Steampunkette

Undercover heroes, Vigilante Heroes, Rogues who are Heroic and want to do one last good act before leaving the Isles, Villains who hate Arachnos enough to set aside their villainy long enough to smack them down without hurting anyone else, and Villains who are Pretending to be Heroes to get closer to Hero Groups they can then infiltrate.

Any and all are welcome. =-3

-Rachel-

I dunno... With the incredible stackability of Parry a -Dam debuff could get pretty big pretty quickly. And with Damage Reduction one of the best forms of mitigation for Brute sets (and by best I mean primary... dark/fire/inv/will/elec/etc) you're granting a higher effective Damage reduction. It's little different than granting higher defense, save that at 90% mitigation a damage debuff on your target still makes you take less damage.

Recharge Rate debuffs tend to be small enough to shave off a few tenths of a second on the recharge of an attack. If you've got it stacked nice and high you might keep that attack from cycling for 1.5-2 seconds before it comes back around, mitigating damage -slightly- for both defense and damage resistance brutes.

Meanwhile a recharge rate buff, while nice, is basically useless to the slow-animating and fairly long recharging Broadsword set itself, but is useful for defensive or support click powers like build up or active defenses making broadsword/shield or broadsword/sr more attractive... And to some degree any secondary with one or more clicks that are nice to have up fairly often (like Dark's heal, or Energy Aura's end fixer)

-Rachel-

That and Task Forces. Any Vigilante or Rogue can start those up.

-Rachel-

That's the plan! Tell your friends, drag them along! It's gonna be a ton of fun, I think!

Plus, badges!

-Rachel-

Maybe Vigilante? It'd give you more supergroup options for a hero, and you'd still be able to hit up the Isles for new content and the like.

-Rachel-

Actually it's closer to what I described. It's a surfboard animation variant of flight with a constant descent applied. To gain altitude you have to fight the auto-descent function, but when you dive you can reach amazing speeds.

It also has very little air-friction, making turns difficult and very wide, but it's a lot of fun to play with for that same reason. Fine control is almost impossible, though.

Though it could have some potentially negative side-effects for players "Jousting" enemies, since the lack of air-friction would let the power continue sliding out of range of enemy attacks... I think it would balance out fairly well against sliding -into- additional spawns.

-Rachel-

Happy to help! =-3

-Rachel-

Feasible... potentially in the gray area of what's capable.

Maybe use the "Jump Pack" style jump property to cause players to descend when they're not holding the space bar down, give it greatly reduced air-friction, and make it wide enough to support all of the attack animations without issue.

Wow... You really do need to create that one, CyberPsyko. What other powers would exist in the set of this "Surfing Flight" type of power?

Or were you thinking of an alternate super-speed wherein players just hover along the ground?

-Rachel-

The game engine does not work that way. It does not have an option for knock-towards. And creating an invisible KB Pet "behind" the target doesn't work because targets move and "Behind" is totally subjective to the game engine. So this power simply cannot be made to work.

Again, not possible in the current game engine.

As far as the game itself is concerned buildings are just tall ground. They aren't specially designated as separate objects. In order to make a power which would take you to the top of a Building they'd first need to code every building to have a bounding box on it's roof which you would target using the grapple power, then teleport to. That would be as close as it gets to a climbing grapple power.

Also not possible in the current game engine. Travel is either forced and instantaneous (teleport) under player control (fly, super-speed, superjump) or initially under player control through jumping with a lack of the air-friction ability.

There is no in-engine manner to create a physics object on the end of a tether with air-friction. It simple wouldn't understand the process. Try to imagine 4 Dimensional space. You physically can't do it, because your mind isn't wired to understand it. You've only got the faculties to see three dimensional objects. The game engine suffers similar limitations, and would have to be redeveloped in order to break those limitations... In which case we're looking at a wholly new game.

Then you've got the visual aspect. Many stretches of Paragon (and Most of the Rogue Isles) have no buildings to grapple to as you travel. Does the power cease to function? Or do you simply wind up grappling to the sky itself?

Again, impossible, due to the current engine design. The ability to control another player's avatar or even an NPC in-movement is beyond the engine's capability.

I love the idea. But I really wish you'd run a /search on it to see just how many times swinging has been brought up and received the same sad answers. You'll likely get trolled and flamed in this thread... Ignore it, and post your other ideas after running a quick search to see what discussion has already occurred.

Welcome to S&I!

-Rachel-

Thinking he's looking for timers on recharge rates, maybe?

-Rachel-

I'd drop the Villain options you chose in favor of Column/Council, CoT, and Malta/Knives PPPs.

Alternatively, just drop TV of those three in favor of Viridian or Shadow Spider for a more "Stalkery" PPP which grants Stalkers more damage and defense options while giving the other ATs a taste of stealth.

-Rachel-

A single team (and in some cases a single character) can take down any EB or AV, so I don't think a zone event is warranted...

Though having Bonesnap or Subject Zero running around could be cool, y'know?

-Rachel-

Kamen is Japanese for "Mask"

Kamen Rider... That combo might stir up some trouble!

-Rachel-

I'd also love to see every named boss in every mission have a chance to spawn in the world maps, more or less.

I'd also love to see EBs and AVs occasionally heading from place to place in appropriate zones. Like Burkeholder moving through the Striga Isle base on his way from one door to another. Or Lillitu in Nerva, running around Thorn Island.

-Rachel-

Wh... OH!

Sorry! Sorry! Thought I was still in the Beta Chatter and Discussion forums. *ahems*

Devs haet Pratoria! Don't feed teh Trolls! Massive Lulz! Epic Phail! /jranger

-Rachel-