Kheldian Epic Power Pools?

So, does anyone think we'll ever see a either a Kheldian-based Epic power pool or at the very least ever have the option of letting Kheldians pick from the available hero epic pools? VEATs get their Patron Power Pools the same as normal villains so it seems kind of odd to leave Kheldians out. Something like Luminous/Ebon Mastery would be interesting. Of course, I do realize that Kheldians are widely seen as different from the VEATs and are also believed to be more powerful but I still don't think leaving them out of the EPP selection is a good idea, especially with the game evolving as it is.

The only kind of powers we are missing are shields and debuffs but if we got shields then people would expect us to all take that power (And I hate casting shields), and the debuffs would probably end up being useless (Like whatever it is in the tanker pyre mastery pool).

So I am perfectly happy without any additional power choices.

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis PrincessDarkstar: "RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE IS *WRONG* ON THE INTERNET!"

So, am I the only one who thinks that EATs are the only ATs not getting any actual attention? True, it's great that we can scale mob sizes to 8 for those of us who can handle it.... But, that's more a feature for the farmer-types... As far as EATS actually getting some love... It's kind of nonexistant... I'm referring, of course, to not being able to color our own powers and such...

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Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades The way you play changes your IO slotting..

Well, to be fair I was half-kidding in my post, but only halfway. The difference between my lv 44 PB and my 38 WS is day and night (yeah, I know. Punny.) My WS can cruise through invincible missions like a hot knife through butter, but my PB has to work at it.

It's like the difference between a Stone/Stone tanker and a Fire/Kin controller. My PB will flat-out NOT DIE unless I'm being stupid, but it takes ages to bring a +3 boss down when compared to my somewhat squishier WS who turns around to find the whole rest of the spawn was taken out by his fluffies before he could make the boss's corpse go boom.

Once I can fully saturate eclipse on a spawn set for eight, I know where my happy place will be: soloing on my WS.

I do see it as Kheldian Epic are already built in to their sets. We have 14/12 powers vs. other ATs 9/9.

I really, really do hope Khelds eventially get customization. I so want that hand ground smash for my PB's Solar Flare, and maybe Martial Art's new Tier 9 animation for Inc. Strike. Oh, and goldish coloration for the powers, and being able to tint those bubble shields so it seems they're not there...

Alternate forms would be wonderful were I a former; as is they'd just be gravy

I do believe we'll get customization for khelds someday (perhaps by GR, where I see them proliferating *lots* of options to all ATs ), though perhaps not to the extent I wish...

And how would we slot these new powers?

Honestly, it seems like SoA's getting access to Patron Pools was an afterthought. I mean, they get access to the Brute pools. The Brute pools? When one of those pools is in essense a copy of powers Bane Spiders get? It honestly seems like really bad planning to me. It might have been better to just remove the tie between the Patron Arcs and the powers completely, and just let the SoAs do those arcs if they wanted to.

In short, though, Kheldians get 13 Primary Powers and 11 Secondary. They also get 9 additional powers from their two forms. Normal ATs get 9 Primary, 9 Secondary and 5 Epics for 23 total. So Kheldians have either 24 total powers to choose from, (Human Form) 28-29 total powers, (Bi-Form) or 33 total powers. (Tri-Form)

SoA get 8 Powers in their Primary to start, plus 10 more Powers for Soldiers and Fortunata. Night Widows only get 6 additional choices. However, many of those are duplicates, and there are redraw issues with mixing mace and gun attacks, so probably about 10-12 is the maximum applicable choices.

Soldiers get 8 Secondary choices from Wolf Spider, plus 4 from Crab or Bane, so 12 total. None of these are really exclusive, although the Bane mace may cause redraw in the Primary. Widows have only 7 Secondary choices (only 7 of the Soldier choices could be made before he branched anyway) but Night Widows get 6 additional choices, while Fortunata only get 5. So 12-13 total.

So overall, about 22-25 powers to choose from, plus 5 for the Epics, so 27-30. This doesn't really compare well to the Human Form Kheldians, but certainly for Tri-Form or Bi-Form, the total powers that you have to choose from are pretty close. And this really is only the powers you get to choose from, the powers you can actually have is 24, no matter what AT you are. Kheldians get their Form powers for free, though, so they are above and beyond those 24 Human Form powers.

The only real difference, to me, is that Kheldians unlock all their powers by 38, while other ATs must wait for 41 to get to the Epic Pools. I suppose Kheldians could use access to Epic Pools, it might help Human Form Kheldians. I've also said that I think it's a good idea if they put the Pool Powers Kheldians can't get to, like Air Superiority, into an Epic Pool for them. Maybe even allow Warshades access to Fly and Peacebringers to Teleport.

With epic archetypes comes epic responsiblity, I guess.

EDIT: Although I mean that strictly in the story-driven sense.