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Yeah am posting an awful lot of stuff here, because I am so bored at work. :biggrin:
But now to the point of this thread!
What are the powers that make your hero feel powerful? I am not talking about the damage here, just the look of the power and how it's executed. It's a shame sometimes looking cool and damage doesn't meet up.
My most favourite would be Lightning Storm. Black clouds appear on top of the enemies and start blasting lightning all over the place. It looks great! (On rank 3 it looks simply amazing)
My least favourite would be Energy storm. I mean, really? What's up with the name? It's a vacuum with a pea shooter. Pew! Yeah, energy STORM. Geez! :biggrin:
What are your favourite displays of power?
But now to the point of this thread!
What are the powers that make your hero feel powerful? I am not talking about the damage here, just the look of the power and how it's executed. It's a shame sometimes looking cool and damage doesn't meet up.
My most favourite would be Lightning Storm. Black clouds appear on top of the enemies and start blasting lightning all over the place. It looks great! (On rank 3 it looks simply amazing)
My least favourite would be Energy storm. I mean, really? What's up with the name? It's a vacuum with a pea shooter. Pew! Yeah, energy STORM. Geez! :biggrin:
What are your favourite displays of power?
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I have my roomsweeper plus the phrase " Can you fly Bobby!!
WHAT ima evil what you expect.
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Force Cascade is another one that feels amazingly powerful, but nobody has a force cascade stronger than Dr. Destroyer!
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Haha :biggrin: Too bad that the distances are not accurate, I have a character with 704 STR and Haymaker's power description says it knocks people 0-576 feet. That would be hilarious to actually see somebody fly almost 600ft :biggrin:
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Actually... it is accurate but you have to remember that almost all characters have at least some knock resistance. Try it on a very low level with almost no knock resistance and it works closer to advertised.
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Haha cool. Time to challenge some lvl 6 and give em flying lessons :biggrin::biggrin:
And I agree on gigabolt it looks great too, the damage is decent enough to tap it and take out the mobs but yeah damage wise it's kinda weak compared to other alphamale powers out there.
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Try the low level mobs on top of the buildings in the west side, its like having an elevated t-off spot at a putting range. Try to aim them towards a quest giver with a buncha low levels loitering about.
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HAHA I am so gonna do that. Sounds so much fun. :biggrin: It's raining Purple Men!
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Kaze Ningen Chou will eventually get her own version of this, just with Typhoon.
Another example is Captain Star's Plasma Beam, buffed by Electric Form. It cuts through mobs like a lightsaber through butter. :cool:
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Hahaha but more to the point!
Powers that make me feel powerful are a Rank3 Haymaker, Rank3 Havok Stomp, and Rank3 ThunderClap. These powers just have so much "OOMPH!" put into them!
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You clearly haven't fought one of the devs when they use a hacked toon. Got knocked from Champions HQ clear across to West Side. :biggrin:
Yeah, I had that happen against Gentleman Crush (where did he go, anyway?). Wow that was quite a flight.
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Another power I love is telekinesis--nothing like picking up shipping containers with your mind and throwing them at your foes.
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Nothing says absurdly powerful attacks like a giant frikken laser spearing down from above, and with anvil so it follows targets it's even funnier.
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That's why I love having Orbital Cannon with Anvil of Dawn on a PA toon. It's not so much one power as it is the number of powers you can combine. Here's how I handle bosses, especially on smash alerts:
Lather, rinse, repeat OC/EyeB/PlasmaB cycle, with my EB conveniently filling in the last couple seconds of OC cooldown, until boss is face down on the pavement, wondering where Sister Silicon Prime gets all those wonderful toys.
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Try Lightning Arc R3 with Electric Form R3. Put Arc in the Chest Slot and crank up the Bloom just a bit. Your toon transforms into a giant ball of energy that blasts things with a monstrous Lightning Ray. Awesome.
A Large sized Bestial character with a R3 Bite attack, and AoB with Giant Growth. Ramp up Giant Growth to Max Size. Spin the Camera so that you have an Over The Shoulder view from the Enemies perspective. Enjoy the horror show!
Hurricane with Perfect Storm. A real O.M.G. power in every way. Especially if you use the "running/flying around in a circle around an enemy using the Repel to keep him perfectly stationary and helpless" trick.
Epidemic. 'Nuff said.
I don't know if you can still do this, but shortly after its release I invented a little game that I called Master Villein Pinball. I would go to a location with lots of destructibles and some Master Villein class critters around (inside the M.C. Argent Building works wonders for this). Keep Pestilance and Aspect of the Infernal going. Infect the crates with your DoT, with the amount of damage increasing as you go along, so the more recently infected explode FIRST. Drive a Master Villein near a Crate that is about to explode. If you time things JUST right, you can bounce them from one batch of exploding crates to another, keeping them in the air the whole time. My record was 4 bounces.
