Things I still hope for...

[Thrythlind]

• Whips Outside of Demon summoning
  • Possibly alternate animations for some blast or melee sets.
    • Fire sets are a good bet, but maybe other elemental types as well.
  • Possibly full attack set could be Ranged, Melee, or Assault
• Shotguns or Single Handguns as Power Pools similar to Fighting pool or Force of Will
• Mastermind minion customization (yes, I know this is difficult)
  • Even just alternate piece-sets selectable in costume creation
  • At least female minions, please? Would be fun to have a valkyrie squad (mercs), girl gang (thugs), or kunoichi (ninja)
• Updated attack animation options for Battle Axe, War Mace, and Broad Sword as the existing ones are very clunky and don't feel like expert martial artists.
• Perhaps work out someway that using confusion doesn't end up slowing your XP gain...
  • This is pretty nitpicky and low priority to be honest, but it does feel like a mild punishment for picking that playstyle

 

Edited May 28, 2021 by Thrythlind

[GraspingVileTerror]

Other than the Confusion Experience thing, sounds all good to me.
As for that last one, I think someone did the math, and discovered that your Experience-per-second INCREASES because the enemies are helping you to defeat them faster, at next to zero risk to you.
Although someone may want to confirm that, of course.

[Thrythlind]

Yeah, the confusion is pretty nitpicky. You gain XP really fast in this game from multiple directions.

Edited May 28, 2021 by Thrythlind

[aethereal]

I really think that there's an obvious place for "Hellfire Assault" or "Hellfire Manipulation" dom or blaster secondaries that simply use the existing whip animations or even the entire powers, mixed with some green fire-themed other powers.  People would love it, and it would solve all of that issue of "there aren't enough whip animations for a melee set" and "whip animations are insanely complicated, we can't make more of them."

 

EDIT:  Or even an epic powerset for Sentinels, since they get melee powers in their epics.

Edited May 28, 2021 by aethereal

[General Idiot]

14 hours ago, aethereal said:

I really think that there's an obvious place for "Hellfire Assault" or "Hellfire Manipulation" dom or blaster secondaries that simply use the existing whip animations or even the entire powers, mixed with some green fire-themed other powers.  People would love it, and it would solve all of that issue of "there aren't enough whip animations for a melee set" and "whip animations are insanely complicated, we can't make more of them."

 

Not long after Homecoming started I saw a really good suggestion for a hellfire assault set using the whip animations for ranged powers and fire swords for melee powers.

 

[Thrythlind]

That would be cool. The shotgun or pistol as a power pool is another one that would be cool for the people that want to be mainly sword but also a little bit gun... we can already main gun and a little be sword via pistol or rifle / ninja. But would be nice to do the reverse.

[Thrythlind]

Bumping this for visibility.

 

Also the thing I most want: option to set Thugs/Mercenaries/Ninjas to male, female, or both/either.

 

That alone opens up a lot of concepts.

[Tahliah]

On 5/27/2021 at 9:10 PM, Thrythlind said:

At least female minions, please? Would be fun to have a valkyrie squad (mercs), girl gang (thugs), or kunoichi (ninja)

I love this idea! I would so run an MM with female thugs or ninjas! (so far I only like to run demons and beasts)

[Thrythlind]

2 minutes ago, Tahliah said:

I love this idea! I would so run an MM with female thugs or ninjas! (so far I only like to run demons and beasts)

 

Got my first ever mastermind (and I've been playing since third wave beta) to 50 this week, and she's a Beasts Mastermind based on Red Riding Hood, dipped an hour or so to villain to get sharks so she has all the animal friends...

But still would indeed like the girl gang thing. I did a throw off comment once of "what if my hero and her soccer team decide to clean the streets or something" and now I really want to do it.

[Tahliah]

31 minutes ago, Thrythlind said:

Got my first ever mastermind (and I've been playing since third wave beta) to 50 this week, and she's a Beasts Mastermind based on Red Riding Hood, dipped an hour or so to villain to get sharks so she has all the animal friends...

Heh at the last part, too funny.  As to this part, Gratz! (or Conga Rats, as we used to say) on your first 50 MM!  So exciting! My beasts/nature will be my first HC MM to hit 50 . . . one day.

 

I love beasts!  Mine is called Peace Pack and is one of the two toons I have that actually has a backstory/bio. I love the idea of Red Riding Hood and wish I'd thought of it!  :P

[Thrythlind]

I posted about her in the Mastermind forum earlier "Just expressing my enjoyment of this character" or something like that.

[Darmian]

1 hour ago, Thrythlind said:

 

Got my first ever mastermind (and I've been playing since third wave beta) to 50 this week, and she's a Beasts Mastermind based on Red Riding Hood, dipped an hour or so to villain to get sharks so she has all the animal friends...

But still would indeed like the girl gang thing. I did a throw off comment once of "what if my hero and her soccer team decide to clean the streets or something" and now I really want to do it.

Did you buy a Vanity pet as well to up the numbers? My Robots MM has an MVAS that trails around after them, little jet boots and all!

[Thrythlind]

8 minutes ago, Darmian said:

Did you buy a Vanity pet as well to up the numbers? My Robots MM has an MVAS that trails around after them, little jet boots and all!

 

I have a black wolf, yeah, thinking of picking up a few others here and there. Picked up a spider too, but doubt I'll field it. One of my friends is severely arachnaphobic, so putting the spider out would limit my ability to share the character with them.

[Darmian]

Snag is you can only have one at a time!  I had the tiny Mek Man and the MVAS, but one cancels the other. 

[Thrythlind]

One sad thing I have is that there's no really good Lore pet that fits. I made sure to do some of the Carnie missions to make sure to have a narrative explanation for having Carnies freed from Vanessa DeVore's grip following her around though.