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Could you tell us more what, specifically, you need or want out of fire melee? Maybe there's another set that could be colored to be fire-like, whilst still proving effective powers without the sword attacks?

True. I'm pretty sure a "remote-bomb", as the OP envisions it, is a grenade...

Ooh here's another (slightly tongue-in-cheek): Pistol Support 1. Healing Rain: Uses the Bullet Rain animation, except it's a location-based AoE, that heals all friendly targets within it's AoE. 2. Healing Shot: Uses the animation from "Pistols" and delivers a healing payload to a single friendly target. 3. Push 'em Back: Uses the animation form "Empty Clips", slowing all enemies within it's cone whilst also repelling them. 4. Alternative Ammo: This power provides 3 mutually exclusive toggles - Healing, Stimulating, or Bolstering payloads. Healing adds a HoT to any allies affected by your other powers. Stimulating adds an "Endurance over time" and recharge time reduction effects to any such ally-affecting powers, while Bolstering adds some damage resistance and defense to them. For enemy-affecting powers, Healing applies a -regen and DoT effect, Stimulating slows their movement and recharge speeds, and Bolstering applies a minor defense and resistance debuff. 5. Enervating Shot: Uses "Dual Wield's" animation. Reduces an enemy's damage, tohit, and max HP. 6. Designated Target: Uses the animation from "Executioner's Shot" - This power that significantly reduces the particular enemy's defense and damage resistance. 7. Ballistic Cordon: Uses Piercing Round's animation. This power requires no target to use and will initiate in whatever direction the user is facing. It deals heavy DoT and knocks down any enemies in it's narrow cone of effect. 8. Back from the Brink: Uses Suppressive Fire's animation. Can only be used on a defeated ally, and resurrects them. 9. Bullet Barrier: Uses Hail of Bullet's animation which loops as long as the toggle is maintained, which provides a significant defense bonus to all allies within the PBAoE of this power's user, also deals some lethal DoT to any enemies within it.

I don't have the full set fleshed out, but I'd love to see a sort of "ranged sword" blast set. Now, it wouldn't consist of you throwing or launching the sword, but rather, it'd consist of you slashing the sword like normal, only you'd project out a "sword slash" instead, (think how claws has focus and shockwave, only expanded to an entire set). We have the FX from: Focus Shockwave Serpents Reach (from Staff) Then I'm sure we could easily adapt other such FX - like psionic tornado and perhaps water burst's FX could be similarly adapted...

So doing a quick search for the character's backstory, she seems to be a merger of X-23 and Scarlett Witch. To that end, I think a claws/energy aura stalker might be a great combination, (use the energy claws weapon options). Energy aura has a heal which cab be back pretty quickly to represent her regeneration, and you've got powers like disrupt and energy drain that can reflect the psychic abilities of Scarlett Witch. Add in the psionic mastery APP, and you're set!

Frankly, I focus on acc & damage for my attacks, unless said attack specifically applies a special effect, (like the +def powers in broadsword or katana).

I know this has been brought up a few times in the past, but there seem to be times when you can use 1 power after the other, and the transition is smooth with no apparent breaks or interruptions, while other times your character seemingly stops dead in their tracks, pauses for a moment, then resumes their attacks. Is this an actual thing with how powers work, or is it more about network or input latency? Maybe some sort of disconnect between back-end calculations and what the character models depict? All of the above? Some other factor(s) I'm not taking into account? Thanks for reading!

TBH, I think that example is a bit different - it's someone who typically has to hold themselves back, then temporarily losing that self-restraint, whereas someone like the Hulk literally gets stronger as they get angrier...

A good resource is the Wiki, specifically this section on the various story arcs that are available. Welcome to CoH, now go hunt, kill skuls!

I'd go with 3 Sentinels; You'll all be rather sturdy and have the range to cover each other's backs. On top of all that, if you wanted a little diversification of powers, you could take different APPs/PPPs, some of which offer nice ally/PBAoE heals to supplement your trio.

The tanker/scrapper/brute/stalker divide is, when you get right down to it, more of a gameplay distinction than anything else. As @Rudra mentioned, it's about who gets larger HP numbers, "punchvoke", an AoE taunt, crits from a hidden state, and so on, not really about actual mechanics found in comic books. The biggest problem, again as others have pointed out, is how to handle the proverbial elephant in the room; Rage. It's kind of along the same lines as why tankers haven't gotten energy aura - simply scaling the numeric values of the powers won't work out well. For my part, I think the simplest solution is to buff up the base values of the actual attacks in SS then replace rage with buildup, for scrappers...

