Sorcery Power Pool?

It occurred to me that if the OCR folks pass on all the comments from this thread to the development team, there may be a developer saying something like, "Why would this give them the idea there's going to be a pool power themed around every origin? You know how they'll complain when they don't get one. We spend all this time working on a set to counterbalance that tech-y Medicine pool you OCR people say the players are always complaining about, and then they want more?"

In brief, or perhaps not so danged much brief, I think we may have our usual cycle of high player expectations based on how players would make the game, developer bewilderment, and forum teethgnashing that has been with us since the servers emerged from the primordial ooze.

You're totally misreading what I wrote

I apologize for misunderstanding... I took what GG was saying as confirming it was a medicine clone. I am pleased that it seems to not be that.

I wouldn't mind it, instead of being origin specific and banned from the others, simply giving a boost to the abilities within, should your origin match. Like with the Nemesis Staff or Blackwand. Perhaps a large bonus for an exact match, and a smaller bonus if the origin is one that is linked by DOs.

That sounds reasonable to me, but I don't have to program it.

Woah, a new power pool instead of a new prim/secondary pool.

Think that's a first.

So, what, maybe ground-targeted powers like 1) Rune of Defense for some protection (CC protection for squishies gimmie), 2) Sigil of Warding as a lightning bolt trap, 3) Symbol of Fear for debuffing, 4) Barrier of Repulsion for repel that whip out a magic wizard staff to animate creating?

I think this is a very shrewd move.

Some players never play alts, so they don't buy new powersets, but everyone can spec in a new pool power.

I think in power and style these will be more like a Patron set than the existing pool powers. It's just been made a pool power so 1) it can be sold to players who haven't got to 38, and 2) they don't need to make 5 different versions.

It's unlikely that it will be affected by origin, since 1) they want to sell to everyone, and 2) They will want to put only one in at first, to see how successful it is, and they don't want to give an overal advantage, even a small temporary one, to Magic origin.

One thing to remember. This is definitely NOT going to be free content. It is very commercial.

I love the idea of origin based power pools. I hope we see a pool for each origin, I would buy each of them.