Pulse Rifle Powerset

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

It's silly because having an endurance crash after using your weapon is saying YOU expended all your energy to nuke.

I mean, that works for inferno, where the fire comes from you.

But this is a gun. An outside source. Somehow draining your energy.

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

I don't think it's silly for weapon sets to suffer from nuke crashes. It's pretty reasonable to be out of ammunition after firing off a billion arrows or your entire magazine and need to reload.

Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire

How does running out of fire power prevent you from dropping caltrops?

Don't apply logic to powersets. It's a losing battle.

Originally Posted by Eldagore

I had a set hashed out on the old forums, I think it is deleted now. it was similar to the OP, minus a few powers. Important to note that anything resembling the current AR set should be thrown out, we dont need two cone heavy aoe gun sets. I had something like this- powers with stars I will describe below:

1. Pulse Rifle Burst (like the MM set blast)
2. Pulse Rifle Blast (as above)
3. Photon Grenade (as above)
4. Aim
5. Snipe
6. Pulse Rifle Barrage*
7. Concussive Blast*
8. Charged Pulse Blast*
9. Plasma Pack Detonation*

Ok, so the first 3 are available from the MM set, animations and all. Aim is Aim, Snipe could borrow the AR animation in part, but with different blast effects. That brings us to new ones:
Pulse Rifle Barrage: This would be the tier 3 blast, shorter range, but not just a single heavy blast, it would be 2 or 3 blasts in rapid succession. This could even just be a modification of the animation of the MM powers, modded for the additional blasts. it would be classified DoT, but it would only be 2 or 3 tics of dmg. Why its good- tier 3 blast is missing on AR so it differentiates this set, and of course the obligatory Pew Pew from multi blast. Multiple smaller blasts could be animated thematically faster then a "charged up" blast also.

Concussive Blast: Ranged(short range) Knockback power. Should animate relatively quickly, short range for defense uses. AR has stun, so we want to avoid that. ST knockback is a powerful soft mitigation tool, and we are working with energy blasts, so knockback or stun are on the menu, and one is already used in a gun set.

Charged Pulse Blast: This power would not resemble anything we have as a blast yet. It would be like a ranged Thunderstrike. A heavy charged blast, with a medium length animation as the rifle charges, then a heavy blast to a single target. This target takes the brunt of the damage, but the blast is so hard, there is splash damage to any foe in the targets immediate area. If you have ever played /elec for blasters or for a brute, imagine thunderstrike, but from 40 feet away. I would remove the knockback that thunderstrike has, because the mitigation should be dropped due to using it at range to keep balance.

Plasma Pack Detonation: Player removes Pulse Rifle Plasma ammo clip, pushes a button on pack, lobs pack like a grenade into the mob for a magnificent explosion with extreme energy/smash damage and high mag Knockback. No crash on endurance or anything for this power, but an "only affecting self" cool down instead. maybe 5 seconds or so. You just threw your ammo clip, you need to reload now. No endo crash, because why would there be- its a gun set. but you also cant just keep shooting, because you dont have an ammo pack. So here we would have a "sort of" crashless nuke, with nova type damage. The only affecting self fits thematically. Nova has a mass endo drain crash, fits because you just expended all your stores to nova. On the plus side, you can use a blue inspiration etc to keep going afterwards. With only affecting self, you can not "bypass" the crash, but you also get to keep your endo, so its a trade off that way.

This rifle set would give players that pew pew, without being a laser version of assault rifle. I cant stress this enough, it needs to be quite different so players dont call it "AR 2" or "the other AR". It offers new mechanics, and a wholly different play feel then any blast set we have now. Overall, the set is very ST oriented,(one cone, the other targeted aoe is heavily stacked on the one target with only minor splash dmg going to the rest) and should allow for fast-ish animation times to keep overall damage output on par with more aoe centric sets. Faster animations would also allow for more pew pew.

Plus, think how awsome this would look with I16 with players able to color the laser blasts any way they want. I vote: put this in for I17.

Anyway, thats my take on this. I have wanted a set like this since like I3. Pew Pew after all.

Originally Posted by Soulie

As long as I can get blue lasers, I'll /sign

Originally Posted by Blast_Chamber

my only thought aside from "this would be awesome to play" is that they'll never make this powerset because they'd have to update and add more "Pulse Rifle" models to the character creator. Which they won't because the devs want us to only use the "duct tape wonder widget" or the "techno watermelon" as weapons... because both make them laugh.

Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5

"GRRR... THOSE DAMN DEVS!"

That seems to be silly-headed thinking to me, because they have given us a lot of unlockables for just about every other weapon set out there.

Originally Posted by Blast_Chamber

I was joking. The devs would be happy to make some more Pulse Rifle models for us, especially if this Powerset was actually introduced. I'm just joking about the lame amount of models already avail for poor Bots MMs... there are 3 upon creation, the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as opening customization for any AT.