What are the new powersets in the works??


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Titan Weapons sounds great and all, but a lot of the concept art seems just a bit too close to Final Fantasy for my liking. I would however love a big bloody axe.


 

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Originally Posted by Garielle View Post
It's statements like this that make me dislike powerset proliferation. Every time a new melee set comes out, people like to pretend that it is perfectly logical to completely disregard the actual concept of the ATs and give them to all four melee ATs. Stalkers are supposed to stealthy. How are you supposed to be stealthy while lugging around a MASSIVE weapon like a Railroad Crossing? I don't even WANT to know what orifice you think you're gonna hide it in!
Because MY Stalker is covered in ******* DARKNESS and can teleport himself and other things THROUGH SHADOWS! He can drive a damn pick up at you and mask it as a tricycle if he wanted to. Not to mention he can mentally screw with people's senses to make them think they hear or see things they didn't.

How about taking your own lousy argument and explain what hole that Brute pulled a Crossing sign from in the middle of a crey lab in Perigrine Isle DOZENS OF MILES from any type of train tracks, Hmm?

Look, maybe you didn't realize this but, this game is called City of Heroes. I'll explain my own character concepts. I or anyone else don't require your short sighted input.


 

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Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
Actually, I'd forgotten about that post. I was talking about something he said in a uStream (which is why I didn't provide a link), where he basically said that there was nothing left to proliferate, and that there was "all new" stuff in the works for them that they're not ready to talk about yet. That, to me, sounds more like new powersets. Proliferation isn't "all new".
Ah! I didn't see that uStream!


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Because MY Stalker is covered in ******* DARKNESS and can teleport himself and other things THROUGH SHADOWS! He can drive a damn pick up at you and mask it as a tricycle if he wanted to. Not to mention he can mentally screw with people's senses to make them think they hear or see things they didn't.

How about taking your own lousy argument and explain what hole that Brute pulled a Crossing sign from in the middle of a crey lab in Perigrine Isle DOZENS OF MILES from any type of train tracks, Hmm?

Look, maybe you didn't realize this but, this game is called City of Heroes. I'll explain my own character concepts. I or anyone else don't require your short sighted input.
Calm down.


 

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Because MY Stalker is covered in ******* DARKNESS and can teleport himself and other things THROUGH SHADOWS! He can drive a damn pick up at you and mask it as a tricycle if he wanted to.
Hey! Where did you get Truck Melee from?! I want Truck Melee!!!



BTW, for those asking for it, here's a video of Staff Melee.


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Staff Fighting is actually the new MM set miexd with sonic:

1. yell at employees: foe -rez all
2. intern: basic pet, needs a lot of texting time
3. screem: pbaoe sonic
4. train lackey: pet upgrade
5. repremand: high damage sonic
6. secrataries: 3-5 pets
7. staff meeting: leadership-like uprade for entire staff +acc +def
8. manager high grade pet
9. Restructure: after long years of devoted service, "restucturing" causes general enragement +dam and randomly targetting an employee to be fired, sending your manager in a blind *RAGE* ending with self destruct


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This...

This is awesome.
Seconded.


 

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I forgot to mention that the screams cause +rech to pets...lol

I wish that titan weapons will make use of the other weapons as well such that we can use the weapon art already in effect. Like a Titan style of using a given weapon, so I dont have to make it huge. A ball and chain, large hammer, and large axe would also be nice.


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Originally Posted by Neo_G_Dice View Post
Titan Weapons sounds great and all, but a lot of the concept art seems just a bit too close to Final Fantasy for my liking. I would however love a big bloody axe.
Yes! I hope there are numerous options available. I dont mind the generic type giant broadswords or claymore etc, but more options for brute style lamp post, rail road sign, sign post with big wad of concrete still stuck to it, tree branch with a blue post office mailbox impaled to it, etc. Giant ax, big warhammer also ok.

For sure though it needs some sci-fi types, like a ***** vangard color tintable blade, a giant energy blade with a different animation to it also, I picture like the greater fire sword, but a tad wider and without the "points" on the end of it, just a big flame sword we can color to fit theme- fire, blue/green/pink plasma energy, etc. I make a lot of tech heroes, so some type of freegin laser swords are high on my list.

*edit lol- mon-go got starred out? is that some street slang word i dont know the new meaning of?


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*edit lol- mon-go got starred out? is that some street slang word i dont know the new meaning of?
Yes, it's short for "Mongoloid", and has been used in a derogatory manner for decades.


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For sure though it needs some sci-fi types, like a ***** vangard color tintable blade, a giant energy blade with a different animation to it also, I picture like the greater fire sword, but a tad wider and without the "points" on the end of it, just a big flame sword we can color to fit theme- fire, blue/green/pink plasma energy, etc. I make a lot of tech heroes, so some type of freegin laser swords are high on my list.

*edit lol- mon-go got starred out? is that some street slang word i dont know the new meaning of?
Did you perhaps mean mondo?


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Yes, it's short for "Mongoloid", and has been used in a derogatory manner for decades.
It's also a character from Blazing Saddles, a skateboarding term and a planet. And other things. Go check out the disambiguation page on Wikipedia for "M*ongo" if you are curious; I had to strip the links from my post because the stupid censor program broke all of them. Apparently Flash Gordon is something we must be shielded from.


