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Rainbow Blast Powerset

Bocus_King

By Bocus_King,
Posted on: 2010-05-11 08:37 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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Originally Posted by Steampunkette View Post
As another interesting option, how about making -all- the attacks in the set dish out "Illusion" damage? Split the powers between energy and lethal, and apply a delay before a partial heal (like Spectral Wounds). This would replace the "Color Effect" and instead increase the overall damage of the set, making it very useful against minions and lieutenants, but less useful against Bosses, EBs, AVs, Monsters, and GMs (who generally live long enough to get the "Healing" component).

-Rachel-
rgh... that's one of the things I can't stand with Illusion, especially during the stretches of the game where everything's *not* slotted up fully. I hate the "illusory damage" nonsense.

Going to stop before I get into an Illusion rant. I'll just note that it's one of my least liked sets.

 

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I'd really prefer to avoid the "One Color Per Blast" theme, myself. Even if it does make sense from the spectrum view.

It's not really a rainbow without all the colors, y'know? And with power Customization used by most of the male players picking the set up for fear of being infected with "Teh Gay" it'll make less sense, visually.

Again, I'm leaning towards the Illusion damage idea, myself. Since it would increase the sets damage dramatically, for a short duration per enemy, with a healing effect to follow. Minions and Lieutenants would die faster under the aim of the Rainbow wielder, but anything higher than that would have the option to heal the damage.

-Rachel-

 

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Originally Posted by Steampunkette View Post
I'd really prefer to avoid the "One Color Per Blast" theme, myself. Even if it does make sense from the spectrum view.
Well, what I suggest isn't one color per blast. Those are just tags for explanation that's more easier to grasp. i.e. how easy is it to translate "wavelength splash: 450 nm" compared to "color splash: violet"?

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It's not really a rainbow without all the colors, y'know? And with power Customization used by most of the male players picking the set up for fear of being infected with "Teh Gay" it'll make less sense, visually.
And this is why it shouldn't be called "Rainbow Blast". Because it denotes color and colors can be changed. Unless you're suggesting this blast set have 7 colorable FX for each 1 power, it's no rainbow (also, there's no 'rain' so it can't technically be a rainbow. It should be "Spectrum Blast").

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Again, I'm leaning towards the Illusion damage idea, myself. Since it would increase the sets damage dramatically, for a short duration per enemy, with a healing effect to follow. Minions and Lieutenants would die faster under the aim of the Rainbow wielder, but anything higher than that would have the option to heal the damage.

-Rachel-
Not claiming my idea is good, but technically, you could probably incorporate illusionary damage into "Radiant Blast" under the assumption that separate wavelengths within Ultraviolet and Infrared cannot cause significant permanent damage...the tier 9 white light nova, though, could be all 'real' damage.

...just a thought.