Ideas for Further Customization: Weapon Pools!

I was thinking of famous comic-book heroes, and got to realizing, "Hey! A lot of heroes and villains have minor weapons aside from their main ones!"

This got me to come up with a small group of weapon pools:

Thrown blades (Batman's Batarangs)

T1: Quick Throw: Ranged Weak Lethal DMG
T2: Disarming Strike: Ranged Tiny Lethal DMG, -ToHit
T3: Aimed Throw: Ranged Mod. Lethal DMG
T4: Blade Flurry: Short Cone Weak Lethal DMG

Pistol (Deadpool et al.)

T1: Single Shot: Ranged Weak Lethal DMG
T2: Warning Shot: Ranged Tiny Lethal DMG, Foe Fear
T3: Aimed Shot: Ranged Mod. Lethal DMG
T4: Empty Clip: Ranged Mod. Lethal DMG, Foe KD

Sword/Knife (Truth in Television, in that many soldiers receive training in such)

T1: Hack: Melee Weak Lethal DMG
T2: Pommel*: Melee Tiny Lethal DMG, Foe Stun
T3: Wide Slash: Melee Cone Weak Lethal DMG
T4: Vital Stab: Melee Mod. Lethal DMG, -Def
*(Hitting with the butt of you blade, where we get "pummel")

Shield (Captain America would technically be a Martial/Will Scrapper)

T1: Phalanx Fighting: Auto Self +Def (Melee, Ranged, AoE)
T2: Raise Shield: Toggle Self +Def(All Except Psionics)
T3: Shield Slam: Melee Mod. DMG, Foe KD
T4: Take Cover: Toggle Self +Res(Smashing, Lethal, Fire, Cold, AoE)

Club (Pretty much any Gang member or Caveman)

T1: Bash: Melee Weak DMG
T2: Limb Shot: Melee Weak DMG, -ToHit, -Movement
T3: Slam: Melee Weak DMG, Foe Stun
T4: Crunch: Melee Mod. DMG, Foe KB

Bow (No examples come to mind... But it fits with the others)

T1: Snapshot: Ranged Weak Lethal DMG
T2: Ice Arrow: Ranged, Foe Hold, -Recharge, -SPD
T3: N2O Arrow: Ranged TAoE Foe Sleep, -DMG
T4: Fistful of Arrows: Short Cone Mod. Lethal DMG

EDIT: added the following two sets.

Whip

T1: Snap: Melee Cone, Weak Lethal DMG
T2: Trip: Short Range ST, Tiny Lethal DMG, Knockdown
T3: Crack: Melee ST, Moderate Lethal DMG
T4: Swing: Wide Cone, Moderate Lethal DMG

Rifle

T1: Slug: Ranged, Weak Lethal DMG
T2: Vital Shot: Ranged, Weak Lethal DMG, Tiny Lethal DoT, -Def
T3: Grapeshot: Cone, Weak Lethal DMG, -Res
T4: BOOMSTICK!: Short Range. High Lethal DMG(Very inaccurate)

Other Edit:

Magic Blast|Wand

T1: Mystic Bolt: Ranged, Weak Energy DMG, Foe KB
T2: Magic Haze: Toggle, Self -visibility, weak +Def
T3: Eldritch Blast: Ranged, Moderate Energy DMG, Foe KB
T4: Confounding Spell: TAoE, Foe weak Confuse

Laser

T1: Single Shot: Ranged, Moderate DMG(Energy), Foe Knockdown
T2: Energy Shield: Toggle, Self +Def
T3: Cutting Beam: Ranged Cone: Moderate Energy DMG, -DEF
T4: Blinding Flash: Minor Energy DoT, Foe Blind

Edit the third:

Staff

T1: Mercurial Blow: Melee (Minor DMG[Smashing], Foe -Def)
T2: Guarded Spin: Melee[Cone] (Moderate DMG[Smashing], Self +Def[Smashing, Lethal])
T3: Serpent's Reach: Ranged[Short] (High DMG[Smashing], Foe Knockdown)
T4: Innocuous Strikes: Melee[Cone] (Moderate DMG[Smashing], Foe Immobilize, -SPD)
These pools would be customizable.

You forgot rifle

I adore this idea, and have also often suggested this as an added variant for Epic pools. We have a ton of non-weapon epics, so it only makes sense to have a few weapon-specific ones. It would solve the issue of wanting, say, Pistol Scrappers or Sword Blasters, even if the solution won't always be ideal. I'd use them, for sure.

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Power Pools for custom secondary powers would be really cool.

I know so many toons who could use a pistol, or a knife.

I love the concept, good suggestion!

Been wanting this for ages!!! Especially for my characters who have to use temporary weapon powers for their concept. Shessh.

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I REALLY like this idea. It'd help me keep my 'non-super' characters in theme without the use of "SCIENCE!" to help explain what they can do.

I have always supported this idea, and continue to do so.

While it's a nice idea I think this is the reason they added the weapon temp powers.

Want naow, please
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I like the concept but not the execution the range sets end up with few if any utility powers and most builds are crazy tight already

When I came up with the Pistol pool, I meant a single pistol...but a Dual Pistol Version could be very cool.

As for sets, I would imagine some would be mutually exclusive with each other, and with some main sets.

Examples:

Shield: ME with Archery, Trick Arrow, Dual Blades, Shield Defense, Dual Pistols, & Ninjas

Bow: ME with Archery, Dual Blades, Shield Defense, & Ninjas

etc...

I support this. Even some of my super powered characters could use a rifle or a knife at times.

I'd support this as either standard Power Pools or APPs.

I would like to see more guns, swords, knives, and bows and temp powers.

They were meant to be Standard pools, as any old schlub could pick up a gun or knife, whereas APPs and PPPs are a special group of powers only available to the mighty heroes and villains. I suppose Munitions may walk the line there a little, but they seem to represent the more high-end weaponry, where my pools are just the standard weapons.