Rounding Out the Powersets

Just a little thought experiment here. Most power sets seem to come in a matched pair of Primary and Secondary, but a lot of them... don't. Here's my list of powers that are missing a matched pair. Feel free to agree or disagree, but it's mostly just an inventory of what power sets we could use to fill holes.

Blaster:
Radiation Blast and Sonic Blast are unpaired. Radiation Manipulation and Sonic Manipulation would probably be very weird, but the potential is there.

Tanker:
Tankers have Energy Melee but no Energy Armor. I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this, and I'd love to hear it.

Defender:
Kinetics doesn't have anything resembling a matching blast set, unless you want to claim Energy, in which case Force Fields needs Pulse Rifle Blast to match it.

Controllers:
Earth Control, Illusion Control, Plant Control, Force Field, Radiation Emission, Sonic Resonance, Storm Summoning, and Trick Arrow are all unmatched. Controllers are a mess. The only clear pairs in controller are Fire/Therm, Grav/Kin, Ice/Cold, and Mind/Emp.

Scrappers:
Weapon sets screwing with things aside, the only thing Scrappers don't have a pair for is Katana. What's that, you say? Katana goes well with SR? Well, Billy, I think Stalkers do a good job of showing us that Katana goes with Ninjitsu even better, and Scrappers need Ninjitsu because it'd be awesome. Okay, it'd probably be overpowered, but we can fix that in editing!

Brute:
BRUTE SMASH! Brute is happy. All brute power sets work well together. Brute has two right handed weapons and only one shield, but brute okay, because what else would one put in left hand? Delicious beverage? Yes! Brute want /Delicious Beverage secondary for use with Warmace. Brute get thirsty on long missions.

Stalker:
Stalker's know what's what. A bit confused on whether to lump Spines with Regen like some sort of super awesome mutant or Claws with Regen like some sort of over publicized mutant, but Stalkers are good with pri-sec matches anyway.

Corruptor:
Corruptor has new Pain set but nothing to go with it! Corruptor asks "I can haz Psychic Blast pleez?"

Dominator:
Dominator is aaaalmost perfect thanks to i16's Earth Assault... except there's no Electricity Control. Whyfore is there no Electricity Control? This is the sort of power set that should have existed from day one.

Mastermind:
Well, assuming Demons go with Thermal, and putting Thugs with Pain because why not, this just leaves Poison and Storm unmatched. Now, we know Poison's bad enough for us to not really care, but Storm is made of amazing. Clearly, we need some sort of Elemental Minions. Or Cloud minions. Whichever. Somebody should get on that... I think somebody already has up in the Power Suggestion thread.

I agreed, we need for sets to go with our unmatch sets

I just make my EM look like my Radiation Blast : P

Oh, I know they're not designed for thematic completeness, the idea here is that I'm looking at the design space that thematic completeness creates. It's certainly not a necessity, it's just a way to come up with potential power set ideas other than, well, some of the stuff that gets suggested in this thread.

The Gravs aside, the main reason I wouldn't call Ice/Storm the proper "pair" is because Cold Domination exists, and Ice/Cold is about as blatant as it gets.

Storm would appropriately be paired with Electric Control, which, as I said in the Dominator portion, I don't see any reason why this isn't in the game already.


Also, thank you: That is precisely the good explanation I was looking for.

Fair enough...

Back to the topic in general: Looking at these sets and trying to figure out what sort of proliferation and new sets would feel most "right."

So currently, I'm saying we really need an Electricity Control set because seriously, why isn't there one? This isn't a question of a new set that would be "cool," but something that seems inherent to what the game already includes that just happensto be missing. Electricity is one of the more common superpowers, and this utilization of it seems strange to be absent.

I'm also for fixing and proliferating energy aura, weakening and Proliferating Ninjitsu to scrappers, and just straight proliferating Psi Blast to Corrruptors.

Electricity Control could be a set where doing enough -end to make opponents unable to fight back would be viable early on. Probably a balancing nightmare, though.

Also, I'm not sure I'd necessarily call it Sonic, but some Blaster secondary that stacked on more -Res would be useful.

I know, but that makes me a sad ghost pirate. :-(