New power set ideas

[TheMoneyMaker]

Temporal Armor:  available to all melee ATs, it's a combination of defense and enemy damage debuff with some healing and a slow aura toggle. Using the power to manipulate time, you avoid attacks and take away the momentum of your opponents' attacks. Healing can be looked at as either speeding up your metabolism or pulling some health from your past or future selves with temporal shenanigans. What sets the set apart is that it lacks resistance, relying on debuffing the enemies instead. This would make it beneficial for teams but if you limit it to those in melee range, it gives the set a hole against ranged attacks dealing full dmg.

 

Medium:  a psionic support set for defenders, corruptors, controllers, and masterminds. No healing, but you can buff your allies with strong Absorb buffs, as well as offering a mix of other ally buffs and team debuffs focused on -Rech and -Resist.....perhaps a possession effect in place of a foe removal effect like Force Field -> Detention Field, Sonic Resonance -> Sonic Cage, or Dark Miasma -> Petrifying Gaze. Add in a rez power that's basically pulling the user summoning the deceased's spirit back into their body.

 

[Techhead]

Temporal Armor is a really fun idea, though with all the existing "X Armor" sets being res-based, "Temporal Aura" might be more suitable name for it. Could definitely come up with neat characters for it.

[TheMoneyMaker]

5 hours ago, Techhead said:

Temporal Armor is a really fun idea, though with all the existing "X Armor" sets being res-based, "Temporal Aura" might be more suitable name for it. Could definitely come up with neat characters for it.

Temporal Aura sounds fine, I just didn't want to confuse anyone about what it was.

[biostem]

On 12/13/2024 at 4:12 PM, TheMoneyMaker said:

Temporal Armor

I wonder if it would be possible to implement some sort of "temporal echo" effects as part of such a proposed armor set - basically, you create decoys of yourself that enemies falsely attack instead of you.  Besides that, the set kind of sounds like ice armor with a few tweaks, (not that that's a bad thing).  Take some elements of ice armor, energy aura, and perhaps some powers from blasters' temporal manipulation, to come with something that has a unique feel or playstyle...

[TheMoneyMaker]

3 minutes ago, biostem said:

I wonder if it would be possible to implement some sort of "temporal echo" effects as part of such a proposed armor set - basically, you create decoys of yourself that enemies falsely attack instead of you.  Besides that, the set kind of sounds like ice armor with a few tweaks, (not that that's a bad thing).  Take some elements of ice armor, energy aura, and perhaps some powers from blasters' temporal manipulation, to come with something that has a unique feel or playstyle...

I tried to come up with something other than the usual to set it apart, that's why defense + absorb instead of resists, but yeah there's a lot of room in using time to protect yourself to come up with various ideas and borrow elements of other powersets to work with it. A temporal echo could work like Phantom Army copies of yourself but they can't attack and can be fairly easily dispatched. Maybe that could be it's tier 9 power so that you don't have copies constantly but when you whip them out they're durable and draw aggro to themselves to protect you for a short duration.

[Kistulot]

On 12/13/2024 at 4:12 PM, TheMoneyMaker said:

Temporal Armor:  available to all melee ATs, it's a combination of defense and enemy damage debuff with some healing and a slow aura toggle. Using the power to manipulate time, you avoid attacks and take away the momentum of your opponents' attacks. Healing can be looked at as either speeding up your metabolism or pulling some health from your past or future selves with temporal shenanigans. What sets the set apart is that it lacks resistance, relying on debuffing the enemies instead. This would make it beneficial for teams but if you limit it to those in melee range, it gives the set a hole against ranged attacks dealing full dmg.

 

 

Sounds neat to me 🙂

[biostem]

1 minute ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

I tried to come up with something other than the usual to set it apart, that's why defense + absorb instead of resists, but yeah there's a lot of room in using time to protect yourself to come up with various ideas and borrow elements of other powersets to work with it. A temporal echo could work like Phantom Army copies of yourself but they can't attack and can be fairly easily dispatched. Maybe that could be it's tier 9 power so that you don't have copies constantly but when you whip them out they're durable and draw aggro to themselves to protect you for a short duration.

What they could do is apply a placate effect, whilst at the same time creating the aforementioned "temporal echo", using a combination of illusion's phantom army mirror option, along with the destructible nature and taunt effect of the SoA's Omega device, (only with no damage component).

[Zappalina]

The temporal idea is good and it has vision, *creates a visual; good job describing it.