Anyway, there's a lot of talk regarding the Coyote Travel power being an indication of a new MM pet set, but I'm following a different flow of logic on this.
a) I agree that the german shepherd pet and coyote travel power are indications of more 4-legged things to come
b) I'm not sold on Darkness Control being the something 'special' doms were promised when proliferation was skipped with I21
c) First Ward (combined with Demon Summoning and the Hellion succubi) introduced some new whip animations with the new version of Carnies.
d) Whips and Chains are control/assault sets that have been requested numerous times for dominators.
Putting this all together, I'm saying that we'll be getting an Animal (Beast) Control and Whip Assault sets as the 'special' plan for dominators.
Animal would be a good anti-pairing to match Plant Control.
Animal (beast) control could use whips as the control animations for holds, immobilizes, knockdowns, fear (whip crack), etc.
Whip assault would fit the theme and the animations now exist.
There are plenty of 'wild man' or 'lion tamer' heroes/villains in comics as inspiration.
Lvl 32 pet is some 4-legged beast that they are developing the tech for.
Not saying that MMs won't get animal summoning (I think they will as well at some point), but a full set of multi level animal pets would be some monumental animation work for a premium class. Whereas these controls would fit doms (F2P) and controllers (premium), as well as have potential for blaster or melee toon carryover.
There's a pun there if you're wondering...
Anyway, there's a lot of talk regarding the Coyote Travel power being an indication of a new MM pet set, but I'm following a different flow of logic on this.
a) I agree that the german shepherd pet and coyote travel power are indications of more 4-legged things to come
b) I'm not sold on Darkness Control being the something 'special' doms were promised when proliferation was skipped with I21
c) First Ward (combined with Demon Summoning and the Hellion succubi) introduced some new whip animations with the new version of Carnies.
d) Whips and Chains are control/assault sets that have been requested numerous times for dominators.
Putting this all together, I'm saying that we'll be getting an Animal (Beast) Control and Whip Assault sets as the 'special' plan for dominators.
Animal would be a good anti-pairing to match Plant Control.
Animal (beast) control could use whips as the control animations for holds, immobilizes, knockdowns, fear (whip crack), etc.
Whip assault would fit the theme and the animations now exist.
There are plenty of 'wild man' or 'lion tamer' heroes/villains in comics as inspiration.
Lvl 32 pet is some 4-legged beast that they are developing the tech for.
Not saying that MMs won't get animal summoning (I think they will as well at some point), but a full set of multi level animal pets would be some monumental animation work for a premium class. Whereas these controls would fit doms (F2P) and controllers (premium), as well as have potential for blaster or melee toon carryover.
Discuss.
Please buff Ice Control.