5 OClock Shadow wrote:

notears wrote:
Burning aura
Base: 65% self mitigation/35% DoT Auras
Theme: resistance for self mitigagation, burning for DoT auras
Animations: like every other burning set. Options for different types of element like electricity or acid or fire or sand and what not
It was always weird to me that the fire powers back in CoX that weren't attack powers sets had healing powers in them. I mean fire isn't really something you heal someone with unless your cauterizing a wound and even then it still hurts. I think to make burning more unique the armour set should at least have more DoT auras than the other armour sets to make it different from CoX's fire armour so that they don't sue.

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Healing_Fire

Makes perfect sense.

posted with my player's hat on.

I'd like to see a specific twin dagger set. This should be extremely fast and have some thrown moves also, do less damage per blow than heavier weapons but more blows.

As long as they also have wet fish animations its a go!!

Id rather Piranha Melee with a single 40' range attack included.

notears wrote:

EVERY TIME IS A GOOD TIME TO TALK ABOUT CARP MELEE!!!!!!

For a powerset put in the same league as mountain-splitting titan weaponry and shooting lightning from your fingertips, it sure would be a piece of [i]carp.[/i]

notears wrote:

*throws a link at uumbra and then hides in the bushes*
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/000/681/what-you-did-there-i-see-it.thumbnail.jpg

I believe it is spelled, [i]"I [url=http://www.wallpaperhi.com/thumbnails/detail/20120225/sea%20cats%20wtf%20boat%20funny%20horses%20photomanipulation%20thinkgeek%201280x960%20wallpaper_www.wallpaperhi.com_77.jpg]sea[/url] what you did there."[/i]

That makes since to me, well put

Silent Sillo wrote:

Most of the blasts come from the hands, some come from the eyes.
Can we have an energy blast that comes from the chest?
Similar to Iron Man.

I hope so- the devs seem to be going all-out on this idea. Now what would REALLY impress me is if we were able to shoot lasers the same way Mr. Toots from [i][s]Saint's Row[/s] Red Faction Armaggedon[/i] does...

Silent Sillo wrote:

Oh, I have yet to see Mr Toots from Saints Row. I would like to see how he shoots the lasers though. Youtube showed a fighter jet when I searched for him.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfuYjujkwI]My bad, it was Red Faction Armageddon that had him.[/url]

Izzy wrote:

AAlbusUUmbra wrote:
Silent Sillo wrote:
Oh, I have yet to see Mr Toots from Saints Row. I would like to see how he shoots the lasers though. Youtube showed a fighter jet when I searched for him.

My bad, it was Red Faction Armageddon that had him.

No BABIES 4 U! Ever! ;)

Wait wait wait wait wait, was that for screwing up which game he was in, suggesting we be able to shoot projectiles out of our asses, or mentioning anything related to ponies?

Izzy wrote:

AAlbusUUmbra wrote:
Wait wait wait wait wait, was that for screwing up which game he was in, suggesting we be able to shoot projectiles out of our asses, or mentioning anything related to ponies?

Ummm.. No. :( I didnt Mean U... I was trying to imitate the Soup Nazi! I Failed! ;)
No Babies... because:

- if the unicorn is a Male... you would have to SQEEZE those Testies to get that explosive response. :o
- if the unicorn is a Female.. you would have to Dot Dot Dot... (gut Punch) to get that explosive response. :{
Either way.. No BABIES for that unicorn! ;)

Well, that clears everything up!

But seriously, how far are the devs going to take power animations? ;)

Mind-Freeze wrote:

Maybe have a force field set that was similar to disc. priests in WOW they would put shields or barriers on a team member and it would absorb so much damage before the player would take any damage or if a shield that when destroyed would do an aoe heal or single target heal would be a cool feature.

So... like a hybrid between force fields and healing. Almost like a linear transition between buffs as damage is dealt! I love it!

On a side note, how good were the shadow priests in WoW? Never played that game...

I'm playing a discipline priest ATM. It's fairly good even solo, if you use the shield to keep yourself from taking damage.

