Powerset Idea: Power Armor


ClawsandEffect

 

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Power Armor is a tech or magic armor themed powerset, sort of a mashup between Shield Defense, Willpower and Energy Aura. It provides excellent defense and somewhat acceptable resists, as well as a unique +regen and damage aura.

POWER ARMOR: (Scrapper, Tanker, Brute, Stalker) - You have a high-tech suit of Power Armor. Whether it's a huge, lumbering suit or a skin-tight costume, your Power Armor gives you solid protection from enemy assault, including Toxic damage, but has little resistance or defense against Negative Energy damage.

1/1: Kinetic Shield - Toggle: Self +DEF(Smash, Lethal, Energy), +Res(DEF Debuff)
Your Power Armor creates a harmonic Energy Aura that can deflect physical attacks. Your Defense to Smashing and Lethal attacks is increased as weapons and powers like bullets, blades and punches tend to deflect off the shield. Kinetic Shield also grants you good resistance to Defense Debuffs. The Energy based nature of Kinetic Shield also offers some Defense to Energy attacks.

1/2: Hard Armor - Auto: Self +Res(Smash, Lethal, Immobilize)
Your Power Armor is extremely tough to crack and provides you with significant protection against Smashing and Lethal damage. The strength enhancements in your armor also help you break free from Immobilization effects much more quickly.

2/4: Deflector Shield - Toggle: Self +DEF(Fire, Cold, Energy), +Res(DEF Debuff)
The Deflector Shield creates a electromagnetic shield around you that can deflect non-physical attacks. Your Defense to Fire, Cold, Energy and Negative Energy attacks is increased as these attacks are reflected or refracted off the shield. Deflector Shield also grants you good resistance to Defense Debuffs.

6/10: Magnetic Lock - Auto: Self +Res(Repel, Knockback, Teleport)
Magnetic locks in your boots keep you on your feet and provide you with considerable protection against Repel, Knockback and Teleportation effects.

8/16: Mental Shield - Toggle: Self +DEF(Psionic), +Res(Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Fear, Confusion)
Mental Shield diminishes and dampens the effects of controlling type effects. The shield makes you resistant to Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Fear, and Confusion for as long as you can keep this toggle power active. Mental Shield also grants you good defense agianst Psionic abilities.

12/20: Ablative Plating - Auto: Self +Res(Fire, Cold, Toxic)
Ablating Plating on your Power Armor protects you from the effects of elemental damage. This plating is always present on your armor and provides constant protection against Fire, Cold and Toxic damage.

18/28: Auto Repair - Toggle: Self +Regen, -Recovery
You can set your Power Armor to Auto Repair itself, granting you a huge boost to your regeneration as the repair function reassemble your armour plating. The power requirements for this ability are extremely high, putting a great strain on your Endurance and preventing you from Recovering it in any way for the duration of the power.

26/35: Repulsor Field - Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Special DMG, Self +DEF(All), -Endurance
Your Power Armor is equipped with a powerful Repulsor Field that slightly increases your defense to all attacks. Any enemy whose attack deflects off this shield will have it repulsed back towards him, effectively striking himself. Each attack you successfully repulse will cost you additional Endurance.

32/38: Overdrive - Self +DEF(All DMG but Psionic), +Res(DEF Debuff), +Recovery
You can put your energy shielding into Overdrive and dramatically improve your defense to all attack types except Psionic Attacks. Overdrive also grants you high resistance to Defense Debuffs. However, when Overdrive wears off, you are left drained of all Endurance and unable to Recover Endurance for a while.


 

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Sounds like Energy Aura with a specific concept applied to it, personally. Even has straight up clones of some of the EA powers.


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Wow Mondo...

Did you collect all these over a few months and then just posted all at once or you doing all these 'on the fly'?

It's like you've opened your suggestions notebook and poured out a years worth overnight.

By the by, love the Rush avatar. One of my ex gf's nearly ripped my hand off as she got that tattooed on her shoulder.


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Originally Posted by MondoCool View Post

26/35: Repulsor Field - Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Special DMG, Self +DEF(All), -Endurance
Your Power Armor is equipped with a powerful Repulsor Field that slightly increases your defense to all attacks. Any enemy whose attack deflects off this shield will have it repulsed back towards him, effectively striking himself. Each attack you successfully repulse will cost you additional Endurance.
This won't be happening.

I brought up a similar idea a while back and PMed Castle with it. He said it wasn't going to happen because it takes up too many CPU cycles to function properly. He did say it was possible though.

It depends, do you think you can convince the devs that making anyone around your character lag is a good idea? The sheer amount of calculations the game needs to make every time you are attacked will slow down how fast the CPU can proces everything else that's going on. If you are in a large group being attacked, well, it will probably become a slideshow rather quickly.

Not to mention the fact that each attack costing you additional endurance will drain your end bar in seconds flat if you have this on at AT such as a tank, whose JOB is to be attacked as much as possible.

17 opponents attacking you every couple seconds? If the cost is 2 end per attack reflected, you will run out of end in 6 seconds. 8 if you have every +Max End accolade and set bonus in the game. If it is 1 end per attack you will be out in 12-16 seconds. And that doesn't even take into account your end drain from running toggles, or end drained from attacking. This power ALONE will run you out of end in less than 20 seconds, pretty much no matter what you do about it.


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See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.