It's all good, except we'd need to pay BioWare some money for the name...
Everquest had an "alternate advancement" skill called Mass Group Buff (MGB to players) that did exactly this - mainly for buffing an entire raid force of up to 72 players with one of your single target buffs - though it was on a fairly long cooldown.
Tbh it wouldn't be quite as necessary here if the "mini-bubbles" in the FF/Sonic/Therm/Cold buff/debuff sets had a reasonable duration like 15-20mins - if they're going to need renewing every 4 mins like now then I'll continue to avoid playing those sets.
A power like you suggest would mitigate some of that annoyance for me, but only if the cooldown of said power matched the duration of those mini-bubble buffs.
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I doubt they can Sue you for using the Term a "Mass Effect" since we would be using it as Mass as alot of people.. and they use it as the term Mass for a Mass of an object ^^
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"Mass Effect" is a registered trademark of EA. You can use the words individually, but together they are property (at least that's how I understand it).
With pets and players running round like crazy fools ( like most do) popping that and then having everyone run out of LoS or the AoE would be fairly annoying, unless of course there's a stupidly high range put on it. The concept seems a bit OP anyway, give certain classes the power to mass buff, you then have to balance other classes.
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With pets and players running round like crazy fools ( like most do) popping that and then having everyone run out of LoS or the AoE would be fairly annoying, unless of course there's a stupidly high range put on it.
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You haven't played the Rad Emission powerset, have you? 
Accelerate Metabolism is a PBAE buff with radius 25 (same as Controller/Dom's Ice Slick), yet I don't seem to have much trouble buffing a whole team and their pets (or even most of a mothership raid) with it on my fire/rad corruptor, so they could set the radius to the same as that.
I don't even bother telling teams to gather for AM anymore - it's a needless hassle and a waste of time - easy to just pop it on everyone while they're mid-combat clustered around a spawn/mob. And if someone keeps running off from the team to go solo stuff then they don't get AM - if they're not going to pitch in and help the team then I don't see why I should bother to help them (though obviously if they were away from the team for a legitimate reason I'd do my best to make sure they were around when I rebuffed).
I guess they could even stick radius 60 on this mass buff power (like the Leadership pool toggles) or even 100 (like Vengeance), but that might be overkill. 50 feet might be a good compromise.
And how about instead of just giving this new power to everyone the Devs put it into a new power pool of self-buffs so that it cost at least one power-pick (or maybe more) to get. In fact how about this:
Power Pool: "Support"
6: Protect - PBAE buff, 60sec duration, 360sec rchg, mag4 protection from Phasing/Caging, Placate, Taunt, Fear/Terror & Confuse and also adds some +Perception (enough to cancel Blinding effect from two stacked NPC Night Widow smoke grenades)
6: Extend - Self-buff, 60sec duration, 360sec rchg, any buff/debuff used while this is in effect has its duration doubled
14: Mass Enhance - Self-buff, 60sec duration, 360sec rchg, any buff cast while this is in effect will be applied to every friendly player within 50 feet
20: Make Ready - Self click, 3600sec rchg (yes 1hr, but can be reduced with rchg enhancements), all powers currently in cooldown are immediately recharged ready for use
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the name yes, the term no.
i would like a limit break more, something like the one the dominator uses....but then for the non-bonus classes.
That's a good idea Sorudo, but I don't know if they'd be willing to change the AT special to acccomplish it.
This was a suggestion i got both from my MM and my bubble defender.
Give the following ATs: Controller, Defender, Corruptor and Mastermand. A starting power called "Mass Effect"
What it does is, it last 15sec with a 2min cooldown, and while it's on all your Buffs become AoE.
This would enable bubbles to bubble entire team faster, Empaths to use CM faster and MMs to buff pets faster.
Powers with over 1min cooldown will not be effected by this, powers like Fortitude, Ressurect Ect.
Comments, ideas, all is welcome
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