Dimension Shift improvement

DS is a novel concept for Gravity Control but generally tends to be problematic rather than helpful. I have a few proposals which should help its performance without breaking the cottage rule.

• Allow the immobility effect to ignore immob resistance. This should prevent the cases of enemies that still run around despite being shifted. Also, it seems like the enemies that ignore the immob are the ones that the visual effect is not applied to.
  
  
• Apply a Placate, Sleep, and/or Blind effect to enemies hit by Dimension Shift. This should greatly reduce the cases where enemies keep attacking the player despite being unable to harm them. In turn, it would lower the confusion this move brings about.
  
  
• Allow the immob and placate/blind to last 5 seconds longer than the amount of time the enemy is phased. This will give players the ability to react to the enemies coming out of phase without being instantly overwhelmed yet not be too powerful.
  
  
• Allow one of the ST attacks from Gravity Control to pull a DSed enemy out of phase. Probably the most optional out of these here but this would help with the control aspects of the move. Only allowing the one who activated DS to pull enemies back to regular space would help reduce mistakes and allow a player to bite off smaller targets from a spawn.

Grav/Kin Representing, and that last bit would be damn cool.

These are good ideas, and the only suggestion I'd add would be to somehow make the "shifted" effect more visible to teammates. Right now, Gravity is the "they all float" set, so how about having dimension-shifted enemies do the twirl in space animation similar to Ghost Widow's Soul Storm?

The only reason I like Dimension Shift now is that it's a power I can skip guilt-free.

Maybe the "falling" emote may work then, arms and legs flailing without the effected targets actually moving.

Trapped for your hideous pleasures a go-go.

Actually, the answer to the attack a phased target problem has already been solved ... by Hamidon. Hamidon attacks go right through Phasing these days, so the underlying tech to resolve the problem already exists.

The question is ... which power to apply the effect to?

My vote is on Gravity Distortion (the ST Hold). All that would need to happen is for Gravity Distortion to have a property added to it which adds +10000% Resistance to Intangibility for 1 seconds [Unresistable] to Target along with whatever allows a specific effect to "pierce" Intangibility (see Hamidon attacks). That makes the Intangibility effect expire its duration in under 1 second, no matter how large the MAG is ... rendering the Target vulnerable to attacks again.

Only downside to that is that there are other Intangibility effects in the game (Fake Nemesis person force fields for instance) that would also be "pierced" by this ... not to mention what it would make possible in PvP if not moderated somehow.

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

Ah, excellent find Redlynne. In theory, there should be an if/then statement within the move to check to see who put the enemy in phase so it can't be used to break opponent phasing. However, while it might be broken in PvP, being able to break mob phasing would actually be a very unique niche for Gravity Control and would help the set out. Personally, I suggest that the actual attacks, Lift and Propel, be given the dephasing code as opposed to an immob or hold. This would also be an increased use for Propel since the long animation time would actually wind up being a good visual cue to teammates that you're pulling an enemy out of phase.