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City of Heroes: SDCC '11: Beam Gun and Street Justice Powersets Unveiled
Drew
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The news has already come out of SDCC from fans who were in attendance for some new information coming out of City of Heroes. Fan and forum poster, Archon Helios, has detailed everything they've seen out of SDCC for City of Heroes thus far. Check it out!
Archon here in San Diego after coming home and relaxing from preview night of Comic-Con. Out of everything there, I spent most of my time playing and trying out the new Freedom version of the game. I enjoyed it so much I couldn't help but share what I've found and collect more data as Comic-con goes on.
First we'll start with what everyone is most interested in. The new powerS. That's right, plural. I didn't try out Time Manipulation, but I did play with the other two sets, Beam Gun and Street Justice.
Beam Gun is a single target focused power set that acts as a primary for Blasters and Corrupters and secondary for Defenders. The damage numbers look low, but the set relies on a special debuff that makes Beam Gun powers deal significantly more damage, somewhat similarly to Sonic Attacks. Expect more details on exact powers in a future post. Beam Guns are primarily Energy damage.
Street Justice is a combo-centric melee power set for all the melee archetypes(Brute, Scrapper, Stalker, Tanker). All the powers have their own secondary effect as opposed to other sets like Dark Melee that focuses on to-hit de-buffs. Most of the set's powers and combo points that make your Finisher powers stronger. This isn't the same as dual blades in that it's not going toward a buff, but almost like a Rogue in WoW. Street Justice is mostly Smashing and Lethal damage and the attacks are punches and a couple kicks with some lighting effects.
Read more at the Official City of Heroes Forums.
Comments
omg paragon add freaking polearms already. jesus christ.
ah well, its too late anyway.
Hang on ... I'm trying to get excited ... and not getting there.
Do they allow full respecs out of primary and secondary power sets yet?
narp. but im betting with them going freemium they'll sell that option for 15-20 dollars.
Both sets sound somewhat underwhelming, at least to me. For them to be added i'm sure plenty of players must have been asking for them though.
Yet, the characters still have mitten hands and they haven't added ANY of the back/upper thigh pieces that people have asked for for literally years. Champions may lack the community CoH has, but is vastly superior in terms of character creation options.
hmm...from what i see in these comments, you people dont visit CoH forums often.
leaked polarms
Titan Weapon powerset
Back items option explored with Steampunk Set
powerset respecs