Ice or Fire melee without swords

[Chalkarts]

I want to play with some ice or fire melee but I have a problem.

I loathe the graphics for the sword powers.

I don't know why but they irritate me.

It's totally a me problem, lol.

Is it feasible to still have a powerful tank/brute of either kind skipping the sword powers?

[Chalkarts]

Why did this get moved to suggestions/Feedback?

I'm not suggesting the game remove the graphics or changing them in any way.

I'm asking if its ok to skip them.

[Caulderone]

Brute could do Scorch, Cremate, Incinerate for ST attacks.  Less damage, but doable.  But, stuck with FSC for AoE.

 

Tanker can do Scorch and Incinerate, but you pretty much need one more ST attack.  You could pull that from a power pool (cross punch, maybe), but then it isn't a "fire" attack.  You could do Combustion and skip FSC.  I caved and just use Fire Sword, though I would really like another animation option, and I took FSC because I wanted the extra AoE.

 

So, it can be done, but your damage will not be "max".

 

 

[Redlynne]

Frozen Fists, Frost, Frozen Touch and Frozen Aura combine well enough into a decent attack chain.  No icicle swords required.

[MTeague]

This is why I have a Fire/Fire Sentinel instead of a Fire/Fire Scrapper or Brute.

[Herotu]

I'd love to see options for either ALL swords (fire/ice)/mallet (stone) or NO swords/mallets. 

 

But there are many things I'd like to see in terms of power animation options.

[Herotu]

19 hours ago, Herotu said:

I'd love to see options for either ALL swords (fire/ice)/mallet (stone) or NO swords/mallets. 

 

But there are many things I'd like to see in terms of power animation options.

To expand, it seems pretty obvious that the power system, much as I love it, isn't adequate for full customisation. I acknowledge and respect the fact that it was originally a static system with NO power customisation so I'm delighted to be able to do ANY changes to the powers.

 

But let's be honest, if we were redesigning it, we'd have something vague like

Choose Ranged/Melee, Beam or Projectile

"ranged beam arm-as--cannon",

"ranged beam weapon-based effect",

"ranged beam eye", etc

Then;

"Energy effect beam"

"Fire effect beam"

"Ice effect beam"

"Laser effect beam"

etc.

 

... I don't expect the devs to go this crazy with City of Heroes, it's just my dream for a game that will never be made... *sigh* /wipes a tear.