War Mace for Blasters

[Blastit]

We've got a ninja secondary and a martial artist secondary, so how about a barbarian secondary? Pilfer a bunch of attacks from war mace, battle axe and broadsword, split their damage equally between lethal/smashing and let you pick any mace, axe or sword for your weapon model. A standard 8-10 second recharge blap, a PBAoE attack, a big blap and then a fourth attack (a cone? a parry? a throwing axe?). Then the rest could be stuff like a PBAoE fear, a leap attack, some kind of single-target stun, maybe replace Build Up with a PBAoE damage buff scaling with the number of enemies around you, and of course the sustain toggle. Not sure what that should be exactly but it shouldn't be hard to come up with something appropriate.

 

Actually you could have a PBAoE that causes fear and buffs recovery, regen and damage. Call it War Cry. A bit like the elec power, I guess. Very flavourful but possibly too many effects at once.

 

 

A pretty close combat focused secondary but I think it would be cool. Maybe call it Berzerking. Roughhousing. Conanism. Fight Manipulation (is that legal?).

[Outrider_01]

Almost would agree.  Almost.  But got to /Granger it, as much as I love Mace it wouldn't work for Blasters.

 

Can't have blasters be any more awesome, OP and frightening to the enemy as they charge at them wearing tighty whities or string bikinis.

[Blastit]

Tighty whities are not strictly required. They can be any colour.

 

 

Conceptually you could go for a full barbarian or elven warrior by taking archery, or you can go for all kinds of genie or elemental warrior styles, some kinda super street thug with a baseball bat and guns, space warriors with rad-blasting gloves or beam rifles. It's a way of going for weapons granting elemental powers without playing someone with survivability. You can kinda do that with the ninja sword already and iirc the martial assault set has a sword for dominators to do that too. But this set idea would lean much more heavily into that.

 

 

 

If anyone is having a hard time linking barbarians and blasters imagine this scenario:

 

 

You are really buff. Your nudity levels are at 72% and rising. You have an axe. If you rush at someone and chop them you can really fuck them up. But if someone else who is also large and nude and armed rushes at you and chops you, they can really fuck you up. This is the spirit of blasterdom.

[Haijinx]

what is Granger? 

[MunkiLord]

5 hours ago, Haijinx said:

what is Granger? 

The ones who get it done.

[ArchVileTerror]

I'm all for more Sets for all Archetypes!  Greater diversity of content for more diverse character creations!  It's win-win.

 

But yeah . . . Blasters have received a LOT of love in this department already.  I -need- me more Control Sets first!

 

 . . . soooo . . . Mace Control?  Use a little bottle of pepperspray to render enemies helpless while you run off to call for another hero to help!

[Outrider_01]

5 hours ago, Haijinx said:

what is Granger? 

Retard version of /jranger when you are in a hurry

[Replacement]

7 hours ago, ArchVileTerror said:

I'm all for more Sets for all Archetypes!  Greater diversity of content for more diverse character creations!  It's win-win.

 

But yeah . . . Blasters have received a LOT of love in this department already.  I -need- me more Control Sets first!

 

 . . . soooo . . . Mace Control?  Use a little bottle of pepperspray to render enemies helpless while you run off to call for another hero to help!

Specifically, Manipulations have received a lot of love.  We really need more Blast sets (and Controls even more).