New melee set.

I for one am absolutely STOKED for this, it looks fantastic and I've already got a character in mind for it.

My only request to the devs is that, not with GR, just somewhere relatively soon down the line, with an upcoming round of proliferation, they give us a variation on it for a Blaster secondary. Most blaster secondaries are very melee oriented (Energy manip, Elec Manip, Fire manip) and if they gave us something with a few of the melee attacks and a variation on siphon power for the build up move, possibly toss in a gravity-style immob for thematic and archetypical uniformity, it would pair FANTASTICALLY with Psi blast for an offensive-themed psychic charcter. My biggest beef with Psi blast is the lack of any really cool looking telekinesis attacks and this would fill that hole in my heart. Psi blast for telepathy, and kinetic melee for telekinesis and you'd have a rather effective Jean Grey style psychic (doubly so with pyre mastery, heh). It would make a fantastic bit of mitigation too with the knockup/knockback that comes inherent to it as blasters can use all the mitigation they can get.

I see what the Devs are doing hey we are nerfing this IO set hey look at the new shiny toy coming.

What was castle saying about BOTZ again; um who cares Kinetic Melee

Don't look at the light I can not resist; don't look at the light

So if I understand Umbra's mech, he wants something like defiance from blasters, but instead of buffing subsequent powers on an activated basis they would be charged/saved like in a "capasitor" or sorts (along with the secondary effect) and discharged with a "finishing" attack. Okay! Going to happen - IDK. Kudos on the thought, tho; it is nice.

I dont really care for that many "leaching" buffs. I'd take so long getting myself ready in midst of battle, everything would be dead and thats not....scrappery. The neat thing on regen is that they're not baddie dependant. Sounds a lot like an ice/dm tank. Hmm... now that I put it that way... lol.

OMG! I was quoted by a redname?

But I was only partially joking. The term is correct but when I was practicing Tai Chi, my instructor always poked me to say name 'in chinese'

From what I saw of the video... the animations looked long and ... well.. a bit confusing? Not unlike my opinion of dual pistols. They didn't look like they had much flow to them... It reminded me of some of those superpowered DragonballZ attacks that took 3 full episodes to complete the animation. But its probably too early to judge that kind of thing.

The animations with reguard to the "preparation" to attack look like the where barrowed from the CoT trying to tap the souls of fallen foes like in a lot of places in CoV esp in the cemetary in Sharkhead and Pork Oak near the fort. Then some attacks that were new some old: very Tai Ji, Ba Gua*, "soft-style" Kung-Fu. Some of it still looked like interestingly edited footage. In short still way early to judge.

*guess we cant say truely Ba Gua because we cant tell if the foot work marks off the Tai-ji (yin-yang) symbol. Im just saying a lot of it looks like the trap-absorb-return fluidity.

It strikes me in the same vein as Force Unleashed. Which is kind of awesome. Long animations don't doom a set as long as the DPA is competitive. In fact, often one or two long attacks with excellent DPA can actually mean the set has a great attack chain with less recharge. Just don't pair it with Regen or suffer Shadow Maul death. Anyone who runs Dark/Regen probably knows what I mean.