A list or brief description of powers or power sets you're glad did not exist in game.
I'll start
Whip Spine: An effective weapon with nice reach and barbed to boot, but whilst your enemies won't be standing around to feel its effects something tells me that neither will its user :P
Demonic Halitosis- Sickening stench from your pie hole subdues all foes...and friends
Parasitic Control
Your bond with the various vermin that infest your body has grown so strong that you can manipulate them as a tool to plague your enemies. Including such powers as; Tape Worm Impale, where you send your own tape worm out across the ground to lung up into your opponents and root them in place. Ring Worm Hide, where you cause your enemies to grow thick ring worm across their body slowing them down and reducing their accuracy in combat. And Pubic Lice Swarm, a tier 9 pet that hinders and afflicts your enemies in various ways, but mainly by making them itch vigorously.
Montezuma's Revenge
Sonic Brown Note - An infrasonic frequency that would cause your enemies to lose control of their bowels due to resonance.
Team Jinx: self-explanatory.
The Front to Back Wipe
Mastermind, hobofolk: summoning various classes of the homeless and disenfranchise, starting from a singe level one panhandler with body odor, and climbing upwards until you can summon three level ten schmucks working at WacDonalds who used to be investment bankers at Paragon Financial.
Situational telekinesis
it only works when you're alone.
Lethargic Malaise
Summon Tree-Sloth
Throwing Thumb-Tacks
Nuclear Stapler
Leaky Ink Pen
Anything involving the word Polka. Yes, even Polka Dots.
Quote from: Inc42 on May 12, 2015, 12:40:30 AM
Anything involving the word Polka. Yes, even Polka Dots.
What do you have against Weird Al?!
A whole powerset based on dentistry.
Mounts
Heal Foe
Confuse Allie
Teleport object
Refrigerator Repair
Throwing Ducks
Celery Controller
Summon Abe Vigoda
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 12, 2015, 05:25:43 AM
Confuse Allie
If this was supposed to be Confuse Ally then I would have loved that power and used it more than any other power in the game on my friends. One of my favorite moments was during the Lord Recluse Strike Force, getting confused as the granite tank, turning to my best friend (our biggest damage dealer) who was NOT confused, and taunting him. We nearly team wiped that fight because I fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard at his response over Skype.
Breadstick Fighting
Summons Paperclips
Foe Costume Color Change
Team Lag- The Anti-Hasten
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 13, 2015, 03:12:35 AM
Summons Paperclips
The "Clippy the helpful" summon could be fucking diabolical
Painful Discharge
Mind read: What people REALLY think about you.
Reverse Vhazilok combat suit
Sphinctroid Anomaly
Mastermind power sets:
Salesman set
3 Life Insurance Agents
2 Siding/Replacement Windows Salesmen
1 Financial Advisor
Neighborhood set
3 pre-schoolers using sidewalk chalk on your driveway
2 pre-teens using your shed or backyard tree as a club house
1 teenager doing pranks
Work set
3 co-workers who constantly ask you to help them, then tell the supervisor that your work isn't done
2 supervisors who tell you what to do and they are opposite things
1 manager who talks about synergy and empowerment then goes on vacation and nothing changes.
Combining Propel and the Traps set, Projectile Vomit Any Gadget.
Justin Bieber Vet Pet.
This is hard. I try thinkin of powers I wouldn't want and just keep coming up with ridiculous powers I would want ???
Mastermind:
My Little Pony and Unicorns Minion Set
Imagine the ability to just stand around doing nothing.
Super Slouth
This one is so bad that I am spoilering it
Weapon: Laser Pointer. You can customize the color of the beam, and the tier 9 involves a cat running around chasing the laser causing a mag 1 hold to enemies and allies as they get distracted by the cuteness.
Quote from: Eoraptor on May 15, 2015, 04:56:44 PM
This one is so bad that I am spoilering it
XD Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KxkW8t8xX8
I would not want to see a bugger pick power. First power would be digging for the gold.
Vahzilok Group Hug
Putrid egg grenade.
