Will you be swapping to Titanic Weapons and why?

Some days I forget that I'm excited about the new Titanic Weapons set and I get lost in unimportant squabbles over small details. However, whenever I remember how giddy-excited I am about this set, I also remember that if it turns out to be what I think it will be, I may have a LOT of characters to reroll. As such, I want to ask you guys for a bit of fairly general concept help, and hopefully a fun discussion.

Now, to try and formulate a more a more specific question (than even the one in the title), let's go with the following few:

1. Can you think of any concepts that make sense with conventional Weapon sets, but don't make sense with Titanic weapons?

2. Do you have any weapon characters? If so (assuming the set contains all classes of weapons), which ones are you leaving as is, and which ones are you remaking into Titanic weapons? Why?

3. Has hearing about Titanic Weapons given you any new ideas? Has it given you a new spin on old ideas?

Keep in mind that when I say "Titanic Weapons," I'm fairly sure a few people are thinking of caricatures. For the purposes of this discussion, let's assume that the set will have at least one regular sized two-handed greatsword, at least one long two-handed axe and at least one kind of large bashing weapon of some sort, all of which are large, but still of a reasonable size. I'm not talking about making parody characters or ridiculous characters, just people using heavy two-handed weapons. Please, try to exercise a bit of moderation when answering the above questions. They are legitimate questions I want to know the answer to.

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Now, originally I thought about listing all my weapon characters with screenshots and discussing them in turn, but I know these kinds of posts don't get read, so I'm only going to point out a few instances that made me consider rerolling, as well as a few instances where new characters have been made possible by this set.

First and foremost is my own Xanta, whose entire shtick is that she's a giant super-strong Troll woman with a very large, very heavy weapon. She got Broadsword because the Legacy Broadsword for women is huge, and because the Broadsword animations look quite brutish and heavy. For her, the decision is easy - she was always meant to have a giant two-handed sword, and the only question is what KIND.

Then, however, there is the character who's a bit problematic: The Herald. He's essentially a possessed suit of medieval armour, and his weapon of choice is a sword. I never went Sword/Shield for him both for concept reasons and because Shields didn't exist when I made him, but I now wonder if I should perhaps reroll the character into Titanic Weapons. If there's an option which looks more like a medieval sword, it might make him look a bit less weird wielding a single one-handed weapon with a free hand.

After that, there is Mary-Beth, my literal cowgirl, who is very large and has a very large mace. I keep wondering if she wouldn't make more sense as a Titanic Weapons user, considering "big character, big weapon" is the running prerogative here.

Then there's a concept revisit. I have a couple of characters who I made into agile Katana fighters for no reason other than because they were small. For my pink bunny girl it makes sense, since she's a bunny and hence agile, but for my fallen angel, I find that I have NO justification whatsoever, other than "there were no better sets at the time."

Finally, there's a new character concept I've been working on and unable to make. I was trying to do a shameless ripoff of War from Darksider, only to find that such a character wouldn't be interesting to play powerset-wise. Now that I have a Titanic Weapon to give him, my physical embodiment of armed conflict who is given form and strength as conflict occurs may actually happen in the actual game. I'll have to think of a more complex story for him if it comes to that, though.

These, and a few others, are what keep me up at night, wondering what I'll do about Titanic Weapons when those come about. All of this assumes the set won't suck mechanically or be horribly ugly aesthetically, but on this account I choose hopeful excitement, so I'm looking forward to it. I just want to cover all the bases I can with little to no information so I'm ready to act immediately when that launches.

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Any help on the matter is greatly appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

No

I have a few weapon based characters, though I'm only going to re-roll one in order to give him an even bigger hammer.

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I have a dude called Hammersmith who is currently Mace/Shield.

It doesn't feel right.

If we get a massive sledgehammer, he's being remade.

I'll have to see the weapon graphics at the very least before I decide what I will or won't remake.

So far, a resounding "undecided," then? Yeah, I realise it's kind of early to be making such plans without knowing what the powerset will look like, act like and feature as custom weapons, so it's understandable that people would be dubious at the time. I suppose just the prospect of giant and/or two-handed weapons isn't enough to sway too many people , especially with the set so far away.

