So, Time Manipulation

Praying to TFSM that it isn't a buncha slows with a detention field clone and a knockback thrown in for good measure.

Be neat to see a speedboost analogue, maybe a click power that instantly recharges all of an ally's powers instantly? Maybe something that delevels a mob (sends it back in time to when it was weaker?). Healing via time acceleration?

edit: I'm assuming at this point all we have is speculation, if there is more info out there that I missed please do link it.

Any information would be great. Devs?

Ice Ember

An abililty to rewind time a la Curtis in Misfits might be cool, but would be hard to implement.

I'd expect an Accelerated Metabolism clone, some ally +Def powers (spun as affecting time around allies to make them faster or incoming enemy attacks slower), foe debuffs (speed/recharge, endurance drain, -Def, etc.), perhaps a Wormhole clone (spun as a "rewind" ability), some kind of +endurance/recovery power, some sort of heal/regeneration buff, and probably some kind of time-stopping AoE mez power (Hold or Immob most likely).

Maybe a Fulcrum Shift-like power for (+Speed,) +Recovery, and +Recharge. That'd be cool.

I'm totally expecting a Fulcrum Shift clone, but with -recharge/+recharge.

WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME.

I can easily see a Rez power being put in there - rewinding time and all of that.

And I agree about the -recharge/+recharge aspect

Edit - possibly even a mass rez power

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I think a freeze time option would be absolutely wicked. You set it off and every enemy within the AOE is hit, while they are frozen in time, they can be punched, and defeated. They are unable to attack, nor can they regenerate health or stamina and their attacks stop recharging completely.

The devs did a decent job with previously questionable powers (Sleep in this case) becoming useful with Electric Control. I think it would be interesting to see if they could find a way to make some of the intangible powers more usable as well.

Let's do the Time Warp Again!

I don't know how, but I have a feeling they are going to try to do with detention field/intang what electric control did with sleep - take something worthless and make it useful.

EDIT: also, I keep seeing people mention time/DP. What cultural reference am I missing?

Heals seems fairly likely, as someone else mentioned, with the whole "undoing of time" theme. Speed buffs and debuffs, as well. I could imagine an ally "time freeze" power that worked sorta like Hibernate for a teammate, though I'm not sure that would be very practical or even all that strong in actual use. Finally, an EMP Arrow/Pulse clone seems like a reasonable assumption as well.

I suggested a Time Manipulation powerset like 4-5 years ago. My idea was that you can heal someone by manipulating time of the target prior to them receiving damage and it was a debuff as well. If a target was a lvl 50 then you can manipulate time of the enemy so they will have the powers of being a lvl 45. You can rez someone by reverting the time prior to them dying. You would be able to slow an enemy down with Time Manipulation or speed an ally up.

We maybe able to cause lag to Mobs, heck that powers been about for ages.

If I had to guess, I'd conjecture that it's a half step between Kinetics and being its own thing. Kinetics has always been very "out there" as a powerset compared to the other buff sets.

But there's really no way to tell for sure until we see it; could anyone have predicted Electric Control's non-notifying AoE Confusion?

Prediction time! Bookmark this page to rub it in my face later.

I predict one power will be a crummy hold.

I predict I will add the crummy hold to the Defender Issues thread as yet another "buff/debuff" power controllers do better than defenders.

I predict the set will not have a "green numbers" heal, but will have a regeneration buff.

I predict the set will be unpopular, especially among defenders, and won't get much play after the first few weeks. It'll be more popular than Sonic Resonance, though.

I predict the few people who stick with the set will do amazing things with it.

Bonus wishlisty prediction out of deep left field: I predict one power will summon a temporary pet with the same costume and roughly the same powersets as the summoner. Think "Austin Powers From Five Minutes From Now". EDIT: Doh, someone in another thread beat me to this one. Oh well, I'm sticking to it.