Fast Facts
Name:
Asheron's Call
Acronym:
AC
Developer:
Turbine
Publisher:
Turbine
Release Date:
11/02/1999
Country:
USA
Genre:
RPG
ESRB Rating:
Teen
News
Champions Online: Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting

All right...maybe not Kung Fu fighting but there's a lot of martial arts in Champions Online, according to an article on the official site. Grab a teaser and the link below:

On Tuesday, we discussed the "Energy" power sets: Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Force. Today, we're going to move to the other end of the spectrum and discuss the close-combat power sets. Martial Arts covers four different power sets: Claws, Single Blade, Dual Blade, and Unarmed. Here's the in-depth look at these sets.

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The Martial Arts power sets were all conceived and designed at the same time. They are intentionally mirrors of each other in their basic forms: one light attack, one medium attack, one auxiliary attack, two heavy attacks, and auxiliary abilities. Each power, however, was explicitly designed to have a different purpose.

Unarmed is actually a tanking set in disguise. It is built to be a multi-mob tank. There are a number of area of effect abilities, as well as a number that cause players to gain energy as they dodge.

Single Blade was designed as the single-target elimination set. It's built for causing maximum possible damage against a single target. Dual Blade is the henchman-killing set. It is very focused on scoring critical hits. The more critical hits scored, the harder and faster the Dual Blades go. Claws is something of a hybrid set. It is similar to both Single Blade and Dual Blade in that it's better than Dual Blade versus bosses, and better than Single Blade versus mobs. It's also the one that has the most stuff in it (as of right now, anyway).

There's more to read, so pop over to the Champions site for a look.