Why not give Defenders/Corruptor melee powersets?

Because they are defenders and corruptors.

I see the assault sets from doms more fitting...

Night Widows are melee/support
Banes are melee/support
fire/rad controllers are melee/support

I do think this would be better as a new AT though. Changing cones to paboe's or wider shorter cones and some other changes to the sets would make them fit better with melees.

I recently proposed a port of Broadsword to Defenders, with the idea of adding effects and calling it Power Sword. It's basically a cross between Broadsword and Dual Pistols.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...roadsword+defs

As for Martial Arts, I'd like to have that as a secondary for Blasters. It seems to me like it would fit there with relatively little tweaking.

Essentially, the OP wants to be able to play as Tsoo Ink Men.

'Cause we'd all die horribly charging up to Ice Mistral or Silver Mantis in an effort to "contribute".

I have been thinking about a new AT that would cover this base
Support/Melee
Way I see it some support powers would need to be AOE controls and the Melee set's taunt/placate power should be come a strong ST control

a support/melee I think would make a decent AT,
It could be done a couple ways,
from a Dev Perspective, a support/melee would be most attractive as a Preatorian EAT( or some other flavor of EAT),
or they could just create a brand new AT, the difference being from their perspective is how much work they want to do, even if their recycling and tweaking existing powers.

Some requirements:
Mez Protection for Self, some sets already have this, others like CM are usable on others.
-This could be done simply by making CM and other target only mez protection powers, a PBAE( either the click or toggle variety), change AM to mez protection from mez resist, or change or add powers to grant mez protection, or alternativetly a couple of other possibilities, either give them SOA style low mag status resists, or have their AT ability to self target for targeted buffs & heals

-Buffs see above

-Debuffs and control powers should be fine as is, maybe have their values tweaked

Personally I'd go with the ability to self target heals/ buffs

-Finally work out the animations so they don't clash to much, if weapon sets are used, maybe have the debuff/buff powers come from the weapon rather than the character

A Cimmeroran EAT would be interesting. Could be hero and villain.

immunes surgeon heals
legionarii phalanx fighting
centurions shout of command

you could make a nice melee/buff AT based on the theme

Some powersets would work. Kinetics and Time coming to mind here. Maybe Traps as well.

Some powersets would be the biggest example of FAIL this game has ever seen.

Have fun leveling an Empathy/Martial Arts defender. Or a Trick Arrow/Katana (redraw hell anyone?)

Ooh, how about a Force Field/Street Justice Defender? A melee powerset combined with a support set in which half of the powers are designed to push things away from you. No, that doesn't sound frustrating at all.

Can't support this one. Maybe if someone designed a new AT that is actually balanced around this concept it could possibly work. Shoehorning melee sets onto support/ranged ATs would not work well at all.

I have long held that one of the bigger disappointments in the game is that Corruptors were created as Blast/Support instead of Assault/Support. I understand why they were created the way they were at the time, but fast forward to now and it's regrettable for me. It would have made selecting a support character a lot more interesting and given an opportunity to see Assault as a primary instead of just a secondary as well.

Why not give Scrappers/Tankers ranged powersets? Because they'll no longer be scrappers/tankers.

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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth Night Widows are melee/support Banes are melee/support fire/rad controllers are melee/support

No, they aren't. Having leadership does not make one a support character.