Burrito Flatulence (Tier-9 nuke power ;D)
Government Bureaucracy (prevents ANYONE from doing ANYTHING)
Voice of Brian Williams (creates illusions NO ONE is fooled by)
Brett Favre Decisiveness (you constantly change your mind about whether to be on a team)
US Air Force Devices (causes your team to lose its nukes)
Quote from: hurple on May 12, 2015, 02:24:46 PM
Summon Abe Vigoda
I'm glad I had already swallowed my mouthful of Greek yogurt before reading that. ROFL!
Kindergarten Terror, a Dom set... includes powers such as "Sticky Fingers," "impart common cold," "cranky naptime," and "department store temper-tantrum."
Random PVP flagging
Server Downtime Aura
team banter, causes the your team to stop fighting and just trade one-liners.
I can't find the text anymore but my highest ranked post on the old message boards had the click-bait title "Nerf Blasters!"
And then I proceeded to describe a Nerf Blast powerset where all the attacks did minor, foam-type damage. This included Nerf Boomerang which did minor damage to you as well.
Emote Macro Spam Aura
Cause everyone within range to pause, emote, and say something in character in relation to the ability they just activated every time they activate a power.
Quote from: Castegyre on May 17, 2015, 09:34:08 PM
Emote Macro Spam Aura
Cause everyone within range to pause, emote, and say something in character in relation to the ability they just activated every time they activate a power.
That made me think of the "Breakfast Spam" powerset...
egg and spam
egg bacon and spam
egg bacon sausage and spam
spam bacon sausage and spam
spam egg spam spam bacon and spam
spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam
spam spam spam egg and spam
spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam
Some powerset with a lot of animation, sound and customized colors:
It's nickname: The lag generator powerset.
It might even cause the team to lose mapserver, but it looks awesome!
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 18, 2015, 07:58:47 PM
Some powerset with a lot of animation, sound and customized colors:
It's nickname: The lag generator powerset.
It might even cause the team to lose mapserver, but it looks awesome!
I thought that already existed with one of the powersets. I know made Storm Summoning all colorful for a short time and tried to get as many powers going at once for the one Controller I played. But I'm a noob when it comes to griefing.
Nature Summoning (if that's the name) did have a lot of powers you could spawn and keep going for a short while.
Sex Aura
The single guys will instantly know who is getting laid
A/V Buff, it was supposed to be A/V debuff, but they forgot a letter.
/em rickroll
Phone Support
Quote from: Inc42 on May 19, 2015, 06:23:25 PM
Phone Support
that would be the one where all of your contacts are fired and their intel is outsourced to india? eeek
Tumbleweed: A former spines scrapper, the tumbleweed is the result of a failed spine burst, and now is known as nothing more than a poisoned spiky ball of death.
heheh, that actually sounds like an interesting addition to the spines powerset, or the plant troller
Noodle Controller:
- Macoroni Wrap
- Spaghetti whip
- Ratitoni Roll
- and so on
All useless
Topic Derail, a Dom set which causes your team to completely lose track of what TF or mish they were doing and discus the latest movie instead.
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 18, 2015, 07:58:47 PM
Some powerset with a lot of animation, sound and customized colors:
It's nickname: The lag generator powerset.
It might even cause the team to lose mapserver, but it looks awesome!
This existed. Earth/Storm troller. On a good day, you could bring the screen to a screeching halt.
Quote from: Ultraamann on May 20, 2015, 08:22:21 PM
This existed. Earth/Storm troller. On a good day, you could bring the screen to a screeching halt.
You're the second one to mention Storm. I'm glad I never chose it.
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 21, 2015, 01:22:25 AM
You're the second one to mention Storm. I'm glad I never chose it.
Storm was fun...just not (ducks preemptively) terribly useful in comparison to many other support sets. It had what I believe was the most powerful single target heal besides Absorb Pain, and a couple decent debuffs, but it just didnt have enough going for it besides looking really cool. I'm sure some people made it work for them, but for the jack of all trades powersets there were much better options.
Perfect Hindsight
Spam Magnet
Spontaneous Respec
The ability to get lost, even in Pocket D.
