Next Champions power framework is... light?

I'd be more excited if I didn't think it was just going to end up as an MT feature.

Man!! I totally wanted this for my toon, I played a dark/dark/dark defender in CoX and wanted to make a full swap this time around. Glad to see it's coming in, sad it didn't make the release cut =(

1. They're not going to MT the frameworks. They've said that too many times to count.

2. I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope this is the Celestial Framework. :D

The best part about this framework is they'll most likely counter it with a "Darkness" type of framework.

I suspect that this is just the first of many frameworks that we're going to see in the future. One of the advantages of going with the free-form build system that they've put into CO as opposed to the archetype system from CoX is that they don't have to focus so much on how one particular power set stack up against all the others. As long as any given framework has an energy builder, a tier 0 power and a minimum number each of tier 1, 2 and 3 powers it will work.

Each power only has to fit the balancing formula for that specific tier. Any places where one framework might be gimped compared to another are easily made up for by the players -- you simply select balancing powers from other frameworks as you build your character.

Sure, they still need to come up with art and possibly animations for new frameworks. But drastically reducing the balancing issues makes life so much easier for them to bring in new stuff.

Could this be radiation?

Looks a helluva lot like the effects for Kinetics in CoH. Not saying that in a negative way, just that perhaps this is a similar type of framework. I'm sure a lot of people would be pleased with some castable movement speed buffs. Let the "SB PLZ!!!1!!1" begin?