New Inspiration

No, not a recharge inspiration. I'm thinking a cool insp would be one that enhances secondary effects of a power. Pretty self-explanatory I think. The only issue that I can think of is how it would work with fire powers since fire's secondary effect is damage. It could just enhance the secondary damage, but that would basically just be like a gimped damage insp. What do you think of the idea, and do you have any ideas as to how it could work with fire powers?

i don't think it would help fire based attacks unless it could count proc's such as dev: hold proc as a secondary effect. the only problem with that is the proc would need to hit every time to insure full usage of the insp.

i will admit this sounds alot like the vanguard medal to me.

I like the idea. Nothing wrong with making it bad on Fire users. Break Frees are bad on Melee toons, Enrages are awful on Masterminds, and plenty of toons are slotted such that Luck does almost nothing at all for them.

Yeah, sounds like the Vanguard Medal. Demonic is just a pile of Purples and Oranges.

/Signed I'd like to see more types of inspirations.

I'm going to have to say no I'm afraid. It sounds like what you're attempting is an inspiration that boosts the secondary effects of ATTACK powers. That in and of itself wouldn't be to bad, the secondary effects most attacks have are nice but aren't to powerful. The problem is that due to the way the game mechanics work this isn't possible to implement in a way that doesn't also provide the same benefits to regular buffs and debuffs.

Take a look at the various options for doing this now, they are all short duration and pretty long recharge. The least useful is the Vanguard Medallion which only increases the duration of mezzes. An inspiration that did just that would be pretty amazing for controllers and dominators and would get some use for other classes.

An inspiration that emulated Power Boost (and Power Build Up without the damage/to hit bonuses) would be horribly overpowered. A Defender/Controller could pop one of these right before casting long duration buffs and you'd get the increased benefit for the entire duration.

The only way I can see to make these remotely balanced would be to give them a very short duration (i.e. 10-15 seconds) and impose an extremely long time limit between uses (probably 10+ minutes).

Finally as a side note, from what I've heard Castle really dislikes Power Boost (and the various equivalent powers) and if that's true he's extremely unlikely to do something like this.

Pretty sure Vanguard Medallion/Meglomaniacal works just like Power Boost.

But otherwise I agree, adding readily available Power Boost, especially to ATs/powersets that don't already get it (or get it late/in weaker form like Power Build-Up), would be troublesome.

IMO, most of the inspirations are pretty overpowered. Lucks turn you invincible, a small red is actually 1.5 times more potent that Build Up, break frees give easy mez portection to squishies, etc.

It's not like the insp would be as strong as power boost. I'm thinking 1/4 the strength, 6 times the duration. The same values that small reds have in proportion to build up.

I would sign this....I wouldn't mind seeing more/varied inspirations

I would also like to see a +recharge inspiration. Obviously it wouldn't be anything like +20% rchg but...something...1-5%.

I'd also like to see the ability to 'transform' a 3rd tier inspiration into 2 medium tiered inspirations of the same kind as well as the ability to take a medium inspiration and turn it into 1 small inspiration of the same kind. Just kind of annoying when you need to combine some inspirations for an awaken/something else and you have 1 large, 2 medium and 1 small of various inspirations.