Bone Armor

So, with SOs running near ED, that would be:

S/L Resist - ~40% (take Tough for 60%)
Neg Resist - ~47%
E/F/C Resist - ~23%
Toxic Resist - ~63%
Internal should maybe offer some Psi if it's increasing your cranium density.

These numbers seem a little low for the recharge the heal has. Yes, there's a 200% regen rate being added, but IMO, that's not a lot. So with that in mind, I think Bone Cage should not be handled as a phase power. You should be touchable, but I think during this time you are capped for resist and soft capped for defense. This should off set the lack low resist values of the set. I also thing Energy should have the same resist values.

Change the heal to a Healing Flames clone, but make it heal only, no resist features.

I like the idea of a death power. It's unique and new to the game. It should be an auto power, and it should have a cool down period so that it's not exploitable.

How about a twist on Tier 9 crashing:

Bone Avatar:

You focus all your power into creating a suit of bone armor, turning you into a bone giant. Your temporary size increase extends your range and damage, while increasing your overall resistance. This focus can only be held so long before it drains you completely.

Graphically, this gets the Granite treatment (but with bones, of course - and give different bone armor looks to choose from). The visual increase in size justifies the increase in range.

Timed Toggle: 1 min. The longer you run the toggle, the more health/crash you receive. A full minute takes you to 90% crash on end/hp. Seconds 1-15 will be the minimum crash amount of 25%.
Range increase: 20% (unenhanceable)
Damage increase: 50% (unenhanceable)
+HP: 30% (enhanceable)
Recharge: 4 mins. (enhanceable)

The numbers for this might need changing, I don't do numbers enough to know if that would be too overpowered or not (or underpowered). I like the idea of being able to increase your melee range, giving the tank a unique ability to control melee aggro in a wider area.

Nobody likes transforming, apparently. I personally don't play Stone Armor (but that's more how the set is laid out not the looks...but I don't like the looks either). No one likes Power Surge either which changes you into living electricity. I'd steer away from transforming tier 9s. Although I like the premise of your idea, I don't think the +range would do anything because melee attacks are not affected by such buffs...but you can change a +% chance for a proc to specific powers (think Dual Pistol's Swap Ammo removing or adding the effects of each power within the set).

Too complicated. The pet thing isn't, but the buffs are. What about a similar premise but just using MM's Bodyguard effect, i.e. splitting the dmg you receive with 3 destructible pets?

Interesting premise but could be difficult to balance...

Tier 1: Carapace

Toggle, 0.2 end/second **Special
*Res: +25% vs Smash/Lethal, +20% vs Toxic
**Def: +16% vs Smash/Lethal, +4% vs Neg Energy

Tier 2: Marrow Coating

Toggle, 0.2 end/second **Special
*Res: +30% vs Neg Energy, +15% to Fire/Cold/Energy/Toxic
**Def: +16% vs Cold/Energy/Neg Energy, +10% vs Fire

Tier 3: Bone Shrapnel

Toggle, .85 end/sec ***Special
Damage Lethal: pulses 2sec upon receiving dmg based on current HP after that period. Scale dmg improves with lower health
**Additional 10ft dmg pulse upon death
***Additional 15ft pulse with Bone Avatar activated

Tier 4: Bone Plates

Toggle, 0.2 end/second **Special
*Regen: Scaling +regen that improves with lower health.
**Res: Scaling +res that degrades with lower health.

Tier 5: Internal Plating

Toggle, 0.2 end/sec
Res 12 Mag protection against Hold, Immob, Stun, KB, Confusion
Regen +200% (enhanceable)

Tier 6: Calcify

Click, 10 endurance cost
Self 25% +Heal, 100% +Regen, +10 mag mez protection vs Sleep (Energize Clone -Endurance Discount traded for a 15sec longer +regen duration)

Tier 7: **Armor Conditioning: Fossilize; *Armor Conditioning: Reinforce
Toggles, 0 endurance cost
Fossilize is the +def option, Reinforce is the +res option

Tier 8: Bone Cage
Toggle .75% end/sec
(Clone of Personal Force Field but you can't move with this on)

Tier 9: Avatar of Bone
Toggle compound endurance cost .22 end/sec + .22 end/sec after 20 sec(not affected by endurance discounts) + 1.22 end/sec after 60 sec (also not affected by endurance discounts)

Summons 3 destructible bone pets that follow you and share your damage. They are continuously summoned after defeat with a 10sec pulse. Each has a weaker version of Bone Shrapnel so will pulse damage when they take damage.
Also, while Avatar of Bone is toggled, your Bone Shrapnel power is improved.

That looks like a gladiator wearing skulls for decoration. I hear 'bone armor' and think something along the lines of a Bonestrider:

(Bonestriders themselves would be considered siege weapons, clocking in at around 16-25 feet tall.)




Alternatively, something like the Loathsome Osseous Shell:

(More like power armor than siege weaponry -- think a skeleton/zombie version of Iron Man's suit)

Yeah there are some potential balance issues but I think that they can be worked out based on what you have listed below. Limiting the mitigation to one specific type at a time goes a long way towards balancing the set. I can also foresee slotting being a concern and while dual builds would help in this respect; the idea was to allow a player to switch between Armor Conditioning on the fly, not once every X minutes if they go and talk to a contact. Once again though, the binary nature of your revamp makes it possible to 3 slot each power for either form of mitigation. The downside is that you would have to sacrifice numbers for either Fossilize or Reinforce in order to slot the armors for endurance reduction.

I like this version Avatar of Bone idea, though I would call it Ossiform or Bone Golem and limit it to one “pet”. Visually I see some sort of random collection of bones thrown together to form a multi-legged creature; something more alien and drone-like rather than a homunculus that can be anthropomorphized.


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That kind of reminds me of the Rhino, it's not him is it?
by the way, nice idea /signed

Yeah, I figure it would be more prone to alternate builds to fit a more diversified set of attack sets and styles. You'd more likely choose to run one or the other...but considering the tier 9, if you could split your damage with 2 or 3 descructible pets that float near you, you could probably get away with weaker slotting for resistance.



I'd probably try for 2. These pets wouldn't be buffable and aren't meant to be that sturdy. Once they go down, you have to wait for the 10sec pulse for automatic resummoning. I figure the pets are more there to 'shatter' than to protect...but yeah, 3 is probably a bit much...and if they can animate a non-human shaped bone creature to be the pet then go for it!

U has won the internets!


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It would be actually very easy to implement. It would just be hard to maximize potential.

Nah spine dude from xmen.