Dark alternate power animations...

....I find it kind of ironic to be saying this since I've had a lot of conversations where the subject of darkness tentacles came up and the people involved (self-included) wished that the animations for dark blast didn't come with massive amounts of tentacles...


however...then I had a character concept:



and I started waiting for Dark Blasts to be ported over to controllers and dominators so that I could do a tentacles galore person

now, what we have now is awesome and MUCH more useful for a broader range of concepts than tentacles (heck, color it right and you have sun or water control, actually), but I find myself still wishing the tentacles were an option for those oddball concepts where they would fit, such as my little insane but friendly demoness of crushing up there (granted, she's slated for a novel, so I doubt that Lusca Kraken there will show up as is in CoH...but eh)

in addition, I'd like similar options to what Dark Control has to be available to Dark Miasma, Dark Blast and Dark Melee

so, basically, I'd like to see three variations on Dark powers:

living shadows (the new effects)
tentacles from beyond (the old tentacles)
skulls and ghosts (also from the old effects)

or, hmm:

Living Shadows (new effects)
Eldritch Power (tentacles)
Restless Dead (skulls)

as adverse what we have now:

original
color tintable

so that the effects choices would look like this on the custom powers menu:

Legacy Living Shadows (original colors)
Living Shadows (custom colors)
Legacy Eldritch Power (original colors)
Eldritch Power (custom colors)
Legacy Restless Dead (original colors)
Restless Dead (custom colors)


Some powers would be altered, I'll do Dark Melee as an example

Dark Melee

Smite, Shadow Punch, Shadow Maul and Siphon Life are all fine

Touch of Fear - shift to the Living Shadows swirly fear lines, or lesser tentacles rather than the skull except for "restless dead" animations

Midnight Grasp - switch to Living Shadows swirls or something like the ghosts aura except for "eldritch power" animations

Dark Consumption and Soul Drain - Have swirly lines rather than smoky for Living Shadows, have small circle of surrounding vines/tentacles (my plant-lady scrapper would love this for her soul drain) for eldritch power and as is for restless dead

Don't forget Fearsome Stare, that one's got two different animations too.

I'll be keeping my tentacles, thanks (my dark corruptor is water-themed!) - but it would be really cool to see both kinds of animations as choices for both the new and the old sets.

Giving Dark powers the ability to select from either of the two looks = very yes

Per Tunnel Rat:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tunnel Rat I'd love to do similar effects for the other Darkness powersets, but the major hurdle here is time. It's just as time-consuming and costly to create a set of effects for an existing powerset as it is for a new powerset, which makes a complete Dark revamp unlikely. However, I do like the suggestions from Beta about proliferating effects for shared powers, like Fearsome Stare, into the older Dark sets.