When you think of new ATs, what do you think of?

I'd like an AT that lets me play a tribal warrior or fantasy fighter: Somebody who can use both bow and sword reasonably well and take a little punishment without any of those capabilities being at the level of the specialist archetypes.

What are the odds of just creating secondaries for Blaster/Dominator that emulate abridged versions of popular melee AT combinations like Spine/Regen or Broad Sword/Shield?

You know, alter the definitions of a preexisting Archetype slightly instead of making a new one.

I know a Melee/Debuff AT is a popular suggestion, but to make it more interesting I'd base them around the "power weapons" concept.

For example, if you chose Katana/Thermal, your Katana would do partial Fire damage, and (optionally) have a fiery look to it. Also, your weapon would be incorporated into your secondary's animations (no redraw). There would still be unarmed sets as well- you would instead have flaming/lightning/radioactive/etc. punches or kicks.

Most of this AT's defense would come from debuffing enemies, but it would probably get some help from its inherent as well.

Depending on what the new AT was, I might not be inclined to purchase it at all. But if it's something I'm interested in, and it turns out to not completely suck, I'd expect to pay anywhere between 800-1600 points for it.

My money is now on a brand new Mech AT being constructed and destined for the market...

If this is true, I is happy.
If this stays hypothetical, I is happy they're open to the notion of new ATs.

Win/Win.

I did have one idea that came to me in a dream once. Although as far as a City of Heroes AT goes it doesn't fulfill the requirements. Maybe for another game, but not this one.

In my dream they were called Glyph Echoers. The idea goes that leylines of energy were constantly fluctuating through the Earth, and a spiritually attuned person would see the temporary focal points of various forms of energy as glowing symbols and pictures on the ground. By touching the glyphs, that person would have temporary access to the powers that it grants, and some glyph energy can be stored and released later. It is basically like you can shoot beams of fire/ice/sound and stuff or you can store it and get super strength for awhile, except you have to be on or near one of these randomly occurring glyphs to use that power. The dream gets a little weirder later when I have to use those powers to fight off black spider monsters and pokémon...

In all it's specifics it is way too random to be put into... well... anything but it's own game. But, you can take elements from it to apply to an MMO. The closest thing that CoH can have to a Glyph Echoer would be a blaster primary/secondary that would essentially equate to having random powers granted during every use. I suppose you could call it Prismatic Manipulation or Chaotic Blast, where all of the blast powers are of shifting elements with corresponding side effects to each element. The buffs could be random stats, too.

Though this won't go into the game. There is already something kind of like that called Secondary Mutation, and the set itself is just way too random to be of any use, let alone to make 8 or so graphics for every power.

Golly gee, Zwill. We paid $40 for CoV. We got 5 new archetypes with that (and a ton of content and costumes and bases). So that's $8/archetype. Inflate that up to $10/archetype and you get 800 points.

There ya go.

What you're charging now for controllers and MMs for Premium players isn't useful when the new AT would never be available for VIPs for free. Controllers and MMs both become available after X amount of paragon-points spent or with VIP status. So charging Premiums for access to those ATs is just kind of a 'premium' tax. We know you didn't spend more time to develop those ATs for the premiums. In fact, it probably TOOK development time to deny access to the ATs to premiums.

So a new non-free-to-VIPs AT is not comparable to access to Controllers and MMs for Prems.

It's most comparable to new powersets. And those are already 800 points. So there you go. 800 points.

I'm assuming, of course, that these are some sort of 'epic' AT and not a full-fledged normal AT that's going to have access to a lot of similar powers to other ATs. That's another kind of question.

Something totally new and never seen before. None of this lets reskin this powerset and add some fluff and hope they do not notice this is something already in the game. This game is getting old and stale so at this point we need something totally new. I will say this adding more ATs could easily hurt existing ones. The way VEATs hurt stalkers and to a lesser extent doms when they first came out. Kheldians on the other hand are so subpar that they do not step on anyones toes so it was never truely an issue.