Grampappy wrote:

I'd like to see a time based Power set. Thematically, you control the forces of time, slowing and stunning your opponents, while enhancing your allies.Mechanically, it would be a control/support set, and I guess you could have a sniper attack where you age someone to dust, if necessary. Visually, it wouldn't be very dramatic, just some swirly lines, as the character collapses, or whatever. I'm not a very visual guy. I guess, visually, I'd make it similar to the Gravity powers in CoH. Lag Spike, you throw a purple wave of energy, and time slows down for the opponent. For a melee Lag Spike, I imagine it would look something like Psylocke's psi-blade thingy.

+1*

Besides Storm Summoning, I'm hoping for a high quality Mind Control set, with Sleeps, but also with hard Holds, for when you're not being nice about it. I guess that would be a combination of mind-affecting powers AND Telekinetic powers.

I also need 'Nigh Invulnerability' for my Tanker(s).

Be Well!
Fireheart

We need some umbrella and walking animations. For when your shooting someone with a gun/laser/flamethrower/magic wand/whatever hidden inside the tip of your umbrella or the bottom of your walking stick and for when your hitting your opponent with it, whether with a blade that came out of the top or just using it as a bludgeoning weapon. I have an idea for a penguin style character for when pets/assault come out.

Does everyone remember the Frankengun from CoX? You know what I'm talking about- that Assault Rifle powerset where the standard rifle bared every gadget employed. You could set its fire mode to burst fire or full auto, launch metal slugs, fire buckshot, blast beanbags and grenades at people, employ a sniper rifle, and even spray people with a flamethrower. All we were missing was a grapple hook and rocket launcher to complete the package...

Yeah, we need that.

Yes, but that was a model of smoothly polished efficiency. The Frankengun was an ugly kluged beast.

Be Well!
Fireheart

Criminus wrote:

AAlbusUUmbra wrote:
Does everyone remember the Frankengun from CoX? You know what I'm talking about- that Assault Rifle powerset where the standard rifle bared every gadget employed. You could set its fire mode to burst fire or full auto, launch metal slugs, fire buckshot, blast beanbags and grenades at people, employ a sniper rifle, and even spray people with a flamethrower. All we were missing was a grapple hook and rocket launcher to complete the package...
Yeah, we need that.

Actually, wasnt there something similar in the film 'Fifth Element?'
If you search "fifth element zorg gun" in youtube.
Then click the link "The perfect weapon "

You know, we may need a whole new powerset to cater the Assault Rifle's equivalent of Trick Arrow...

syntaxerror37 wrote:

Fireheart wrote:
The Frankengun was an ugly kluged beast.
Be Well!
Fireheart

You take that back!
It was so ridiculous, it rolled over to awesome!

Personally, I thought it wasn't ridiculous enough. [url=http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs43/f/2009/143/2/a/More_Dakka_by_Dabunny1.jpg]It needed much more dakka.[/url]

syntaxerror37 wrote:

For all the negative comments about the default AR skin, when I brought the model I made to Otakon in 2007, plenty of people wanted a picture of themselves holding it. I think it got more pictures than I did.

LOL, that thing was so ugly it's beautiful!

animal swarms

base: 50% AOE/ 50% single target
Theme: physical damage with physical DOT
animations: there should be options for all sorts of small animals bats/cats/rats/snakes galore.

We also need the option to make a weapon with an aura as a skin. If I can's hit someone with a sword made out of cats I will be sad... very very sad.....

Criminal Overlord Powerset!

Feats
1) Directing combat, whist sipping mojito's from your lair in a different zone.
2) Having a team of scientists making you 'cool stuff'.
3) Strangling said scientists when said 'cool stuff' fails.
4) Running for president of your country, while selling weapons to forign powers.
5) Investigating heroes true names, then getting their utilities cut off, for a laugh (Kingpin once did this to Daredevil)
6) Possession of an inept male sidekick with a mullet, and a sexy female sidekick who is heavily weaponised.
7) Plausable deniability
8) 100% effective escape mechanisms
9) Inability to confront enemies without telling them your plans.

Think Lex Luth, crossed with Kingpin, with a bit of Doctor Evil thrown in the side.

