As for costumes, one of the things that drew me into this game was the fact that your costume had no effect on your powers. You could dress however you wanted to, and still be at the same level of effectiveness. I'd really not be pleased if I had to switch costumes to be more effective, I guess.
As for the Vet reward powers, they are balanced right now by being unslottable. If you could enhance them in some way, I'd expect them to be nerfed to compensate. If you could slot them for accuracy, I'd expect them to lose damage, for instance. Plus, I think the only ones that this would really work on are the attacks. The buff pets don't last long enough, and the prestige sprints already can be slotted. The buff pet doesn't last long enough to even matter.
I'd still say to wait for GR, and the new Incarnate system that they have been mentioning, and see what that is all about, since it seems like it's high-level content stuff.
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None of these are terrible ideas but erm... we do have 10 Incarnate levels coming soon()
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I'm not on board with most of these ideas. But I do like the -idea- of Costume Enhancements, if not the implementation.
What would people think of having 2-3 "Global enhancement" slots per costume, to which you can place "Costume Origin Enhancements" which have a global effect on all powers or the player's baseline abilities?
Could get incredibly broken, I imagine... though the idea of having a costume slot which grants a +15% damage buff or one which grants a +7.5% defense buff could be nice...
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Heck, my Nuclear-Warhead is wearing full Iron Man type armor, yet he's a rad/rad defender, which many people would think "wrong", but it works for me. I prefer not to be limited by clothing.
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Heck, my Nuclear-Warhead is wearing full Iron Man type armor, yet he's a rad/rad defender, which many people would think "wrong", but it works for me. I prefer not to be limited by clothing.
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But yeah. It would probably be borked.
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I don't want my costume suddenly having impact on performance, either by having some bonus to a piece *or* by having "slots" tied to the costume.
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Yes, sometimes I'm really that thick.
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I have no problem with the costume idea. Since people wouldn't have to use it(like we dont have to use IOs), I don't see a drawback to the idea. It could possibly cause balance issues, but that is for the numbers people to figure out.
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Although Positron on Redside has a God Mode - I think it's Invulnerability.
It's a total cheat, but imagine a God Mode on a Rad/Rad *drools*
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OP - It's a nice idea but I think there would need to be drawbacks imposed too. Got an armoured costume that gives +5% resist? Well your movement and recharge speeds are slowed by 5% (or similar). And slotting should not, in that case, allow you to compensate for the debuff.
Also levels at which costume slots become available would need to be looked at. And the degree of boost/debuff would have to, imo, be scaled so at lv 20 it was fairly minor, at 30 much better, and at 40 something more interesting. VEATs and those with Hallowe'en Salvage would not get additional slots at 10 or whenever they hand in the salvage, respectively.
I think there are certainly more interesting ways than just armour too:
Necromancer Robes/Gauntlets/Pendant: Boosts your secondary effects but makes you weak against, say, fire, cold and negative energy.
And to make it not feel at all like other MMOs, it'd be nice if it was just one item that defined the 'costume slot'. No bonuses except a chance to slot in the 'costume slot'.
And finally, before I sign off with a 'good suggestion, unlikely to be implemented' - If the bonus had an indirect affect on gameplay then I could see it being popular enough to be worth the time to develop:
Costume Slot is created. Choice between Super/Villain Group or 'Solo'.
Bonus prestige earned whenever wearing the 'official' SG/VG costume. Bonus inf earned whenever wearing your character's 'Flagship' costume. Bonuses are stackable with Day Job powers.
Anyway, good idea, unlikely to be implemented
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Otherwise, the character would likely just fall over and start bleeding out whenever a hellion looked at him wrong.
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So what mag stun is Dushku's bikini fashion show?
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First of all, I'd love to see 10 more levels, however, giving more powers and enhancement slots to existing powers would be bad.
Instead, why not enhancement slots for costumes and vet reward powers?
Costumes:
- The enhancements would give you bonuses when fighting certain villain groups or when fighting on certain "terrain" (office building, sewers, lab, outdoors (city), outdoors (natural), caves, etc etc)
- so, you may switch costumes whne fighting certain villain groups or when descending into the sewers, for example
Veteran Reward Powers
- let us slot them up!
- maybe they take a different set of enhancement types? Not sure...
New Power Pools
- like the epic (or whatever they were called) pools, add another pool which is available after level 50.
- Each power can have enhancement slots
- each power is on a LONG cooldown (10-60 minutes)
- slotting recharge time does not affect the cooldown (but helps with set bonuses)
- each power is pretty awesome in terms of effect (long cooldown)
- obviously, this is easy to balance because the new enemies in the lvl 50+ stuff can be designed with this extra effect in mind