BBQ_Pork

My son, age 4, has been watching me play CoH for a while now. When my wife asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up: A super hero!
She asked him if he was going to have a sidekick: A Beater Robot!
Mental Image: A bank robbery thwarted by a giant robot, wielding a 2x4 in one claw and a hose filled with ball bearings in the other. Robber begging to be taken in by the police to make the beating stop.

Maybe instead of a full-on Invasion, it should be an Expeditionary Force or Recon Party, and only disrupting a portion of a zone, rather than the whole thing.
Those who have Hunt missions in thier story arc or godforbid thier TF can go to the other side of the zone and still complete it.

"Dimensional Disturbance in <zone>!" A Portal (Mega-sized object, no direct attacks, summons spawns, has lots of HP) is placed on the map. Normal spawns within X distance are replaced by Preatorian Critters.

I know at least one would say "Look, I can deal with a city full of flaming demons, green-skinned super-strong drug-addicts, marauding extradimensional aliens, hordes of zombies and evil corporate superpowers. But there isn't a bar anywhere in this whole **** town and none of the women are anatomicly correct. I'm OUTTA HERE as soon as I find my motorcycle!"

Unfun? L40-50.
By L40-49 all I have to look forward to are filler powers as I already have all the neccesary powers in my build. The rest are just for filler or mules for set bonuses.

L50 is like sweeping and vacuuming an apartment after all your stuff is on the moving truck already. You're just finishing up those last few badges and unfinished arcs before you roll the next one.

I've never gone the diety route, but my Scrapper would be in tune with the Thor vibe.
Norse (Drinking Beer, chasing women and getting into fights) > Greek (Drinking wine, chasing anything and getting into drama)

My Elec Brute may be a Super-Scientist, but there are still possibilities. In his quest for power over all things electric, he would not hesitate to employ magic, so grabbing the power from a Lightning diety wouldn't be far-fetched. In his insanity (self-experimentation does that to you, particularly when you rewire your nervous system) and egotism, he will, of course, lie and claim that "SCIENCE!" is the source of any and all of his power.

You're going to get the equivalent of four one-slotted powers for free.
Better way to do this would be to ask for a few of the "get two slots at this level" levels to be "get three slots at this level".

If the Immob resist was in Kinetics, I would have skipped the pool entirely. Not needing CJ for the Immob, I wouldn't have bothered taking the Pre-reqs for Acrobatics, which that character still doesn't have at L44.

I could also build for Ranged Defence via IOs, preventing many mezzes from hitting, but I think that this buff is thematic to the set and not overpowered.

(TLR at end)

I was having a great deal of Fun playing a Fire Blast/Kinetics Corruptor. Blast and move, blast again, re-position as needed, zip to the next spawn. It was all about movement and speed. I was so happy to have a travel power included within my Secondary powerset, so that I could so easily skip a pool. My build wasn't great at soloing EBs (all too common redside) or other individual hard targets, but it was fun at clusters of minions.


Then I ran into some CoT Earth Casters. Locked down with Immobilizes, I was forced to chew Break-free or chew the floor. Now, I get that every character's powerset combo comes with it's own personal Kryptonite. That one foe that it really has to change it's tactics for. For many, it's Sappers. (For my Electric Armor, it was Arachnoids) For my /SR it was Rularuu, IIRC.
But I digress.

So I looked at my build and saw an easy out. I could drop Inertial Reduction and take the Leaping pool's Combat Jumping for (resist: Immobilize) and Super Jump for a travel that didn't force a rooted animation every few minutes.
But why should a Pool power be better than a Secondary? Heck, a Primary for some.

Thus, I propose that Inertial Reduction or Siphon Speed be given a Resist: Immobilize component equal or similar to Combat Jumping. It would fit with the theme of movement and speed that Kinetics brings to the table.
If the buff is placed in Inertial Reduction, then it will be a team buff that happens to also benefit the caster.
If the buff is placed in Siphon Speed, it will only benefit the caster, but at the penalty that they will have to roll to hit to do so, and likely get agro.

I know, it would give a "squishy" a mez resistance. But I'm only talking about Immobilizes, not Holds, Knockback, Fears, Sleeps, Stuns or Confuses. And there is some precedent for a squishy to get resistance to KB (IOs, Acrobatics), Holds (Acrobatics) and Fear/Taunt/Confuse/Placate (Leadership)



TLR
Add Immob Resist to IR or Siphon Speed.

How about immunity to debt?

Like, you could still get it to count towards badges, but it wouldn't detract from your Patrol XP, nor slow your advancement.

In addition to three slots and a badge?
Well, you get access to an unlocked AT....no, wait, they dropped that to L20, so you could get it your first weekend.