Steampunk archetypes?

I've been thinking about a steampunk character, and I was trying to list the archetypes that made sense. I've come up with the following (hero):

Electricity Scrapper
Pistols Blaster
Electricity Blaster
Mace (wrench) Tanker
Gravity Controller
Devices Defender

Any other ideas?

AR/Energy Blaster here

Shield/SS Tanker
Really, loads of them make sense. Just get creative.

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It seems trivial to create a character who shoots fire or freezes things in ice or whatever by use of SCIENCE! In a thread in the art/screen shots forum, someone made a SS scrapper who uses steam powered metal arms to pummel things. I went and, in playing around, made this sonic blaster:

with the wrist blades and some sort of large glove for overlapping, the first steampunk character i had was a claws stalker.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I think any powerset having to do with Electricity is spot on, but as others have pointed out there's probably a way to rationalize anything into being steampunk.

Pretty much anything can be rationalized, as said.

/Storm - weather control machines, or just steam and wind generated from the character.

Necro/ - Beware Doctor Dread and his Galvanically and Chemically Reanimated Horde!

Demons/ - A steampunk robot forged of metal brought up from Hell and fueled by hellfire and damned souls.

Are moustaches so vital to the steampunk look?

At the current stage, my two Steampunkers are Kinetic Melee and Broadsword, so really you can do anything with it.

You don't have to be a villain to have a dramatic mustache. What about Salvador Dali? Now THAT'S a mustache!

They really need an /e twirlmoustache emote

I find that Energy Blast(Assault) colored with white, various shades of grey and desaturated blues and yellow/browns make good Steam Burst effects.

Combine with mechanical looking gloves/arms (I prefer Resistance Gloves and Shoulders, colored a brassy tone) and if you have it the Steam Jets Aura, and you're golden.

I have an Emp/Eng Defender, and an Elec/Eng Dom who are steampunk themed.




EDIT: Radiation can also be fairly easily colored to look like Steam. I'm considering a Steampunk costume for my Elec/Rad Controller.

Edit again: The Thunderhead aura can also work well enough for electric using Steampunk characters. For instance, use the Arms option and color it grey and you have a steam cloud with periodic arcs of electricity.

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Mine is a Claws/SR brute. I did the single big blade because I thought it would be a little more steampunkish.

In addition to all the other ideas posted, one thing that's worked well for me on more than one character has been recoloring Fiery Aura a "dark" grey (using Bright Flames) or a "light" grey (using Dark Flames) to make it Steam/Soot Aura instead. The idea here is that the fire damage comes from superheated steam rather than actual fire. And particularly when using Bright Flames for the two "armor" powers, the flames spiraling upwards really do look close to wisps of steam.

I've also done the same thing with Energy Aura, though that looks a bit less like steam.

Honestly, though, like any other concept hook in the game, "steampunk" is a purely cosmetic thing. You can find a way to make anything fit.

Finally, don't forget that you might want to make use of the costume pack for ideas that aren't strictly "steampunk," whatever that term may mean to you.

I have a dp / dark miasma corruptor, Triggermortis, that's steampunk themed.

Mind control with a Victorian magician/mentalist would be a perfect fit, especially if you combine costume elements from the Magic booster.