The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #70: What are some combinations of existing power mechanics you would like?

[DougGraves]

This is not to invent new mechanics, themes, sets, or change existing sets.  This is not concrete suggestions, these are mad scientist concoctions.

 

But electric has a power the advances power recharge a set amount, and rezes exist - so it would be interesting to have a rez that recharged all of your power 10 minutes or so.  Give you back basically all of your powers.

 

And burn gives the character immobilization resistance - so it would be interesting to have attacks that gave status protection for a short duration.  Think blaster or defender getting 10s of hold resistance every time they attack with X power.

 

what combinations of existing power mechanics would you like to see?  

[DougGraves]

I will add a couple more

 

single target taunt exists and Victory Rush gives a buff based on the type of target (minion, lt, boss, etc.)  - you could make a single target taunt that buffs the user based on the target.  So if you taunt a minion you get a small buff but if you taunt an AV you get a large buff.

 

teleports foe exists - you could make controller teleport foes that add a control to the target or defender teleport foes that add a debuff to the target.

 

 

[sbloyd]

As a Warshade, shapeshifts with power subsets associated with them.

[PeregrineFalcon]

I would love to see attacks give a stacking damage resistance to their type for say 10 seconds or so, similar to Defiance's stacking damage buff. For example: every attack with energy blast would grant 10% energy damage resistance for 10 seconds. So if any AT does a bunch of energy blasts they would very quickly build up a high damage resistance to their preferred damage type for a short time.

 

It's never made any sense to me that a fire Blaster, or fire Tanker for that matter, would be vulnerable to their own damage type.

[eiynp]

it would nice if there were a couple more attract effects in the game; the one on axe cyclone is super fun and it could really give a other other underperforming sets some distinctive flavor (like cmon just make black hole and aoe attract already, and watch everyone start wanting a grav controller)

[Herotu]

8 minutes ago, eiynp said:

it would nice if there were a couple more attract effects in the game; the one on axe cyclone is super fun and it could really give a other other underperforming sets some distinctive flavor (like cmon just make black hole and aoe attract already, and watch everyone start wanting a grav controller)

I agree. More OP stuff! - and balance the OP stuff with massive cooldowns.

[sbloyd]

30 minutes ago, eiynp said:

it would nice if there were a couple more attract effects in the game; the one on axe cyclone is super fun and it could really give a other other underperforming sets some distinctive flavor (like cmon just make black hole and aoe attract already, and watch everyone start wanting a grav controller)

I've been saying for FOREVER that Black Hole should be an attract - it's in Dark, not Grav, though.  Grav has Dimension Shift, which I cannot for the life of me think of a better effect for without stepping on Dark's feet (the AOE Hold field).

[eiynp]

Oh right yeah, dark

 

still, it seems like a property you could

give to some lesser-used sets to get them some more shine

[kelika2]

Non-patch chain-knockdown like firing an oil grenade at a group, have it effect 16 targets.  those 16 targets have a hard time standing up and are flammable

I thought I seen the birth of that with Arsenal control's nitrogen thing and water powers.  might not be a new-new mechanic