Kinetic Melee for... Dominators!

Sounds like an odd idea at first. But if you look at Kinetic Melee, you'll find that it already has a lot of the pieces that make up most of the Assault Sets:

Quick Strike - Light Melee
Body Blow - Moderate Melee
Smashing Blow - High Melee
Power Siphon - Self Buff
Repulsing Torrent - Moderate Ranged Cone
Taunt/Confront/Placate - TAoE Taunt
Burst - Moderate PBAoE
Focused Burst - High Ranged
Concentrated Strike - Extreme Melee

I'll compare that with the set Earth Assault, the most melee-centric of Dom secondaries:
Stone Spears - Light Ranged
Stone Mallet - High Melee
Tremor - Moderate PBAoE
Hurl Boulder - High Range
Power Boost - Self Buff
Heavy Mallet - Superior Melee
Seismic Smash - Extreme Melee
Mud Pots - Minor PBAoE Toggle
Fissure - Moderate Close TAoE

Both sets have 5 Melee attacks, counting PBAoEs.
Both sets have 1 Targeted AoE, counting Cones.
Both sets have 1 great self buff.
Earth Control comes out ahead in the ranged department with both Stone Spears and Hurl Boulder, but Hurl Boulder and Focused Burst are very comparable as far as animation times go. I haven't looked at the data on damage yet (at school).

Here's an example for how a Kinetic Assault set could be organized:
1. Quick Burst - Light Ranged Smashing/Energy
2. Body Blow - Moderate Melee Smashing/Energy, Stun
3. Focused Burst - High Ranged Smashing/Energy, Knockdown
4. Burst - Moderate PBAoE Melee Smashing/Energy, Knockdown
5. Power Siphon - +ToHit, +Special: Adds -DMG to each Kinetic attack. Buffs for each hit.
6. Smashing Blow - High Melee Smash/Energy, Stun
7. Concentrated Strike - Extreme Melee Energy/Smash, Stun
8. ???? - Perhaps something to offset endurance, ala Consume within Fiery Assault.
9. Repulsing Torrent - Moderate Ranged Cone Smashing/Energy, Knockback

I like to think it would be of a more melee-centric version of Energy Assault. Maybe we can get the devs to take notice. They did ponder it for a moment when I asked the question in the UStream broadcast last week.Let me know what you think.

My only comment is that Repulsing Torrent in a t9 position would be a terrible decision, it is generally considered a skip power. T9s shouldn't be skip powers.

Something to pair with Gravity that matches the visual theme? Sign me up!

Don't think we need to be as technical as we're getting here, but yeah I agree Kinetic Assault should be done and given the ranged slant it seems to have for a melee set (Even the PBAOE is 'casted' downward) I don't think it's a stretch to assume this is either in the pipes already or was designed to leave this wide open for proliferation later.

Perhaps some variation of Repulsion Field could replace the Taunt. And with a new animation and effect, Repulsion Bomb could potentially replace Repulsing Torrent.

As much as I love Dominators (which is a lot), I'd rather see Kinetic Blast first so Kinetic Assault can be a mix of the two. It'd be lame if Kinetic Assault was basically a carbon copy of Kinetic Melee only to have Kinetic Blast come along with all new powers.

Kinetic blast could pretty much just be ranged versiosn of melee and I'd buy and play it.