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NanoPulse Blade this Year ?

nazelnagnazelnag Member Posts: 230 Arc User
edited November 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
wondering if they come up with something actually enticing for this year event.

the different colours for batlets and Lirpas and winter coatsare kinda meh, after having 1, it's prity much pointless to have a different colour and borgs adapt to them (and now, elites even cheat they're way by constantly repulsing you, when you get close)



so, i wonder if we will finally have a glowing sword, for those that dislike batlets and Lirpas handling behaviour.
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The Tholian sword already is pretty much a lightsaber when it absorbs an energy type, so I see no valid reason not to have a blade.

    Did they do blue already? I'd like to get blue weapons this year. :D
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    The Tholian sword already is pretty much a lightsaber when it absorbs an energy type, so I see no valid reason not to have a blade.

    Did they do blue already? I'd like to get blue weapons this year. :D

    The fed one was blue the first year...

    This year, I am hoping for yellow with purple spots
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  • cptndata1cptndata1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I want us to have a new color, and we can buy all old colors. And yes, a sword please :D
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  • hpgibbshpgibbs Member Posts: 395 Arc User
    edited November 2014
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  • bberge1701bberge1701 Member Posts: 726 Bug Hunter
    edited November 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    Did they do blue already? I'd like to get blue weapons this year. :D

    Technically, they did blue in the 2011 event. There was only one type of bat'leth and lirpa, but it turned blue or red depending on your faction. They had purple in 2012, and green in 2013.
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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    edited November 2014
    I'm guessing orange to match the expansion colors.
  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    The Tholian sword already is pretty much a lightsaber when it absorbs an energy type, so I see no valid reason not to have a blade.

    Did they do blue already? I'd like to get blue weapons this year. :D

    Yes, this. It takes on the color of a weapon energy type you receive into that blade color. It is awesome, but all too fleeting
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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Black or Hot Pink this year.
  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Brown, and it makes a squelch noise when making contact with anything.
  • betayuyabetayuya Member Posts: 1,059 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Here is a smart idea, Color pallet enabled coats, not uniform color pallet.

    first time i saw these coats with no color options i crit facepalmed so hard the sound barrier nearly broke lol ...
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  • welcome2earfwelcome2earf Member Posts: 1,746 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Melee weirdos. :P
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  • rodentmasterrodentmaster Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Can't have that. Why... you couldn't pawn off garish red and eye-bleeding green versions of the exact same thing next year if people had the option to choose their own colors now.

    I mean, the nerve! Suggesting such a thing!




    (+1, by the way. Long overdue)
  • betayuyabetayuya Member Posts: 1,059 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    ya i mean who would think of a color pallet i mean it would have to be like, uh, i dunno still trying to remember the color of that red firetruck ... lol :D
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  • crusader2007crusader2007 Member Posts: 1,883 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    hpgibbs wrote: »
    Woo! Star Wars Online!

    WHY...WHY...WHY who cares about lightsabers...THIS IS the WRONG GAME :D
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  • breadandcircusesbreadandcircuses Member Posts: 2,355 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I'm calling it now: Plaid.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
    edited November 2014
    crusader2007 wrote: »
    WHY...WHY...WHY who cares about lightsabers...THIS IS the WRONG GAME :D

    I'll go with Dirk's theory on why the Angelwing Clam can glow when modern science can't explain it.
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  • centaurianalphacentaurianalpha Member Posts: 1,150 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    BTW, the Nanopulse upgrades just fine; mine is at Mk XIII atm... dunno yet if it changes color with rarity. :cool:
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
    edited November 2014
    I think one of the modifier slots is taken by the color so... probably not.
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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Black would be a neat color, especially if it cast a shadow instead of a light.
  • nazelnagnazelnag Member Posts: 230 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    well, the issue is about adding a sword (beyond the Lirpa and batlet) to the winter reward.

    that would add some variety.
  • lystentlystent Member Posts: 1,019
    edited November 2014
    eldarion79 wrote: »
    Black or Hot Pink this year.

    Black is an unlit color. At most you'll get a dark gray that puts out so little light.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    lystent wrote: »
    Black is an unlit color. At most you'll get a dark gray that puts out so little light.
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  • mikearoomikearoo Member Posts: 342 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    breadandcircuses wrote: »
    I'm calling it now: Plaid.

    ROFL!

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  • calaminthacalamintha Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    eldarion79 wrote: »
    Black or Hot Pink this year.

    Black and purple.
  • shadowfirefly00shadowfirefly00 Member Posts: 1,026 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    nazelnag wrote: »
    the different colours for batlets and Lirpas and winter coatsare kinda meh, after having 1, it's prity much pointless to have a different colour and borgs adapt to them (and now, elites even cheat they're way by constantly repulsing you, when you get close)
    Quite. The nanopulse weapons seem to use the plasma damage type for the entirety of their damage; would've been better for all concerned if they took a cue from WH40K's 'power weapons' in having an actual blade around which the nanopulse 'field' forms when active - in game terms, they would have the standard physical damage, and then bonus damage from the nanopulse effect... meaning that when Borg adapt (or the target has plasma resistance), the weapon simply becomes less effective instead of entirely ineffective.

    That said, aesthetic-only glow effects for normal swords, lirpas, etc. could be a reasonable Z-store item (see Path of Exile's plethora of such effects).
  • hpgibbshpgibbs Member Posts: 395 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    With the initial year being blue/red depending on faction, and then purple and green being used, I'd expect a yellow or orange color (Innate phaser damage probably)
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  • woodwhitywoodwhity Member Posts: 2,636 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I dont care what color the worst "weapon" in this game has. They need a buff to be even considered a "weapon".
  • mightybobcncmightybobcnc Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    woodwhity wrote: »
    I dont care what color the worst "weapon" in this game has. They need a buff to be even considered a "weapon".

    You should ask someone to link an epic nanopulse in chat sometime. ;)
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Yellow or orange does seem likely. Although I'd like it better if they sold the previous years' models too, so new toons could get a full set of colors.
  • hpgibbshpgibbs Member Posts: 395 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    mightybobcnc wrote: »
    You should ask someone to link an epic nanopulse in chat sometime. ;)
    still better options for melee and blade weapons in game
    woodwhity wrote: »
    I dont care what color the worst "weapon" in this game has. They need a buff to be even considered a "weapon".

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