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Combine it with Whirlwind's animation so you spin in a circle like a fiery sprinkler. No joke though, all the breath attacks really need their animation times looked at. Starting with the fire breaths would be fair.

That's a good point too, I did call it "Psych Up" originally but changed my mind at the last minute. Should've stuck with my first idea!

I also realized it would be trivially easy to turn those into a Dominator set too. Physical Assault Tier 1 Trash Toss - You hurl small objects at your target, dealing smashing/knockdown (uses propel's object pool, maybe removing some of the biggest objects like the forklifts) Tier 2 Heavy Blow - Moderate smashing damage, foe knockback Tier 3 Pocket Sand - You throw a handful of sand with great force, dealing minor smashing damage in a cone and temporarily blinding your opponents (-ToHit, -Perception) Tier 4 Rib Cracker - Heavy smashing, foe -Resist, -Dmg Tier 5 Rage - Yup, it's Rage Tier 6 Explosive Barrel - You hurl an exploding barrel at your target, dealing damage in a targeted AoE (smashing/fire + fire dot) Tier 7 Gunshow (Psych-Up?) - You flex your muscles to psych yourself up, healing yourself and boosting your recovery rate for a short time Tier 8 Rock Smash - You pick up a big chunk of concrete to throw at your target, dealing smashing and knockdown. (It's basically a non-snipe version of Bigger Rock) Tier 9 Footstomp - You stomp the ground at your feet, knocking down and disorienting nearby enemies (PBAOE smashing damage with knockdown) This trades the combo building of Muscle Manipulation for Rage, which is a pretty fair trade.

Super Strength Blast (Strength Blast? Muscle Blast? Hurling? Think Super Strength as a ranged attack set) Tier 1 Rock - You hurl a small rock at your target, dealing smashing/disorient Tier 2 Trash Toss - You hurl small objects at your target, dealing smashing/knockdown (uses propel's object pool, maybe removing some of the biggest objects like the forklifts) Tier 3 Pocket Sand - You throw a handful of sand with great force, dealing minor smashing damage in a cone and temporarily blinding your opponents (-ToHit, -Perception) Tier 4 Explosive Barrel - You hurl an exploding barrel at your target, dealing damage in a targeted AoE (smashing/fire + fire dot) Tier 5 Adrenaline Overload - You boost your ToHit significantly and your damage minimally for an extended period, but when the power wears off you are momentarily exhausted and do reduced damage Tier 6 Deafening Clap - You clap your hands with incredible force, dealing moderate smashing damage with a chance to disorient weaker foes Tier 7 Bigger Rock - You pick up a big chunk of concrete to throw at your target, dealing smashing and knockdown (Sniper Attack, should be able to do the job by changing the wind-up time for hurl's animation; lengthening it for the sniper while shortening it for the quick form) Tier 8 Tantrum - You stomp the ground at your feet, knocking down and disorienting nearby enemies (PBAOE Knockdown + Disorient) Tier 9 Biggest Rock - Like meteor, except you throw the rock yourself Muscle Manipulation Combo Combo increases damage slightly (5% per level?) while built up, or can be expended to boost the damage of a finisher Tier 1 First Strike - Light smashing damage, Foe disorient, combo builder Tier 2 Heavy Blow - Moderate smashing damage, foe knockback, combo builder Tier 3 Combat Readiness - Increase ToHit and damage, sets combo level to 3 Tier 4 Powerflex - Single target confuse, light psionic damage Tier 5 Rib Cracker - Heavy smashing, foe -Resist, -Dmg, combo builder Tier 6 Adrenaline Rush - PBAOE +Recovery, +Dmg, nearby ally +recovery (or nearby enemy -Dmg?) Tier 7 Ground Pound - PBAOE moderate smashing damage and knockdown, (finisher?) Tier 8 Dull Pain - Dull Pain Tier 9 Crushing Uppercut - Smashing damage, foe knockup, finisher Strength Blast is pretty much an excuse for a throwing set, but not a "small/sharp objects" throwing set so I don't think it deserves the "Throwing" name. I wanted to see if I could come up with a reasonable concept for super strength as a blast set, and the idea of someone just chucking a meteor at a spawn makes me grin. I don't think this steps too heavily on Seismic Blast since this is more about making rocks fly than making rocks that -fly I wanted a matching physical strength-based manipulation set, and Street Justice seemed an obvious choice since Blasters can already get Knock Out Blow via their APPs. Powerflex is hilarious, and Dull Pain got a spot because I think this is a manipulation set that really wants to be in melee. It's sort-of like the opposite of Trick Arrow in that regard. Edit: A strong argument could be made for swapping Dull Pain and Combat Readiness, since Muscle Manip doesn't get any finishers until later but probably wouldn't mind the extra survivability early.