So, I made a list of melee and ranged powersets, using the Base, Theme, Animation framework. I'm have not worked on defense, support, control, or assault, partially because the mechanics for those are not set in stone.

[h2]Ranged Sets[/h2]

Light Ballistics
Base: mostly single target
Theme: +acc for all attacks
Animations: pistols, telekinesis, magic, throwing knives

Medium Ballistics
Base: standard mix of single target and area of effect
Theme: +critical chance for all attacks
Animations: rifle, bow, telekinesis, magic, superspeed blur, teleport blur

Heavy Ballistics
Base: wide cones, multiple hits per power
Theme: -absolute damage resistance on target (the kind of resistance where a flat amount of damage is taken away), long animation time
Animations: Minigun, uzi, telekinesis, magic, superspeed blur, teleport blur

Scatter Ballistics
Base: short ranged cones
Theme: +crit damage for all attacks
Animations: shotgun, telekinesis, aura blast from hands, magic, swarms of things like bees,

Environmental Ballistics
Base: AOE, throw enemies at each other
Theme: +acc for all attacks
Animations: gravity gun, telekinesis,

Sniper Ballistics
Base: single target
Theme: extra range
Animations: Sniper rifle, telekinesis,

Stance Ranged
Base: standard mix of single target and cones and AOE
Theme: Ability to change damage type or secondary effect on the fly. (swap ammo)
Animations: pistol, any ranged prop or animation, swap ammo animations,

Forceful Ranged
Base: Cones and AOE
Theme: Chance of knockback or knockdown on powers
Animations: Energy blasts, grenades, wind, teleport

Ordinance Ballistics
Base: AOEs
Theme: Every power has an AOE component and some drawback such as increased animation time, recharge time, or endurance cost.
Animations: rockets, grenades, magic,

Concussive Ranged
Base: mostly single target
Theme: every power has a chance to mez or stun the enemy
Animations: grenades, teleport, shield throw, single target focused ranged props or animations

Crippling Ranged
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -dam on target
Animations: crossbow, hateful speech, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Decay Ranged
Base: mostly single target
Theme: Damage over time
Animations: radiation blast, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Burning Ranged
Base: AOEs
Theme: Damage over time
Animations: Fire blast, AOE focused ranged props or animations

Autonomous Ranged
Base: AOEs
Theme: all powers are toggles, a continuous spray of attacks until you run out of energy
Animations: power armor, magic, Doctor octopus arms,

Grab Bag Ranged
Base: Standard mix of single target and cones and AOE
Theme: The secondary effect of each power is random on each use
Animations: Luck, hexes,

Blinding Ranged
Base: Mostly single target
Theme: -acc on enemy
Animations: photonic light, darkness, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Entanglement Ranged
Base: mostly single target
Theme: slow effect on enemy and –recharge on enemy
Animations: ice blast, rubber body, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Shattering Ranged
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -resistance(%) on enemy
Animations: Sonic, musical instrument, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Disorientating Ranged:
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -defense on enemy
Animations: water blast, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Draining Ranged
Base: Mostly single target
Theme: -endurance on enemy
Animations: electric, Single target focused ranged props or animations

Bluffing Ranged
Base: Standard mix of single target, cones, AOEs
Theme: Powers deal high initial damage, then some of it is healed a few seconds later
Animations: illusion magic, insults, chemical bullets, Hollywood studio tricks,

[h2]Melee Sets[/h2]

Whirling Melee
Base: point blank AOEs
Theme: +defense on self after a power is used
Animations: Staff, tentacles, martial arts, yo-yo

Lance Melee
Base: single target, cones, Point blank AOE
Theme: increased range on all melee attacks
Animations: Spear, shotgun, halberd, tentacle, whip, chain

Finesse Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: +acc for all powers
Animations: Katana, sword, martial arts, bow

Berserker Melee
Base: Point black AOEs
Theme: +dam on self after each attack (your powers do more damage after you use each power)
Animations: axe, hammer, sword, martial arts, unarmed, beer mug,

Titan Melee
Base: Point Black AOEs, Wide cones
Theme: knockback, slow animation times
Animations: Large sword, hammer, sign post,

Crippling Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -dam on target
Animations: Flail, sword, claws, grappling,

