I Dream of New Powersets

1- Staff or Spear Melee Set

2-Dark Negative Energy Control- Controllers

3-Animal Summons- For MM

4-Aliens Summons- For MM

5- Mystic Arts- for Ranges

6- Summon doppelganger- Copy of your toons- For MM

7- Magic Wands- for Ranges

8-High Tech Gadgets- Ranges

9-High Tech Gadgets- Debuffs for any Support

10-Heavy Assault Weapons- Giant Plasma Cannons or Giant Gatling Guns- for Ranges

11-Whips- Melee or Range.

A ranged Earth attack set; I picture it as medium damage, high in control, especially knockdown/up. To throw out a speculative list of powers:

1: Fling Stone. Fling a stone at a single enemy. Chance for knockdown.

2: Hurl Boulder. Throw a good sized boulder at a single enemy. Good damage, knockback, chance for stun.

3: Fling Gravel. Fling a mass of gravel at your enemies, blinding and damaging them. A moderate damage cone attack with an -accuracy component. I'd consider adding a momentary Terrorize effect to it to force the "cower and cover face" animation.

4: Build Up

5: Fling Stones. Throw multiple medium sized rocks at your enemies. A cone attack with multiple rocks flung in a spread. Chance for knockdown (not knockback).

6: Fossilize. A single target hold, target must be on the ground. Negate KB for a short time.

7: Seismic Strike. Heaviest hitting single target attack with knockup, target must be on the ground. A line of cracks and dust speeds along the ground, then a large block erupts under the target flinging them into the air.

8: Stalactite Strike. Summon multiple stalactites from the earth that damage your enemies and fling them into the air. A similar animation to Stalactites of Earth Control with thicker stalactites. A ground targeted AoE attack with knockup, moderate damage, slowish recharge; designed to be good as a fight opener.

9: Avalanche. The set's nuke. A massive rain of boulders crashes down upon your enemies,with extreme damage as well as knockdown and stun effects.

1. Melee - Staff

2. Blaster - Old West Rifle set

3. Controller - Water Control

4. Blaster - Ephereal Magic

Some explanation for this one. In traditional Sword/Sorcery novels, Gandalf type characters usually have magical sparkly type spells that they cast. I want something that just screams "MAGIC". Note: I also want a full-blown wizard beard, very long hair, long pointy hat, and a wizard robe to go with it.

5. Melee Defense - Transformer
I want mechanical armor parts to appear on the person's body as various defense toggles are turned on. Don't care if its "auto" themed or whatever, as long as it's mechanical in nature. I'd have the set be mostly defensive in nature instead of resist.

6. Melee - Spear
Seriously, they gave us a Zulu type shield, but no spear to go with it?

7. Blaster - Spear Chucking
Yep, blasters get into the spear business also.

I myself would mostly like to see some sets added for some powers we see in comics that are not in the game. While I would love a growth/shrink, stretching, animal shapechange sets I know those would be hard so I wont even list them. I'm just going to list a few that I would like to see that I haven't seen mentioned much, since sets like Streetfighting should be in the game by now.

1. Animal mimicry - Melee attack and defense sets, no visuals needed except for minor glows and whatnot. Basically attacks would be named after whatever animal power could be combination of claw attacks, punch, floor smash, even some poison attacks. Defense would be the same with some tough hides, a stealth or cheetah speed throw in. The build up power would be a berserk or animal rage power would be like rage but would be a + recharge type power.

2. Elemental attack and control - This would basically be a combination set of fire, earth, air, water/ice. Could either be powers that cant be user changed or allow you to pick a few different, like rain of fire or ice storm.

3. Magic attack and control - Would be a better name and I know you can use other sets to pretend to be magic, but I would like to see a set of a combination of flashy powers that feel like doing magic. Could have some energy, fire or other type attacks the controls would look like binds on them.

I would love to see them introduce an 'insect' mastermind powerset

They could incorporate the existing bee swarm (devoured earth I believe) and kick some damage in on them, perhaps incorporate the spiderlings (I know I know, not technically an insect) and maybe have a Praying Mantis as the boss pet. Guess it could be a 'BUGS' set opposed to an insect set.
Just throwing it out there.

Storm Armor!
Psionic armor/melee!


Oh and howsabout some dark powers that don't look like muddy pixelated low-res garbage? Yes please!

"There's villainy ... and then there's supervillainy. The difference is performance."
-Doc_Reverend

Elemental Summoning

1. Flares
2. Fire Imps (x3)
3. Ice Blast
4. Pet Buff
5. Hurl Bolder
6. Jack Frosts (x2)
7. Wind Elemental -looks like a white Dark Servant but it heals with O2 boost and shoots lightning Bolts (This pet will time out and cannot be controlled)
8. Animate Stone
9. Pet Buff

Illusion Summoning

1. Spectral Wounds
2. (Tier 1) Phantom Army – These three Phantoms are not real; however they are destructible.
3. Mental Blast
4. Pet Buff
5. Psionic Tornado
6. (Tier 2) Phantasm -You can construct two powerful entities composed of pure light.
7. Spectral Terror
8. (Tier 3) Doppelganger Illusion - Summon Decoy Doppelganger
9. Pet Buff

Assault Rifle Melee
Clown MM
Pimps + HOs MM
Mind Melee

Street Justice? Beam Weapons?

