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Speculation: More power pools?

Another Space

By Another Space,
Posted on: 2010-09-22 10:59 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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If it makes the pool more useful for everyone else, MM's just might have to suck it up.

 

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Originally Posted by firespray View Post
On the other end, we have powers like:
Team teleport
group fly
whirlwind
the concealment pool
the presence pool
I've also never found any of the power pool attacks close to useful, excepting Air Superiority. Or maybe I'm off.

I always felt Presence should have a Placate. +1 to the "add a 5th power" idea.

 

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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd View Post
The Fitness pool took two enhancement slots (assuming Health gets none but Stamina gets +2), but it also occupied three power slots.
My Fitness pool takes up no enhancement slots for all my characters that use it. The other powers need them more. Stamina has less effect on my endurance than endurance reduction IOs on individual powers. And since I use sets, the -End often comes with other benefits and buffs.

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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd View Post
Some powers in the primary and secondary powersets will be unwanted, either because they are weak or because they are against concept.
Agreed. My Corruptor's only getting 4 or her 9 Storm Summoning powers because they don't fit her ice concept. (I didn't choose Cold Domination because I didn't like the powers or the whole team buff aspect. Princess Ice isn't a team player....) I've had to plan Combat Jumping/Acrobatics and Boxing/Tough/Weave to fill until level 41 as it is. After that, I'll probably go with Leviathan or Power mastery, I haven't decided which yet.

Of course, she's by no means unique. Many of my characters have powers I chose simply because I preferred them to what was available (Hand Clap and Hurdle for my Tanker). New pools would certainly help keep my characters to their initial concepts without wasting slots on powers I really don't like.