Arsenal Mastery Proliferation

[Adeon Hawkwood]

Defender/Corruptor

T1: Body Armor

T2: Cryo Freeze Ray

T3: Elbow Strike

T4: Targeting Drone (Weapon Mastery version)

T5: Sleep Grenade (Arsenal Control version)

 

Dominator

T1: Caltrops

T2: Body Armor

T3: M30 Grenade

T4: Surveillance

T5: Flamethrower

 

Controller

T1: Slug

T2: Body Armor

T3: M30 Grenade

T4: Targeting Drone (Weapon Mastery version)

T5: Flamethrower

 

Sentinel

T1: Caltrops

T2: Buttstroke

T3: Cryo Freeze Ray

T4: Trip Mine (Arsenal Assault version)

T5: Seeker Drones

 

Mastermind

T1: Wide Area Web Grenade

T2: Body Armor

T3: Buckshot

T4: Cryo Freeze Ray

T5: Ignite (Assault Rifle version)

 

As a side note I specified the Weapon Mastery version of Targeting Drone for consistency but in all honesty I think that the versions of Targeting Drone and Focused Accuracy used in Epic Pools could really stand to be buffed with a higher To Hit bonus since especially for support ATs it has worse bonuses than just taking Tactics from the Leadership pool.

 

EDIT: I forgot about Masterminds, can't leave them out.

Edited 11 hours ago by Adeon Hawkwood

[merrypessimist]

I really like the look of that Dominator version.

[arcane]

Reasonable choices I can see being appealing but not overpowered. Good job.

[TheMoneyMaker]

I could see an argument being made for melee ATs getting their own versions too

[Adeon Hawkwood]

2 minutes ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

I could see an argument being made for melee ATs getting their own versions too

Well Scrappers and Stalkers already have Weapon Mastery which is a similar from a thematic viewpoint since it pulls Web Grenade, Caltrops and Targeting Drone from Devices. Although obviously the use of Shuriken rather than an assault rifle for the ranged attacks does give it a more martial arts feel. So I would say maybe proliferate that to Brutes and Tankers.

 

I also just realized that I forgot Masterminds.

[Skyhawke]

2 hours ago, Adeon Hawkwood said:

 

 

Sentinel

T1: Caltrops

T2: Buttstroke

T3: Cryo Freeze Ray

T4: Trip Mine (Arsenal Assault version)

T5: Seeker Drones

 

 

 

[Rudra]

7 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

2 hours ago, Adeon Hawkwood said:

 

 

Sentinel

T1: Caltrops

T2: Buttstroke

T3: Cryo Freeze Ray

T4: Trip Mine (Arsenal Assault version)

T5: Seeker Drones

 

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[Adeon Hawkwood]

13 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

 

 

Hey now, don't blame that on me, it's copied from Arsenal Assault.

 

I'm not going to comment on the idea of a Dom having an ability called Buttstroke.

[Psyonico]

I don’t know if dominators would get caltrops, since one of their secondaries has an almost identical power (thorntrops)

[Adeon Hawkwood]

17 minutes ago, Psyonico said:

I don’t know if dominators would get caltrops, since one of their secondaries has an almost identical power (thorntrops)

That's fair, I was just struggling to find anything else to go there. I do agree that a slow patch does have a lot of overlap with other Dominator powers in both their primaries and secondaries which isn't great for an Epic pool. The problem is that I'm trying to pull from Traps, Devices and Assault Rifle for the powers to go into the set and Traps has a lot of what are essentially control powers which don't really work for Dominator Epic pools. I did consider Acid Mortar since Dominators do sometimes get -Res powers in their epic pools, but that didn't really feel right and if I was going to include a -Res power I'd rather replace M30 Grenade with a Venom Grenade clone instead.

 

That being said and thinking about it a bit more, what about Physical Perfection instead? Stalkers get it in Weapon Mastery so it's already in a thematically similar set and Dominators do get some Endurance related powers in other sets so it's not completely out of left field.

[Vanden]

2 hours ago, Adeon Hawkwood said:

That's fair, I was just struggling to find anything else to go there. I do agree that a slow patch does have a lot of overlap with other Dominator powers in both their primaries and secondaries which isn't great for an Epic pool. The problem is that I'm trying to pull from Traps, Devices and Assault Rifle for the powers to go into the set and Traps has a lot of what are essentially control powers which don't really work for Dominator Epic pools. I did consider Acid Mortar since Dominators do sometimes get -Res powers in their epic pools, but that didn't really feel right and if I was going to include a -Res power I'd rather replace M30 Grenade with a Venom Grenade clone instead.

 

That being said and thinking about it a bit more, what about Physical Perfection instead? Stalkers get it in Weapon Mastery so it's already in a thematically similar set and Dominators do get some Endurance related powers in other sets so it's not completely out of left field.

 

I gave them LRM Rocket in my treatment

[Adeon Hawkwood]

2 hours ago, Vanden said:

 

I gave them LRM Rocket in my treatment

Yeah I considered that, it mostly came down to the fact that I wanted Flamethrower and felt it shouldn't have both.