Forget titan weapons and energy aura revamps and Street Justice!

I always thought WP was designed to be a low graphic set, as people couldn't get over the idea of their hero having glows (when really, I never once thought my Regen characters were really glowing green their whole time or my SR characters had a blue glow about them).

I always thought WP was basically the PSI Armor myself (the description gives off the idea of natural human with no powers...but then when has a natural human with no powers, regened more than REGEN, took bullets to the face...ect...ect), and I realize the only reason people want PSI melee is because of PSI damage.

After all, I've seen people say "You concept doesn't work, Kin Melee doesn't do PSI damage. Only Psi damage can be Psi Melee." So I can see the want for it. Also it is a different type of damage.

It was also voted ahead of people's want for a Street Justice set, and we still don't have it.

Demons/Time - There's your MM.
DP/Time - There's your Corr
Time/DP - There's your Def
Elec/Time - There's your Troller
DP/Dark - There's your Blaster.

The thought that you need all NEW sets, to enjoy an AT, is silly, especially when Melee haven't had that many more new sets (just 1) over the others.

That's also not counting Beam Rifle. I know it doesn't have a lot of love on the forums, but disintegration is a brand new mechanic for ranged damage in addition to swap ammo in DP.

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Ah yes, that too! I forgot about it because I didn't purchase it (I knew I'd never use it due tothe stand and shoot animations that make me get bored of AR and Archery).

But has there been no love for it on the forums? I recall seeing love for it on the forms and lots of love for it in game.

Well, that might just go into looking at it's actual ingame mechanics.

I can easily see someone saying WP is just INV with different mechanics.

Though I've used WP for the Regen/SR hybrid, by softcapping defenses and basically RPing it as a mixture of both.

Still, I'd rather see an actual Positional Defense/Regen/Clickie Heal set to fit that concept (Ninjitsu could do it, but I want it on a Scrapper)

The fact that you can possibly frame this as a bad thing boggles my mind.

It was mentioned during beta that the Awakened are our preview of Psionic Melee.

I like it, and there is some pro for it, but most of what I have seen is complaints from blasters that it kills single targets too fast for disintegration to spread, and from corruptor/defenders that it is too single target.

But a ghostbusters super team should melt all kinds of enemies.

I don't believe 'Psi Armor' was ever one of the options in that poll. It was Shields, Willpower, Growth, Forcefield and Vibration if I recall correctly.

As for psi melee/armor; while I'd love a new melee set like a Green Lantern/Necrid-esque manifestation set that had various 'smash' and 'cut' attacks with customized options for each type...I just think there are many cover customizations to make your own psi melee...

Dark Melee: is very much a touch/drain set that can be colored to look like alot of things and the control fear/-ToHit works thematically as messing with the foe's head.

Kinetic Melee: Telekinetic melee if colored pink. I usually don't play sets multiple times on different characters but I had to. KM is my Telekinetic Melee colored bright pink/purple, my Tai Chi Chuan martial arts palm thrust set using dark theme colored yellow (you can barely see the FX), my Air Manipulation using bright theme colored medium grey (and Water Manipulation when I get around to advancing his concept story to manipulate both), and my Pixy Force set colored all bright random colors.

Claws: like said with the vanguard blades, this can be your Psylocke theme psi melee.

Katana/Dual Blades: same as claws. Give yourself the glowing hands combat aura + vanguard blade (I actually have this for my Kat user and you can't even see the blade hilt if you color it right).

Fire/Ice melee: I can really see Fire melee working as surging mental energy burning from your aura. Not sure about Ice. Freezing touch, Ice Patch and Frozen Aura wouldn't look right. Skip the breaths for both, I'd say.

And if ever the devs make a new armor set, they really need to make something like my Bone Armor idea.

There's no set like it and it'd just look plain cool

I wasnt in beta very much, and this news excites me in ways I didnt even know were possible.

One of the attack sets was a Bo/Staff set....which, according to a leak, we may be getting sometime in the future! (I voted for that btw!)


The other 'armor' set was "Growth"...ie something like Mr. Fantastic...elasticity/etc...but that was basically thrown out as "doesn't quite fit because you can't have a power that makes you grow taller by x amount when you're inside a cave...." type of thing.

Actually, Bo/staff *wasn't* an option in that old poll and I remember because people complained up and down that it wasn't included yet a set like 'Electric Hammer' was on there.


That reminds me. Stretching was one of the attack set options. I believe it was Psionic Weaponry, Dual Blades, Street Fighting, Electric Hammer, Stretching and Energy Blade.

I voted Psi Weaponry and Energy Blade.

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I am really impressed with the Energy Aura revamp, Kinetic Melee, Dual Blades, Shield Defense, and Street Justice.

I am not so impressed by Dual Pistols and Beam Rifle.

Time is nice.

Maybe other sets are in there that are new, I don't know too well since I'm still new to the game, but I can pick out most of the ones that are new or had a recent revamp by how much more engaging their sets are compared to the older stuff...

Blasters, Dominators, and MMs have very few choices for one of their two main sets. Pretty sure all of the powerlists for melee ATs require scrolling to see all the choices involved.

We know of two more melee sets in the works, I haven't heard anything about other new non-melee sets.

Hence, my comment.

I did something similar with a Dom. Gravity/Energy...all colored pink/purple. /Energy seemed the better choice IMO than /Psi from a pure "kinetics" standpoint. The melee attacks could be explained by channeling TK power through contact (punching the guy). And of course there's the blasts that can send guys flying via KB. Kinda screams "TK" to me. Of course...Singy is "The sum totality of my telekinetic powers!"

...Or change to the "fire from hand" animation?

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