POWER POOLS ---> Issue 21 ???

Excellent feedback !

Lots of good things for the Devs to think about.

I really like the idea of protection against your movement style of choice, and actually Leo's idea of "escaping" from an effect is very cool.

So how about "Escape Artist" Click : Free yourself from any Hold/Immob effect which is mag 4 or less and makes you resistant to Hold/Immob/Slow as well as -speed/fly/jump for 30 seconds. Recharge would be 120 seconds (or more).

Well, consider the following: That's exactly how our powersets work - you can take any power from either powerset as long as you're high level enough to unlock it to begin with. No power has prerequisites like something in Diablo 2 would have. Pools are, in a way, more restrictive than powersets, and not many of their powers are all that impressively good.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Eh, if it were me, I'd make elusive basically an exact clone of combat jumping. Only, on auto and was able to be stacked with the other jump powers.

I happen to come across this old post.
I may not agree with some of these suggestions. But the epics got a 5th power. Power pools could use the same love. Especially Presence. The devs have gotten better at revamping powers that are extremely rare for people to pick. The presence pool should definately be looked at if nothing else.

I would be happy with revamp/update/power customization of the pools.

Grant Flight has been suggested before, and I find it a great idea. What has been missed about the idea is that it represents a temporary power - just like buying a raptor pack or any other temporary power. When you craft/are granted the power, you should receive an icon in an empty tray slot. If you choose NOT to use it, nothing happens.

Group Flight and Teleport should be heavily reduced in endurance cost but then applied 'per teammate' in radius, who accepts its use. This yeilds a power with speed somewhere between the tier 1 and 2 when used solo. In the case of group teleport, my feeling is the interrupt time should be significantly less than normal teleport. Used solo, this faster activation, shorter range, and heavy endurance use becomes a combat significant teleport, which is acceptable since it's the top tier power for the pool.

I suggested Escape Artist years ago when trying to split the invisibity/intangibility pool apart. The ability to slip out of handcuffs and similar binding effects is a ready made tier 1 alternative to intangibilty.

I'm all for customization - particularly the ability to set your default fly pose!

I continue to argue for Whirlwind offering a small amount of AOE and/or Slow(movement) defense. I'm a spinning mass of cyclonic energy and your plan is to toss caltrops at me? You honestly feel that should work?

And I'm even going to go against my own previous post where I said that Sprint (effectively the tier 1 running power) should behave like all other tier 1 movement powers - namely it should shut off when the tier 2 (Superspeed) is activated. Instead, I'm going to offer up that all other tier 1 movement powers should behave like sprint (though the tier 2 animation wins out). That's right, I'm suggesting the tier 1 and tier 2 can be active at the same time. Let's bounce off those speed caps and jam the endurance use throttle wide!

I continue to advocate the Swimming Pool (snicker) along with the inability to use Rest while underwater unless you take the tier 1 power Water Breathing (or equivalent temp power). If we ever want to explore the world of the Coralax, this sort of pool is a prerequisite.

I suggest the Medicine pool be retooled as the Inspiration Pool (cause really, what you're doing handing is out wakies, breakies, and greens to your teammates).

I'm all for expansion of the Pools - senses pool, manuvers pool, origin pool, ally pool, wildcard pool, growth pool, and shrinking pool. I've posted these all before and been hammered for it, but I totally agree with the initial sentiment that the Pools flesh out our characters in a way the Sets do not. In game terms, what's the difference between the Hulk and Power Man? One's green?!? NO - one superleaps and the other... wears a blouse.
And the more Pools there are the more diversity will exist.

And I don't mean to hijack the thread by mentioning Growth, so please if you wanna toast my ears on it just send me a message and allow this thread to continue on its true topic. Atlas, Talos, and Giant Monsters are proof that growth powers exist in the game mythology that the Devs themselves created. Every day we have to look at those statues and be reminded of it is another day they need to be reminded as well.

I'd love for Hasten to be nerfed but it will never happen. Making hasten a tier 1 power was a bad idea from the developers but its essentially too late to change it now. The player base has become so use to it being tier 1 that it would require a really brave soul to change it now.

I simply wanted it switched with Whirlwind.. but that will never happen either.

Well since discussion is starting up on this again...

For the new power in speed pool 25% +recharge is too high as Quickness and Mental Training only give +20%. A Pool Power should not be stronger than a Primary/Secondary automatically.

I would reduce this to 10% maybe 15% then add the leftovers back into Hasten.


As for the Placate it wouldn't do much for most AT's in general.
I'm thinking either no Kmeter setting(Hidden) or have it cost end and require a to-hit check as Stalker and SOA Placates are Auto-hit with no end cost.Alternatively it could have an especially low duration maybe 5secs instead of the 10 the Kmeter AT's get.

this way it would be desirable for Kmeter AT's but not required.