Plant Blast/Spine Blast

[UltraAlt]

I was reading thread about Sentinels with Regen. I don't have one and thought, "What the heck. I'll make one."

 

My immediate go-to was a Plant Blast/Regen.

 

Yeah, so you see where I'm going.

 

There isn't any Plant Blast set nor is there Spine Blast set.

I basically see Spines as a plant set versus say a porcupine or bone spur set.

The first character creates in City of Heroes was a Spine/Regen scrapper.

 

It seems to me that between the plant powers and spine powers already in the game that there would be enough animations to cobble together a Plant/Spine blast set. 

Damage type-wise I would think toxic would be best for most of the powers as it has the DoT effect but some might be lethal (say using the spine burst/thorn burst animation) and some of the lower level powers might be smashing (when using the entangle or hold animation but with no duration for the entangle/hold, so it just hits and then automatically dissipates).

I would suggest using the Wild Growth animation for the nuke and give it a knock-up effect with smashing damage with maybe some DoT toxic.

 

Seems ripe for power prolifreation if DEVs find it fruitful to do so.

 

Fingers crossed and hoping to be able to make that Plant(Spine)/Regen Sentinel in the future, but I know it won't be Soon^tm

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:19 PM by UltraAlt

[Steampunkette]

I'd love it if we had 'Plant Blast' with some Thorns stuff in it and a separate 'Nature Blast' set that's more animal-centric like Savage Assault/Beast MM powers.

 

Like a plant blast "Thorncrash" targeted AoE where it plays the AoE thorns hold animation on all targets at 300% normal speed with Lethal/Toxic damage. Versus "Howl of Twilight" as a targeted AoE for Nature Blast that briefly has a Dire Wolf appear and do a big howl (complete with the dome effect) for a hit of Smashing/Energy.

 

Or an "Infestation" power where you put a swarm of flies on your target as a DoT and then they generate the bio armor aura. And any enemy within the bio armor aura gets the DoT spread to them for 5-8 seconds or something.

 

And then you could use the Corrosive Enzymes animation for plant blast to hit an enemy with a big splash of toxic damage as one of the first 2-3 attacks in the powerset.
 

That would be cool.

[Uun]

Dominators have Thorny Assault, so there's 5 powers already.

[CoeruleumBlue]

On 10/7/2025 at 1:56 PM, Steampunkette said:

I'd love it if we had 'Plant Blast' with some Thorns stuff in it and a separate 'Nature Blast' set that's more animal-centric like Savage Assault/Beast MM powers.

 

Like a plant blast "Thorncrash" targeted AoE where it plays the AoE thorns hold animation on all targets at 300% normal speed with Lethal/Toxic damage. Versus "Howl of Twilight" as a targeted AoE for Nature Blast that briefly has a Dire Wolf appear and do a big howl (complete with the dome effect) for a hit of Smashing/Energy.

 

Or an "Infestation" power where you put a swarm of flies on your target as a DoT and then they generate the bio armor aura. And any enemy within the bio armor aura gets the DoT spread to them for 5-8 seconds or something.

 

And then you could use the Corrosive Enzymes animation for plant blast to hit an enemy with a big splash of toxic damage as one of the first 2-3 attacks in the powerset.
 

That would be cool.

 

Bird Blast

 

I still want an option for Beast Mastery MMs to be able to choose just one kind of animal, including ones you can't choose at all right now like dinosaurs, but having a Bird Blast would make me happy. But even though I wrote Bird Blast, it should probably just be Beast Blast, and there should probably at least be Bird Blast and Fish Blast options. But I don't think the mechanics would be different at all, it should probably just be exact like how the dark sets usually have the Dark Miasma/Affinity looking one and the Soul Noir one and you can pick. But the two first options should be Bird Blast and Fish Blast. The please give us other reskinned options for Beast Mastery MM instead of it being mostly wolves for everyone and a couple of bird options, because all birds, all dogs, all cats, all dinosaurs, and all aquatic animals are things we definitely need and I think it could be reskinned. 

[Uun]

4 hours ago, CoeruleumBlue said:

 

Bird Blast

 

I still want an option for Beast Mastery MMs to be able to choose just one kind of animal, including ones you can't choose at all right now like dinosaurs, but having a Bird Blast would make me happy. But even though I wrote Bird Blast, it should probably just be Beast Blast, and there should probably at least be Bird Blast and Fish Blast options. But I don't think the mechanics would be different at all, it should probably just be exact like how the dark sets usually have the Dark Miasma/Affinity looking one and the Soul Noir one and you can pick. But the two first options should be Bird Blast and Fish Blast. The please give us other reskinned options for Beast Mastery MM instead of it being mostly wolves for everyone and a couple of bird options, because all birds, all dogs, all cats, all dinosaurs, and all aquatic animals are things we definitely need and I think it could be reskinned. 