I finally got a real chance to test this, and wow, Battle Axe is one monster of a tank primary now. I think it'll still be pretty good on brutes and other ATs with smaller AOEs but I think Tanks are where it'll really shine brightest. Which is pretty fitting, it was one of "the" Tank secondaries back in the day.

Oh, I wasn't getting any use out of Repulsion Field before. That's Force Field's T7 knockback aura, it's a very redundant power that doesn't benefit the set very much (mostly because it's completely outclassed by Force Bubble). The live version is a strong contender for "worst power in the entire game" due to the way it eats 1% of your max end every time it scores a knockback and the way it stops working almost entirely if you slot it for Knockback to Knockdown (the knockback gets reduced to 0.0018). It's only really beaten by Whirlwind which has all of the same problems but a funnier animation. Both are completely outclassed in utility by the inherent (free) seismic shockwaves from Seismic Blast. That's the power we kept. If a power had to go away, Repulsion Field is the one I'd have chosen. The power we're losing is Force Bubble, which is great for making space (even against mobs that resist it), cramming spawns into corners for blasters to nuke, and keeping ambushes off the back line while the tanks and scrappers finish the front-line murder. Imagine if you could toggle it between a repel and tractor, and pull everything into the tank?

Here are three more runs of each. To keep things as fair as I possibly could, I tried to run in to at least the edge of Repulsion Field's effective range for both tests even though Force Bubble doesn't need to. The only thing I didn't do (but probably should have) is quit and talk to Imperious between each run to reset the spawn's agro. Force Bubble's survival times: 18:01 (original run from the first vid, tried to stay at the edge of Force Bubble's radius) 18:48 (tried keeping to the edge of Repulsion Field's radius) 16:88 (tried keeping to the edge of Repulsion Field's radius) 4:61 (tried keeping to the edge of Repulsion Field's radius) Average TTD: 14:495 Repulsion Field's survival times 10:85 (original run from the first vid, tried to stay at the edge of Force Bubble's radius) 2:54 (tried keeping to the edge of Repulsion Field's radius) 4.33 (tried keeping to the edge of Repulsion Field's radius) 2.61 (tried keeping to the edge of Repulsion Field's radius) Average TTD: 5:285 Admittedly, Romans are an extremely hard match-up for either power since (at least the bosses and higher) have 300% repel resistance in addition to their massive knockback resistance. This was the hardest scenario I could think of to make either power useful. They're not mutually exclusive. We could have both.

Sure, absolutely. Give me a few minutes, we'll see how much variance there is. Edit: And I'll see if running in close enough to maybe score a knockdown (against the knockdown and repel resistant Cimerorans) makes a difference.

I tested that hypothesis. I took Force Bubble (+Dispersion Bubble, Scorpion Shield, Tough, and Weave) into a 4 star ITF to see how long it took the first spawn to kill me. Then I did the same with Repulsion Field + Dampening bubble (+Dispersion Bubble, Scorpion Shield, Tough, and Weave) with comparable IOs and level shifts. Force Bubble survives nearly a full 8 seconds longer, which is enough for a fallen tank to pop a wakie, a break free, a blue, and get at least one toggle up provided they're on the ball and don't have a better self rez available to do it all faster.

Force Bubble was useful for keeping Rikti away from bomb planters on the MSR, for cramming spawns into corners, making breathing room so people can pop awakens, and for holding surprise ambushes far enough away from a team that they can clean up what they're fighting before getting overwhelmed by adds. It's a very powerful tool that's difficult to use well. Repulsion Field might be able to keep Rikti away from bomb planters on the MSR provided there isn't much latency and you don't mind eating a lot of fire yourself in the process.

Force Bubble and Repulsion Field are two different powers with two different use cases. We're getting a buff to repulsion field in exchange for loosing the unique use cases Force Bubble had.

Correct, it's Debuff Resistance and an enemy Buff/Debuff Debuff, it has no impact on their actual combat performance unless they use a lot of buff/debuff in their primary attack set (like dark or swords).

