Hybrid power sets

Ok before I get started let me say this is not a suggestion or complaint of any sort. I know this is not something that will be done nor do I believe it would be a good idea. This is just my random brain doing random things.

So my epic altitist kicked in the other night and I was poking around character ideas when it dawn on me. It would be cool if you could blend power sets more. Say take two Primaries and make a Hybrid Primary. Like Fire and Ice blast where the element alternates between power teirs. What would you make if you could take any two Primary and any two Secondary from a single AT to build your new fictional Hybrid sets?

For me It was a four element blaster idea. Fire/Ice Primary with Earth/Electric as a secondary.

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Fun idea! I would kind of like a set that combines Martial Arts and a weapons set. Like MA and Katana or Dual Blades or Battle Axe. And then for the secondary, a combination of Willpower and Shield Defense.

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If I could have done this with my first Tanker, I would have made him Energy/SS with Invul...Just Invulnerability, I think. Its more his attacks that have never sat so well with me.

Then again, doing him justice in game has proven harder than I thought as it is.

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Broadsword and Katana.

OKay, but seriously, probably Dark Melee/Broadsword, assuming you could fix the animation time so that it didn't drive me insane.

I'd likely want: Hack, Parry, Disembowel, Headsplitter, Siphon Life, Soul Drain, Dark Consumption and Whirling Sword. For concept, of course.

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I would really love this, of course we know what sort of abuse it would lead to. Powers like Dimension Shift, Blackhole, Time Bomb etc would no longer be taken. It would also make Castle's job a bigger headache as people would try to give themselves quick recovery for all their characters at level 4.

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

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If I could mix and match just an attack set with another attack set, my concepts would go alot farther.

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BrandX Future Staff Fighter
The BrandX Collection

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I have a Corruptor who would love this. Ideally, he would have fire, ice, lightning, and dark. Lots of dark. Most of the nondark moves would get recolored to be dark, but keeping one or two token clearly-elemental attacks of each nondark sort would just about make him perfect - so far I'm doing the opposite, running him as a dark/dark with a few of his dark attacks colored as best I can to fudge fire (orange/red Night Fall looks fantastic), lightning (pale yellow Moonbeam), and... well, Tar Patch kind of looks frigid when you color it white, right?

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Well, the balance would be taken care of if Castle/the powers guys went in, chose a select group of hybrid sets, and balanced those specifically...

But, barring that, maybe more power sets like DP, with changeable secondaries? Modifying a few of the existing powersets to do so might not be as far a stretch of the imagination.

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I don't see this happening in CoX, although it could be a possibility with CoX 2.0 if rumors are true.

I could see how it might be done with the Melee, Assault, and Ranged sets, and MAYBE the Mastery sets. Here's how I would do it.

At character creation you could select one of the existing sets, or you could chose to create a custom set. You select what sort of damage, animation, recharge, and secondary effects( and they would modify the damage of that attack), Each type of attack would be unlocked at some rank of that custom powerset, for example at the first rank you may be able to set either a tier 1( ie Neutrino Bolt), or a tier 2 attack(ie Power Bolt), at the second rank you may place a tier 3 attack( power blast) or whatever you didn't chose previously, and so on. You could have a custom set that is a mix of katana and martal arts if thats what you want, or if your concept is that you weld a Energy Ax, you can do it as well. Again you would create this custom set at character creation, but would only be able to take the respective powers at the appropiate level.. What IO sets they would take would depend on the type of the attack, and secondary effects. But fundimentally you can break down all melee, ranged and assault sets in types of powers.

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