Possible expansion to Power Customization/Themes?

[JKPhage]

So, I was doing a little hunting in Night Ward today, and while fighting Spirit Stalkers and Black Nights I was (literally and figuratively) struck by an idea. Both of these groups have enemies with archery abilities, but which fire some particularly neat vfx instead of a bog standard arrow. Spirit Stalkers have a cool glowy arrow effect and Black Knights fire arrows of darkness/shadow. Would it be possible to add these options to power customization for players? The ability to color these so I could have a character firing golden arrows of light, or sickly green shadows would be really fun, not to mention giving some cool character concepts an opening. Considering darkness powers current have an option for Soul Noir or Classic effects to be interchangeable we know it's possible to swap around vfx attached to powers, though I'm not sure how difficult it is. I'd hope that something like this might be relatively simple in the grand scheme of things just for fun.

 

Likewise, we've seen some other really neat stuff, like Talons of Vengeance having a musical-note motif to their Siren song sonic powers that would look *incredibly* cool applied to sonic blast/resonance/etc. powers and open up some really fun character concept ideas. We also have Magmite Lords that cast fire blasts with a magma-esque effect and splash particles that could be fun to have access to as players, or even the ability to apply the hellfire skin from the firey abilities of Demon Summoning. Perhaps some of the new Psionic vfx from Force of Will and Psionic Melee could be backported to Mind Control and/or Psi blast/assault to give them a bit of an updated look as an option?

 

I know that's a lot of stuff thrown out there, but it's mostly just to list things I can think of that might be doable to expand power customization options with minimal work required from anyone as the assets are already there in game. I'm not sure if the archery things would even be possible, but if so I'd love to see it, and I have more than a couple character ideas that would love to take advantage of magma or hellfire blast skins. I know for a fact that I'd make a pop star character if I could have musical themed sonic powers, and I'd be much more inclined to make a Mind/Psi dom if I didn't have to look at those outdated psi effects compared to the very slick new psi melee/force of will stuff.

 

Any chance we might see some of these in the near future Devs? And anyone else have any suggestions from stuff that's found in-game already that might make an easy backport to player characters to expand our options?

[Player2]

On 12/9/2020 at 12:13 AM, JKPhage said:

And anyone else have any suggestions from stuff that's found in-game already that might make an easy backport to player characters to expand our options?

The Spring (Valentines) event arrows that cause a rising hearts effect on the target would make for an interesting alternative on mind control's confuse power (not to mention being a cool aura choice for player characters).

[JKPhage]

On 12/10/2020 at 1:18 AM, Player2 said:

The Spring (Valentines) event arrows that cause a rising hearts effect on the target would make for an interesting alternative on mind control's confuse power (not to mention being a cool aura choice for player characters).

Also a fun idea! It had been a while since I fought Talons as well, but just the other day I also saw the Banshee sonic effects that are basically standard sonic with a really cool shadow/dark effect combined with them. That would also be something really fun to play with and could maybe even be recolored to approximate a slime-spitting effect for gross heroes/villains.