Oathbound

I find that Energy Blast(Assault) colored with white, various shades of grey and desaturated blues and yellow/browns make good Steam Burst effects.

Combine with mechanical looking gloves/arms (I prefer Resistance Gloves and Shoulders, colored a brassy tone) and if you have it the Steam Jets Aura, and you're golden.

I have an Emp/Eng Defender, and an Elec/Eng Dom who are steampunk themed.




EDIT: Radiation can also be fairly easily colored to look like Steam. I'm considering a Steampunk costume for my Elec/Rad Controller.

Edit again: The Thunderhead aura can also work well enough for electric using Steampunk characters. For instance, use the Arms option and color it grey and you have a steam cloud with periodic arcs of electricity.

At first I didn't even know there was a Train, so when I finished my starter contact in AP and he sent me to King's Row I diligently studied my map, and set off for KR on foot.

Getting through Skyway City as a noob on a level 5 was hard. Imagine my chagrin when, upon arriving at my contact in King's Row, she immediately sent me to The Hollows.

Looks alright, I'm neither for nor against any particular aspect of it.

There are however two issues with Gravity Well:

1. There's already a power called Gravity Well in game, so the name would have to be different.

2. There's no way to make an "Attract" power using the existing game engine. It's been suggested and discussed ad nauseum. Castle (the former Powers Dev) has stated in no uncertain terms that there's no reliable way to make it work using the tech that the game is based on.

Probably the closest you could do (standard code rant applies) is a PBAoE Teleport Foe that ports affected mobs to your location.

Looks awesome bAss.

Toying with it a bit... I'm REEEEEEEEALY hoping they enable the victorian jackets in the Sleeveless the like the Baron coat is. Currently the only option is with sleeves:



My favorite thing to do with the baron coat is to use the SLEEVELESS Baron w/Vest, the Leather Straps top and then the Tee pattern to make a sort of short-sleeved look:



Then that enables me to use the resistance Gloves and Shoulders with it:



I'd like to be able to do the same with the fancy new coat. I doubt I'll use it otherwise.

(Edit: Yes sadly I have to run with my graphics settings low enough that the glow on the Resistance pieces don't even render. I brought the rendering issue up forever ago hoping they could at LEAST get the pieces to display the accents as the secondary color selected even if they didn't get to glow, but apparently to no avail.)

While I don't know how in line this will be with what you meant, I've found I always preferred when the villain is JUST reasonable enough that you can understand WHY they did what they did. That makes it even scarier to me, because it can bring you to the realization that you could well be one event (or series of events) away from turning into a monster yourself.

It makes for better characters when you can identify with them, but still see that they've crossed the line (even if where that line is may be a very murky, grey area) and hold them accountable for the wicked, horrible things they have done.

I guess to try and relate that better with the topic, I'd have to put it as "I don't like playing the mindless rampaging destroyer, or the evil-for-evil's-sake mustache twirling schemer.

If I'm going to be evil I want it to be for realistic reasons involving agonizingly difficult choices where I either pick the lesser of two evils, or believe that what I'm doing is on some level morally, ethically, or socially acceptable/required.

I want to play as the man who, faced with the utter destruction of my people, makes a deal with the devil and commits unspeakable acts to save them.

I want to be the one person who sees the real threat to the world and takes whatever measures I deem necessary to end it, regardless of how brutal or criminal those actions may be.

In short, I want to be the villain who DOESN'T see himself as the villain.

(EDIT: ) ^What Mr. 3-7 said.

Energy, Psi and Earth. Psi is the only one I've managed to get to 50 so far though... back when PSW was just plain silly. I still like it, I just rarely play my 50s (besides my Widow) anyhow.

Energy I love because it's fun to have a full ranged chain early (looking forward to getting the last blast at 38). Sometimes I do wish it had more AoE ability, but I mostly solo, so having good single target damage is more important to me.

I find Earth to be one of the most satisfying sets to play. Very smashy. One thing though is that I guess I'm rather a minority in that I hate the hammers. If I could customize them to just be generic stonefistyIsmashyou attacks I would be on it like paisley on tacky wallpaper.

That's..... that's not right.

It should not be working/activating at all against flying mobs, just like other powers that require grounded targets (Plant Control's hold, I believe it is, comes to mind).

That GM's got something mixed up there...

MAN, Arctic looks so different with the gfx turned up.

I wish I could run with higher settings, but since they switched over to Ultra Mode I can't even run at the settings I USED to use.

My only thought about the proposed primary is that it has considerable debuffing (which should be reserved for the Secondary set) but very little actual control, which kinda defeats the purpose.