Oathbound

Figured it'd be too easy to go for a mystical mythological type character, So I tried something a bit more Tech inspired.

Without further ado, I give you Bully for Bullets:





Side note: Piercing Rounds looks particularly impressive using a max height, huge bodied bovine.

While well made, all the Heads seem a bit too small to fit the character's bodies to me.

Same honestly for the cat paws feet option. Big cats have BIG paws. It's a little odd having a tiger character with house cat feet.

Could we maybe get a Large Cat Paws option, like we have both Large and Small for every other Monstrous Feet type?

Melee/Support (buff/debuff)
Figure, due to being in melee range where attacks generally hit harder, give them medium HPs (Say Blaster/Stalker level) with Melee Damage mod of 1.0ish and Buff/Debuff mods of about 0.8. Roughly Corruptor level support with higher damage (due to being melee limited).

Inherent power could be called Stoicism and grant 4mag protection from all mez types (Not enough to take much abuse, but enough so that they're not getting constantly detoggled.)



Control/Defense (Armor)
Hybridized Control sets with 3 powers swapped with theme appropriate melee attacks. Have them start with basic hitpoints (Defender/Controller/Corruptor/Etc) with Control, Damage and Defense/Resist mods of 0.75.

Give them a set of Swap Ammo type toggle Inherent powers that boost either Max Hitpoints, or the Enhancement Value to Control, Damage, Defense/Resist. This lets them switch to whichever effect best fits their situation. (Enhancement Value toggles work just like Power Boost, they don't grant you resist/defense/damage/control if you don't have any already they just boost the effect of your resist/defense/damage/control powers. These buffs would entirely ignore ED but would not allow you to surpass the stat caps. If you had an armor that gave you 10% defense, slotted it with 56% defense from Enhancements and got an additional 50%bonus from the inherent, your toggle would buff your defense by 10*(1.0+0.56+0.5)=20.6%.)

Max HP inherent gives Tanker HP with Scrapper level defense, moderate control and poor damage. Can fill tanker role, using control to suppliment their agro management.

Defense/Resist inherent improves personal mitigation to tanker level, but leaves their hitpoints and damage low, with moderate control capability. This is another way they can fill the tank role, using their control ability to supplement their shields and prevent damage.

Control inherent gives Controller level control with Scrapper level defense, low hitpoints and poor damage. Can fill the Control role on a team with greater personal survivability but lower team contribution than Controllers and less damage than Doms bring.

Damage inherent brings their (few) attacks up to blaster level damage, with low hitpoints and scrapper level defense and moderate control ability. NOTE: They would never have actual blaster level damage ability because they have very limited attacks. This would be more the Solo role. Increased personal kill speed but doesn't really offer anything to a team because they're still fairly low in overall damage output.

My picks-

Blasters:
Dark Blast, Dark Manipulation seems the most logical. Dark Manip could be pretty easily cobbled from the other existing Dark sets. Move Dark Pit out of Dark Blast and into the manipulation set, sub in Aim. Since Nightfall is in the Blaster Soul PPP, perhaps replace it with Dark Obliteration in the set (OR swap the PPP Nightfall for DarkO, though that's unlikely at this point). All else fails a new Cone/AoE could be devised for the set.

Brutes:
Ice Melee, Ice Armor blah blah blah bad for fury generation. Ya know what? So was Dark Armor and it's been a Brute set for years. Let the person playing it decide if they want to play the set on the AT. If need be mention in the set description that it may not be the best for Fury generation.

Controllers:
Traps, Poison Poison can work well with Plant Control for theme, and I would immediately roll a Grav/Traps for the lulz of Trip mines and Wormhole.

Corruptors:
Forcefield, Poison, Psychic Blasts Preferably Defender Psi blast. Arguably FF would break the pattern of Corruptor support sets having debuffs, but really I think FF is offensive enough to fit (if you actually use the full set/majority of the powers instead of just taking the buffs and skipping the rest).

Defenders:
Fire Blast, Thermal Radiation Matching themes are always popular.

Dominators:
Illusion Control (feh, IMO), Dark Assault Dark Assault is easily cobbled from existing Dark sets. While I think Illusion would be underperforming/poor on Doms, just like with Ice for Brutes I've come to the stance of "let the player decide." I would prefer Dark Control but that's more of a NEW set than proliferation, particularly since I'd prefer for them NOT to cannibalize Dark Miasma, so that it can one day make it to Controllers (tweaked as it may be).

Masterminds:
Sonic Resonance, Cold Domination Sonic more than any other set seems Ally dependent, so it seems logical to give it to the AT that always has an ally. (Literally half the set CANNOT be used without an ally/pet.) Similar thought for Cold, though to a lesser extent.

Scrappers:
Energy Aura, ??? Scrappers aren't my cup of tea, so I'm none to sold on any sets.

Stalkers:
Invulnerability, ??? Inv seems like about the last set that could be ported to Stalkers that doesn't have some weird thematic oddness to me... but then said oddness already exists for some sets, so I dunno.

Tankers:
Energy Aura, Broadsword EA will get there eventually, and Broadsword fits nicely with WM and BA.

This thread needs more pretties.





There. That's better.


