City of Heroes 2 production starting, City of Heroes retirement

Oh hey, Ghost Widow is in the banner, I never knew that!

Fury

Speaking of vehicles in this game, the only way they'd be justified in my opinion is if each zone were the size of a Grand Theft Auto city, and had annoying traffic and pedestrians to match.

*sits in rocking chair ... drools ...*

Gawds... Retirement Sucks!!

*squeezes back into his costume ... sorta*

GET OFF MY LAWN!!

Hmm more ideas on the whole factional groups, namely Freakshow as they've got a good example of a wide variety of types. Lets make use of the new branching technology.

Base ATs
Tank: You're so far gone with your obsession with cybernetically enhancing yourself that the only part of you that is actually you is your head and you're still figuring out ways to replace that.

Hit points: High
Melee damage: Medium.

Primary: Cybernetic Blades (lethal and a version of Claws instead replacing Eviscerate with Saw blade and replacing Focus with M30 grenade) or Cybernetic Hammers (Smashing, uses the same animations as Super Strength).
Secondary: Cybernetic Armor (variation of Invunerability but has an energy damage hole instead of a psionics hole).

Stunner:
Not as tough as your melee focused brethren but your control over electricity allows you to detain, fry or otherwise harm your foes.

Hit points: Low.
Damage: Medium.

Primary powerset: Electrical control.
Secondary: Electricity assault.

Champion:
While not as tough as your tank brethren the years of drug abuse has boosted your regeneration levels through the roof and your cybernetic arms make you a dangerous foe indeed. You're far more likely to keep going and lack the weakness to energy blasts suffered by your bigger metal brethren.

Damage: High.
Hitpoints: Medium.

Primary powersets: Same options as Tanks.
Secondary powersets: Regeneration.

Meat Doctor:
You're not as physically tough as most of your Freakshow companions but what you lack in physical strength you bring in medical prowess and cruel efficency.

Damage: low.
Hitpoints: Medium.

Primary powerset: Surgical training (a clone of Pain Domination).
Secondry powerset: Meat Doctor backpack (it's an amalgamation of the Crab spider backpack with abilities like Arm Lash, Frenzy and the Meat docs abilities like poison dart and Poison dart blast).
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From those Base ATs each one can split off at level 24 into a more specialised area (like the SoAs can become Bane/Crab) or stick with their normal version (like SoAs who choose to use a Huntsman build).

Tank: Noise Tank (Sonic Blast, a variation on the crabspider style with Blast/Resist instead of Blast/Defense), Rikti Tank (Energy Melee), Shadow Tank (Dark Melee).

Juicer: Rikti Zapper (becomes Radiation Emission/Electrical Assault), Juicer Sniper (Electrical Blast/Electricity Manipulation).

Chieftain: Sneaky Freak (turns Chieftan from Scrapper to Stalker), Rikti Freak (becomes energy melee/Regeneration), Shadow Freak (Dark melee).

Meat Doctor: Chemist (changes primary to Poison), Radiologist (changes primary to Radiation emission).
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Now while every group won't have as wider ranger of bosses and areas to specialise into (Malta for example all start out as Assault Rifle/Devices but can become a Dual Pistols/Traps Gunslinger or go completely out there and go Hercules Titan offers more AoE and resistance) and some can't specialise at all (Carnival Strongmen sadly can't specialise but they remain Mace/Invuln with Mask of Weakness thrown in at high level).

That's part of the fun though.

You need to put a thread in Suggestions and Ideas for this. Literally, this. And add more and more powersets as time passes. For Villains AND for Heroes >.>

-Rachel-

Before I knew what CoV was like, that's the way I thought it was going to work - like instead of the origin contacts blue side, I thought you'd get to run low level missions for contacts from different factions, so you could find one that suitied you, and then you'd be able to pick the one you liked best and join them, and get bonuses and disadvantages based on their lore.