Dual Pistols! Just curious...

...maybe it's the anime/comic book fan in me. But am I the only one who would love to see a Parry/Divine Avalanche style attack with Dual Pistols?

Shoot at the incoming attacks to deflect them away/stop them all together.

I'd also love to see a Dual Pistol buff/debuff set! Oh how I have a concept in mind for that. But it requires being able to shoot people to heal them!

But that one I highly doubt happening, so for now, just wondering what people think of a blast set having the ability to have something like Parry/DA. I wouldn't think it would be overpowered, seeing as how Katana/Broadsword have their attacks for +Defense. And I just love the idea of picturing my toon being shot at with say a railgun, and returning fire by shooting down all the incoming bullets.

The big problem with deflecting stuff with pistols with how the game currently works, is that you'd have to have the weapon draw animation and firing animations in response to an attack in order for it to make any sense, which is probably too much animation to reasonably expect as a common reaction.

A dual pistol debuff set, on the other hand, sounds perfectly reasonable.

I don't know about a healing bullet, but it would be funny as hell to have a "put character X out of their misery" bullet. When a player gets down to blinking red, you can give them a shot to the head, Old Yeller style. "Sorry Superman, but we had to put Aquaman down. He got fin-rot and he was suffering. He's in a better place now."

Alternatively, you could get the same net effects, but different flavor with:

Suppressing Fire - You unleash a salvo of bullets at a foe, causing them to duck for cover, hampering their accuracy. -ToHit debuff (and -Rech as well if so inclined) applied to target.

Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize

While I can't really fault the idea at its root, it doesn't strike me as something that would be as much symbolic of handguns unless you had super speed or super reflexes to count. They're guns, after all, and while you use them in funny ways, they're still guns... That can make bullets rain from the sky...

Basically, one of the usual uses for a sword, at least in fiction, is to parry with, so it makes sense for them to shoehorn a parry in there somewhere, even if it doesn't make sense. A typical use for a handgun, however, is not to shoot down other people's bullets, and I've honestly not seen that outside of Mythbusters or that comical scene in The Shadow. Granted, it's in anime, but even THEN it's fairly rare. You might see ninja hitting each other's throwing knives in mid air, but for bullets, it's fairly rare.

I can't say I'm against something to the effect of suppressing fire, but really - this isn't the domain of handguns. It would be the domain of Assault Rife, if Assault Rifle were anything like an assault rifle. The thing with swords is that when you activate Parry, you parry while doing it, so it can kind of work. If you use a gun to do that, you do what? Shoot off into the air, hurting no-one but being magically protected for the next 10 seconds? And protected from what? Parry stops melee attacks and lethal attacks, which is basically bullets, swords and arrows, plus whatever comes in melee, like fists, clubs and claws. What would bullets stop? They can't stop anything ranged, since it doesn't always make sense, and limiting them to just lethal attacks seems odd, since they ought to be able to stop rocks flung at you, at the very least.

It's an interesting concept, but I just don't see it as applicable.

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I've only been Spelunking through the boards the last couple of days, and I think there are a lot of neat ideas floating around.

While I'm not sure how well the concept would be explained, as far as "parrying" with Dual Pistols, maybe have a manuver called Dual Full Clip ( Is there already a power called this? It seems really familiar, if so then maybe something along the lines of Blitzkreig...) in which you throw so much lead in the air that incoming attacks are deflected, giving you a bonus to Defense for a short time.

And if people can attach things like grappling hooks to their weapons, I'm sure we could have something like a "Serum Vial" that would be attached the end of your weapon, and shot into the rear of your poor depleted teammate. Of course it would be interuptable. Face it, if you are attacked while attaching this thing, you would end up dropping the vial. You could even have a nice animation similar to the shocked/stunned.... I can just see it now

"Oh, no, my friend is being defeated! I must use my Serum Vial!!!" *twist, twist, twist* (that's you attaching your Vial to the end of your pistol)*FOOM!* (OK, I couldn't come up with a really good sound for firing so that one will have to do...) *BZZZZZZT!* (that's your friend going into convulsions as your Serum Vial is injected into their butt at supersonic speeds. Of course there would be small lightning animations around the injection site) "Ah, another good deed done for today!"

I could see a healing shot working, definitely.

Neat ideas BrandX, thanks for sharing.