Celestial power preview from Champions Online
by Eliot Lefebvre 
Oct 5th 2009 at 4:00PM
Filed under: Super-hero, Events, in-game, Previews, Champions Online
The upcoming Blood Moon event that we detailed this morning for Champions Online promises more than just the usual business of superheroes pounding on zombies, on the off chance that that alone isn't enough for you. They're also promising a new power set, the Celestial powers, a number of light-based powers focusing on healing and improving your allies while simultaneously destroying your foes.The first three powers in this set are up on the official site for preview. Even from the limited scope we've seen so far, the set looks to be interesting for players of the game, offering both healing and damage utility depending on whether you're targeting your allies or enemies. They've also laid out the plans for the unique advantages of the powers, which seem to tend toward area effects - allowing you to at once heal your allies and stun everything around them.
One of the common complaints about Champions Online at release was that it focused almost exclusively on solo play and there was little to no benefit to grouping. With powers that are designed so strongly around working with other players, it looks like Cryptic is focusing in on expanding the tools available to groups. If players can tear themselves away from crushing zombies for a bit, these new powers look like an interesting upgrade for the game.
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dudemanjac said on 5:53PM 10-05-2009
I just wonder if the make up of the game would allow everyone to get a nice little healing power for themselves. I could see this being great gor a melee guy. Hit the baddie wit ht he move that makes him squirt healing everytime you hit him.
At the same time this game makes it so this could be your main purpose and still allow you to have another powerset full of fun. It will be interesting to see what other powers come along with it. Hope we get a respec. I would love to add maybe one of those powers to my dark-centric guy. When I made him originally in CoH, he was a healer.
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ZombiBambi said on 11:31PM 10-06-2009
"I just wonder if the make up of the game would allow everyone to get a nice little healing power for themselves"
You can already do this with existing powersets. You can get self-heals, group heals, passive heals, and whatnot from the existing powers. My character for example regenerates health, has a self-heal, and can steal health from enemies.
This will be a nice addition for people who want to play a classic healer.
dudemanjac said on 12:50AM 10-07-2009
Oh I know we can already do it, but as I look at some of these other powers, it might be time to trade up.
danarchy said on 6:02PM 10-05-2009
Ironically the game quite working for me the NIGHT before my free month was up. Apparently a bad patch a couple days previous and it was my first time trying to log in since. After reading through a few of the posts with the same problem, and realizing that the only admin response had been very similar to a cut-n-paste you'd get from HP for Microsquash I canceled. I imagine whoever was responsible for fixing that bug will be beaten. I'll come back in a couple months or whatever cause the game is awesome fun but I need to stick to my new mantra:
"New MMO? In two months give it a go."
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