acid blast.

[The Mighty Paladin]

I'd really like to make a villain who has an acid blast power. this would be a ranged attack set that has liquidy effects and the default color should be green with a smoky effect and some sizzle like sounds. The attacks would cause little damage initially but DOT, and they could include attacks like an acid cloud and acid rain at the higher levels. do you think this set is possible?

[Doomguide2005]

    Well yes it could, but sounds a lot more like costume color options plus redone sound fx rather than a new power set.  Rename, recolor, and change sounds and water blast is now acid blast.

[The Mighty Paladin]

but water blast doesn't cause DOT does it?

 

[GraspingVileTerror]

DoT is Damage Over Time.  Lots of Sets have them; Fire most of all.  Water has some too.

I think what would really differentiate an Acid Blast from Water Blast is the Damage type.  Which would be Toxic for Acid.

[Alchemystic]

Easiest thing you could do is take Water (or Fire) Blast and color it appropriately, and take Degenerative Interface to get Toxic DoT on your attacks.

[Doomguide2005]

@The Mighty Paladin

As I said yes you could develop an "Acid Blast" set.  The catch is there's a whole realm of things that could see development but we have a small volunteer team doing all the lifting (heavy or other otherwise).  For now to scratch that itch I'd use the versatile costume creator to recolor the animations and look to see if a modder has or could make a sound file or 9 to replace the current ones with the sizzle and popping you are looking for.  My response isn't meant as a no but more as it's probably not right around the corner response.  And maybe as well work out what the 9 powers are you'd like to see in the set.

Edited November 2, 2021 by Doomguide2005

[biostem]

Plant manipulation has the "toxins" power, which adds toxic damage to all your attacks.  If you're rolling a defender or corruptor, you can take the poison set, which while needing love, fits the theme.  I'm all for more options, but in the short term, recoloring fire blast or water blast are probably your best options.  Heck, the -def of radiation blast could be explained as your acid deteriorating your enemy's defenses, or even beam rifle could be explained as some sort of "toxo-blaster" via the disintegration effect...

Edited November 2, 2021 by biostem

[plainguy]

2 hours ago, biostem said:

Plant manipulation has the "toxins" power, which adds toxic damage to all your attacks.  If you're rolling a defender or corruptor, you can take the poison set, which while needing love, fits the theme.  I'm all for more options, but in the short term, recoloring fire blast or water blast are probably your best options.  Heck, the -def of radiation blast could be explained as your acid deteriorating your enemy's defenses, or even beam rifle could be explained as some sort of "toxo-blaster" via the disintegration effect...

I used poison for this concept as well, on a petless mastermind. 

And yes it sucks.. I mean needs loving.. 

[biostem]

1 minute ago, plainguy said:

I used poison for this concept as well, on a petless mastermind. 

And yes it sucks.. I mean needs loving.. 

I wonder how much of that was the "petless mastermind" part, though...

[plainguy]

1 minute ago, biostem said:

I wonder how much of that was the "petless mastermind" part, though...

choked on my coffee reading that.

 

I do get bored.. 

Edited November 2, 2021 by plainguy

[wjrasmussen]

8 hours ago, The Mighty Paladin said:

I'd really like to make a villain who has an acid blast power. this would be a ranged attack set that has liquidy effects and the default color should be green with a smoky effect and some sizzle like sounds. The attacks would cause little damage initially but DOT, and they could include attacks like an acid cloud and acid rain at the higher levels. do you think this set is possible?

I would be cool if there was some kind of synergy with another archtype power that causes the the acid to explode!! Teamwork bonus powers.

[The Mighty Paladin]

of all these suggestions, I think recoloring the radiation is probably the simplest, I'll go with that.

[The Mighty Paladin]

I gave it a try but settled on a Sentinel with recolored energy blast and energy aura. It looks cool.

The Character is named Acid Rain. 

[Wavicle]

You could take Poison and proc the hell out of it...

[The Mighty Paladin]

12 minutes ago, Wavicle said:

You could take Poison and proc the hell out of it...

I don't know what proc means.

[Wavicle]

Just now, The Mighty Paladin said:

I don't know what proc means.

I mean slot a bunch of “chance for energy damage“ or “ chance for psi damage“ or whatever

[The Mighty Paladin]

thank you

 

[plainguy]

9 hours ago, The Mighty Paladin said:

of all these suggestions, I think recoloring the radiation is probably the simplest, I'll go with that.

On the costume page on art and media there a cool duo costume I seen related to poison or something.. will try to find it..

 

Found it.. 

 

I think this costume, even copied is a great flattery to the OP..

Strangely this page is not coming up now.. 

It is page 31.. 

 

 

Edited November 3, 2021 by plainguy

[srmalloy]

On 11/2/2021 at 12:01 PM, The Mighty Paladin said:

of all these suggestions, I think recoloring the radiation is probably the simplest, I'll go with that.

I made a Dark/Plant Blaster where I recolored all of the Dark Blast powers to green and black, treating the -ToHit effect as toxins in biological attacks messing with the target's coordination in order to get a coherent theme for the character, naming her Toksichniy Podlesok (Токсичный Подлесок, 'Toxic Undergrowth'). Same idea.

[The Mighty Paladin]

21 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

I made a Dark/Plant Blaster where I recolored all of the Dark Blast powers to green and black, treating the -ToHit effect as toxins in biological attacks messing with the target's coordination in order to get a coherent theme for the character, naming her Toksichniy Podlesok (Токсичный Подлесок, 'Toxic Undergrowth'). Same idea.

I tried that the effects for plants were all spiky and ugly. I wanted something liquidy.

[srmalloy]

7 minutes ago, The Mighty Paladin said:

I tried that the effects for plants were all spiky and ugly. I wanted something liquidy.

Well, yes, but the point was taking a primary powerset with a secondary effect you can tie into the secondary powerset and recoloring it to be visually coordinated, rather than just lamenting the lack of a primary powerset that does exactly what you want it to right out of the box.