Decay Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: DOT
Animations: Radiation,

Burning Melee
Base: AOEs, cones
Theme: DOT
Animations: fire, sand,

Stance Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: Have different stances to change between damage types and secondary effects
Animations: Martial Arts, yo-yo, staff

Pummeling Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones, multiple hits per power
Theme: -absolute damage resistance on target (the kind of resistance where a flat amount of damage is taken away)
Animations: Superspeed, conjured floating weapons, chainsaw

Bluffing Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: Powers deal high initial damage, then some of it is healed a few seconds later
Animation: sleight of hand, Hollywood special effects, syringe

Draining Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -endurance on target
Animation: Electric,

Vampiric Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: +health and +endurance on self after every power
Animation: darkness, pain control,

Absorption melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: +resistance(%) on self after each power use
Animation: Kinetic melee, soul leaching

Disorientation Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -defense on target
Animation: psi weapons, superstrength, shield

Shattering Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: -resistance on target
Animation: sonic melee, stone,

Forceful Melee
Base: cones and AOEs
Theme: knockback and knockdown on targets
Animation: Energy blasts, superstrength,

Attractive Melee
Base: point blank AOEs
Theme: targets are moved towards the player
Animation: gravity, backpack vacuum,

Entanglement Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: slow effect on enemy and –recharge on enemy
Animation: nets, ice melee, grappling,

Grab bag Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: Random secondary effect on every attack
Animation: luck, hexes

Blinding Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: -acc on target
Animation: photonic light, darkness

Concussive Melee
Base: mostly single target
Theme: every attack has a chance to mez or stun
Animation: pressure point attacks, rocket punches

Lethal Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: +critical damage for all attacks
Animation: shotgun, sword, knives

Calculated Melee
Base: standard mix of single target and cones
Theme: +critical chance for all attacks
Animation: sword, axe,

Now to sort it out by which classifications each one is good for, maybe think up some more animations (involving teleporting, or spell casting, or shooting strange energy weapons...or just bare hands!)

I really had my eyes on that [i]Vampiric Melee[/i] set, though. That sounds right up my alley!

Always think mimic power set be nice, or dark powers coming from a rifle,so my docter nimrod is reborn

I'd love to see a web type power for tacticians . Have single web holds or an aoe web hold and like quicksand maybe have a web area on the floor where mobs become entangled. A pet can be a little spider that shoots web blasts.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Everything this guy said.

I thought of another idea, a power set that's based around mutliple elements at once. I have this odd idea that it would be sort of like dual pistols, turn on a toggle and all of your attacks are now fire... Basically I want to be the Avatar... Though wielding 3+ elements, or better merging elements for things seems cool too. The only ones I absolutely would love to see someone tackle mechanically, since others can be recreated visually with other sets, is fusing Light and Dark, or using both at once for defense and offense. Guess this too could be carried out visually but I always thought it would be fun.

Start off chucking two orbs of it at someone from separate hands and a big explosion happening sometimes (When you incidentally get both to hit). Then a power that creates a wave that could be full of knockback damage, or healing and mez protection, or rarely (Or increasingly with level?) Both. Another would be chucking a ball of dark and light and creating a huge explosion. Other things like this, perhaps even a final attack where you phase out and do this... portal... attack... combo... Thing... Basically making portals by fusing dark and light you blast the enemy by surrounding them in portals... Would be an intense AoE Nuke... Again, maybe this is visual or some other mechanic can cover this... Or A dream...

One giant hulking pet would be awesome. I want my pets/assault to be all like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeRV8iVWtbY

This one's a weird idea....

Energy Absorption 'support':

The basic aim of the set is an adaptive power set that allows variable attack and defence, default status would give physical and hot/cold defense(Since Kinetic and heat energy are all around us.) Paired with a click power that when timed right negates a portion of damage from an attack and stores that energy. It would give stacks of an energy, they'd give defense and allow attacks to be executed that use up those stacks, reducing defense but giving bonuses to the attack based on the energy types used. It would work a lot like dual pistols, allowing you to activate an element toggle for the attack powers that uses up electricity, heat, etc.

It would also provide smaller defensive bonuses to the teams in the form of a leadership style 'aura'.

