Noyjitat wrote:

We had very basic stuff in coh but then a pretty large improvement in champions and some decent stuff in dcuo. But Black Desert Online recently released it's mystic class and if you haven't played it you really should. I'm hoping the CoT animators will take a look at this class and maybe play it; because she has the kicks, punches and acrobatics that martial arts should have and I hope we can have something similar here.

Really? I found CO lacking in the martial arts animation department. So very lacking. CoH in it's lacking looked better and I really wish they had let us mix and match animations (specifically Martial Arts and Street Justice) to get our own feel of martial arts character.

On the plus side, I do feel that's what CoT is going to do, so melee sets can pick their animation, I just hope they have good ones (which worries me they won't :p)

That's what I loved about the kick. It was cool looking :) I would've loved to combine Street Justice animations with Martial Arts animations for a scrapper/stalker back in CoH, but then I wouldn't have had enough powers for some of the good moves :)

McJigg wrote:

Martial Arts animations ...

Being able to change your animations later will help with this though in CoT.

This is an interesting concept. I think capitalizing on the [url=https://cityoftitans.com/content/mastering-your-character-primer-masteries]mastery system[/url] to offer different animations for existing powers would be one way of doing this.

Before I go any further, however, we have to acknowledge that there is no such thing as a Martial Arts power set in City of Titans, only martial arts inspired animations. You probably already know this, but I wanted to make it clear to people who might not know.

So let's say you are an Enforcer Archetype with the [i]Fighting Prowess[/i] power set and you choose some martial arts inspired animations for your abilities. When the time comes to select your masteries, you decide to go full bore into the predation mastery.

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Predation: You are the single-target master, gaining bonuses the longer you fight the same enemy

So lets say that as the bonus increases the attack animation starts looking different. I imagine the easiest way to make it look different is in the particle effects.
So your punches have a bit more [img=64x64]https://i1.wp.com/recgympros.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/pow.jpeg[/img] in them than someone without the mastery bonus.
And as you gain more mastery you gain more [img=100x100]https://i1.wp.com/recgympros.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/pow.jpeg[/img]
until finally at mastery level 3 with the maximum bonuses your punches have a lot of [img=200x200]https://i1.wp.com/recgympros.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/pow.jpeg[/img]

The animation itself may not have changed, but the effect of the animation you did choose does have a measurably greater impact than it did when you first got the ability.

And from an RP perspective, it makes sense to tie it to masteries, because mastery is exactly the evolutionary measure of development we are talking about.

Capt Odee wrote:

I would love to see Staff/Stave fighting as a powerset.

Ah, but WHICH staff fighting style? Quarterstaff or Bo Staff? These two styles have remarkably little in common. The quarterstaff style has more in common with use of a "heavy" wooden shaft that is hard and stiff and is held more like you would a spear. Bo staff is a lighter staff (typically) which can be either rigid or flexible and involves twirling the staff in circular rotations (and you can spin lighter staves faster with less effort when changing motions).

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As you can plainly see, these are two remarkably different fighting styles that essentially just use A BIG STICK relying on different philosophies of how to use and move that big stick.