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Dreamwvr

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If you could design a new archetype...

If you could design an entirely new archtype, what kind would you come up with? I always thought it would be interesting to have shapeshifters as an archetype. Each power set could be a differnt type of shape shifting.

One kind could be stretching like Reed Richards. It would have all melee attacks but you could stretch your arm to punch an opponent 20 feet away and still consider it melee. You could do a stretched leg sweep and knock down people at a distance. You might even be able to turn into a rubber ball and bounce around smashing into foes. And it might be fun to have one power where your lower body turns into a spring and you can bounce around as though you have super jump, bypassing the travel pool entirely.

Another set could be size changers which would be melee too. One power would let you grow really large. Your attack power and damage resistance would increase but you'd also become easier to hit and youd immediately draw enemies attention. Another power could let you shrink, diminishing your attack power and damage resistance but making you harder to hit and giving you a degree of stealth.

One could be animalistic where one power makes your hands turn to claws and swipe the enemy. Another power could give you scales which makes you hard to injure. You could grow spikes from your body which causes all foes to get within melee range to take damage, and you could even grow wings and gain hover.

And you could do dopplegangers. You could anchor one opponent and copy their alpha strike attack. Your anchor one foe and turn into a copy of him so all his friends see you as one of them and don't attack until you attack them.

What kind of new archetype would you like to see?

05/07/07 17:40

Shock Trooper 0083

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

I would like......something with full out damage, like a blaster. Lets say a decimator.

Decimator:
Damage: High
HP: Low
Primary: AoE damage
Secondary: Close Damage

Hand of Blood Lvl X Spines/Regen Stalker...Triumph
Mystic Entity lvl 24 Katana/Regen Scrapper...Champion
Panzer Faust Lvl 23 SS/Energy Brute (retired)...Protector
Arbiter Darkwind Lvl 33 Thugs/Dark MM (retired)...Protector

Thanks to Mimori for the great sig

05/07/07 19:53

Spartanflood

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

I would like a hardcore team/support class
They could be called Sidekicks for heroes and Minions for villains.
They would be a jack of all trades, with some defnesive powers, buffs, aoes, mele, ranged, and holds.
Their powers would all be inherintly weak, but would be strengthened based on who was on their team, the powers that improved would fill in the weak points on the team.
Scrappers would increase heal strength, blasters defense, controllers mele dmg, defenders aoes, takers holds, ect, and similar match ups for villains. Their would have to be a cap for the buffs you receive, so that it couldn't get broken. Other minions/sidekicks would give a slight bonus to everything.

"Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"-Me
Freedom,Cov:
Crimson Tech level 25 martialarts/regen scrapper
Jack of Clubs level 16 robot/dark mastermind
Ace of Torments level 14 grav/fire dominator

05/08/07 11:50

Dreamwvr

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

I was thinking that a set based off of summoning or conjuring objects could be fun as well.

You could have a summon a machine gun shoot it. You could have a power like propel from the gravity dominator set where you summon and throw random objects. You could summon a cage around a foe to keep him held or immobilized. You could summon a brick wall that acts as a shield against enemy attacks from that direction or could be thrown in front of a door to keep enemies from chasing after you. You could have a vanish power where a single foe vanishes for 10 seconds before reappearing. And you could have a final power where you summon a massive energy cannon or auto turret.

Other power sets in this archetype could be one based off illusion controllers where you create illusions like phantom army. Or you could do one based off black magic where you can summon an army of rats whcih does DOT, summon an imp that flys around throwing taunts in order to keep the aggro off you a little, and your final power could be to summon a powerful demon pet that does massive fire and darkness damage before vanishing in 30 seconds.

05/08/07 14:40

Ryoma Echizen

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

I like that shapeshifting idea, but like I'd make it so that when you go to choose your power set you get a choice from certain animals like a bat, panther, falcon, snake, wolf, elephant, shark and then a copy cat type that copies a targeted enemy but has limits, but maybe not all those animals. This choice could be like the Epic AT. Sounds to much like a druid though lawl

05/08/07 17:30

Shock Trooper 0083

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

shapeshifting would be cool like druids in WoW

1-Fire Totem- Fire based ranged attacks, weak and fast
2-Ice Totem- Ice based ranged attacks, weak but good at debuffing
3-Earth Totem- High Defense, Low Offense
4-Wind Totem High Attack, Low defense Melee
5-Shaman- Like rage, but makes totems stronger
6- Pain Totem- Psychic Dom like totem
7-Agony Totem- Rad debuff
8- Grief Totem- D3 defenderness
9- Totem Pole- MoG like combo Uber PWNage totem

Animals

1-Bear Tanker
2- Cat- Scrapper
3- Instinct- for 1 minute you have 40% more def but 20% less offense
4- Feral for 4 minutes you have brutelike fury
5- Eagle- Flying Meleer
6- Were-Rat- allows you to use secondary, more def and more attack
7- Wolve- Stalker
8- Call of the Wild- you summon x number of animals based on your current form. 1 bear, 3 Cats, 2 Eagles, 1 Were-Rat, or 5 Wolves. these will leave after 10 minutes
9- Dragon Form- High Dmg, High Acc, Ranged and Melee, Perma Fly, Much less Def, more damage resistance

Bot-
1-Decimator Mode- Blaster
2- Empathic Mode- Corr
3- Seeker Drones
4- Terminator Mode- Blapper
5- Travel Mode- SS/SJ combo
6- Stealth Mode- Stalker Form
7- BU but lasts 2 minutes
8- Dominator Mode- Dom mode
9- Omega Form- Tanker like Def, Scrapper like Offense, and Ranged attacks.

All attacks in this form are energy based

05/08/07 17:55

Houston

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

Wow these are wonderful Ideas,I think you should post it on the main forum page and see what other gamers think about it.Sorry for not placing an idea of a my idea for a new Archetype,but I have no clue what to expect in the game anymore after i9 :P

05/08/07 20:32

Dreamwvr

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

A pure damage dealing set would be great too. Perhaps something in the lines of a reverse blaster where the primary set is all about melee attacks like energy sword, fire melee, spear handling and street fighting and the secondary set could be about ranged attacks such as spear throwing, fire blasts, archery, and throwing weapons.

Of course, you'd need an archtype power to work with this. I'd go for something that increases your defense since they're primarily a melee type and don't have any defense. Perhaps something in the line of a fury bar where the more agro you get, the more your damage resistance and healing rate increase.

Pinnacle
Shadomancer - lvl 40 dark/dark cor
Krimson Krush - Lvl 50 SS/Inv brute
Ice Angel- - Lvl 36 Ice/Nrg blaster
Protector
Blackberry- - lvl 40 plant/thorn dom
Pheobe Nix - Lvl 36 fire/fire brute
Boojum- - Lvl 37 crab soldier
Ebon Widow- - Lvl 26 widow
Neo Slash - Lvl 41 BS/regen scrapper
Guardian
Dark Rumour - lvl 37 DM/SR stalker
Victory
Seattle Reign- - Lvl 35 thug/Storm MM.

05/23/07 10:36

Mizzoufoo

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RE: If you could design a new archetype...

I think it would be cool to incorporate powers into your suit. Like you make your hand a gun in your costume options, and you could actually shoot it.

05/23/07 15:22

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