Sym-bio-T100 melee set idea

Symbiotic Possession

I know, I know..three new sets are on Test right now and it seems a bit greedy to be thinking about more! However, just from looking and reading about Bioarmour, I had some ideas. Also, given how a lot of our melee sets have ‘pairs’ it would not be totally crazy to want a companion for that set.

Sym melee would be something like what Venom can do, or perhaps Omega Red and his steel tentacles. Even some of the T1000’s stabbing and hacking powers. Ideally, so as not to ruin character looks, it would create the physical power over our outfits, representing the Symbiote manifesting the required attribute. Perhaps the look could be tweaked a bit more, from more flowing Venom style good, to sleek metal, bone, or organic material.
Quick descriptions..basic power info..and thoughts behind powers.
I also realised, after writing, that a lot of the powers do sound quite..evil and nasty. Not to mention tentacley. It is no reflection on my mind, honest.


Symbiotic Possession
A powerful Symbiote has bonded with your body! The interacting may have been forced or willing, from an alien organism or some undiscovered parasite long forgotten. Being the Host has endowed you with many powerful and deadly abilities, as the Symbiote reads your thoughts, creating weapons over your body. To anyone not in harmony with the creature, its touch is poison, and attacks deal Toxic damage along with smaller Physical harm while lowering the damage output of foes. (Yes, it sounds like spines! But it is not spines. Mostly toxic damage, along with smash or lethal portions, to give the targets defence a chance to work.)

Powers.

Tier 1. Lashing Talons
You can cause your fingernails to grow and sharpen, becoming long talons that can slice through flesh. Basic minor damage, Toxic/Lethal with a minor –damage. Talons would overlay hands, swinging each hand in turn, like dual pistols.

Tier 2. Vicious Bludgeon.
As well as lethal weapons, you can form simple yet deadly mauls and clubs from your arms, battering an enemy into submission. Moderate Toxic/Smash with minor –damage. The blunt weapons would form over the whole arm, again being used alternately.

Tier 3. Bone Swords.
Two long and deadly swords extend from your elbows, perfect for slicing and cutting multiple opponents. PBaoe, Toxic/lethal with –minor damage, chance for lethal dot. Something like T1000s blade, with animation like the Vickies cross cut.

Tier 4. Feeding Frenzy.
The Symbiote has an enormous appetite for energy, and if it is not feed often..When you allow it to feed, it creates a multitude of hungry vicious mouths over your body, which bite nearby foes, taking gobbets of flesh for nourishment. This invigorates the Symbiote, in turn strengthening you. A sort of combination of Bu up, soul drain and..a toggle, that provides a scaling damage buff to the toxic damage of your attacks and bonus damage to Tendrils, based on the amount of foes nearby. Lasting say 30 seconds, it would work on the RANK of critters, so a boss would give a bigger buff than minions (and an AV would give a lot, not rendering it useless like some stacking buffs), providing an average lvl of damage, up to a max exceeding BU (think power siphon).

Tier 5. Fleshborer.
Most of your powers stem from close combat, but you can also attack from range when pressed, causing the Symbiote to shoot forth a barrage of toxic shards at a target which borrowing into flesh, eroding its resistance. High Toxic/Smash damage, ranged attack, -resistance. Nearly all the new sets have a minor –res power, and this one makes more sense than most of them.

Tier 6. Gloat.
Infused with the power of the Symbiote, you feel strong and powerful often stopping to mock and gloat over foes imminent defeat. The creature actually feeds of this aggressive, rewarding you with increased speed and motivation. A typical taunt..with a difference (I really dislike how taunts, especially for scrappers, pretty much offer nothing else). Using the power will provide a small, non stacking recharge bonus for a short time, as well as a delayed (delayed! So it happens AFTER they get pulled) fear effect, as the target gets more nervous, the closer he gets to you.

Tier 7. Writhing Tendrils.
Focusing on attack, you cause your body to sprout many long tendrils that surround you, lashing and whipping any foe that comes close. A damage aura like Quills, formed of tendrils (trying to avoid saying tentacles..the Virtue people with hear) doing minor toxic damage, with a small chance of knockdown.

Tier 8. Devour.
Even when fed, the Symbiote is a greedy, needful passenger. When the urge to gorge itself becomes too much, you can feel your jaws start to grow and stretch, hungry for flesh. After clamping down on a foe, it begins to feed, restoring your energy and leaving the victim catatonic from revulsion. Superior toxic/lethal damage, moderate HoT effect, foe hold. A big nasty set of jaws appearing around your head, as you step in and ‘nom nom!’ on their head!

Tier 9. Symbiotic Flux
Surrendering your will to the symbiote is highly dangerous. After all, what happens if you can’t regain control? However, the benefits can be worth it, as the organism goes into a state of flux, reshaping your body into weapon after weapon, rending and smashing through enemies in a brutal show of power. Extreme toxic/smash and minor lethal dot to the target, with an aoe tox/lethal of moderate damage, moderate –damage. Something like t1000 when he gets melted, shifting weapons forming all over you, doing some sort of aoe spinny type animation.

I think this sounds awesome...I can even visualize how it would look just from your descriptions and I WANT IT to be real! So creepy

Nom nom, eat faces and heal yourself!

sounds very interesting but you know what the masses would say.... to scary for the kiddos?

You're not the first:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=289355

I definitely want to see a set like this get made.



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