Developers, can you please update Amazonian Deflection and Mesmerizing Lasso to reflect the characters that use them in Legends. Amazonian Deflection is quite useless if the players has to stand still. It should function like Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl's Amazonian Deflection. Mesmerizing Lasso would be a lot better if there were the option to use a melee attack at the end, whatever melee option you guys decide to use.
Amazonian deflection should grant 5000 defense and 1000% control resistance while still being able to move, however the damage reflection, knock down, and possible stun should only occur while blocking but, it should be a 100% guarantee to do so rather than a chance. This would make AD a definite power to consider for play, instead of a failed debate about dcuo year one 'remember when...'
As a matter of fact ALL OF THE ICONICS are LONG OVERDUE for a revamp. Not to mention movement based powers.
That would be ridiculously over powered since any role would be able to use it. Not to mention they would also need to give it a stat increase to toughness to make it useful in PvP. Static values are a bad idea. See the iconic power "Powerful Resistance" for an example of that. WOAH 100 EXTRA HEALTH?!? They start off being extremely powerful then as time goes on become less effective as the stat increase is negligible eventually. A better idea would to be to draw from the Iconic Powers "Tactical Genius" and "Weapons Expert" where the increase is a percentage of something. This would enable the power to be useful at all levels and CR's and not to mention far easier to balance out. EDIT: That being said the idea of having it giving different functions while moving versus blocking is actually a nice idea.
Note that Mesmerizing Lasso will be a single target taunt that overrides other Tank taunts in Game Update 41: http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag328/dcuo_owl/Lasso_zps2dc232be.png
use of Standard in description makes me think that the designated taunts for powers (fireball for eg) will be higher in taunt priority than lasso.
The Tank description is the same as other single target Taunts like Fireball or Rage Blast: http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag328/dcuo_owl/Fireball_zpsa00ef472.png http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag328/dcuo_owl/RageBlast_zps9af15aec.png
Single target, high priority taunts like this could actually be useful in starting to run with Two tanks again. Have one tank focus on the trash mobs, another on the boss/specifically more threatening enemies.
What I am noticing with the current Mesmerizing Lasso is that the animation and the actual lasso do not show up. I see no lasso at all.
Agreed, particularly about the Amazonian Deflection. It never felt iconic at all when I used it as opposed to the Batarangs, Heat Vision, etc. that work well for iconic-based characters.
Iconic powers in general need to be adjusted. There are a few powers that need to be tweaked but the damage needs to be adjusted by PVP and PVE CR or a flat our rate.
