Comments on Power Sets

I notice that since the Market opened there have been several new powersets offered. I do wish that things had progressed this fast before the market, but, to invoke the spirit of Adam Smith, market forces do drive commodity availability. As least now we are getting some new power sets, LOL.

I do notice a similarity of creation. Until the new Beastmaster power set, most of them have been variations on a theme, weapons mostly. I love the new sets, but guys, superheroes are about more than weapons! They are even about more than time based attacks and dark manipulation attacks! I wonder if you are ever going to give a try at doing some traditional comic book powers like Stretching, Shrinking, Growing, and shape change. Admitted, these would be graphic intensive power sets, but I don't see why this can't be handled!

Anyway, thanks for what you have done, and I'll continue to enjoy whatever I get! Particularly, thanks for the Beastmaster. I have not played it yet, but I know I'm going to enjoy it!

While this is entirely... speculation... I would definitely like to say that non-weapon sets are on the way.

• One's probably a proliferation; the artists won't have to do much.
• One will work great for those who love the outdoors.
• Spider-Man of all people had one once.
• They tried this one once before, but it didn't work.
• I can't think of the last one.

I would like to see an Eye beam Blast set. That's a classic we have yet to see.

Animations seem easy.
Most would have similar beams.
The AOE Crosseyed could use the Beam rifle Cutting beam GFX.

Hmm, is it perception, or is it reality. It does seem as though there has been a mix of powers coming out recently. Having said that, it seems as though it has been melee heavy. Would like to see a continued mix. I think they have done a good job so far. F2P seems to be "inspiring" them. Having said that, I have a feeling some types of powers we'll never get. Growth, shrinking, stretching, grappling, water, are some that come to mind.

And Water Affinity, Water Assault, Water Summoning and Leviathan Mastery!

Oh yeah, and Carp Mele

What, no love for Blasters? Where's my Water Manipulation?

I said Water Blast! But fine, Water Manip too.

As for the Blast, the nuke will be a Tidal Wave that 'washes away' all the buffs the victims have. Oh, and they lie on the ground sputtering for a while.

Then a fish falls on them.

Out of shrinking, growing and stretching, shrinking's the easiest to do in the way its done in the comics.
Your character model can get smaller, and this ups your stealth and defence.
(I sort of did this - made a SS/WP Brute with three alternate costumes - 4ft, 6ft and 8ft, and set up binds to turn on my Stealth IO equipped sprint power with the 4ft costume. Having a Stealth power that dropped your character scale even further would have been very cool. )
Hitching a ride on a teammates shoulder would be a very cool extra, but require a whole bunch of new tech.

Growth's a problem because we often fight indoors. You're in a Council tunnel, what happens when you turn your Growth toggles on? We'd still have to limit to 8ft pretty much, or have all maps marked with a ceiling height that you grow to.

Stretching's a real nightmare.
If you look at how Reed Richards or Elongated Man use it you have:
- ranged punches. Not too hard, but the graphics might look a bit wonky, especially with costume options other than spandex.
- toggle hold on a target that uses up one limb. The other limbs can still be used to fight, eg wrap left arm round one enemy and punch the other with your right arm 40 ft away. This would never fit into Cox's engine.
- turning into a flat sheet to hold a bunch of enemies. Even harder, and trying to not clip with terrain would make this impossible.

Best we could probably get is a longer ranged melee set with Telescopic Limbs (say 20-30ft), which would be kind of cool.

If we ever get Fire and Ice themed Kheldian sets, I will never complain about anything about this game again and I'll buy every single thing that comes into the paragon market the day it comes out for a year to show my appreciation.

All I want is a new semi-offensive armor set that has a taunt aura on scrappers that can actually be paired with the new weapon sets that we have been getting (namely TW and Staff).

There are only 3 armor sets that have any aggro generating auras on scrappers (Invul, WP, Shield) and of those 3 only 1 has any offensive capabilities (Shield), which cannot be paired with Staff or TW (as well as many other weapon sets).

I would really like to roll a TW or Staff toon as a scrapper however since Shield is the only scrapper secondary I like, I'm basically restricted to Brutes (not necessarily a bad thing, I'd just like a bit of variety).

That or just add taunt components to scrapper dmg auras -.- But we do need another armor set anyways regardless of what it does.

So far there have been four paid-only sets -- five if you count the one we know for sure is coming soon:

• Beam Rifle (weapon-based, but not melee)
• Street Justice (melee, but not weapon-based)
• Titan Weapons (weapon-based and melee)
• Beast Mastery (neither weapon-based nor melee)
• Staff Fighting (weapon-based and melee)

It has been said by some redname or other in the past (sorry, I can't remember who/where) that the game engine can't handle deforming models in any way through powers, so shrinking/growing/stretching will never happen, and shape changing will always have to occur through the Kheldian/Costume Change Emote method of "BRIGHT DISTRACTING THINGS! HAH! Bet you didn't notice that model swap out!"

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

Yes, I've always thought Mind Melee would be epic, you could make all sorts of telekinetic weapons for a highly varying playstyle.

I've also always thought that Water Spout from the Mako pool should cause a rain of fish, so make of that what you will.

Gravity Armor.

But what we really need is new power CONCEPTS not new animations for basically the same things we've been doing for years.