Turning sound into a weapon, FROM THE SHADOWS!!! It's 'The CacophoNinja':

I like the idea, but some being grenades and others not could make it kind of cludgy. I wonder if they could separate the web hold and ground splat effects from the attack animations. They could also combine the descent effect some spider mobs create when summoned, so maybe have those as temporary pets as well...

Yeah.. when the OP mentioned "male and female lie down emotes" I was like "it's not that kind of game..." Hmm...

Just a quick note - if the IO says it lasts for 2 minutes, that's only for click-type powers. If you put it in a toggle or auto power, it's basically permanent. Also, while stealth powers do not stack, you will get the benefit from the greater buff, so since Ninjitsu's stealth power grants, IIRC, 35' and the regular stealth power is around 50-55', having both on will give you the greater value, (thought TBH, it's kind of an expensive toggle to run), so I'd go with the stealth IO.

Energy Aura is pretty much this already. Other than having more obvious bubbles, can you give us an idea of how this set would look or function?

I was more referring to his comment in the sentences before that specifically mentioned "power armor". The Sentinel basically encompasses many such concepts, since they got the blasts and the durability.

Armor sets don't generally buff others, though. In fact, it was kind of a big deal when shield defense included one such power...

I also imagine that a powerset that solely consisted of a bunch of PBAoE or ally-targeted toggles to maintain the buffs would be rather boring to play.

I've already suggested something similar, but I called the set "Integrated Weaponry". The important difference is that it makes no assumption about what kind of character you are playing nor where, specifically, the weapons come from or how they are powered - only that said weapons come from/pop out of your character's body.

What, within the CoH setting, makes robots necessarily technological? Do you know how they're powered? Is there matrix code flowing off of them or something? All you see is a metallic construct. There is such a thing as golems, BTW. "Natural", again within the context of CoH, means that the abilities are part of your, well, baseline existence - if demons are interpreted as a race of creatures, then it could be argued that their ability to throw fire is not, in fact, magic, but merely an aspect of their "biology". It's a common argument for Superman, as any Kryptonian on earth would exhibit similar abilities, (though it could also be argued that it is science, due to exposure to a certain form of radiation). My point simply is this - it is not the end result powers that have to do with your or their origin, merely where they come from; a magic spell could make a fireball, as could a specialized flamethrower or some mutant ability. An arcane/magic/sorcerous/mystic/etc blast set, by its very definition, has made that decision for you.

Up the damage numbers on the attacks, replace rage with buildup. How many would honestly be happy with that kind of "compromise"?

Storm blast deals smashing, cold, and energy damage. Pair it with a secondary set that has some additional elements, then an APP or PPP with yet another, (like dark or fire), and you're pretty well covered. The point isn't the powers, but the way they are being sold to the community; Why offer a set that shuts down other origins right out the gate?

I know it's a sour pill to swallow, but there are necessary aspects of a game, (for balance or other such purposes), that may not always be fun. Having to make your way to a far away mission door, having to slot powers so you don't miss or run out of end too quickly, etc. It's a combination of game mechanics, (some we like and some we don't), that make CoH the game we all love. Why not just an "I win" button? Heck, some would complain that the simple act of having to click even that is too much. In simpler terms, though, it's because buff values, end costs, target(s), etc are all based upon some sort of calculation, and their durations are just one of many factors...

You are missing the point; The CoT is an entire magical group. They use regular powers, but it's their appearance and the environments they are frequently found in that give said group a magical vibe. If you took away the rune/glyph/magic circle effects from the sorcery set, it could pass for anything. The point is that, outside of the visuals, this set need not be magic. None of the other mainline primary or secondary sets are explicitly magic. It is this stubborn notion that we "need" a magic set, when in fact any set can be if you choose that origin and apply various auras. Why not call this an elementalist set, or a mixed-energy set? Why not make any magic runes/circles/glyphs optional animations available to all powers? And, OMG! Magic isn't real!? Gee golly I'm glad you're here with your big brain to tell us that!