AmbiDreamer wrote:

TheMightyPaladin wrote:
21) It would also be kind of neet if you cut off communication from characters that were too far apart unless they had special communication abilities like telepathy, radios or cell phones. I bet everyone else would hate that but I'd like it.
People would only hate it if it affects players, and if it does: why are you requiring people play with Skype?
Since you could hardly control them from using it outside the game to talk.

The Idea wasn't to make people come up with a work around, but to make communication abilities like telepathy Useful. It sounds like it probably wouldn't work that way. BUT I did come up with another way to make them useful: Have NPCs that you need special abilities to communicate with.

AAlbusUUmbra wrote:

notears wrote:
One giant hulking pet would be awesome. I want my pets/assault to be all like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeRV8iVWtbY

Or even better, having THIS for a pet! :D

AAlbus... look at me.... yes....

JayBezz wrote:

ooglymoogly wrote:
what marvel heroes just did for their 'Rogue' toon powerset is pretty innovative. allow the toon to absorb powers from friends or foes and use those powers until the player decides to switch up and absorb more. so maybe soloing and absorb a mentalists attack powers and some defender healing/support powers, etc or grab some super strength and invulnerability from an enemy.
could prove immensely fun set as long as it has some suitable drawbacks associated with it.

I Love (LOVE!) what they did with Rogue's power sets (Not the Ms Marvel set). That game has signature powers tho.. something I don't think CoT will have. How would you suggest a powers thief's taken ability be chosen in CoT where powers are very much more nuanced. Would it always be from the primary tree?
Nuanced, and flexible.. I support a melee life-drain but powers stealing is one of those things that unless the game is structured in such a way the theft will almost always feel off.

Yeah, this is definatly a 5 years after launch type of power rather than a launch power in it's own right.

What if it wasn't precisely like Rogues powers though? What if instead it was more like Peter Petrelli's powers, in that respect the player could gain powers from the team around them, and the powers would more base on your 'friendly target', this way you could target an ally to continuously buff or draw power from, and an enemy to attack.

I would love to see a water based power, or a Luck based/karma based power? Or a traditional magic based set.

Which tradition of magic do you want it to follow? Most 'traditional' magic has it's roots somewhere in the 20th century and tends to be rooted in the new age movement or (sadly by some accounts) closely tied to Allister Crowley and his work. Which tends to be very... NC-17 in it's magical "tradition."

Most traditional magic before that was very ritualistic and tended to not be very good in terms of combat-ability...

Not heckling, I'd like similar animation sets for powers that work for spell casting, but traditional means something very different to a lot of people. Personally I like the idea of drawing symbols in the air, or using cards to activate powers, or big complicated magical sigils appearing in the air.

LeadWanderer wrote:

Which tradition of magic do you want it to follow? Most 'traditional' magic has it's roots somewhere in the 20th century and tends to be rooted in the new age movement or (sadly by some accounts) closely tied to Allister Crowley and his work. Which tends to be very... NC-17 in it's magical "tradition."
Most traditional magic before that was very ritualistic and tended to not be very good in terms of combat-ability...
Not heckling, I'd like similar animation sets for powers that work for spell casting, but traditional means something very different to a lot of people. Personally I like the idea of drawing symbols in the air, or using cards to activate powers, or big complicated magical sigils appearing in the air.

No yeah i hear you. Guess i should of chose a different word than Traditional.. What i meant was more "Magic" instead of sorcery.

Exxactly. I think it would be a new spin on the old devices and technology that is often used as the sort of "escape artist" in most MMO's.

However I do LOVE that you mentioned the card and sigil based Sorcery. I can see it now, tarot cards and mysterious symbols flying every which way.

To me when i hear magic I think of supernatural damage (magic/psychic).. IF supernatural damage is not present you see many magic characters use the elements (Fire/Water/Weather etc) .. to me most magicians have a lot of pre-battle prep getting buffs and things in order.

There are ways to do sorcery characters even if there is no supernatural damage in my opinion.

Femme Fatale wrote:

And of course i have to vote to bring back Stalkers as a class. I love a good stealther with daggers.

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