Try dominator Savage Assault. 

[CoeruleumBlue]

24 minutes ago, Uun said:

Try dominator Savage Assault. 

 

Yes, because what everyone wants with an animal mastermind or blaster that has more options like birds or fish is a werewolf who fights with claws and fangs and howls at the moon after savagely assaulting their enemies with their bestial rage. 

[Rudra]

24 minutes ago, CoeruleumBlue said:

 

Yes, because what everyone wants with an animal mastermind or blaster that has more options like birds or fish is a werewolf who fights with claws and fangs and howls at the moon after savagely assaulting their enemies with their bestial rage. 

Ooh! Mind if I steal that idea?

[CoeruleumBlue]

18 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Ooh! Mind if I steal that idea?

 

...That's literally just what Savage Assault is. That's what I was saying I don't want when I want more animal attack options. There's already a Beast Mastery and Aquatic Affinity and some specific power sets that are very different. There's just not a bird mastermind or bird blast or fish mastermind or fish blast which I find mildly annoying. Savage Assault is not a replacement. Savage Assault is a powerset where you scrape things with your claws or bite them with your fangs and it just happens to have one bird attack power in it (no fish or any other animals besides flies.) Beast Mastery Mastermind has two bird attacks which is actually better but I still can't just make a mastermind who is obsessed with birds and only has birds, maybe due to being an ornithologist or having a bird-based mutation or being related to the bird god or the like. 

[Rudra]

6 minutes ago, CoeruleumBlue said:

 

...That's literally just what Savage Assault is. That's what I was saying I don't want when I want more animal attack options. There's already a Beast Mastery and Aquatic Affinity and some specific power sets that are very different. There's just not a bird mastermind or bird blast or fish mastermind or fish blast which I find mildly annoying. Savage Assault is not a replacement. Savage Assault is a powerset where you scrape things with your claws or bite them with your fangs and it just happens to have one bird attack power in it (no fish or any other animals besides flies.) Beast Mastery Mastermind has two bird attacks which is actually better but I still can't just make a mastermind who is obsessed with birds and only has birds, maybe due to being an ornithologist or having a bird-based mutation or being related to the bird god or the like. 

So you're fine with me stealing the plant mastery werewolf idea? (I am not a participant in this thread's debate. I'm just making sure that if someone sees me start running around with a werewolf that makes the flora murder people while also disemboweling them with my own claws, you aren't going to say 'You stole that from me!". I never thought of that concept before, it was your idea, so I'm just making sure you're fine with me stealing it.)

[CoeruleumBlue]

Just now, Rudra said:

So you're fine with me stealing the plant mastery werewolf idea? (I am not a participant in this thread's debate. I'm just making sure that if someone sees me start running around with a werewolf that makes the flora murder people while also disemboweling them with my own claws, you aren't going to say 'You stole that from me!". I never thought of that concept before, it was your idea, so I'm just making sure you're fine with me stealing it.)

 

...People have already done plant/savage to death, I don't see how that's stealing, other than maybe the idea that it should be a plant werewolf. Plant werewolf is kind of a cool idea, but I don't see how I would claim to own an idea like plant werewolf at all even if I made it up there. It is kind of a cool idea even if it doesn't make up for the fact Savage Assault seems like an overly specific set that can really only be used for vampires, werewolves, or maybe demon or witch creatures connected with nature, since it just connects too many things that can go together but don't have to. You certainly can't use it to make a bird character like I was mentioning because it just has a ton of stuff in it that has nothing to do with birds even if there are two bird powers. 

[Rudra]

4 minutes ago, CoeruleumBlue said:

 

...People have already done plant/savage to death, I don't see how that's stealing, other than maybe the idea that it should be a plant werewolf. Plant werewolf is kind of a cool idea, but I don't see how I would claim to own an idea like plant werewolf at all even if I made it up there. It is kind of a cool idea even if it doesn't make up for the fact Savage Assault seems like an overly specific set that can really only be used for vampires, werewolves, or maybe demon or witch creatures connected with nature, since it just connects too many things that can go together but don't have to. You certainly can't use it to make a bird character like I was mentioning because it just has a ton of stuff in it that has nothing to do with birds even if there are two bird powers. 

I'm just going to take that as a "yes". Thanks.