Buffing set: Temporal Protection
Seems like you put a lot thought into it and sounds like a fun set to play, I know I would roll one as a corrupter maybe.
I would make a character with this in a heartbeat.
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One question: Are the slows/-recharges unresistable? If so, great. If not, the powerset instantly becomes useless when faced with foes like Wolves. (Not that wolves are everywhere, but still.)
Edit: Ok, not the powerset. But a couple powers become useless, and if it's resistable, other sets can do similar things.
Still, it sounds interesting.
I know it's been suggested before, but I think I've come up with what would be a very unique, fun, and original set for defender primaries, corruptor, controller, and mastermind secondaries. Give it a read and see what you think.
Temporal Protection:
Whether through magic, technology, or a freak of nature, you are a master of time, able to manipulate it to your own advantage. You adjust time to suit your needs, aiding yourself and your allies, or weakening your foes.
1. Time slow: Foe -spd, -rch, -def, -rgn, -special. 20 sec duraction.
You slow time around a single foe, lowering the speed of their movements and attacks. This weakens their ability to avoid damage, as well as lowering their rate of healing. Likewise, the damage of any smashing attacks they make is greatly reduced.
2. Fast regeneration: Ally heal, +Regeneration (20 seconds)
You are able to speed up time around a single allie, rapidly healing their wounds. Their regeneration rate is also boosted for a brief moment afterward.
3. Temporal drag: Location AoE, foe -spd, -rch, -def.
You can create a small drag in time at a targetted location. Any foes who enter this area
will suffer a reduction in their speed, their recharge rate, and their defense.
4. Temporal pull: Ally Rez, +spc.
You reach back to the moment right before an ally fell in battle, pulling them safely into the present. The ally will find themself still at the height of battle readiness, and as such will have a temporary boost to their damage and defense.
5. Chronal Acceleration: PBAoE, Ally +Spd, + Rch, +Rec.
You shift yourself and nearby teammates briefly out of normal time, increasing their speed, recharge, and recovery rates.
6. Future Glimpse Toggle PBAoE Ally + Def, +Res (hold, immob, slow)
While this power is active, yourself and all nearby allies are able to see a brief glimpse of the future, giving you a boost to their defense and increasing their resistance to some forms of attack.
7. Flashback: Location AoE, minor energy damage, Foe knockback, Disorient.
You are able to create a small rift that will throw any foes who pass through it back in time a few seconds. This sudden shift through time will disorient weaker foes, and knock most foes down briefly. All foes will suffer some damage from the shock to their systems.
8. Temporal lockdown: Ranged Hold, -def, -res, SELF -recovery, -rch.
You are able to hold a single foe in a partial temporal lock down. Held foes will be frozen in time from their point of view, unable to take action, while your allies ability to affect them will be increased. While powerful, splitting a single point in time like this is exhausting, costing massive endurance and slowing your own rate of attack.
9. Temporal Doubling: Summon Doppleganger, Ranged debuff special.
You are able to reach back in time and pull yourself to your own aid in the present. Like your present self, your double has an assortment of temporal powers to weaken your foes, but its attacks are weaker due to the shock to their system. Your double can be buffed and healed like other allies.
Double's powers:
Time slow: (Ranged -spd, -rch.) weakened vers. of tier 1
Fast Regeneration (PBAoE heal): PBAoE weaker vers. of tier 2
Temporal drag: (foe immob, -rch) Weakened vers of tier 3, targetted.
Temporal lock: (Foe hold) Weakened vers. of tier 8, no debuffs, lower mag
Temporal Aura: (+def, PBAoE foe -rch. in place of +resist for most pets)
Unique aspects/balancing issues:
This set is a balanced mix of buffing and debuffing, with some unique powers. Because this set does both buffing and debuffing, the buffs it offers are not over powered, avoiding buffs to damage, tohit, or resistance. Future Glimpse functions similarly to Force Field Generator or any of the stealth auras, only trading the stealth component for higher defense numbers and a few mez resists similar to sonic's aura. Chronal Accel is a weaker version of Accelerate metabolism, adding no damage or tohit, but instead buffing recovery and with higher buffs to speed and recharge. The set has two single target debuffs: the first similar to both Sonic and Ice's tier 1s, with one added feature to ice's (-regen) raded for lower -def and -spd numbers), and the second is very unique and powerful but has a very high end cost and a personal -recharge for several seconds, to keep it balanced. It then has 1 mob debuff similar to Freezing Rain, Tar Patch, or sleet. While many will find the tier 7 Flashback situational at best, it gives ranged protection for squishies, gives it a minor damage dealing power like traps, storm, ice, sonic, dark, and trick arrow all have, and a sofyt control with it's chance to stun.
The two most unique powers in the set, the tier 8 and 9 powers, are very unique. The debuffing hold may SEEM over powered at first. I mean, it is a mag 3 hold AND does -res and -def at decent numbers? What balances it is that, due to its massive end cost and -recharge, it would be VERY hard for someone to exploit this power because their rate of attacks would personally be so reduced. It would require a choice of playing, at that moment, the hard core "defender" holding the enemy and perhaps healing or buffing nearby allies without attacking or instead not casting it and continuing to attack. The Doppleganger is similar to Dark Servant in that it is a summoned, buffable pet who mimics some ofyour attacks. Its versions are all weaker, though ( I mean, you're younger self wasn't that good yet). Using the doppleganger tech we've seen lately, this could look like a differently colored clone of yourself.
Tell me that wouldn't be fun. :-)