A new Blade set that you might like.

Extending Blade

This powerset is intended for Blasters and Corrupters as Primary, because of the extending properties.

This set would have the Katana and Dual Blades swords for weapon customization

1.) Slice - A simple slice with the blade. (damage, moderate/ recharge, fast)

2.) Extend- You thrust with the blade, and it extends to strike at a distance.
(Damage, High/Recharge, Moderate/ Range, equal to standard blast attacks[fire blast, ice blast, etc.])

3.) Jab- A simple thrust (Damage, light/Recharge, fast)

4.) Extending Slice - Same as slice but with a moderate range, and with the extending animation. (Wide cone)

5.) Rapid Extension - A quick, sniper ranged attack, using this attack allows usage of Rapid Extension: Flurry for the next 10 seconds (Damage, moderate/ Recharge, slow)

5.2) Rapid Extension: Flurry - A flurry of the previous attack. (Damage, high(DoT)/ Recharge, long/ Range, long[cone])

6.)Guillotine - You extend your sword in the air, and bring it down like a guillotine. (Damage, moderate/ Recharge, moderate/ Range, long)

7.) Dashing Flurry - You dash forward while wildly swinging your blade, cutting anyone in you path. (Damage, High[DoT]/ Recharge, slow/ Range, moderate)

8.) Impale - You extend your blade to impale an enemy through the chest (Damage, Moderate/ Recharge, very long/ Range, sniper)

9.) Final Strike - You teleport behind your target and swing your blade to slash their back. Using this power grants the ability to use Final Strike: Execution for the next 5 seconds(Damage, High/ Recharge, Long/ Range, Long)

9.2) Final Strike: Execution - After the Final Strike, you stab through the opponent while extending your blade, knocking them back. (Damage, Massive[knockback]/ Recharge, very long)

Powers 5.2 and 9.2 would be gained by choosing 5 and 9 respectively, and would only be usable directly after using the main power, as they are just extensions of it.

Please reply with your ideas and views about this, i would love to hear them, even criticism

Blasters and Corruptors are ranged primary AT's, not melee.

No amount of extending of a blade could be considered range.

Basically, a set they Devs likely wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.

Yes, but most of the powers in this set are ranged, imagine a normal longsword, now imagine its blade extending to about 20-30 feet long. But I see your point, so a Scrapper/ Stalker/ maybe brute set? But it would be cool to have in-game.

No, they aren't ranged.


As for Scrappers, they already have Broadsword, Katana, Dual Blades, Staff Fighting, Claws, Battle Axe, War Mace and Titan Weapons for weapon sets.

Stalkers have Broadsword, Claws, Dual Blades, Ninja Blade, and Staff Fighting for weapon sets.

I don't know...with how the devs seem to think all new sets must have a gimmick, maybe it's time for things like Dual Pistols for Melee ATs...the gimmick? THEY GET RANGE!

I could, perhaps, see this as the basis for a Dominator Assault set.

I was going to post a picture of Isabella Valentine here.... but, I'm not sure if I can find one that wouldn't get me banned from the forums.

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

Most of you aren't thinking along the right lines for the mechanics for this set, just imagine a basic sword, thrusting it towards the enemy and the blade grows longer, in a straight line. It doesn't separate, it doesn't become like a whip, it simply grows a lot longer.

I would actually LIKE to have a melee sword set for defenders and corruptors, where instead of range the players get more debuffs.

I've proposed such a set, that seems doable with existing mechanics, at this link: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=284156

Call it Power Sword, and import Broadsword as it currently exists, with some changes. Move the PBAoE attack to the T9 spot, and make it function a bit like the T9 from Dual Pistols, where the player gets a knockdown effect and a brief boost to defense.

Replace Build Up with Aim.

And in place of the Taunt type power, have something similar to DP's Swap Ammo. Call it "Empower Blade," and have it allow the user to switch between 4 different damage / debuff combinations. The power combinations would be something like:

Vibration: fire damage, -resistance
Dark: negative energy damage, -to hit
Electrical: energy damage, chance to sleep target (shaking animation)
Poison: toxic DoT, damage debuff on target

These power qualities would not be amplified by enhancements, but set bonuses and Interface properties could add to them where applicable.

Additionally, the Power Sword would retain the normal properties and slotting characteristics of Broadsword, including knockback, defense debuff, and defense buff on self (Parry). Half of the damage dealt by Power Sword would be L/S, and half would come from the Empower Blade selection. (If nothing is selected from Empower Blade, the sword would have full L/S damage, as is normal for a Broadsword.)

Power effects for Power Sword would be animated along the bearing hand and blade, using the blade models already available from Broadsword. These effects would be based upon whichever option is selected from Empower Blade, with the default being no effect.

The idea here is that players could draw up their characters with one or more Blade powers in mind. For thematic reasons, a dark defender could use the Dark empowerment, and thus in addition to their customary negative energy damage and -to hit, they'd also be dealing knockback, defense debuff, and defense buff, where appropriate. In terms of synergies, Parry would add to the defense granted by Shadow Fall, Fearsome Stare could be used to freeze mobs and mitigate aggro, and Darkest Night would allow a dark/PS defender to herd around a corner, drawing mobs into a Tar Patch.

If a Dark defender decided to change things up and pick Vibration, the fire damage would provide a different damage type against foes particularly resistant to negative energy, and the -res of the Empower Blade option would add to the -res of Tar Patch.

If a Dark defender was to select the Electrical option, it could work in conjunction with Fearsome Stare to provide enhanced mob control while fighting.

The Poison option would be particularly good to use against bosses and other powerful foes, diminishing their damage output and building up a cascade of toxic DoT. This would act in conjunction with the -to hit and -regen qualities a Dark defender would be expected to apply in a boss fight.

Synergies with other defender power sets would be similar. Thematically, a Storm defender might choose an Electrical Empower Blade option. A Poison corruptor might choose a Poisoned blade. A player with Thermal Radiation might choose to go with the flaming blade option offered by Vibration. A semi-medieval themed character might take Power Sword as a complement to Trick Arrow. A tech or science styled character might combine a scifi type Power Sword with Traps, Kinetics, Radiation Emission, or Force Field.

As I said, I'd like a melee option for defenders and corruptors. I've never been one to play at range. I'm always in the thick of things anyway.

For the Isabella Valentine thing, thats not at all what it would look like