Mmmmmm Jensen Ackles.

If they suck as badly as the Fears in Presence then it'd be a complete waste of time.

It's always kinda confounded me that there was never a ranged attack pool though. Nearly half of the pools include melee attacks, but there's not a single ranged attack in any of them.

Me.

Pictures are a few years old. I don't have my lip ring or my plugs anymore. *sniffle*

Also I'm a bit fuzzier. I hate shaving, though I keep it trimmed short.

AoE Intangibility Powers (Gravity's Dimension Shift and Dark's Blackhole) would be at the top of the list.


Here's what I would do to improve them WITHOUT breaking the Cottage Rule.

Resistance bonuses from sets are lacking as a whole. It's not just any 1 or two damage types.

Pretty much the only ones you'll ever find a decent amount of is Fire/Cold from the purple sets.

There are 4 sets with Energy/Negative:
Tempest (level 15-30 Ranged Damage set at 3slots for 0.63%bonus)
Paralytic (level 10-30 Hold set at 3slots for 0.63%bonus)
Adjusted Targeting (level 21-53 ToHit Buff set at 3slots for 1.26%bonus) and
Shield Wall (level 10-50 PVP Defense Buff set at 4slots for 1.89%bonus)

There are also only 4 sets with Smashing/Lethal:
Air Burst (level 10-53 Target AoE set at 4slots for 0.63%bonus)
Call to Arms (level 10-30 Pet Recharge set at 5slots for 1.89%bonus)
Analyze Weakness 9level 30-53 Accurate Defense Debuff set at 6slots for 1.575%bonus) and
Gladiator's Strike (level 10-50 PVP Melee set at 5slots for 1.89%bonus)

Compared to that there are 14(!) sets with Fire/Cold resist (not going to list them all).

As far as sets with bonuses to a single type:

Smashing has 2 sets it's available on, at 3 and 4slots.
Lethal is only available on Edict of the Master (pet damage set) at 4slots
Fire is only available on Gift of the Ancients at 3slots
Cold has 3 sets at 2 and 3 slots
Energy is only on Detonation (Target AoE) at 3slots
Negative has 6 sets you can get it from at anywhere from 3 to 6 slots required
Psi is available from 10 sets, either for slotting the whole set or as a Special IO
Toxic is likewise available on 16sets as either 6slot bonus or Special IO

For some reason, Despite the widely held view that 1% Defense = 2% Resist; Resist bonuses seem to only be about 1/2 the value of Defense bonuses so you need twice as many harder to get bonuses for the same benefit.

I have my Dark/Ice/Dark Defender, Arctic Black.




The idea behind his costume is that the spikes on his Gloves and Boots, the organic Shoulders, his belt, and his Mask are all made of Ice. His Hair tips and goatee would be frosted over too.

(Side note, I love having the Snowflakes Aura, and the snowflake emote for him lol.)

The only game I ever really used voice chat in was WAR, because I was literally the only person in the guild who didn't use it and if I hadn't started I'd never have had any idea WTH was going on. (A friend convinced me to play/join and this was his guild, so I was going to be grouping with these people no matter what.)

I stopped using voice chat again shortly after that because we moved and the computer I used got put into a hallway alcove upstairs by the bedrooms, and I didn't want to disturb people who were trying to sleep, since we generally played late at night.

Now I don't even have a mic to use for TS/Vent/Skype/whatever anyhow. So at most I could listen, and try to type my replies.


My friend always closes his chat tab. Always. And it ANNOYS THE HELL OUT OF ME!

He KNOWS I don't have/use VC and I always end up saying something then having to wait for potentially several minutes for him to think to check his tabs. He'll also go AFK without bothering to say so (in type) so we'll just be going along and all the sudden I'm all alone doing all the fighting.


It's come to the point where I actually HATE playing with him.


EDIT:

Here's what I would like them to do with Dimension Shift (and Black Hole too), change it from a Target AoE to a Location targeted 'pet' (like Quicksand or Volcanic Gasses) that pulses a short duration PBAoE Enemy phase, AND a PBAoE ALLY phase, and allow for the PvP mechanics for phaseing to work in PvE as well if they don't already (phased targets can attack other phased targets). The pulses would have to be set to ignore phase in order to keep mobs from phasing in and out as the power ticks, which we know they can do already cause Hamidon ignores phase.

This keeps from breaking the Cottage rule (the primary purpose of the power is unchanged ( it's still an AoE phase power)) but it removes one of the biggest annoyances of phase powers (having to wait till they expire to kill the phased mobs) by allowing you to enter/exit the phase shift field and then attack the phased mobs.

You could change the name to Dimensional Rift to match the new functionality of the power. (Dimension Shift is more of an action, where Dimensional Rift is more of a Thing.) The name Black Hole still works great though.

That's one serious sunburn there CR lol.

I think i've had one that bad before... though maybe it just felt that way.

This is what I cam up with.



It uses the top row of "Normal skin" color to get the reddish hue, then uses Bare chest with the Tee pattern set to a very light gray (not white as i think that starts looking way unnatural). Gives a decent Farmer's Tan.

I also did the Rounded Mask on the face to give him raccoon eyes from wearing his shades.