Martial Combat and Martial Assault

I could've sworn that the recharge mentioned on that was 480 or 600 seconds.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Woah that IS long.
The self damage was listed on the power info screen, in Jay's video. The power sounds really interesting, but not sure what the 'can use it three times in 10 seconds after activation' means..
I do like they are trying new things still..especially with the aim/bu-y powers. Hopefully they will turn out good.


Oh..just noticed teh comment about teh self damage going. Glad to hear it..how they thought that was a good idea for a blaster..

Could you, say, Burst three times in the same spot rapidly? For maximum AoE carnage.

Oh, thanks Arcana. That makes more sense. Sounds like a really neat idea. Kinda wish Spring Attack let you do 2 more lil bounces too.

Good stuff! I can't want to make a Fire Control / Martial Assault Dominator!

Also, Zwillinger is just like me! I also prefer Controllers and Brutes!


Lewis

With you there Rejolt. I get the same thing sometimes using drop powers like tarpatch, with the cursor sort of sticking, and not being where I want it.

...Man, my first character was a DP/Dev. :< Now I'll have to either Reroll him or make a second version of him!

I was actually more shocked that Synapse goes for the melee toons more than the new powersets...

Well at least Hawk plays what I normally play.


In all seriousness though I admit I didn't care one bit about blasters getting a melee set...I didn't even care much for Doms getting it either but after watching this weeks coffee talk...wow.

I'm impressed...and I want to roll a new blaster more than a dom...this is a first for me!

Burst of Speed won me over for sure.

Wowzer... I can't decide if I'll be making a new character or rerolling an existing character for this.

I kinda want the new Throw Shurikens animation for Martial Assault as an alternative animation for regular old Shurikens on Scrappers and stuff. Something better than the regular old Razor Frisbee.

But damnit, you guys are going to make me play Blasters! D:

Ooh, that new take on Build Up sounds like it's going to be completely gimp for earning that new shiny insta-snipe/BU and drop your big nuke for maximum affect gameplay. Devices is reviled for swapping BU with an inferior (but always on) Targeting Drone (which is getting an upgrade by being the easiest to perma the instasnipe) but a build up that is just randomly procced off of attacks is worse than Targeting Drone...

It sounds like it would a fun fit on a scrapping melee AT, though. Could ALL Scraps/Stalks get a VEAT Night Widow type option where they could choose EITHER Build Up or Reach for the Limit? Maybe tag it onto Tanker's punchvoke Gauntlet as a gimmie to the poor old facetank meatshield AT that's so eclipsed by the equal tanking yet much higher damage output of enraged Brutes.

Blaster secondaries are all filled with melee blapper moves, except Devices. Not surprised at all it's filled with melee moves.

I never thought I'd say this, but I'll be rolling a blaster when this comes out.

I'm thinking a Kikaida-style character who uses his secondary in street clothes until he's mezzed, then triggers the Mez Break power coupled with a costume change - and WHAM, Blaster Primary, elemental themed goodness.

There's a lot of Henshin characters on Virtue that you can expect to do something similar, and probably a superteam of every Blaster primary/Martial Combat secondary waiting to happen.

Burst of Speed looks like the kind of power I've been dreaming of for quite a while. Ki Push is interesting, though the repel seems a bit long. (I'd probably prefer a 1 second Repel and a higher mag knockback.) Inner Will appears quite handy. Overall, the Blaster set looks more interesting to me than the Dom set. I could really see Burst of Speed meshing well with some Dom primaries; it's a shame they won't get it.

The Ki Push was pretty funny, but the mobs in the video were completely passive. They might be able to shoot at your face while they hang floating in the air if they're actually in combat and the mitigation is only when they finish falling on their butts and gotta get up. If they're not able to respond during that whole slow-mo repel that'd be pretty awesome mitigation, though, so much better than junk like the negligible -recharge sticky grenade/entanglement arrow or the rings of immobilization.

I don't think so, the mitigation seems to be for the entire duration, as Arbiter Hawk said that it provided more mitigation than a normal knockback power due to it keeping them idle longer.

Rather excited about this. When Dual Pistols originally came out I got the idea for a character who steals experimental technology which allows her to break the physics of time, based on the sort of (extremely) unrealistic animations dual pistols has. I had originally paired her up with Kinetics from the Corruptor secondary, but many of the powers felt off from the concept. Martial Combat, however, looks to be exactly what I had in mind for a sort of techno-gun-fu-thief-master.

For dominators I'm thinking some kind of psychic martial artist. Not entirely sure yet. I love Dominators though, so any time they get something I'm willing to MAKE a concept to use it.


EDIT: I got to thinking of a sort of Ryu themed character who uses Energy/Martial. Burst of Speed paired with knock back sounds like a ridiculously fun way to control combat. Send a wave of energy to knock them all down, teleport in behind them and throw them forward again, and then end it with a nuke in their face. Fun times, to be sure.