Pain Dom and Empathy ports


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Just a question for folks that attend various dev forums (UStream, Pummit, whatever else). Has there been discussion of porting Empathy to Corrs and/or MMs and Pain Dom to Defenders and/or Controllers?

When PD was released, it was billed as "the villain heal set" or whatever the wording was, basically it conveyed that this was the villain version of Empathy. Well we're now in a time where an Empathy Defender potentially may never set foot in Paragon City and likewise a PD Corr may never see the Rogue Isles. So this is an outdated concept, that "Empathy isn't villainous" and vice versa for PD.

I got a jonesing recently to play an Emp MM. I hope one day it can happen.


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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA View Post
Just a question for folks that attend various dev forums (UStream, Pummit, whatever else). Has there been discussion of porting Empathy to Corrs and/or MMs and Pain Dom to Defenders and/or Controllers?

When PD was released, it was billed as "the villain heal set" or whatever the wording was, basically it conveyed that this was the villain version of Empathy. Well we're now in a time where an Empathy Defender potentially may never set foot in Paragon City and likewise a PD Corr may never see the Rogue Isles. So this is an outdated concept, that "Empathy isn't villainous" and vice versa for PD.

I got a jonesing recently to play an Emp MM. I hope one day it can happen.
In the olden days of 1 year ago, I would have said not gonna happen. I'd like to hope that one day it does happen, because I want to play an Emp MM and a Pain defender very, very much.


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Not only do I think it should happen, I think both Empathy and Pain could use a nudge to push them a little further apart. I have always thought Pain Domination was a bit of a waste because it is so similar to Empathy.

I have long wanted Empathy's rezz to be AoE (like Dark Miasma but requiring no target) and Pain's rezz to be usable on slain enemies to gain that's powers buffs to self.


 

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I'm unsure about Corruptors getting Empathy and Force Fields. They're pure buffing sets, which I think goes against the Corruptor concept of using their secondary to amplify the damage of their primary.

For everyone else, sure, Masterminds could get a lot of mileage out of Empathy, Kinetics or Radiation, I'd love an elec/traps or mind/pain controller and Pain on a Defender could be excellent.

I do shudder a bit at the thought of having Poison as a primary powerset, though. :/


 

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I want a Fire/Pain Controller, so would love to see this happen.


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