I don't necessarily think that's true. Ancillaries are the right place for an escape power and come at the level range where an escape power could be genuinely helpful to the ATs that get access to it. The PFF in the Ancillaries could have a name change to Emergency Force Field to make its intended use clearer and be left unchanged. I feel a Tier 1 power should give you an idea what the set is capable of. Storm gets Gale, Time and Cold get a hefty debuff slows, Traps and Trick Arrows get utility immobs, and Force Field gets... a situational escape tool that primarily enables ghosting combat. In that regard, PFF may very well be the outright worst Tier 1 because it directly prevents new or inexperienced users from participating in combat. Making it a personal defense shield that encourages new bubblers to play closer to their scrappers/tanks makes a fair amount of sense. There are a lot of options they could take with PFF. Things like: - A soloing toggle that's mutually exclusive with D-Bubble - A low-defense auto power that gives a little extra safety when the toggles drop - A personal absorb shield that builds up over time - A defense that scales based on current HP so at high health it provides marginal benefit but at low health it buys you a few extra seconds for Force Bolt to recharge. There's a lot that could be done that would give PFF more general utility without breaking the power curve, it's not like Force Field can't casually soft cap pretty much every defense with just D-Bubble and pool powers alone. Situational powers are nice. 'Dump' powers that you don't have to take are nice. But the low-tier powers should still probably be the ones people should want to try out even if you don't wind up keeping them in your final build for whatever reason. In that regard, it's the exact same as Force Bubble. Extremely powerful in the right situation. I personally feel Force Bubble has more general utility for the non-extreme portions of the game and I'm sorry you don't feel the same way. It's great that Detention Field has use cases for speedrunning hard mode content. I'm glad you find it to be useful. It would be even more useful if it was a 30 second timed toggle (like the Hybrid Incarnates) so you could choose to turn it off before the end of its normal 30 second duration. That change alone would make it a lot more useful for standard team play for say, shutting down Tsoo Sorcerers, eliminating a missed sapper, or even preventing a Master Illusionist from summoning pets until the team's ready for them if you get two in the same spawn. Detention Field existing isn't really a problem. I don't currently feel it's a good power but it could be improved, it could be made less frustrating for teammates who aren't expecting the single rarest control type in the game and don't want to wait around for 30 seconds for it to wear off when it takes 5-15 seconds for the average 8-man PUG to clear most spawns. I just really like Force Bubble, and not just because it lets you yeet Level 1 Hellions so hard the server just deletes them (that's just an added bonus). I am genuinely upset that we're losing the specific niche utility it provided as there is no other power in the game that provides that same niche utility. I wish I at least knew the rationale behind killing it in favor of the least useful power in Force Field's arsenal (Repulsion Field). Is it too disruptive in Rikti Raids? Is it the least-used toggle power in the game (I'd find that hard to believe when Whirlwind exists)? Is it the least chosen power in the set (and if so, are they taking into account that it's a Tier 9 and is it still the least taken power if you only look at level 50 characters)? Do they just dislike it the way I personally dislike Repulsion Field? They made Repulsion Field better! The people who really enjoy knockdowns will enjoy the sheer chaos the new Repulsion Field can sew. I appreciate that! But it's not Force Bubble, Force Bubble had entirely different use cases which people have already explained. Heck, speaking of improving existing powers: what if Force Bubble was a 25 foot repel with a 26-55 foot tractor so it simultaneously tries to keep things from getting too close while also not letting them get too far away? Force Bubble was as close as the OG Devs could get to programming a 'force wall' type power. They couldn't really make it a temporary impassable physics object (imagine if that broke and literally trapped players forever?) so... it was made a big ol' repel field. But force works both ways, what if it was a dual mode power so it could be either a repel or a tractor? They could make the tractor relatively weak or decrease the tick frequency and I imagine Rikti Raids would still love it even if it only gently encouraged everything to get off the ramps and move closer to the middle of the bowl. There are things that could be done to improve strong but niche powers and/or strong but potentially problematic powers. Detention Field has just as much potential to be disruptive on a Rikti Raid as Force Bubble, I just don't think anyone who's used one would ever intentionally hit a pylon with a 30 second Untouchable. It's why I'm saying I hope they give Force Field a little more development time. I'm glad they're looking at it, it's a set that does need some love and attention, especially when compared to more modern sets. There are a lot of things they could do to improve the set that could give the niche powers a little more general utility. The debuff in Force Bomb is a great touch but I already enjoyed lobbing knockdown basketballs for the sweet Force Feedback procs, I love what they've done with D-Bubble, it's a minor improvement that takes a 5-star power and makes it even better in a way I didn't even know the game was capable of. I just wish there was a way to provide numbers as to how losing Force Bubble will impact my play, but I can't. It's not a power that generates numbers, it's a power that prevents numbers from being generated at all. Turn on Force Bubble and see if you can't escort a hostage out of a mission just as easily as if you'd used PFF. All I can do is say "I really like this power, and these are the reasons why. I'm sorry you (and this is a general 'you' not addressing anyone specifically) don't seem to like it as much as I do, and I do understand that it's a niche power that's difficult to use well. Are you really sure it needs to go away?"

