Experimentation/Toxic Dart -- animation request

[MTeague]

Toxic Dart is actually a pretty decent pool power attack, esp with Containment.

 

But the animation of flinging a syringe is... less than ideal. Could we get an alternate animation, using the the Arachnos Widow / Poison Dart animation?  Launching the toxic dart from a wrist launcher would feel ever so much better than casually flinging a syringe while you backslap empy air. 

 

Full Disclosure:  I've seen this requested a few times before. But the most recent threads are over a year old, some two or three. So rather than necro-post, I made my own thread. I get that this is Very Very Low priority. I'm just hoping it would be an easy-peasy repoint, since we do already have the Poison Dart animation for both male and female widows now. 

 

Thanks for any consideration. 

 

[Aracknight]

Yes please.  I'd love it for all dart attacks.  Including the Tranq Dart origin power.

[kelika2]

unless containment does it differently only the initial lethal damage gets doubled and not the dot

i am speaking from fiery embrace experience

[MTeague]

For Toxic Dart, containment does a large chunk of up-front lethal damage to compensate for not doubling the dot ticks.  I'm currently leaning on it for a low level Ice/Cold Controller in Praetoria 1-20, since those powersets aren't the best damage dealers to begin with. So far it's been working great, I just... the animation makes me sigh, lol. 

[Forager]

That backhand throw animation was made by a guy who never threw anything in his life.

[kelika2]

3 hours ago, Forager said:

That backhand throw animation was made by a guy who never threw anything in his life.

i think having a required 3-6 second rooted animation that can be interrupted since enemies are probably getting hit you so you can throw a dart like someone in a bar might diminish its useability

[Forager]

32 minutes ago, kelika2 said:

i think having a required 3-6 second rooted animation that can be interrupted since enemies are probably getting hit you so you can throw a dart like someone in a bar might diminish its useability

 

Ok?

[kelika2]

46 minutes ago, Forager said:

 

Ok?

oh sorry i thought you wanted hyper realism

[Forager]

1 minute ago, kelika2 said:

oh sorry i thought you wanted hyper realism

 

Oh... you gave me an opinion and then argued with it? Lol ok guy have fun.

[MTeague]

I mean, the backhand fling works for throwing a frisbee. 

For throwing stars / shuriken, I'd expect more of forward arm / wrist snap. 

Actually throwing a syringe with plunger and expecting it to land such that it injects someone is.... silly, at best. 

A wrist mounted  dart launcher like Widows have would seem to make the most sense if a hero/villain/other set out planning to use that as an attack.

[Starhammer]

On 7/7/2025 at 11:44 AM, Forager said:

That backhand throw animation was made by a guy who never threw anything in his life.

I actually like the backhand throw animation when I use throwing knives in melee range. Just nice to have a freebie backhand that also suppresses embalmed explodies at low levels 🙂