Freezing Breath Artifact

And maybe it's time to finally give some love to precision players not using super speed

Greetings Developer Ranmaru,

It's been a while since you where so kind to reply to my Freezing Breath forum thread and i just wanted to say that on a second thought your idea of making the power freezing breath through an artifact an area of effect finisher is quite interesting and unique. I am very excited about this artifact so please forgive my enthusiasm but i would very much like to know if you guys can share anything regarding the development of this artifact? Thank you very much for making this game so enjoyable and wish you all the best!

Kind Regards,
Kayla El

Nah...not interested in another artifact based on just one power move. Before new arts are thrown in the mix, the current ones need adjusted..especially the buff troll meta arts. Speaking of which, there should be adjustments made where troll ccs aren't effecting tank cc's, instead of forcing yet another artifact (BOP) into what is already a long list of arts a troll is required to carry and swap:

Power:
Rao, Scrap, Harness
Buff:
COG, Tetra, Claw.

In addition to the DPS arts Trans, Strat, Solar, Kings, and Amulet....and that is the minimum.

names stays the same but the effect applies to any of the iconic, heat vision, frost breath , sonic cry this way you don't always have everyone taking heat vision,, add diversity to the game play.

What about Batarang toss first. WW and Superman iconic abilities got artifacts. It's time for Batman to get some love.

What if the artifact allowed you to throw multiple waves of Batarang with each doing a different status effect.

Explosive Batarangs do burn etc. If you finish the combo you get big damage. It will also synergize with Gadgets PI stacking.

Or have it specifically work with a hybrid palystyle. You only get the next sequence of Batarangs after doing x amounts of prec hits.

This would add a reliable power to cancel into because prec and hybrid load out have moveslot syndrome anyway since buff power is mandatory. Elemental Batarangs would act as an applier and detonator freeing up a slot for something else.

As much as I'm against artifacts for specific powers... I think it would be pretty cool to see an artifact revolving around Super Strength. One that would let us get to use a few of the Serums powers that would've been available had it not been scrapped.

I'm all for adding new powers, and this seems like the only way to actually get them in the game...

I totally agree with this opinion, even if I can understand the OP's desire for this idea, there are already far too many iconic buildings that have become imposing over almost half a building bar. Would you find it amusing to have paid for a power only to end up with a build that's made up of a free power and isn't even your power?

What's more, this ability is already very operational at the moment; at best, its mobility could be reworked.

I would like to see a Bizarro artifact. Freezing vision and flame breath. Tap “X” for freezing vision and “Y” for flame breath. I’m sure flaming breath would be popular. My Bizarro toon is always being asked wear they can get the Bizarro tank top. A Bizarro World DLC would have everybody getting there Bizarro, Bizarro Batman/Flash/Wonder Woman/Green Lantern gear. The different Heads or Emblems would be popular. This DLC would be a very different from any DLC I have been involved in at DCUO. I have several toons so they would all be involved in any Bizarro gear. Say episode 47, can’t wait to see it.

Bizarro World would be awesome and popular. Everybody wins.

I been created something better for the Freeze breath ability it would be a certain ally along with unique effects created it months ago from boredom then just showed it to a few others in my discord server and left it alone will not show anything here

I would change the heat vision artifact and call it Iconic artifact. When you use iconic moves it enhances in some way. Mainly because we have a lot of iconic toons on dc plus most ppl use iconic moves in single target or aoe situations.

I'd kill someone to have that artifact. So, please give that to us.

Greetings Dev Ranmaru,

I just wanted to ask you if the team is still considering an artifact for the iconic power Freezing Breath, mainly because i really love it and i would really enjoy using it in my loadouts. If you do can i please give you a suggestion which is to reduce it's cooldown from 6 to 4 seconds, if it would be possible of course and won't unbalance things in the game. Thank you very much for everything you guys are doing and wish you and the team all the best!

Kind Regards,
Kayla El

I would like this too

Yes all iconic deserve their own art…I use the lasso art and the heat vision (not the same character at the same time…)

See I kind of always wanted an artifact to buff sonic cry and sonic shout. As in one artifact that somehow made both the powers work even more in tandem and have more benefits. This is mostly due to the fact I know we will never get sound based powers in the game and so those would be the only two we ever have to work with.

The idea of empowering powers via artifacts is awesome and all iconic powers should eventually get this kind of treatment just so we could have an even more immersive gameplay and enjoy DCUO even more then we are already doing it.

What if there was an artifact that turned scream into a burst move instead of channel or turned it into a finisher. Man sound based powers would be super cool and easy to translate visually from a resource perspective.



have mix of channels and burst. have one that behaves like Upheaval where you more you press the melee button the more damage each sound wave does.

Would likely use dazing or crushing
I'd unconventionally make it a tank power.

New powers or ways to modify existing ones are always fun to think about. I definitely think tht should they decide to add new full owersets to the game.


What if there was a artifact that buffed a bunch of powers to synergize with each other like say acrobatics tree and batman/Joker/Canry iconics so that you could make a viable loadout with just those abilities.

As an AoE finisher, that sounds punishing! With its current damage if used at the right time it does finish off a few enemies but if enemies took critical damage below 35% health that would be so strong. I think I'd prefer it, if in fact it did get an artifact and didn't become flame breath like Bizarro's heat breath (which would be awesome) that instead of a channel it becomes a burst power and deals the full damage of all the ticks in one swoop. It could instantly freeze and encase enemies, exploding enemies below 35% health.

This is a snippet from a different thread that I posted on and I am quoting/paraphrasing myself.

"They could release a bizarro artifact that turns the heat vision to frost vision and/or frost breath to fire breath. Imagine breathing fire... an alternative play style for some who would like to see more iconic power based artifacts... There is a lot they can do... The only iconics that have had artifacts created around them (as far as I know) are word of power, heat vision, and lasso of truth... I am all for this idea, as iconics have been overlooked... retool the legends abilities into iconic abilities that we can use skill points to acquire. Then start building artifacts around them."