Powerset Ideas + Demos

[Ston]

Been away for a bit but wanted to share some ideas for new powersets and changes to existing powers that I’ve been messing with on my personal server.

 

These were really fun to work on and showed me just how much variety can be added for powers by recycling other effects that exist in the game.

 

Hope you guys enjoy watching these and it sparks more discussion about power ideas! I don’t think there’s any end in sight to what’s possible in this game.

 

My wife and I recently had our first baby so I won’t have time to make anything new or participate for awhile, but wanted to share these in the meantime.

 

Disclaimer:

I know some of this stuff doesn’t fit the balance vision for Homecoming, but I tried to make most of it follow similar formulas and patterns from other sets. Numbers can always be tweaked.

 

Exo Blast

 

Arcane Melee

 

Tactical Armor

 

Miscellaneous Power Changes (Includes Exo Blast)

 

[ScarySai]

Every single one of these looks great. I need me some exo blast.

[Troo]

Congratulations!

 

and thanks

[Indystruck]

This all looks sick as fuck.

 

Put it in my goddamn veins.

[Seed22]

Honestly THIS is what passionate powers development looks like imo. 10/10 effort and honestly these are powersets I'd actually be excited to play each page they're in. Maybe we can get that here someday

Edited 11 hours ago by Seed22

[LightMaster]

I do feel that as brief the Raging Fury is for the new inherent for Brute, I worry that the Global Recharge Time bonus it grants might end up outdoing the Scrapper in DPA since a mere thirty seconds cooldown makes very easy to Perma-Fury unless it cannot be stacked to extend the timer, and as a result can have significantly less cooldown on Powers vs other ATs with Perma-Haste.

 

The glittering effect looks too cute on something called “Chaotic Magic” for Arcane Melee, so either change the effect on something similar to Psionic’s FX, or rename the type of magic as something like “Holy Magic”, “Psycho-Magic”, “Light/White Magic” or “Illusiary Magic”.

 

The rest are pretty nice concepts and number changes though!

[Bionic_Flea]

STON!

 

Welcome back.  Very cool animations and concepts.  I especially liked the 'change ammo' treatment to a melee set in Arcane.

 

Did you do spreadsheets on your own powersets?  😁

[Videra]

Absolutely fucking fire work here, sir! I love it.

[Ston]

29 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

STON!

 

Welcome back.  Very cool animations and concepts.  I especially liked the 'change ammo' treatment to a melee set in Arcane.

 

Did you do spreadsheets on your own powersets?  😁

 

Thanks, Flea!

 

I did not do any spreadsheet work on these. This was actually my deviation from constant dps testing 🤣 Once trapdoor testing stopped, I switched to just making new powers or testing fun builds. I have another youtube channel where I was doing most of that:

 

https://youtube.com/@bluff_coh?si=kQdinRMem-4pzfIE

[Ston]

1 hour ago, LightMaster said:

I do feel that as brief the Raging Fury is for the new inherent for Brute, I worry that the Global Recharge Time bonus it grants might end up outdoing the Scrapper in DPA since a mere thirty seconds cooldown makes very easy to Perma-Fury unless it cannot be stacked to extend the timer, and as a result can have significantly less cooldown on Powers vs other ATs with Perma-Haste.

 

The glittering effect looks too cute on something called “Chaotic Magic” for Arcane Melee, so either change the effect on something similar to Psionic’s FX, or rename the type of magic as something like “Holy Magic”, “Psycho-Magic”, “Light/White Magic” or “Illusiary Magic”.

 

The rest are pretty nice concepts and number changes though!

 

Thanks for the feedback! The “Chaotic Magic” was one I struggled with. I liked the hit fx and sound fx I added, but the fx on the fists I was never happy with. Maybe something more like the “Thunderhead” fx from costume auras.

[Troo]

5 hours ago, Ston said:

 

Thanks for the feedback! The “Chaotic Magic” was one I struggled with. I liked the hit fx and sound fx I added, but the fx on the fists I was never happy with. Maybe something more like the “Thunderhead” fx from costume auras.

 

The single target hold looked pretty cool.