Quote from: Inc42 on May 21, 2015, 01:50:39 PM
Storm was fun...just not (ducks preemptively) terribly useful in comparison to many other support sets. It had what I believe was the most powerful single target heal besides Absorb Pain, and a couple decent debuffs, but it just didnt have enough going for it besides looking really cool. I'm sure some people made it work for them, but for the jack of all trades powersets there were much better options.
My favorite character was my Plant/Storm troller - the secondary worked just fine for me. Besides, I never went for the most effective builds - I always went for concept.
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 22, 2015, 01:58:32 AM
The ability to get lost, even in Pocket D.
That actually happened to me :D
The ability to be completely invisible and totally undetectable, until you click a glowie, attack, sneeze, cough or move.
After mission completion--- debt and influence deducted for damage to public property, body removal services, and cleaning/sanitaion of all battle areas. A responsible hero is a happy hero!
Thought Police and Newspeak; every newspaper, tv, and radio you pass adjusts your alignment by a few points one way or another, resulting in being constantly stuck in a neutral state no matter how many alignment missions you complete
The ability to turn one's hands into squirrels and head into a Rikti monkey, with no other powers available. The squirrels and monkey don't do any tricks.
Quote from: Pengy on May 23, 2015, 10:59:14 PM
The ability to turn one's hands into squirrels and head into a Rikti monkey, with no other powers available. The squirrels and monkey don't do any tricks.
Eh, I dunno you'd have some pretty nasty biting potential at your disposal, and the monkey would still be able to use psionic darts! :D
What if there was a gauge to that showed how full your bladder and bowels are.
Why they reach a certain point, your effectiveness diminishes until you find a bath room.
If you continue to ignore the guages, you have an accident and get kicked from the team, stinking pants, and sent to the hospital for cleanup.
Quote from: silvers1 on May 23, 2015, 12:31:54 AM
My favorite character was my Plant/Storm troller - the secondary worked just fine for me. Besides, I never went for the most effective builds - I always went for concept.
My Earth/Storm was a lockdown/knockdown/procdown death machine against most enemies. Not as fast as some Controller builds, but nothing below AV/GM level had a chance. With a few procs in Freezing Rain and Volcanic Gases most spawns just dissolved without a chance to retaliate. Tornado could rack up some impressive damage against AVs as well once the trash was cleared out.
For sheer flair my Plant/Dark was my funnest and creepiest alt at the end. (Just the Carrion Creepers noise alone as it followed me around invisibly... ;D )
Still, powers i'd never want... Lighting Control: all you can do is make it brighter or dimmer although a few powers can stun enemies and induce seizures in other players. Lighting Blast: lots of stuns and -perception effects, but all the powers below the tier 9 power, LAZER BEAM, do Force Bolt level damage. Edit: Hmm, Build Up equivalent for Lighting Blast, IMA CHARGING MY, adds a DoT damage proc to the tier 9 in addition to the damage boost.
The pants/depants powerset. Sounds like a corrupter power to me.
A nice secondary, the ability to change the color of the foes costumes.
Yeah, my pants/colors Corupter went up against the crey.
(What happened?)
Very funny.
Meme Assault: a scrapper/stalker set... starts out with old low-level memes such as dramatic-look gopher and success-kid buffs, and eventually tops out with youtubed sing-along videos of megan trainor and taylor swift music
Ham Sandwich
Quote from: hurple on May 26, 2015, 08:43:47 PM
Ham Sandwich
That was one of the zombies for my Necro/Poison MM, Granny Trichinosis. Her zombies were all people who'd eaten her (terrible) cooking and were each named after the dish what did them in.
A body function based powerset
Burp (like sonic blast)
Fart (combination of char and dark aura)
Sneeze PBAOE toxic attack
Cough cone toxic attack
Spit ranged single foe toxic attack
Vomit ranged AOE toxic attack with vomit inducing hold effect
I think I had better stop there.
Quote from: Nyx Nought Nothing on May 26, 2015, 10:05:54 PM
That was one of the zombies for my Necro/Poison MM, Granny Trichinosis. Her zombies were all people who'd eaten her (terrible) cooking and were each named after the dish what did them in.
