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We've renamed the set from Shock Therapy to Electrical Affinity. We feel this new name is more in-keeping with the current roster of support powersets. If you have any thoughts or comments relating to the name change please post them here. If you have any feedback for the powerset itself, please use this thread.

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Honestly, this is going to be a pretty useless thread because everything is purely subjective. I prefer the old name, Shock Therapy, though. I know that "Affinity" tacked on to the end of a set does keep with the current naming convention, but Shock Therapy sounded way cooler.

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Nothing really to say except for thank you for taking the feedback into account about the name. As I said in the other thread, I didn't find the name offensive as much as I thought it was more fitting as a name for a power or character rather than a power set.

 

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I like the name "Therapy" more than "Affinity".  Affinity has no correlation to electricity at all.  If you're looking at sets like Sonic "Resonance", that has a connection to reverberation and sound.  Nature "Affinity" does have a connection to more biological connections.

 

It also doesn't follow the standard naming conventions like Ice>Cold, Fire>Thermal does for elemental sets.

 

Personally prefer Shock Therapy but would settle for Electro-Therapy, Electric Therapy or some more thematically linked name.

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Just now, Leogunner said:

I like the name "Therapy" more than "Affinity".  Affinity has no correlation to electricity at all.  If you're looking at sets like Sonic "Resonance", that has a connection to reverberation and sound.  Nature "Affinity" does have a connection to more biological connections.

 

It also doesn't follow the standard naming conventions like Ice>Cold, Fire>Thermal does for elemental sets.

 

Personally prefer Shock Therapy but would settle for Electro-Therapy, Electric Therapy or some more thematically linked name.

Electrical Empowerment, perhaps?

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Electrical Affinity is a fine name. If names should sound like others, it certainly pairs with Darkness Affinity. But if this section is intended to play more as a naming suggestion thread, I'd like to throw one more into the ring: Electrical Transformation, the changing of electricity in form and nature.

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It lost something removing 'Shock'.

'Electrical' may adhere to cannon but it is definitely not going to stand out and will sound similar to others potentially causing confusion.

 

@Leogunner'Therapy' is really the part folks had issue with.

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28 minutes ago, Troo said:

It lost something removing 'Shock'.

'Electrical' may adhere to cannon but it is definitely not going to stand out and will sound similar to others potentially causing confusion.

 

@Leogunner'Therapy' is really the part folks had issue with.

idk, we've managed just fine with Fire Blast, Fire Control, Fiery Aura, Fiery Melee etc etc without it causing any particular problems. Not a lot of people wonder why their Blaster doesn't get any imps at level 32.

 

 

I do think "electrical" sounds worse than just "electric" because it's one syllable longer.

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I have an issue with Affinity, personally, being sort of a bland and generic name that I associated with Controller secondaries moreso than Defender primaries.

 

Electrical Induction would be my only suggestion, which also acronyms it to EI (Unique) instead of EA (Electric Armor, Energy Armor, and a cash-grabbing company 😄 )

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EA.. EA.. EA Elec/ /Elec /Elec Elec/ /Elec //Elec (it's just something to keep in mind if/as this proliferates @Blastit)

 

I find myself as an energy melee'r confused time to time just by EM & EM. I guess my reading comprehension is unusually low and that is just my crux to bear.

 

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24 minutes ago, Troo said:

EA.. EA.. EA Elec/ /Elec /Elec Elec/ /Elec //Elec (it's just something to keep in mind if/as this proliferates @Blastit)

 

I find my self as an energy melee'r confused time to time just by EM & EM. I guess my reading comprehension is unusually low and it's just my crux to bear.

 

 

40 minutes ago, Blastit said:

I do think "electrical" sounds worse than just "electric" because it's one syllable longer.

Electric Boogaloo? /EB

Electric Support? /ES

Static Cling? /SC

Electrical Interference? /EI

 

Lots of viable options that don't reference the dark side of psychiatric treatments.

 

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29 minutes ago, Troo said:

EA.. EA.. EA Elec/ /Elec /Elec Elec/ /Elec //Elec (it's just something to keep in mind if/as this proliferates @Blastit)

 

I find my self as an energy melee'r confused time to time just by EM & EM. I guess my reading comprehension is unusually low and it's just my crux to bear.

 

It's true that people are messy about referring to their "Fire/Fire" character but if they just mention the archetype the number of things it could be is sufficiently reduced. Electrical Melee and Energy Melee are one of fairly few sets that belong on the same "side" of an AT and has the same acronym. Unless they add some kind of Energy Affinity, which admittedly sounds like something that could eventually happen, Electrical Affinity isn't going to be too bad.

 

 

If CoH didn't have a well established dry and clinical naming tradition for power sets, something like Electropower is punchy and comic-booky enough.

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