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Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky View Post
Staff Fighting is actually the new MM set miexd with sonic:

1. yell at employees: foe -rez all
2. intern: basic pet, needs a lot of texting time
3. screem: pbaoe sonic
4. train lackey: pet upgrade
5. repremand: high damage sonic
6. secrataries: 3-5 pets
7. staff meeting: leadership-like uprade for entire staff +acc +def
8. manager high grade pet
9. Restructure: after long years of devoted service, "restucturing" causes general enragement +dam and randomly targetting an employee to be fired, sending your manager in a blind *RAGE* ending with self destruct
lol.


 

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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade View Post
It's also a character from Blazing Saddles, a skateboarding term and a planet. And other things. Go check out the disambiguation page on Wikipedia for "M*ongo" if you are curious; I had to strip the links from my post because the stupid censor program broke all of them. Apparently Flash Gordon is something we must be shielded from.
Have a guess at which use of the word is both more common and more dehumanising. Hm.


 

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Have a guess at which use of the word is both more common and more dehumanising. Hm.
Considering that I've never heard it mentioned as an insult until this thread, I'd say that the most common usage in this country is as a Blazing Saddles reference. And when I google it, the first few pages have only one reference to the insult version, and that's a Urban Dictionary link. There's also a restaurant chain, some kind of handicraft business, a Facebook page, and some kind of computer-related thing.


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Considering that I've never heard it mentioned as an insult until this thread, I'd say that the most common usage in this country is as a Blazing Saddles reference. And when I google it, the first few pages have only one reference to the insult version, and that's a Urban Dictionary link. There's also a restaurant chain, some kind of handicraft business, a Facebook page, and some kind of computer-related thing.
Yeah, I gotta agree that the insult is certainly NOT what I think of when I see that word.. I think of skateboarding and/or the usage of the word meaing "crazy, off the wall."

In fact, I have never heard the term used as an insult. Hell, I haven't heard the word "mongoloid" in many years.



 

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Originally Posted by Garielle View Post
It's statements like this that make me dislike powerset proliferation. Every time a new melee set comes out, people like to pretend that it is perfectly logical to completely disregard the actual concept of the ATs and give them to all four melee ATs. Stalkers are supposed to stealthy. How are you supposed to be stealthy while lugging around a MASSIVE weapon like a Railroad Crossing? I don't even WANT to know what orifice you think you're gonna hide it in!
I'm pretty sure several iconic ninja characters used both titanic sized weapons 'and' were stealthy.


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Originally Posted by Garielle View Post
It's statements like this that make me dislike powerset proliferation. Every time a new melee set comes out, people like to pretend that it is perfectly logical to completely disregard the actual concept of the ATs and give them to all four melee ATs. Stalkers are supposed to stealthy. How are you supposed to be stealthy while lugging around a MASSIVE weapon like a Railroad Crossing? I don't even WANT to know what orifice you think you're gonna hide it in!
How are you supposed to be stealthy with Electric and Ice Armor? Stalkers get that.


 

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Originally Posted by Garielle View Post
It's statements like this that make me dislike powerset proliferation. Every time a new melee set comes out, people like to pretend that it is perfectly logical to completely disregard the actual concept of the ATs and give them to all four melee ATs. Stalkers are supposed to stealthy. How are you supposed to be stealthy while lugging around a MASSIVE weapon like a Railroad Crossing? I don't even WANT to know what orifice you think you're gonna hide it in!
All I see here is a lack of imagination. I can easily come up with at least one Stalker concept that works with titan weapons:

"Hiding? I'm not hiding! I'm an interdimensional traveler who can pop in and out of a 'sidereal' dimension at will. Where do you think I get those big pancake weapons from anyway? Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go beat up that gravity controller who keeps stealing my lampposts...."

There, a perfectly valid concept for a "stalker" that can use giant weapons!

That's the beauty of this game: unless there's a distinct game mechanics reason, you should [1] be able to build anything you can imagine. This includes stalkers who light themselves on fire, brutes who encase themselves in blocks of ice, and defenders who poison you because they love you.

Powersets should never be proscribed based on concept reasons alone. If there are mechanics and balance concerns, that's one thing, but don't you dare tell me what my characters can and can't do!

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Look, maybe you didn't realize this but, this game is called City of Heroes. I'll explain my own character concepts. I or anyone else don't require your short sighted input.
Well said!

[1] Edit: eventually anyway. I know these proliferations can take time! And I'm also ok with them leaving the oddball proliferations (like Titan and Fire stalkers may, in fact, be) to last.


 

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Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky View Post
Staff Fighting is actually the new MM set miexd with sonic:

1. yell at employees: foe -rez all
2. intern: basic pet, needs a lot of texting time
3. screem: pbaoe sonic
4. train lackey: pet upgrade
5. repremand: high damage sonic
6. secrataries: 3-5 pets
7. staff meeting: leadership-like uprade for entire staff +acc +def
8. manager high grade pet
9. Restructure: after long years of devoted service, "restucturing" causes general enragement +dam and randomly targetting an employee to be fired, sending your manager in a blind *RAGE* ending with self destruct
I would play a mastermind if this were real.


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