There's a song by a Knoxville-TN-based singer-songwriter where he writes that he has three dogs, each named after one of his favorite things in life. They're named "Pot," "Sex" and "Ham Sandwich."
Quote from: hurple on May 27, 2015, 01:56:23 PM
There's a song by a Knoxville-TN-based singer-songwriter where he writes that he has three dogs, each named after one of his favorite things in life. They're named "Pot," "Sex" and "Ham Sandwich."
Who's that? I might know him.
Quote from: hurple on May 27, 2015, 01:56:23 PM
There's a song by a Knoxville-TN-based singer-songwriter where he writes that he has three dogs, each named after one of his favorite things in life. They're named "Pot," "Sex" and "Ham Sandwich."
"This is my dog, Sex"
*everybody looks uncomfortable and slowly backs away* (Everybody except "That One Guy".)
Quote from: Nyx Nought Nothing on May 27, 2015, 07:30:03 PM
"This is my dog, Sex"
*everybody looks uncomfortable and slowly backs away* (Everybody except "That One Guy".)
You ever tried sexing a dog? It's pretty easy.
Expert Dog Sexer: Yup, whats you got dare is a male dog.
Dog Owner: Thank you, Expert Dog Sexer.
Expert Dog Sexer: Just doing my job, ma'am.
Powerset I'd never want would be PBR/Poison. Too redundant.
Another power set I would not want is cell phone, where you just talk on it and bore the badguys.
powers you'd never want....
power of incoming and outgoing rf signals. That would drive a person insane in todays world.
Witnessing moments where you die periodically moments before they happen. Can you imagine the damage on ones mind?
Has-Been Rapper Mastermind
MC Hammer
Vanilla Ice
Kurtis Blow
DMC
The Fat Boys
The power to go AFK at any moment.
Sentient, Weaponized Jock Itch.
Cheese Blast
A mastermind primary:
Fan Boyz:
3 over-weight comic book reading pre-teens that argue trivial points about other superheroes
2 over-weight online gamers who argue about their characters' builds and which is better at PvP vs. PvE
1 over-weight costumed teenager who claims to be your sidekick and his costume almost matches yours.
The power to see into the future ... 2000 years into the future.
Ostrich defense - you're about to go into battle, and your head gets sucked into the ground.
Leeroy Jenkins nuke - kills everyone, EVERYONE in the room. Activates at random intervals throughout mission/map/zone event. Costs 1 influence to purchase, 2,000,000,000 influence to remove from active tray.
The power to turn enemy foes into kittens. No, wait, the other way around.
Rage Quit AoE Temp Power - Kills everything nearby and permanently deletes your account. There'd be just too many times I'd actually think it might be worth it.
The keyboard buster power.
At a crucial moment, it ignores your keyboard input completely.
Well, it would boost hardware sales.
(
You: Mom, I need a new keyboard.
Mom: What's wrong with your old one.
You: Ummm, the cat sat on it.
Mom: That shouldn't have ...
You: (holding the broken keyboard out from behind your back for her to see that it's smashed to pieces.)
Mom: Good Lord!
)
Wait, you mean your computer doesn't ignore your keyboard input completely at crucial moments? Mine certainly does. And my mouse. And my controller. Oh and every game console and computer I've ever had does/did the same thing. Maybe I'm snakebit ;P
Quote from: Vee on June 19, 2015, 06:14:16 AM
Wait, you mean your computer doesn't ignore your keyboard input completely at crucial moments? Mine certainly does. And my mouse. And my controller. Oh and every game console and computer I've ever had does/did the same thing. Maybe I'm snakebit ;P
No that happens randonly, this would be a toggle power.
Social Media Mastery
The power to make all your enhancements useless.
The power to switch the costume slot of a hero you target. CC's would never be the same.
Quote from: makjwalton on May 11, 2015, 09:47:38 AM
The Front to Back Wipe
Hahahahaha. Oh that was great.
The power to talk to other players in the game, but not the ability to attack anything, no wait, never mind.
A 2cnd Edition D&D Wild Mage complete with a Wand of Wonders and a Deck of Many Things.
Wait, I might actually want that.
The power to tick-off the developers and get