Level 50 Power Mastery= combinding powers

I think a great addition for level 50 characters is the ability to combined powers. Perhaps added to a story arch or task force that will let level 50 characters unlock the ability to combinded powers.

This would go with the idea that when you reach a certain level you may not have any new powers but will get better at using the ones you have. As you see in comics often the character comes up with new ways of using their powers.

Obviously there will have to be limits. (perhaps 2-3 combo max) But it could open up some interesting possiblities. especially using certain powers that are normally weak but in combination can have a greater affect. For example: combine fire or ice storm with tornado to create an ice or fire tornado. The power could combine the damage and disorentation effects. Or perhaps work with combining an epic power with primary power set. So you can combind one of the imoblizing or holding powers with an attack power. Now I realize you can almost get this effect by quick attacks, but there could be a new graphic to go with the power. As well as perhaps use a combinded power to turn a individual attack into a mass attack could be possible that simply doing one attack after another would not produce.

This power set could open up using powers that are often ignored because they are weaker or not found very useful and turn them into something really good.

A good story arch and the ablitiy to work with your given powers as a reward for new effects or results would add some much need end game content.

It would be cool if I could use my grav troller to lift an enemy immediately followed by a propel and have the propel hit the target at the peak of the lift power. Then the enemy would be knocked through the air and suffer extra damage. Of course this would require the propel animation to be shortened.

So....you're saying have BaBs make a new animation for every single power combination that could possibly ever exist in the game?

That's what it sounds like to me. Do you have ANY idea at all how much work that would be? Seriously, the animation department would quit en masse if you handed them this project.

Math fails me at the moment, but what you're asking for would entail some 30,000 animations at least, if you wanted the ability to take any power and combine it with any other power.

One powerset is 54 distinct animations. That's just ONE powerset, nine powers, 54 animations. And you want the ability to combine any one of those powers, of YOUR choice, with any other power? It's physically impossible for our animation department to do. Especially since new powers are coming out all the time, and you'd have to go through the whole process all over again.