I know how you feel, it's still "the" iconic Defender set for me. Force Bubble and Repulsion Field (live) are two different powers with two different use cases. Force Bubble is a hugely powerful tool for repositioning enemy mobs or to let teams deal with multiple surprise ambushes or even buy them a few moments of safety to recover from a wipe or near-wipe. Repulsion Field is... ok, admittedly finding even an edge case for Repulsion Field is really difficult. Toggle it on for a few seconds if an ambush spawns literally on top of you? Soloing but too lazy to use force bolt? Playing with falling leaves in a park? Removing a very powerful, unique, set-defining tool to slightly enhance a much worse PBAOE knockback aura that very few people took (because it's just hard to find any excuse to use Repulsion Field) and that few people take after the change (for exactly the same reasons they don't take it now) is... just disappointing.

Having just played this on Brainstorm, I'm unhappier than I thought I'd be. I feel like the Force Field rework needs more time in the oven. Personal Force Field Same as on live, same problems as live. This is a terrible Tier 1, it really needs to be changed. It's a selfish escape tool in a set that has just lost the only tool it had to leverage its own survival to help the team recover from a wipe (Force Bubble). Turn it into a "selfish" version of D-Bubble, with 2x the defense (20% for defenders, 15% for other ATs) that only applies to the user. Give it all of D-Bubble's status resistances, then make it mutually exclusive with D-Bubble. That way the user can run the selfish self-buff or the selfless team buff, while also letting new players understand that Forcefield is a very survivable set and that they really can get pretty close to the scrappers and tanks without dying. Force Bolt (now Repulsion Bolt) It's not a repel, it's never been a repel, so why the name change? I like giving Force Field a debuff somewhere and -resist is really good, but Force Bolt is the wrong place for it. I never really took or used Force Bolt but it was a good, usable power. Some people swear by it as a mitigation tool, and for all of Force Field's (too numerous) mitigation tools, Force Bolt was the one most people actually like. Making it a debuff encourages irresponsible, indiscriminate use, which means you may not have it for actual mitigation when you need it. Dispersion Bubble This is a good change, and sorely needed. Thank you for this. Psst. Hey. Rename it "Force Field" so it's more obvious that this is the set's key power. Detention Field Not a field. "Situationally Useful." Does anyone remember Force Field even has a 30 second untouchable? Yup, it's still a 30 second untouchable. Typically used once or maybe twice by players who don't realize what it is they've taken and then respecced out of at the earliest opportunity (or after it gets them kicked out of a PUG). This is a bad egg (pun intended) with a good and noticeable effect. The particle effect would make for a great-looking single target buff, just saying. 😉 Repulsion Field I hate to say that I hate this change, but I hate this change. Repulsion and Knockback are two different effects with two different uses. They are not interchangeable. They do not want to live together in the same power where neither of them get to really do what they want. On live, I use Force Bubble to keep Rikti away from the people planting bombs on the Mothership. I use it to push weird spawns closer together or to cram them into corners. I use it to push mobs away from a team wipe to give people a chance to pick themselves up. That's only really possible with Force Bubble as it currently exists because of its sheer size, which this... lacks. This is tiny, it scatters mobs everywhere, it's just Repulsion Field without the 1% max end per knockback end drain. It sacrifices everything that makes Force Bubble a (difficult to use but) very strong power in service of a knockback power nobody takes. Worse, because of the way Repulsion Field's knockback ticks work, slotting it for KB to KD drops the magnitude of the knockback to something like 0.0018. After 4-5 seconds you might score a knockdown on a minion or LT, and since KB to KD disables the repel (the effect I actually want) that means slotting this for KB to KD makes this a power that does absolutely nothing but still costs a lot of endurance anyway. Repulsion Bomb (now Force Bomb) Never did repel, so this name change I like. Activation time change is much needed. Remember how I said Force Bolt was a bad place for a debuff before? This is the opposite. Force Bomb is a power that's always been pretty good while also being a nice Force Feedback carrier. Remove the damage entirely, boost the debuff to like -30% (Defender) -20% (other ATs), keep the stun at 30% (or just let it mag2 minions?), it's all good. The damage was always the weakest component of this power so just turn it into a good, strong AOE knockdown and debuff and I think everyone will be pretty happy to free throw glowing basketballs at people. Force Bubble (now Dampening Bubble) I don't know who this is for. Is it "better" than Force Bubble? Maybe? I guess? I'm one of the people who really likes Force Bubble. I can't really say I noticed the effects of this. Debuff Resistance is one of those things where, if you need it, you don't really want to have to think about applying it. You should be applying it with other effects, getting the Debuff Resistances incidentally, and not realizing that you were needing it at all. I don't think anyone is going to notice whether this is up or down, except in the most extreme content. It doesn't feel like a Tier 9. It doesn't really feel like anything, even the mobs don't notice it. Just stealing this from my old suggestion thread: Ablative Shield - Fortitude for Force Field A single target, high-value Absorption shield (perhaps even % of target max HP based so it benefits tanks and blasters proportionally?) with a 15-30 second duration that also grants the target a hefty amount of defense debuff resistance so it's still useful for the full duration even for people who are already soft-capped. And maybe some other lingering buffs just for flavor, like a modest regen or recovery boost to show that the target is getting a brief reprieve from combat. Then put it on a cooldown on par with fortitude / frostwork so it's not really spammable. Say, 60 seconds base. Maybe 90, depending on whether or not anything else gets bundled in. "It's like a Detention Field, but for your friends!" Edit: I know the difference between Live and Brainstorm, I swear! 😄

The Z-Axis for D-Bubble's sparkles is roughly 5 ft lower than the z-axis for the D-Bubble itself. I didn't jump on live to test it there, but D-Bubble's "Sparkles" are too low and don't match up with the actual shield. https://i.imgur.com/TImqMtN.mp4

I'm a long-time Force Field player. My first 50 on live was a bubbler, back when the bubbles were all single target; and I still break out my homecoming bubbler on the regular. I love a lot of the new changes with Force Field, and first of all I'd like to thank you specifically for the lingering Dispersion Bubble as well as Repulsion Bomb improvements! Unfortunately, I feel two of the three least useful powers in the set went untouched. It's nice to have skippable powers, but I think PFF at least could be improved. Personal Force Field - Live Implementation With about 2x the defense as the (non-Hard ITF) soft cap and 40% resistance to everything, this power... lets you run away from a fight and abandon your team or allies? Actively removes the user from combat? Encourages the user to leech or otherwise not participate in the game? PFF sets a really bad example for what the Force Field is actually capable of. Force Field has no real way to leverage its own survival (other than passing out awakens) in a team wipe situation and since PFF also selfishly disables most of the rest of the set, using it to save your own life may directly cause an actual team wipe when your passive bubbles drop. PFF falls into a "so powerful it's bad" situation, it's just too situational to be useful. Why this is a bad Tier 1: Current PFF is an escape tool. Rather than being a safety blanket, It teaches players new to the set that they need to get good at hiding or even avoiding combat entirely. The current implementation is fine in ancillaries (where the escape tool may actually be actually warranted) but it's a terrible Tier 1. The improvement: Personal Force Field - TLDR: "selfish" D-Bubble Remove the damage resistance entirely, and give PFF the same defenses (and mez resistances) as Dispersion Bubble, but with the base defense value set to 2x the values of Dispersion Bubble (so 20% base defense for defenders instead of D-Bubble's current 10%). Remove the "only affecting self" limitation and make PFF mutually exclusive with Dispersion Bubble (the same way Stealth and Infiltration are mutually exclusive with each other). This effectively turns PFF into a 'selfish' version of Dispersion Bubble, allowing the user to play Baby Sentinel while soloing OR deploy the d-bubble to protect a team. Why this is a better Tier 1: This lets new users participate in combat, but also teaches them that Force Field is a very safe set, which helps them build the confidence to stay close to their front liners right from the get-go. I'd also personally recommend changing the name of Dispersion Bubble to "Force Field" to make the connection clearer. It also seems warranted since D-Bubble is the linchpin power in the set and we're losing Force Bubble so why not? Detention Field - Live Implementation Hoo boy, what good things can I say about this? It's probably not the worst power in the game? I think that's a fair statement. This is an extremely situational "emergency" power in a set that generally has enough survivability that it doesn't need any emergency powers. Let's get into the grit: Detention Field claims it is an intangible, but it's lying. Detention Field applies 3 statuses at high magnitude (4.77 for Masterminds and Corruptors, 5.95 for Defenders, and 7.45 for Controllers): Immobilize, Only Affecting Self, and Untouchable, which is like intangible except nothing can attack an untouchable target. So Detention Field is a 30s Untouchable. Which happens to be just long enough to make everyone on the team hate you for using it. I won't be heartbroken it Detention Field stays, but if I could have my way I'd move Force Bomb into its spot and make a new Tier 8. Something like: Ablative Shield - Frostwork for Force Field This should be a single target, high-value Absorption shield (perhaps even % of target max HP based so it benefits tanks and blasters proportionally?) with a 15-30 second duration that also grants the target a hefty amount of defense debuff resistance (something FF currently lacks) so it's still useful for the full duration even for people who are already soft-capped. And maybe some other lingering buffs just for flavor, like a modest regen or recovery boost to show that the target is getting a brief reprieve from combat. Then put it on a cooldown on par with fortitude / frostwork so it's not really spammable. Say, 60 seconds base. Maybe 90, depending on whether or not anything else gets bundled in. It's still thematically like detention field, but for your friends instead! Since it's probably too late, and since Masterminds deserve to have fun too, allow Detention Field to be cast on MM pets to Untouchable them but also mega-taunt all nearby enemies into attacking that pet for a bit. Show all those the Fake Nemesis that turnabout is fair play.

Found a hole in the geometry of Tempest Quay in Peregrine Island. [2751.4 -17.2 -6303.3] It looks like one of the beaches raised itself up.

As a way to get around one of the game's color limitations, adding perfectly normal human arms to the robotic arms options seems like a really good way to allow players to use certain full-body tops in new and interesting ways while taking advantage of an asset that already exists in-game: the bare arm geometry that certain jackets-with-sleeves options already use.

Edited to post an actual bug: This may be known already, but Dark Armor's Dark Embrace is missing a particle effect on the upper left arm.

I'd like to see "play teleport animation on defeat" (like Arbiter Sands) as an option for bosses, so you can have a boss very obviously 'flee' while still letting the players defeat it.

I'm a long-time Force Field player. My first 50 on live was a bubbler, back when the bubbles were all single target; and I still break out my homecoming bubbler on the regular. Unfortunately, with the new endgame content, the age of Force Fields is really starting to show. The set still has strong potential, but I feel it's now in very real danger of becoming completely obsolete. First, I'd like to review the set as it currently stands. The following are my own personal opinions, which may not align with yours. Personal Force Field - Utility 0.5/5 With about 2x the defense as the soft cap and 40% resistance to everything, this power... lets you run away from a fight and abandon your team or allies? And that's if you can push the button quickly enough to not die during its 2.03s casting time. Unfortunately, Force Field has no real way to leverage its own survival in a team wipe situation and since PFF also selfishly disables most of the rest of the set, using it to save your own life may result in an actual team wipe. PFF falls into a "so powerful it's bad" situation, it's just too situational. Deflection Shield - Utility 4/5 The bread and butter of Force Field, granting allies Smashing, Lethal, and Melee defense as well as a 40% (!) resistance to toxic damage. It's good, but it could be better in a way that probably wouldn't be game breaking. Probably by adding psi defense or Defense Debuff Resistance, two things Force Field currently lacks. Force Bolt - Utility 1/5 Some people find knockbacks useful for mitigation when soloing, but Force Field has so much personal mitigation already that Force Bolt has very limited value outside of low level aside from playing Hellion Bowling in Atlas Park (and even at that, Force Bubble is secretly way better since it can yeet level 1 hellions so hard the server just deletes them rather than trying to figure out where they went). I'm not here to debate the merits of knockbacks, Force Bolt is fine but would be a power that could potentially be cut from the set if something better comes up. Insulation Shield - Utility 5/5 The other half of Force Field's raison d'etre, Insulation Shield grants defense to Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative, Ranged, and AOE as well as a an 86.5% resistance to endurance drain (take that, sappers!). Insulation Shield is amazing and I wouldn't touch it. Detention Field - Utility 0.1/5 One of the best powers in the set is followed by one of the worst. Another borderline mitigation tool, this would be better if bosses were a regular source of team wipes but the few things you'd want to use this on (surprise AVs) will probably resist it. Force Field is trying to play baby controller and it picked all the worst power types to do it with. In my experience, teammates hate intangible and this one lasts 30 seconds where the average Master Illusionist only stays intangible for about 5. I have been kicked from teams for using this, and Force Field doesn't really need it for solo survivability either. Even if it was high enough magnitude to intangible an AV, the AV would still get a full 30 seconds of free health regen out of it. The only reason this shouldn't be the very first power on the chopping block is because Repulsion Field is worse. Dispersion Bubble - Utility 5/5 Offering PBAOE defense against most (The Def (All) is a lie :D, it's defense all except the incredibly rare Toxic!) as well as powerful mag 8.65 resistance to Hold, Immobilize, and Stun, D-Bubble is the core that makes the other good powers in Force Field work. Probably the single best power in the set and the one most people probably think of when they think of Force Field. Repulsion Field - Utility (can I go negative? Repulsion Field is an active detriment to the user) 0/5 The worst power in the set, and I doubt many people would argue. Repulsion Field is a PBAOE knockback that consumes 1% max endurance (unmodifiable) for each target knocked back in addition to its already hefty 0.78 end/s toggle cost. You might think "Wait, that doesn't sound so bad, just slot a KB to KD in it and turn yourself into a living ice patch!" Except that doesn't work. I've tested it. KB to KD drops the mag from 6.23 to 0.089, because it applies knockdown every second the target is in range and at the standard 0.67 KD you'd score a knockdown and then immediately yeet the target from the knockdown zone. So with KB to KD the enemy stands in range getting mildly annoyed for 2-10 seconds until Repulsion Field racks up enough magnitude to score a knockdown, scores 2-3 knockdowns, then clears and has to start over. So you're looking at roughly 8-12 ticks of knockdown consuming 8-12% of your maximum endurance to score 2-3 knockdowns on a single minion over a span of about 8 seconds. This is just a hilariously bad power. Despite having "repulsion" in the name, it doesn't do repel. Repulsion Bomb - Utility 2/5 Another mitigation power, I actually have no complaints about Repulsion Bomb aside from its huge 3.07 second casting time. It's a big AOE knockdown with a mag 2 minion stun which is great for breaking up a fresh mob's alpha; because it's AOE it's also a great mule for Force Feedback Chance for +Recharge assuming your primary doesn't have a faster-casting power that does the job better (like M30 grenade). I would gladly trade the stun component for a faster cast time. Another power with "Repulsion" in the name that doesn't do repel. Force Bubble - Utility 2/5 Despite having 'force' in the name, this is a PBAOE Mag 10 repel with a massive 50ft radius. This is a far better power than Repulsion Field, costs less endurance, affects a much larger area, and doesn't eat 1% of the user's maximum endurance for every enemy that thinks about touching it. Anything in the field will also suffer ticks of a 0.1 mag knockdown, so anything that resists the Repel (like AVs and some bosses) will start eating knockdowns if they don't resist those too. This is a great way to keep mobs at a safe distance, to 'reset' a botched engage, or (in the right places) to cram multiple spawns into a corner so blasters can blow them all up. It's a situational but very powerful Tier 9 and I love it. So, Force Field is a weird set. It's got powerful team buffs coupled to utility knockdowns and baby control powers. What it doesn't have are enemy debuffs of any kind, psi and toxic defense, defense debuff resistance, or any sort of instant-gratification endgame damage mitigation power. As such, I've got a couple of ideas for power tweaks and even new powers that could potentially replace some of the worse powers in the set (like Repulsion Field and Detention Field). Current Power Suggestions: Add Defense Debuff Resistance to one of the powers in the set, since Force Field does very little to protect against "cascading defense failure." My personal suggestion would be to add it to Dispersion Bubble; but it would also work in either deflection or insulation shield. Adding Defense Debuff Resistance somewhere would mean Force Fielders are still useful to players who are already at the defense cap, and would be much appreciated by sets like Ninjutsu which have lower DDR. I'd personally prefer to put this in Dispersion Bubble, but if it does go into deflection or insulation shield it should probably be made exclusive (so multiple bubblers on the same team can't stack DDR). Add psi defense to Deflection Shield or Insulation Shield. Personal Force Field Remove the damage resistance, and reduce the defense value of PFF to 2x the value of Dispersion Bubble (so 20% defense for defenders), add all of Dispersion Bubble's mez resistances (and defense debuff resistance if that gets added to D-Bubble). Remove the "only affecting self" limitation and make PFF mutually exclusive with Dispersion Bubble (the same way Stealth and Infiltration are mutually exclusive with each other). This effectively turns PFF into a 'selfish' version of Dispersion Bubble, allowing the user to play Baby Sentinel while soloing OR deploy the d-bubble to protect a team. Repulsion Bomb Change the name to Force Bomb. It's not an AOE Knockback anymore (thank you so much, OG Devs!), and it doesn't do repel. - Idea: remove the disorient component and reduce the cast time to something reasonable, like 1.5 seconds. Move this from Tier 8 (!) to Tier 5 (Detention Field's current spot) Detention Field This idea is definitely too powerful for a support set, and is also much too strong to exist at Detention Field's current power tier. - Idea: Turn Detention Field into a PBAOE intangible toggle (like Dimension Shift except PBAOE) with escalating costs and/or a mag 1000 immobilize on the user. While active, all targets (friendly and enemy) inside the radius are dimension shifted, allowing them to attack other intangible targets and take no damage from normal targets. This would give Force Field a tool to protect against surprise ambushes or otherwise limit the number of things that can effectively attack protected allies. This should probably suppress Force Field's other toggles while active, and teams (and especially raids!) will still hate this and probably kick you for using it. If you do go with this, move it up to Tier 8. New Power Ideas: Ablative Shield A single target high-value Absorption shield (perhaps even % of target max HP based?) with a 15-30 second duration that also grants the target a hefty amount of defense debuff resistance for the duration. It should probably be on a long cooldown, say--about the same as fortitude? So 60 seconds base. Have a blaster who loves engaging? Tank took way more damage from an AV than they expected? Scrapper keeps beefing it to Romans javelins? Something just went completely weird? Ablative Shield can actually help! Dump Repulsion Field for this, please! Disruption Bubbles / Aneurism Insert joke about the invisible woman putting a force field in someone's brain. Idea: A single target high value -regen, -healing received debuff about on par with benumb on a long-ish cooldown. Something like this would be a good fit for Detention Field's current spot. Incarcerate Wraps the target's joints in force fields, greatly reducing their ability to move, dodge, or block incoming attacks. Idea: A single target -recharge, slow, -def, -resist debuff on a short-ish cooldown. Another contender for Detention Field's current spot, with the added benefit of sharing the same general concept as Detention Field. I don't think any teams would complain about Force Field having a reasonably strong single target slow that also makes the affected target easier to kill. I love Force Field. It's just such a dated set, I think it needs a little something to modernize it--and I think absorb is that something. Getting rid of the almost redundant Repulsion Field in exchange for Ablative Shield is my #1 wish for Force Field; followed by replacing Detention Field with a debuff; and then changing PFF to be a 'selfish' version of D-Bubble. Even if nothing else gets adopted or considered I think absorption fits in perfectly with Force Field's concept; and if it works for Force Field, a big single target absorb might also fit into Sonic Resonance pretty nicely as well...

Sure, if it's feasible, that would be nice too. I just figured changing the lighting in Icon was probably comparatively easy. Even if the Icons were just set to match Facemaker's settings it'd be fine. It beats waiting out a night cycle to get a good screenshot. The green screen room's a great idea. I know some people go to great lengths to make things like that in their SG bases.

The lighting in Icon has always been weird and kind-of awful for actually looking at costumes. Since Icon's now hiring more surgeons, would it be possible to add some more diffused lighting from various angles to help make Icon a little more user friendly? Even just setting it to a permanent "the city at noon" light level would be a pretty solid improvement. For that matter, could we possibly add a non-green light to AE? The green lighting in there washes out costumes and makes everything look muddled and dark. It gets a little rough when I'm trying to run SG mates through AE arcs I've written. I'd hope it would be possible to make the lighting in AE less harsh without completely ruining the aesthetic. Right now it's like an SG base set to low green, mid green, and high green lighting. If the mid green was swapped to a gray/white light it should soften the lighting in AE and make it a little easier on the eyes without completely ruining the effect? I'm not sure how lighting actually works in buildings, so this may be impossible, but it's been on my wish list for a while and I figured now was as good a time as any to bring it up.

Swashbuckling Assault A Sword and Pistol set for Dominators, combining right-hand broadsword options with left-handed pistols. Level 1) Snap Shot - Ranged, Minor DMG(*) Level 2) Slash - Melee, Moderate DMG(Lethal), Foe -DEF Level 4) Magnum Shot - High DMG(*) Level 10) Parry - Melee, Minor DMG(Lethal), Self +DEF(Melee, Ranged) Explanation) Lower defense values than the melee class versions (6-8%?), but with the slight Jedi twist of trading lethal defense for ranged defense Level 16) Swap Ammo - Choose between Lethal/-Def (standard), Smashing/-Res (concussion), and Energy/No Secondary Effect (laser animations) Explanation) Since this set lacks Dual Pistols' bullet bending and doesn't have a build up equivalent, I feel letting it toggle between the three most common damage types for its pistol attacks is probably fair. Switching to energy could also switch the set to using the Mastermind laser blasts, which would be a fun way to proliferate those. A lot of pistols in the game already look like they should be laser pistols but aren't. This is the 'signature power' of the set. Level 20) Whirling Sword - PBAoE, Moderate DMG(Lethal), Foe -DEF Level 28) Bracing Fire - Narrow Ranged (Cone), High DoT(*) Expanation) Heavy Burst with a pistol, after which the Dominator drops their current pistol and just redraws a new one. If this doesn't work, a pistol version of the M30 grenade or robotics Plasma Grenade that isn't affected by Swap Ammo is probably fair too Level 35) Execute - Melee, Superior DMG(*) Expanation) A point-blank shot with the pistol. Could easily just swap with Executioner's Shot, but I wanted at least one 'gun in melee' ability Level 38) Disembowel - Melee, Superior DMG(Lethal), Foe -DEF(All), Knockup If Swap Ammo is too powerful or if the lack of a build-up equivalent too crippling, this could be a 'sword and laser pistol' set easily enough. If only to give the playerbase another set we can pew-pew-pew with the Robotics lasers on.