What would you change in a Powerset
By
Amber_V,
Posted on: 2008-10-05 09:24 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
My 3 would be:
1. Tanker Fire Melee: Change Temp Protection to a -KB Power
2. Blaster Assault Rifly: Make Full Auto do more damage - it is so disappointing watching every other blaster Nuke a mob into oblivion whan all you can do is wound them a little 
3. Blaster Electricity: Make the colour customisable
Thats about all really - i like most of the powersets I use as they are!
Golden-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Oodja Nikabolokov - Lvl 50 SS/WP Brute
Baby-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Peacebringer
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3: Spines: Make them Customized so you make use different verisons, even have a Verison that looks like Thorns.
3. Blaster Electricity: Make the colour customisable
[/ QUOTE ]Judging be these, would I be correct in assuming this thread is also for unrealistic changes which are impossible under the current game engine?
Just asking before posting something myself.
Yep - this is an 'ideal world' thread for when CoH gets a whole new engine for implementing unrealistic changes 
Golden-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Oodja Nikabolokov - Lvl 50 SS/WP Brute
Baby-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Peacebringer
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris?
I think the Full Auto problem is more to do with high levels of Lethal resistance at higher levels rather than it doing less damage. Besides, Full auto doesn't use all your end so there needs to be a trade off for that.
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@Miss Chief
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3: Spines: Make them Customized so you make use different verisons, even have a Verison that looks like Thorns.
3. Blaster Electricity: Make the colour customisable
[/ QUOTE ]Judging be these, would I be correct in assuming this thread is also for unrealistic changes which are impossible under the current game engine?
Just asking before posting something myself.
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Yes, Yes it is. Its just a fun little thread for peoples ideas, I dont expect any of these to be taken for Real.
Apart from the MM change listed above... gotta say I can't off hand think of any power that I use that I want changed.
Though regen back to i3 levels might be nice I can see why the changes were made... and I prefer MoG now.
1) I'd split Elemental Melee powersets into branching choices, one with elemental weapons, one without.
2) Recolor Corruptor Energy Blast red as Dominators'.
3) Give Corruptor Electric Blast sound effects like those from the Mu Mastery PPP. "KRACKABOOM" instead of "bzzt".
First few things that came to mind.
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2: Mastermind: Ninja: Oni: Change what he bloody well looks like, to me he really does not suit the set and looks like a butt ugly Pig.
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Uh, Oni aren't supposed to look pretty, they're supposed to look horrible. He suits the set.
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I can only think of two:
Willpower, give it something to deal with alphas and a self-heal. I'd happily lose the tier 8/9 powers for those.
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Get rid of Confront for something more fun in the Scrapper Primaries. I hardly know of anyone who's taken it, and it's easily replaced by a power pool power.
Good one! I should've thought of that.
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Ideas for that:
Broadsword: Smacking someone with the hilt or flat of your blade to stun them.
Claws: A Gouge attack to lower enemy accuracy and give a disorient chance.
Dark Melee: Perhaps something to debuff an enemy and buff yourself, like a -Def/+Def Or even Regen/Recov or something.
Dual Blades: Something comparable to Parry/Divine Avalanche, perhaps including a new combo that uses Power Slice and Vengeful Strike to give you a further buff?
Firey Melee: Combustion, for more PBAoE goodness?
Katana: Maybe a 10 second buff that adds a DoT component to all of your attacks? Tiger Fangs? If that's even possible in the engine.
Martial Arts: Lord knows maybe a punch which isn't Cobra Strike? Or if you're feeling lazy, maybe steal one of Foreshadow's Chi Blasts, its not like Spines doesn't have ranged attacks.
Spines: Spine Barrage, like Thorny Assault's Thorn Barrage? Thornatrops?
1) Being able to rename controller pets.
2) Being able to set a preffered attack mode for your pets - melee/ranged/mixture
3) Being able to combine travel powers for a temp buff. For example by combinin ss and fly, you have temp buffed your fly speed PAST the fly cap. (would be good for pvp admit it)
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1) remove weapons from elemental melee and replace them with actual melee attacks.
2) make hurl so that, instead of jumping higher, you can double jump.
3) add electric armor to the tank
4) give sprint a small ability after lvl 10, so you can slowly run against buildings.(good in combo with ss)
5) make energy blasts yellow and remove the bubbles, so we don't have a water beam.
6) make a speed buff in MA so you can attack 3x faster then normal, even the animation is faster.
7) make fly a lot faster when you're 500 yards from the ground.
8) put a larger range in teleport, with even the ability to click on the map to teleport.
9) give force field less protection but being able to attack.
10) add an ability to dash, so you can sorta quick-move by double tapping your movement buttons.(needs endurance to move this fast)
can go further, but then it might sound like the game is behind the time.....
I can only think of one thing and that would be to change Gravity Control so that its attacks are alot faster! 
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elemental melee
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Whats that?
The only thing I can think of right now is the abbility to change the name or a Dark Servent.
Make assault rifle not the laughing stock of the blasters/corruptors. 
Then again the challenge is quite fun especially paired with gadgets.
It's not running away. It's advancing in reverse!
1) Change war hammer for brutes to two handed animations. The one handed animations does not look that brutish.
2) Remove the fitness pool, and improve the base regain and recovery 75% for everyone to compensate. They are way too necessary for most power sets and builds.
3) Generally replace AoE sleeps with AoE stuns. I know it is not that specific, but I have never seen an AoE sleep used to even a decent effect.
Broadsword: I like the stun idea but I'd like to see Broadsword have a slight Smashing damage element added. Surely it's the weight of the thing that does some of the damage, not like a Katana which is light and sharp.
Two handed Broadsword animations.
The sword doesn't change size with youe character.
Rename Controller pets is a good one too.
AoE Sleeps? Positively wonderful for kinetics, I use Salt Crystals alot on my Earth/Kin, Fulcrum shift doesn't break them out of it and I can use Stalagmites afterwards too!
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@Miss Chief
Replace Group Fly with something worthwhile
Give Elec Blast more purpose. It's not sure if it's damage, end drain or holds, so give it more focus on one of those aspects and change it from being a jack-of-all-trades to something that works (maybe even make it optional... like weight the powers at creation)
Allow characters to change size at Icon (I'd actually like a free "size changing" set that can be earned with Merit's or something... that would allow you to change the size of your toon between min and max height without affecting game play in any way. Purely a visual effect.)
More Pool Power choices
Thelonious Monk
Give all ATs a cross-powerset combo system, similar to how Trick Arrow's Oil Slick can be set alight, but lets say you're an inv/SS Tanker and you use Unstoppalbe then Foot Stomp, Foot Stomp would then do a 10 second fear to all enemies effected, or a Thugs/Storm Mastermind uses Gang War then Tornado on a group of enemies resulting in a Mass Confusion effect.
Add two Hazard zones to Villains, one as a Snakes island off the coast of Mercy with miles of underground tunnels, similar to the Hollows for level ranges 6-20 and a giant Longbow bunker between Nerva and St Martial which spawns very large groups of Longbow and has EB Heroes patrolling around it for levels 25-40 (levels increasing the further into the base you go, eventually leading to EB-level Heroes with the Rikti attack code)
A revamp of the costume parts/creator to make them look up to date with the newer parts but to keep all those happy all the old parts would be kept in the game, effectively doubling the costume parts. Plus, would add a third colour option for some costume pieces (where applicable), mostly chest details and capes.
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
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elemental melee
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AR: Instead of the tier-1 and tier-2 being Burst and Slug, having them be Burst and Heavy/Sustained Burst(Extended single-target Burst... not the SoA cone power)).
Traps: Change Seeker Drones so they can be named. I want to call one of mine Skaffen, the other Amtiskaw.
Blaster Secondaries: /Grenades. I was having loads of fun with Stun Grenades, Tear-Gas Grenades and EMP Grenades I picked up as temp powers on my 22 AR/Ice Blaster. Used up the stun, and I miss 'em. There certainly are enough grenades to go around. The aforementioned, fragmentation, smoke, sonic, flashbang, glue grenades and so on.
This was just a fun idea I came up with and thought I would see what other peoples ideas are.
Basicly if you could do 3 things to Powersets, what would they be, heres my 3.
1: Mastermind Equip and Upgrade Powers: Make them Passives so when you summon your pets the Upgrades are already there.
2: Mastermind: Ninja: Oni: Change what he bloody well looks like, to me he really does not suit the set and looks like a butt ugly Pig.
3: Spines: Make them Customized so you make use different verisons, even have a Verison that looks like Thorns.
Just little Ideas really, if you could do something to a powerset what would you do!
(Losing ED doesnt count hehe)