What goes up...comes down when you say it does: The GRAVITIC ASSAULT powerset weighs in!

[AspieAnarchy]

GRAVITIC ASSAULT (Assault)

Available to: Dominators

Set Color: Neon Turquoise-on-Black

 

One of the most fundamental forces of the universe rests in the palm of your hand; make your foes kneel before you as they are crushed beneath your power, cast them away like puny motes of stardust, or destroy them from within. This set is slower, on the whole, compared to most other Assault sets, but it offers both great power and considerable versatility; gravity is a force not easily resisted.

 

1) Gravitic Pulse – You blast your target with the sheer force of concentrated gravity, dealing damage and weighing it down so greatly that its movement is slowed and its ability to jump or fly is severely inhibited.

Damage: Minor Smashing/Energy Recharge: Fast

 

2) Repulse – You blast your target with antigravity in melee, sending it hurtling backwards.

Damage: Moderate Negative Energy Recharge: Fast

 

3) Gravitic Blast – As with Gravitic Pulse, you damage, slow, and weigh down your target with concentrated gravity, save that this power places more emphasis on damage than on secondary effects.

Damage: High Smashing/Energy Recharge: Moderate

 

4) Gravitic Grasp – You concentrate gravity within your target in melee, harming it and temporarily rooting it where it stands.

Damage: High Energy Recharge: Moderate

 

5) Assert Gravity – All enemies in a wide area around you are abruptly knocked to the ground, including those in the air. Those affected will briefly thereafter lose much of their ability to fly, or even to jump.

Damage: Minor Smashing Recharge: Slow

 

6) Newton’s Apple – A fleeting epiphany into the workings of the cosmos by which the accuracy, damage, and secondary effects of all your powers are all briefly increased.

Recharge: Long

 

7) Antigravity Pulse – An antigravity shockwave propels all enemies near you backward.

Damage: Moderate Negative Energy Recharge: Slow

 

😎 Micro-Singularity – You concentrate gravity at a nearby point in space, creating a dreadful stationary trap; enemies that come too close will start to get sucked toward it, and the first unlucky body to get there will suffer both extraordinary damage and repeated knockdowns over a short period; this warp lasts a long time on its own, but once it is thus ‘sated’, it ceases to be, and local space regains its normal curvature.

Damage: Superior Smashing/Energy (DoT) Recharge: Slow

 

9) Implosion – You concentrate gravity within a single target at medium range, causing it to collapse in on itself. Regular enemies (Pets, Underlings, Minions, Lieutenants, and to a lesser extent, Bosses) suffer a high chance of being destroyed outright even if they withstand the damage, special enemies (Elite Bosses, Heroes, amd Arch-Villains) have a sizable chance of taking double damage, and Giant Monsters and other rare, powerful enemies face a further chance for triple damage. Implosion is staggeringly powerful, but costs a lot of endurance.

Damage: Extreme Energy Recharge: Long

 

Example Character Concept: The Chaotic Nucleus! (Roguish Fire Control/Gravitic Assault Magic Dominator)

Edited February 23 by AspieAnarchy
color-coded attack damage-types; minor clerical edit

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Lots to love here. Love the concept. Somme that wouldn't likely happen. Namely things that sound like a nuke in an assault set. 

[AspieAnarchy]

On 10/8/2023 at 7:59 PM, ... said:

...things that sound like a nuke in an assault set. 

 

Which did you have in mind? How do you define a "nuke"?

 

I think powerful single-target powers are in keeping with Assault provided they come with a suitable price-tag,

and the AoEs are meant to be on par with AoE powers in existing Assault sets (e.g. Combustion, Psionic Shockwave).

Edited February 23 by AspieAnarchy

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On 10/8/2023 at 3:04 AM, AspieAnarchy said:

9) Implosion – You concentrate gravity within a single target at medium range, causing it to collapse in on itself. Regular enemies (Pets, Underlings, Minions, Lieutenants, and to a lesser extent, Bosses) suffer a high chance of being destroyed outright even if they withstand the damage, special enemies (Elite Bosses, Heroes, amd Arch-Villains) have a sizable chance of taking double damage, and Giant Monsters and other rare, powerful enemies face a further chance for triple damage. Implosion is staggeringly powerful, but costs a lot of endurance.

Damage: Extreme Energy Recharge: Long

 

 

I misread the power. Description sounds like a blaster nuke, but you've listed it as a single target attack. 

Edited February 26 by ...