I Dream of New Powersets

I thought we had one of these but my search-fu is apparently weak so here goes:

We have Time manipulation coming soon and Two-Handed Weapons in the pipeline. I'm big on theme rather than actual game effect so thematically speaking what new Powersets would YOU like to see?

1) Water Manipulation. yeah yeah...too tough on the graphics blah blah. Stow that...I don't believe it. If the Devs wanted it badly enough they'd figure it out. Likely with lots of KB powers and perhaps a steam cloud sort of thing?

2) Probability/Luck Manipulation. I can see this as to-hit buffs for the team, to-hit debuffs on the enemy, Defense buffs for the team and some sort of bad luck direct attack.

3) Size Change/Shape Shift. Yeah...another one I keep hearing is too hard. But I'm not talking about going from 4 legs to 2 here. Make the biggest form based on the Shivans and the smallest on the smallest you can get out of the Costume Creator.

4) Thrown Weapons. Obviously a Blaster set, this Powerset enables the character to throw things like knives and manhole covers at an enemy.


Any other fave suggestions?

out of all of those, i think #4 would be the most likely

we already have some variants on this stuff like shuriken and exploding shuriken and the wrist launchers that the jounin in ninja set have, as well as the throwing knives natural origin power, the spears thrown by the cimerorans

(this is actually 5 powers right there that could be altered for this possible set)

the only thing i see is there is really not a them since its just a bunch of different thrown weapon powers combined together and i have no idea on a higher tier powers since most of these are low tier powers (this could potentially be powers 1-5, but no idea on 6-9)

Some sort of Insect Control powers; probably a buff/debuff set with a damaging power or two. Insect swarms that attack your enemies, confuse them, weaken them, or attack them.

A Mad Scientist mastermind set. It would have three Experiments, two Assistants, and one Creation for pets. The latter I picture as some huge Cyberdemon-looking cyborg monstrosity.

A Mind Control mastermind. The pets would be watered down versions of player character classes; "mind controlled supers". Ideally, you'd be able to make their costumes yourself in the costume creature. The level 18 "flavor power" would be a long recharge Aoe Confuse, I think.

Illusory Assault: Secondary for Dominators to go with Illusion Control. Graphically, it looks quite ethereal. Characterised by its high, spectral wounds style damage. Has placation secondary effects in the form of a ranged attack and a PBAoE. Other powers have a small chance to confuse, similar to Electricity's small chance of sleep.

Dark Control: Borrows control powers from other Dark sets while adding its own. Control includes fear, sleep, stun, along with the standard holds and immobilises. Debuffs include to-hit and perception. The pet uses the doppelganger tech to create a shadow version of yourself that uses several powers from Dark Assault.

Dark Assault: Uses blasts and melee attacks from Dark Blast and Melee. Uses Oppressive Gloom from Dark Armour.

I dont know why so many people want Illusion for Dominators when very little in the set would actually benefit from Domination.

And an illusion dom would be probably the *only* dom which, on SOs, wouldn't need to use gobs of purple insps to kill a single PToD EB. That *alone* would be worth the price of admission.

Poisons manages to pull off a few watery effects off quite nicely. There's a spitty thing, a spray thing and a drippy thing on the hold. There are also fountains in the game already and there's Water Spout.

The reason why people want Water powers is for the visuals really. It could also be a combination of cold, smashing and fire damage. Saying you can use Energy Blast for water is just like the argument against Time powers by using Kinetics or Gravity; yes it can work, but it just doesn't feel completely right.

Immobilises are mostly pointless on Dominators. They stop things from moving, so what? They're useful for Controllers when you can debuff things to protect yourself and to set up Containment but on Dominators they just end up drawing aggro towards you and getting you killed. Not to mention that using them at the wrong time can keep things out of range of AoEs so you can't even hit them. They're not taken very often and if they are it's not because they're good powers by themselves.

Flash Freeze is gimped. It's useless. It's pointless as an opener because it's PBAoE. The sleep may kick in after 0.25 seconds but that's enough time for everything to attack you. Then you end up waking them all up anyway by attacking. At least Mass Hypnosis is ranged.

Flash Freeze can be counted if it must but Immobilises are hardly decent powers for Dominators. It's a good thing Illusion doesn't get them because all it would do is make Superior Invisibility pointless.