In a sense, though, I'm trying to make peace between two somewhat distinct themes that this set will cover - that of more basic two-handed weapons and that of GIANT weapons as distinct from just two-handers. I'm still undecided as to how many single one-handed weapon users I want to reroll, and how many look fine the way they are.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Not going to swap any existing characters, but I *am* going to make new ones with the set.

Planning on maybe making one but no rerolls.

I have a BS/Shield Scrapper which is basically a guy with magic armour (summoned by a ring).

I have a Katana/Electric Armour scrapper, where quickness is a bit of theme (although he's a flyer because I cannot stand the glowy feet from SS)

A Dual blade scrapper: Cat with Sai.

No rerolls on my side. I don't think I have enough weapon users for that.

On the other hand, I've been thinking of making a dark-themed sorcerer who beats people up front.
And I just can't bring myself to make him right now, so I guess he'll be my first choice for a TW/ character.

Still need to see the weapon customization though.

My DB/WP scrapper? No. The rapiers was the entire reason and a Titan-sized rapier would look odd to say the least.

Lictor Jones is an Axe/Shield brute so again, no.

Depending on what kind fo weapons are there I might make a new one, but really, no character needs a titan weapon.

No chance of rerolling any alts, but an honest-to-goodness 2 handed greatsword has the potential to inspire a few alts. If those realistic large weapons are not there, I'll just have fun celebrating its absurdity of this set-- taking the size differences to the extreme, playing up old anime hammerspace cliches, etc.

PS: I actually just started wondering about the flying animations to go with this set.

Depending on how that looks, I just had a concept idea for a flying ant wielding a giant club. Could be fun. And I don't have enough insect characters.

1. Sure, someone who doesn't use giant weapons. I have several weapon users who all use normal sized weapons and would never consider using something massive, for practicality's sake. (I'm not disparaging giant weapons here, just saying that just because you use melee weapons doesn't mean you want to/are able to use a giant honking sword.)

2. I MIGHT switch over an Ax/WP I haven't played in forever, but that's dependent on whether or not there's a nice looking two-handed ax option, and what the animations themselves look like. The set is called "Titanic" weapons, which heavily implies that all options will be LARGE. So read #1 again if you want to know why I won't be switching over every weapon user I have.

3. Not yet, no. I need to see more of it, see the options available, and see what kind of animations it uses before I can get any solid ideas.

Titanic weapons will add more variety to weapons by adding a very large weapon set. However, by its very nature it can't and won't replace other weapon sets, simply due to sheer size.

I would, however, like to take this opportunity to go slightly off-topic and make a call for more Katana options here, and I'll explain why: Titanic Weapons will add a bunch of neat-looking(probably) GIANT two-handed weapons to the game. However, Katana, the normal sized two-handed weapon set (and the only other two-handed weapon set) is still lacking the kind of weapon variety that Broadsword and Dual Blades has, and that Titanic Weapons will probably have.

So please devs, while you have people working on new weapon modeling for TW, please, please add a few more for Katana. Most if not all options available to BS would work just fine for Kat, blade-wise. And yes, I know the handles aren't long enough, but surely you can take a little bit of time to stretch out a few handles to make swords like the Longsword, Arabian Scimitar, Thornblade, and others available to Katana and Ninja Blade.

Concept-wise I have one that I've tried out a few incarnations and might reuse for a TW toon. Outside of that, I plan on rolling several of them with various secondaries(primaries on tanks I guess); I've wanted a massive 2-hander melee set for this game since CoH was new. I am unbelievably stoked to for this to come out.

I'm less concerned about what it does mechanically at the outset, I just want to try it out with various ideas and see which one sticks in both concept and play.

Answers anyway:

1: Sure, plenty. But I'm not worried about those.

2: I play (or have played) all the melee weapon sets to some degree, or in the case of wm/, iBlinged out +3 goodness. My first couple of characters were bs/da and bd/regen scrappers oh so long ago. I was going to say I wasn't rerolling anything, just making new ones - but now that you remind me of some old orphaned toons, I might just reuse a name if I can. Who knows?

