Potential Polearm Powerset?

I'm almost certain the War Mace (or was it battle axe? I wouldn't know as I'd never touch either of those sets) Taunt power tosses the war mace back and forth between hands (completely leaving the the physical grasp of one hand to the next)

If this is true, then Staff is WAY easier than I believed.

As I said, though, it's possible in theory that you can "anchor" a weapon on one hand, but make it fly to the other in a sort of path that takes it to that location. Since the hands will be in a somewhat predictable location relative to each other in an animation, it should be possible to make it look like the weapon is attached to the other hand. But if the scaling throws that off, then what you should see is the weapon fly to a point NEAR that hand, and then stop as if caught and hang in midair. This is likely what the devs think looks bad.

In a fast, fluid animation, though, it might not even be noticable. For instance, in a true "twirling" of a staff it should rotate around two points, as you switch it from one hand to another. If they're close enough together the figure eight motion shouldn't really be noticable. However, it is impossible for the staff to rotate around a single point 360 degrees, since the human hand won't do that. The animation COULD make it do that, though, and the physics of it could just be ignored.

And mind you, that's still a guess. While there are plenty of attacks that have something fly off a weapon, I'm trying to think of one in which the weapon itself leaves your hand, and I can't think of one. (Unless it is put up, of course)

Ah, ah, Dual Pistols, of course! There's a Dual Pistols attack where you throw the pistol into the air and then catch it, am I right? (It's either Executioner's Shot or Piercing Rounds, I think) So that shows a weapon CAN leave the hand. It has to return to the same hand, though, at least by the time the animation ends.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Beat me to it...

;_;