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Shadow Embrace/Quicksand style/damage variants, and other things.
I've been away for several months, but decided to revisit. I'm still pretty into the whole slime theme I've got going, though, but it's as difficult as it's always been in Champions Online, thinking about what would fit that style. Some people suggest ice, force, wind, or even fire powers recolored, but it just doesn't feel right. Hard to "be the hero you want to be" in a lot of cases.
The only things that do seem to feel right are Shadow Embrace and Quicksand, but it'd be nice to see a few more versions of things like this.
Shadow Embrace is a mass of energy tendrils. I could easily see these being reskinned to look like an infernal, fire, ice, or mental power... or slime... or other things that aren't currently coming to mind.
Quicksand, with the way it spreads out, could be reskinned to look like toxic chemicals (at least temporarily part of the infernal set), magma, ice, oil/grease (perhaps having a use alongside fire powers), an expanding shadow (pouring dark energy from your hands I suppose), all sorts of things. Maybe a version could make the ground sticky and reduce mobility (yes I'm thinking slime again, but it could be other things too), or one that increases gravity and makes it harder to jump while pulling those that do jump down faster, or a version that make the ground slippery, if that's at all possible.
Also, powers that don't have a selectable emanation point could instead go a route similar to summon powers, letting you pick from various skins/materials, like metal, ghost, glass, etc.
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I'm also thinking about how water powers have been requested several dozen times, yet may never see the light of day. If nobody wants to work on those sorts of effects, how about... blobs?
They could have several uses, and should be much simpler to do than water effects if nobody wants to work on that. You can amass a blob of magma, darkness, ghostly energy, poison, slime (really hope to see this stuff someday, even just as a skin option for existing powers), or whatever, maybe chargeable, growing in size, and pitch it at enemies.
Even if existing powers may already do things that these sorts of ideas would, I feel like it's a good idea to give people more style options, to fit their concept better. Also, if you're concerned about where new powers would go, they can either go in the category that best matches them (slime could go with infernal or maybe earth powers, oil/grease with technology, ghostly things with mental/celestial/darkness), or a new temporary category they can all be lumped into and drawn from until enough powers of a single style are created.
The only things that do seem to feel right are Shadow Embrace and Quicksand, but it'd be nice to see a few more versions of things like this.
Shadow Embrace is a mass of energy tendrils. I could easily see these being reskinned to look like an infernal, fire, ice, or mental power... or slime... or other things that aren't currently coming to mind.
Quicksand, with the way it spreads out, could be reskinned to look like toxic chemicals (at least temporarily part of the infernal set), magma, ice, oil/grease (perhaps having a use alongside fire powers), an expanding shadow (pouring dark energy from your hands I suppose), all sorts of things. Maybe a version could make the ground sticky and reduce mobility (yes I'm thinking slime again, but it could be other things too), or one that increases gravity and makes it harder to jump while pulling those that do jump down faster, or a version that make the ground slippery, if that's at all possible.
Also, powers that don't have a selectable emanation point could instead go a route similar to summon powers, letting you pick from various skins/materials, like metal, ghost, glass, etc.
...
I'm also thinking about how water powers have been requested several dozen times, yet may never see the light of day. If nobody wants to work on those sorts of effects, how about... blobs?
They could have several uses, and should be much simpler to do than water effects if nobody wants to work on that. You can amass a blob of magma, darkness, ghostly energy, poison, slime (really hope to see this stuff someday, even just as a skin option for existing powers), or whatever, maybe chargeable, growing in size, and pitch it at enemies.
Even if existing powers may already do things that these sorts of ideas would, I feel like it's a good idea to give people more style options, to fit their concept better. Also, if you're concerned about where new powers would go, they can either go in the category that best matches them (slime could go with infernal or maybe earth powers, oil/grease with technology, ghostly things with mental/celestial/darkness), or a new temporary category they can all be lumped into and drawn from until enough powers of a single style are created.
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