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Lead Tempest: Only after it got buffed. Probably the most stylish power in the game and it now has the damage to back it up. Of course, I was using Dual Pistols before they were cool, so... :cool:
Open Palm Strike: HADOUSHOU! HAOH DID THIS HAPPEN?! Martial Arts' Haymaker equivalent. Send a goon flying after critting for 10k with it, charges fast, hits hard, looks really cool...
Of course, everyone will say Force Cascade but meh.
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Now, obviously, it's not that powerful a power. But reaching out with dark tentacles that can knock down or yank enemies toward you FEELS so potent.
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A close runnerup would be Lightning Arc + Concussor Beams. Running both at the same time gives you the lightning arc effects around each of your concussor beams!
I hope he got fired. Many of the things that piss players off in this game were his ideas. Ao'quephoth's broken heal and the not-addition of new PvP rewards, for example.
I remember testing the Mega D event with him - except that there wasn't any testing! He was just fooling around and outright trolling the players with his uber-character, instead of making sure that the event won't be bugged. And guess what, that event came with the "deleveling bug", the worst bug CO ever had! :rolleyes:
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There's nothing cooler for me than watching the enemy pound on his own kind. I especially loved it in PvP way back when.. people would spam powers like Gigabolt or Cascade without watching their targeting and take out their own teammates.
Those were the days.
Alien Crystal as well, before it got broken by the apparent "fix" (No longer can increase Confuse strength via Manipulator and it no longer procs Manipulator either.
I also liked Ego Storm back in it's hey day, I used to love walking into a room and see the minions rush me only to be stunned and quickly fall in submission to by superior mental might :rolleyes:
Force Detonation, Force Eruption and Force Cascade always have had a powerful feel for me. FE for melee clear out, Force Detonation to side track enemies gunning for nearby team mates and Force Cascade if I need to take out a line of people like in Green Dragon Alert in the second room, they line up so perfectly
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Energy Wave and Force Eruption definitely have the sound and visual oomph I like.
Unleashed Rage does look cool but Implosion Engine feels much more satisfying to me.
Telekinetic Lance really has the animation that looks like its an all or nothing attack.
I like knocking enemies in waves so Inexorable Tides makes it look like I'm knocking enemies around rushing through a mob.
Sword Cyclone being dealt by any player is like watching a tornado of pain coming to rip things apart.
Vicious Decent is my favorite lunge thanks to it feeling powerful.
Ascension is one of those powers that is made to make you feel powerful. Best AO in design.
There are a lot more powers specifically in the Mystic Power set, but they underperform so much that it counters their awesome visuals. (There are strong powers in this set, but the ones that actually look cool and feel powerful to me are the ones that are just bad. For example, Expulse.)
Those powers bring the BOOM! (Well, fault-line not so much, but looks really cool)
It's just a device, but Gunslinger's Legacy also looks awesome.
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Nothing quite says "Come at me, bro" like growing to be 60 feet tall, shrinking your enemy down to about a foot and a half, while tagging em with like 15k damage. Plus, the animation.
Breakaway shot, followed by holdout shot, is pretty damn cool, too. Like a rolling ball of random guns and flippiness.
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My recent favourite is the Energy Wave. It's satisfying to too lunge at group of enemies with Void shift and smash the ground with a blast, sending em flying and defeating the whole group at once :biggrin: Awww yeah. It's so cool because it's the same power Mega-Destroit uses.
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I love using Ego Lash with the Hand emanation point and Ego Choke with the First.
that plus full charge chest beam = five fingers of death
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I also enjoy using Shatter + Ice Barrier for that cold nuke, Soul Mesmerism w/ Glossalia for when I want to have a laugh at enemies talking themselves to death, and Force Detonation for when you're not close enough for Force Eruption.
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False.
It actually does unleash hell.
Some other combos and powers I've enjoyed include:
↓ You could easily throw that in as well. It's just that most of my fire-type characters aren't mages. Or spellswords. Or people who throw burning swords at people.
You forgot to add Pyromancers' Blades to that Combo. There is no such thing as too many burny things:biggrin:
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I use both of these techniques and I fully endorse them. They tend to draw a LOT of power though so be sure you can afford the bill.
So if you hit bad guy 1 with SA he and all other targets in the area would take the basic damage.
Then target 2 would be the source of a new detonation that would affect all of the targets.
Then target 3 would be the source of a new detonation that would affect all of the targets.
Then target 4....
That would be from the first detonation.... :biggrin:
It felt very powerful to be able to start a chain reaction detonation with an arrow.
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Force Cascade
Dragon's Wrath
Devour Essence
Epidemic
Those are my favourite theme powers and they do make me feel powerful. Sometimes even few of them are present on the same toon. A theme oriented one, of course. :biggrin: