sorry way way way too easy to exploit 
My ill/rad would just pick fulcrum shift or elude and truely be unkillable
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Whilst I like the concept, I foresee a LOT of complications arising. As you mentioned there would be consequences and nerfing your entire build for the sake of one power would be unfavourable.
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I like the idea, but it would be far too easy to overpower a toon.
However, I do like the idea of acquiring powers temporarily. There are a couple of missions on Villains where you are temporarily given a few Warshade/Nictus powers and I always enjoy those for the variety, no matter how fleeting it is. I'd like to see some more of those kind of missions. So for example, for one mission your Blaster gets to run around in Rock Armour or one mission where you get to cripple mobs with a couple of Rad powers - that would be fun. But not permanent.
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can't really say if it would unbalance things, this exact thing is gonna be in CO and that's balanced.
some limits should be in but, with some tweaking, it's not bad.
dunno if it's good for COX, not gonna judge it ether.
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From what I understand this suggestion is how the game originally was, but the Archetypes were implemented to prevent the coockie-cutter chars people were gravitating towards, each highly overpowered. Can you imagine Energy Blast paired with Unvulnerability, before enhancement diversification was implemented?
Hmm noodlebag... not sure about you....
Afaik, the original design for the game had you able to pick any powers (i.e not restricted by poiwersets/ATs) for your character. But it was far too powerful.
The reason it was originally designed is partly as the designers liked Champions P&P RPG which has a similar power-picking system, with asssociated drawbacks - i.e. pick especially great powers and get drawbacks alongside them.
Given that this is (I think) your 1st post, I need to ask: You aren't actually a paid-up member of Cryptic studios trying to get interest in the CO system are you???!!!???!!!
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you don't know that yet, it isn't even released so you can't judge it so far from release.
Yes, I'm sure all things being equal, if everyone can pick whatever powers they want, people won't tend to go for the best/most damaging powers and forget that other ones even exist... no, really. And that won't lead to any form of unbalance at all.[/sarcasm]
No to the suggestion.
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Given that it's not out yet, you can no more credibly claim that it is balanced than that it isn't.
And ten gets you twenty that CO will not be balanced by the time it goes gold.
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Well, the thing to focuse on to make it work would be the setback of choosing another power; the stronger power, the heavier setback.
And of course you wouldnt be forced to use this, plenty of people are perfectly happy with their villain/hero as it is.
The thing is i had an idea for a villain early on in CoX, and i couldnt create him. He would be a fallen angel, his mind, body and powers vile and twisted. He would wield a cursed, magic sword, and he would defile the spirits of the dead, summoning them as zombies and force them to fight for him... and no archetype fit with this. I could go for the Mastermind (which i intended), but then i would be unarmed, and a ranged fighter whos throwing black goo-balls on his targets... I could have gone with the Brute to get the in-your-face with a cool weapon... but with no defiling of the dead
Anyway, I think the setback should be pretty heavy to avoid leading to a potential cookie-cutter build. For me this would be purely to fit with the theme and story of the villain/hero, and to give a boost to the diversity of CoX
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Flipside: A lot of (competent) people won't want to team with you, because you've nerfed yourself in the name of cool.
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What about if you make it so that you purchase a temp power with a specific number of merits... for example a Tier 1 power takes 10 merits, and a tier 9 takes 90
Each has a finite duration, say like an hour of game time... (not unlike the temp powers from bank jobs which are valid for 2 hours) and cannot be selected again.
Limit that to only one temp power possible at any given time and it becomes a bit more realistic.
Imagine a fire blaster with Fulcrum Shift or an elec blaster with MoG up
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The temporary powers got me thinking about this... having some sort of mission at higher levels that would allow you to customise your archetype with a power from ANY other powerset, if you would succeed the mission (kinda like the cape-mission).
I know, I know, it would be insanely imbalanced... but it shouldnt come without consequenses. You would get part of the weakness of the archetype that the power belongs to as well, for instance a Brute picking Zombie Horde would get considerably more squishy, kinda like a mix between Mastermind and Brute. Plus he wouldnt be able to upgrade his zombies, since thats a different power.
This would be so cool, but its not very likely to happen, the work and balancing of this would take a huge effort... would still be cool though