Alchemystic

I'm with @TemporalVileTerror on this one. I'd love to see the current whip powers worked worked Assault or Manipulation set first, since that's going to be easier to work with (I played with this over in the EFPR thread). But I'm in favor of a whip melee powerset all the same.

This seems a tad too close to Assault Rifle/Arachnos Soldier to be something completely new, but I do see the potential here to focus away from the conventional rifles and SMGs and instead focus on heavy weaponry. If I'm correct, many of the chaingun/minigun powers use the exact same animation and FX from other automatic weapons, and all that would need to happen is making those heavy weapon skins available to the player. Now, for things like Assault Rifle and Arachnos Soldier, it's going to be a difficult fit considering they have multiple fire modes and payloads. But, for something like a chaingun/minigun, this sort of concept would fit perfectly! The only obstacle I see is that there are only 3 heavy skins in the game off the top of my head (standard, nemesis, resistance), but that's not nothing at least!

Yep! You can find the various contributions here; Most of this is just theorycrafting what could be possible, and what people might like to see in the future.

I'd love to see more powersets with the 'splash damage' mechanic, in which a single target takes full damage, while those around them take a smaller percentage of that damage. Sorta like a 'soft' AoE effect, I guess! Perhaps on some sort of blast set, where many of the single target powers having splash damage on them. Obviously, this would make a powerset with lower single target DPS, but higher AoE DPS, something of which I'd very much like to see.

There's only one Javelin animation shared by Cimeroran NPCs as well as Valkyrie and maybe Battle Maiden. Though there are a few animations from Thorny Assault and Martial Assault for different "throwing" powers.

@Galaxy Brain I like the idea! But yes, it might be a bit too distant from this particular topic to mesh well with it. That being said, if people can find interesting mechanics to include on powersets here in the thread, please don't hesitate to include them!

Since we've taken a bit of a grim turn, maybe I should put forward one of my peeves that is a little more light hearted? 😄 Why is everyone on their phones these days? I went to Pocket D and there was 4 different people texting on their phones. Sometimes even you'll see people standing right next to each other texting (I assume) each other! I've also seen people with laptops and tablets too, those guys take it to a whole new level... I dunno, maybe I just feel like I'm being left out of a text chain 😋

I can see a few hair and hat options working on the animal heads, and I'd like to see them implemented! It may be an issue trying to get them to look pretty, so the options might be a little scarce at first, especially for long hair or ones with weird hairlines.

There's a saying about glass houses 🤣

People want change, just the right kind of change. If you wanna see what CoH looks like where balance and game health arent considered in its content updates, take a look at WeHaveCake.

To my knowledge, Afterburner no longer has defense bonus, hence Evasive Manuevers absorbing that functionality.

Because they are entirely different aspects of the game?... The effort it takes to make an effective build, or max out your incarnate powers, is considerably more than just picking a power. Incarnate XP, Incarnate Salvage, Threads, Shards, Merits... not to mention you have to get to level 50 first.

Dunno about you guys, but if I was stood in fire, ideally I would like to be not stood in fire as fast as I can.

I know my original comment was how people argue this topic over and over, but now we've moved onto arguing the same point over and over...

That's simply not true. Hasten is just the topic in question, I'm sure the same would applyif we were talking about Hover, Combat Jumping, or any other Pool Power.

A lot of circling back in this thread, huh

Hey, you went there first. I dropped this ages ago... You're making things out to be personal attacks when they really aren't.

Sarcasm isn't a good look for you, but I suppose it beats prepubescent aggression. That's not the case though, it's already been stated that people opt for powers like Burnout, and with the updates to all travel powers coming out, Super Speed is going to be more of a contender too.

Right, so you just want Hasten to be a pick that doesn't influence the maximum number of power pools available? Great, we got there in the end didn't we? But even if that's the case, there's a cost to picking pool powers, which @Greycat put rather well. You're not just picking a new power, you're 'locking in' a pool, that's the sacrifice you need to make when considering builds like this. Hasten is popular, sure, so is Tough, and Combat Jumping, should they be made freely accessible outside of pools too? How far do we go with this? Do we just remove the concept of power pools entirely? These restrictions exist for a reason, to ensure you can't just hoard all the best powers from each pool and play an absolutely monster of a build, deal with it.

Then I'll defer to my earlier point. Do you just want Hasten to be inherent so you can pick 4 other power pools that aren't Speed? Because if that's the reasoning here, you're outta luck, you can't have everything.

Then what in god's green earth is your point? Let's recap; You want inherent Hasten You don't want inherent Hasten You want inherent Hasten again You want more than 4 pools You don't want more than 4 pools You want 4 pools plus Hasten inherent You want 4 pools plus Hasten but not inherent

it makes no difference if you only have TWO pool powers!

But... you CAN do that. Do you even know what point you're making at this point? It changes every time somebody challenges your idea.

The only semblance of logic I'm seeing here is that you want to have four power pools that aren't speed in your build, yet still have Hasten? That's so incredibly niche it can't possibly justify making Hasten inherent, or even 'generic' as you put it. You can't have everything, you're just gonna have to suck it up and accept that.

Then... it wouldn't be obstructive to your build then, would it?