Powerset customization: Savage Melee!

Having come back from my holiday break it's been too long since I've suggested a powerset. So, for your veiwing pleasure I present a Tanker secondary and Brute/Stalker/Scrapper primary Savage melee!

Savage melee would be a F/X light set that focuses on animations and sounds. It would consist of natural feeling claw and fang attacks good for mutant, natural, science(think experimental beast run amok or something), and magic origins. Also with some finagling work for tech.

This would be a good powerset for people who wanted open hands and "natural" claws for the weapon customization of claws. Expanded to a full on feral savage attack set.

The secondary effect for the powers would be a regen debuff simulating bacteria, toxins, miasmas (Plural sp?) and other such things that may complicate the healing of wounds cause by such primal and savage attacks. And some knockdown.

The build up would be replaced with a "Combat mode" type power called savagery. When Savagery isn't active the player has "Feral Focus" which gives them a moderate (10% each for tankers?) Tohit boost and a Resistance buff. When Savagery is active the player loses both the tohit and resistance buffs and gets Build up level Damage and tohit buffs, balanced by a -5% elusivity debuff and a resistable -20% resistance debuff. Meaning the player is hit 5% more often and takes 20% more damage when they are hit. Savagery would be a toggle with no endurance cost or cooldown.

Savagery would even work for Stalkers as it's boost is constant (see KM build up) providing the needed frontloaded boost, as well as being player centric (see Dark melee build up) preventing any issues with loss of hide screwing with AS.

Hm...Seems like an interesting set. I'm guessing this is meant to be a quick fighting set?

I see this set as a hypbrid of Street fighting and claws. But I do want this. Heck, it seems perfect for Captain Mako.

just so i can imagine this........ Sabertooth?

Yeah Sabertooth, Venom (Bites and claw slashes, get the tenticle lifedrain from a Dark epic ), any number of cat and wolf characters made from the animal pack. Demon type characters, Vampire characters, scientific monstrosities.

Sky's the limit

Solid, I like it.

One thing worth noting, making the bite attacks look okay would probably be a bit of effort, you'd end up biting thin air more often than not with some of the enemies in the game, especially larger ones. Also biting things like clockwork = omnom, tasty scrap metal.

But then that happens with a lot of powers anyway so meh.