Experimentation
Overview
Experimentation is one of a set of five Specialized Power Pools.
"Experimentation gives you access to poisonous ranged attacks as well as powers that boost your attack power and the survivability of your allies. This pool's travel power is Speed of Sound. While active, this power allows you to run at incredible speeds and also gives you access to the Jaunt power. Jaunt allows you to quickly teleport long distances once every so often."
Power Table
The following table shows the level at which each power is available:
| Power | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|
 Experimental Injection
|
4 | Ranged (Close), Ally +Regen, +Rec, +Res(Status) |
 Toxic Dart
|
4 | Ranged, DMG(Lethal), DoT(Toxic) |
 Speed of Sound
|
4 | Toggle: Self +Speed, Special |
 Corrosive Vial
|
14 | Ranged (Targeted AoE), DoT(Toxic), Foe -Def |
 Adrenal Booster
|
20 | Self +To Hit, +Rech, +DMG, +Special |
Powers
Adrenal Booster
You inject yourself with a concentrated experimental serum that boosts your damage, recharge, chance to hit and secondary effects for a short time. Adrenal Booster requires you to have 2 powers from the Experimentation power pool.
- Recharge
- 600 seconds
- Minimum Level
-
20 (All Archetypes)
- Effects
- Self +To Hit, +Recharge, +Damage, +Special
- Enhancements
-
Reduce Endurance Cost
Enhance Recharge Speed
Enhance ToHit Buffs - Set Categories
- Customization
- Original, Bright, Dark
Corrosive Vial
You hurl a vial of toxic fluid that explodes upon impact leaving a corrosive puddle at your target's feet. Any foe that stands within the puddle will take toxic damage and have their defense reduced for a short while. Corrosive Vial requires you to have 2 powers from the Experimentation power pool.
- Damage
- Up to 1.4 Toxic Damage over Time
- Recharge
- 60 seconds
- Minimum Level
-
14 (All Archetypes)
- Effects
- Ranged (Targeted Area of Effect)
Foe -Defense - Enhancements
-
Enhance Damage
Enhance Defense Debuff Reduce Endurance Cost
Enhance Range Enhance Recharge Speed - Set Categories
- Customization
- Original, Bright, Dark
Experimental Injection
You inject an ally with a compound that greatly boosts their regeneration, recovery and resistance to status effects for a short time.
- Recharge
- 180 seconds
- Minimum Level
-
4 (All Archetypes)
- Effects
- Ranged (Close)
Ally +Regeneration, +Recovery, +Resistance(Status) - Enhancements
-
Reduce Endurance Cost
Enhance Endurance Modification
Enhance Heal Enhance Recharge Speed - Set Categories
- Customization
- Original, Bright, Dark
Speed of Sound
Your experiments have yielded incredible results. By activating this power, you're able to run at incredible speeds. In fact, while this power is active, you gain access to the Jaunt power. Jaunt allows you to teleport to a distant location once every short while. Speed of Sound also increases your maximum run speed by 30% whilst it is active.
- Minimum Level
-
4 (All Archetypes)
- Effects
- Toggle: Self +Speed, Special
- Enhancements
-
Reduce Endurance Cost
Enhance Running Speed - Set Categories
- Customization
- Original, Bright, Dark, Minimal FX
Jaunt
Clicking on this power and then selecting a location will cause the caster to vanish and reappear at their target location.
Jaunt recharges instantly if you use it less than 3 times within 10 seconds.
- Recharge
- 10 seconds
- Minimum Level
- Effects
- Click, Self Teleport
- Customization
- Original, Bright, Dark
Toxic Dart
You fire a toxic dart at your target causing a very minor amount of immediate lethal damage followed by a High amount of toxic damage over time.
- Damage
- 0.076 Lethal + 0.909 Toxic Damage over Time
- Recharge
- 4 seconds
- Minimum Level
-
4 (All Archetypes)
- Effects
- Ranged
- Enhancements
-
Enhance Accuracy Enhance Damage Reduce Endurance Cost Enhance Range Enhance Recharge Speed - Set Categories
- Customization
- Original, Bright, Dark
Historical
This section contains information about changes that took place in Homecoming: City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
- This pool was added to the game in Issue 26, Page 5.
External Links
Experimentation Pool at City of Data v2.0