Will you be swapping to Titanic Weapons and why?

I'm really surprised at the amount of posts rejected the set for not being realistic enough -- in a super-hero game >_>

How does anything else ingame makes more sense than huge weapons and why would anyone have to be the Hulk to wield one? Let's take the new Time Manipulation set for example. If there is a power that freezes time, I expect the screen to go black and your character to die 2 minutes later since, if you freeze everything around you, doesn't that include all photons and oxygen molecules, too? And if photons and oxygen freeze in place, you can't see anything or breathe, can you?

Personally, I'm super excited for this new set. I'm gonna both reroll existing toons and make some new ones (I think I'' make a modern troll, with a lamppost instead of a wooden club).

Yes, because as the new shiny set that doubles as a costume piece, there is pretty much no doubt that it will look more awesome than every other weapon set.

and i am all about looking awesome.

plus

A) Having a free hand looks stupid in the current sets.

B) Shield kinda sucks.

add me to the club Sam. I'd simply love for War MAce and Battle Axe to have two hand animations. the fact that they share the exact same animations with Broadsword still bothers me a little.

while i'm wishing for ponies i'd also love to see alternative animations in Stone melee so characters could go all Mallet or all stone hands for their attacks.

i havent looked ina while but if you're after staff melee, use nemesis staff on a rad emisison toon then toggle up Radiation infection and/or enervating field. it uses the mallet animations with the staff. or at least it used to.

I just wish that we could have 1 power set respec. Knight being a giant robot & all, giant robots need giant swords, no dinky, tooth pick sized, Broadswords... :/

I just thought of another question to ask, and hopefully give this thread one final shot of life:

How important are weapons and weapon-using characters to you, as opposed to non-weapon powers and characters who hit or blast with their bare hands?

Over the years, I've played quite a few characters, and I've been left with good and bad memories of them. The reason I ask this question is that, when I look back, I feel the most fondly about my weapon characters, and by FAR. There are, of course, a few specific exceptions, but when I thought back to all the characters who bugged me, both aesthetically and thematically, pretty much all of them are non-weapon-users. The few weapon users that I remember with pain, as well, were the ones who simply did not have the right weapon when last I played them, and pretty much all of those have been fixed by Issues or Booster Packs adding more weapons to the pool.

With the advent of such wide-scale power customization and, from the looks of things, a massive influx of new weapons, I've been doing a lot of thinking on what to do with my old characters and who to reroll into what. A lot of the time I've made the argument that "I want a weapon user of some kind" and never really had a reason as to why I want this. I just do. As I run down the list of powersets and AT can take, I almost instantly reject the ones that "punch with an element," not because they're bad - they aren't - but rather because they don't excite me. I tried logging into my Electric/Electric Brute earlier today, and I failed, simply because it felt like a chore to play Electrical Melee. It's not a bad set. In fact, it's a favourite of mine, it just... Doesn't excite me to look at it. Same with Dark Melee, as well - very potent, very strong... And very uninspiring, all that punching with shadows.

After a while of this, it occurred to me that, realistically speaking, all I really wanted was weapon-based characters. Be these weapons swords, axes, hammers, guns, rifles or what have you, that's what I wanted. Then I remembered all of the complaints I've heard from people decrying "yet another weapon set" and thought that there ought to be something to say on the matter. We don't have to agree or like the same things, but it's interesting to me to see how other people feel on the subject of weapon users vs. bare hands users as a general thing.

So, do you tend to gravitate towards weapon-based powers or hand-based powers and why?

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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.

Doesn't it seem kind of like they are copying the powerset and other ideas of a certain rival superhero MMO? Or did that rival MMO copy ideas that have been long planned for this one since COH came first?

The more I hear about these new weapons, the more I feel we need a sub-set of costume change options that only effect the weapons skins.

have any new models been revealed?

The only existing character I have who may reroll using Titan Weapons is my Stone Melee Brute (who only uses Stone Melee for the big rock hammers). It'll depend on what sort of great big hammer / club options there are.

I'll definitely be making a new Titan Weapons character or two though, since I do like the anime / Final Fantasy style "insanely big sword" guys.

Wait, so titanic weapons is an powerset and not just a weapons customization? I did not know that.