3: It gives me another powerset to try out with a goofy concept that I have yet to find something I like to fit it. It screams SS/, but I'm not a fan of SS, despite it's obvious awesomeness. TW/ might just be the trick. Once I see the full array of weapon choices I'm sure all sorts of random things will come to mind.

I currently have a Brute that is War Mace/Willpower with the weapon choice being a War Hammer. Character is appropriately named Arngaar Hammar (Rough use of old Norse to say Angry Hammer)

He is already nice and smashy and looks great. However by the sounds of these two handed titan weapons they sound, concept wise more fitting for the character.

As such I might be tempted to re-roll the toon once I see the powerset in action. That is of course if I return to the game. The introduction of this powerset alone is not going to bring me back from my current sabbatical until other issues I have with the game at this time are dealt with.

I have an elf knight tanker using Dual Blades at the moment. I'll reroll her into titan weapons if it turns out to be a top-tier melee set, on par with superstrength; the idea of a girly elf swinging around a sword the size of a traffic post sounds stylish to me.

I can see my self recreating one toon, scrapper BS/regn, he was never meant to be much of a swordsman, just a lump swinging a big chunk of metal. So these new tweapons seem to fit the bill more.

May I say how strange the question is? One-handed sword is a concept totally distinct from two-handed sword. There's no reason at all to switch them up.

no switch ups, but i have an idea or two, will have to see what all is included, but will probably make at least one alt out of it. if its just swords, hammers and axes, then probably just one, if they get weird with stuff, then i may find a muse for more.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow 1. Can you think of any concepts that make sense with conventional Weapon sets, but don't make sense with Titanic weapons? 2. Do you have any weapon characters? If so (assuming the set contains all classes of weapons), which ones are you leaving as is, and which ones are you remaking into Titanic weapons? Why? 3. Has hearing about Titanic Weapons given you any new ideas? Has it given you a new spin on old ideas?

ok ill format this in a way that flows for sams actual questions.
1. some weapons wouldn work for it, the kopesh, the gladius, even the chinese broadswords and a standard katana would likely look silly one the animations i am assuming will be with the set(note the assume, i could be wrong). im expecting bug hefty swings with the hips and shoulders slamming a big hunk of ordinance down, that wouldnt work in the cases i have mentioned, and any agility themed character would probably have a thematic break with it. ninja, spies, evena traditional samurai/ kensai who uses a kendo based sword style would thematically be a stretch.

2. well ill narrow it down to non-elemental melee sets, but i have a few, lady bizzybee, a bs shield scrapper who uses lighter swords and is set to be more of a fast moving batman(the tv series type, silly lighthearted) era hero, shields will probably break the concept right away, but also, she isnt super strong, the set would look wrong for her. not saying bs's animations really are that graceful, but they at least look like the sword is light. also, i have a dual blades stalker king-snake, yes i had to hyphenate, the name was taken, but he is also an agile character who trades on fast, snake like reflexes, db looks perfect for that, i doubt titans will be. i also have some side characters, usually with katana, one is a dragon in samurai armor, but hes more a traditional kendo style fighter, puls i dont really play him as much since issue 17, he was more of a look than anything, and since we can now have tails with samurai hip guards, i recreated his look on rian and was happier. the other guys are more comedy based guys who i havent played for a while. so no real thematic reroll comes to mind. note that i kind of stayed away from weapons since in the beginning, we couldn't customize them, and the original weapons, outside of maybe the ninja blade for stalkers, looked ugly. all weapon users came after that.

3. i get inspiration from just about anything, a song from a music cd might inspire a new character. im going to make a titanic user, and im going to make a time buffer, the only question right now is which weapons are coming. nothing on deck yet, but thats because i'm staying loose till we see details. as a side note, the silent hill cleaver(the one on the left) from the original picture has already given me an idea for a bad guy for my never-finished ae story about fighting nightmare monsters, so once they pop on there, there will be a new chopper monster.

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