was a great array of powers and diversity the one I really missed on my first hours of creating a character was a staff-wielding(bo-stick) powerset. It's a very common/basic weapon and even though we have tons of them and Bo staffs aren't really all too apt for looks I think it would be a great addition to the melee classes.