How about Laser beam eyes? Just a pure set of them. With quick bursts, sniping beams, and cone waves, plus a giant blast nuke.

I still want a control set to match trick arrow.. Or at least one tech themed control set, perhaps this would be a good place for a set named "Gadgets".

It would be equally awesome if they gave us that set at the same time as they port over Traps to controllers. >

Ok, so my power set idea is "Oration": Basically, a defender primary set, corruptor/controller/MM secondary set. Moves could include:

1) Bribe: make an enemy fight for your side (confuse)

2) Motivate: AoE team click buff (+Damage, +Speed, +Attack Rate, +End Recovery) sort of like Accelerate Metabolism

3) Propaganda: Targeted AoE debuff (-Res, -Def), small debuff, but stacking with more applications. Also applies a single stack of Public Disapproval to each enemy hit, which causes the next damaging attack to hit them to do bonus Psionic damage due to the demoralization. This Disapproval stacks with more casts as well, so if not consumed right away, later someone can consume all applied stacks when they do decide to attack the target. (Only the Disapproval stacks are consumed by damage, the -Res -Def stacks are separately listed as "Propaganda" in the debuff list and expire over time as per usual.)

4) Threaten: Targeted AoE Fear debuff (-Dam, -Acc, Fear), slightly smaller area than other AoE fear moves, due to -Dam included

5) Inspire: Toggle PBAoE (+regen, +resist[all except smashing/lethal])

6) Pep-Talk: Single-target click buff (+Resist [smashing/lethal/psionic/crowd control]), not as large of a buff as a sonic/thermal shield, due to mez protection component. Mez protection stacks with multiple castings, but not resistances.

7) Demoralize: Single-target toggle Hold. You constantly chant demoralizing insults at your target as long as this toggle is active, causing them to wallow in shame for the duration. This power is fairly draining and can only be maintained on one person at a time, but the caster can still move and attack as usual. Getting out of range will detoggle it, and the deactivation range is shorter than most toggles like snowstorm (can't be heard from too far away, lol).

8) Lead By Example: Passive. Every time you deal damage to an enemy, you heal nearby teammates for a portion of that damage. In addition, Public Disapproval debuffs (applied by the Propaganda ability) heal nearby teammates when they consume the debuff with an attack. The player with this passive can heal more by increasing the heal amount of this passive, as well as by increasing the damage of their attacks. The healing amount from Public Disapproval is increased only by heal enhancements and does not account for the damage of the player attacking the target to consume the buff. It is simply a flat heal around the target much like Kinetics:Transfusion, only smaller.

9) Forge Alliance: When used on a defeated enemy, you summon a pet of that type of enemy to assist your team. It slowly loses health over time, but can be healed to increase its longevity. Only one can be summoned by the caster at a time.

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Now, to clear up some balance issues: most balance between classes is covered in the functionality of the powers already. The healing potential scales with damage, so a controller may not maintain a second pet as long (since this one slowly loses health) keeping them from having "too many pets" as some fear would happen if controllers got Dark Miasma. Corruptors may not heal as much from the Propaganda/Lead By Example overlap, since they aren't defenders, but their healing from damage would be higher, meaning a corruptor would be required to fight to reap full benefits from his secondary (much like pain domination does with its damage buffs). Masterminds would have very little damage healing, making their Forged Alliance pet short-lived, keeping them from having "too many pets" as well. On the other hand, their pets would heal from the Propaganda component instead, just at reduced effectiveness compared to a defender.

The only issue I could possibly see is the summon pet balance. Obviously some pets would be better than others, so perhaps a "default" pet for each villain group could be established and summoned to your side upon casting this move. That part alone takes a lot of work to design, so a possible work-around would be to make the final power a passive that makes it so any enemy the user has confused gives XP as if the damage was their own. In other words, any enemies you bribe count as your own damage when XP is calculated. It's only a single-target confuse, so I don't see it being that big a problem, especially if you make it so only one enemy can be confused at a time by your character (not for all confusion powers in the game, only for this one power). This would make for a weak final power, so obviously something more would need added to Forged Alliances, so possibly a buff to the damage and resistance of the confused target (to get in more damage and suffer less from team AoEs while the pet is fighting for your side). To signify which enemy is confused so people aren't as likely to kill it before it's job is done, added visual effect would be a good idea.

Any thoughts?

(Edit: clarity on a few points that were poorly elaborated upon a second reading.)