Choosing multiple powers?

[Marquice]

So Ive been trying to research this. Im fairly new to the game. But from what I read I got the impression you could choose multiple different powers if they were from the same framework. Like fire and wind for example. Im working on a weather manipulator hero, and Id like to pick of the wind power in addition to the electricity powers but I don't know if its even possible. I have a freeform character and everything but I just need to know if something like this is even possible so I can finally get to enjoying the game.

[galadon3]

A freeform can basically pick the powers he wants and mix powersets to his hearts content (if you want to mix some heavy weapons with fire and telekinesis, no problem). It often does make sense to stay mostly within one powerset because some a powersets powers work on each other but besides that its not a problem.

Powers are tiered so and the higher tiered powers need you to get a certain amount of other powers before you take them and thats always one less if they are from the same powerset.

So for example a power might need you to pick 4 powers (the energy builder not counting) to take it OR 3 powers (EB not counting) from the same powerset as the power itself.

Since you'll have taken enough powers pretty soon to take every power its not a question IF you can take a power only WHEN.

The only powers an FF doesnt have automatically access to are those from the recognition vendors and the ultimates from lockboxes, but while some of them are nice they are in no way essential for an effective build.

[Marquice]

Thank you! This was super helpful. For some reason there is never a straight answer on if you can in fact take multiple powers. So I suppose a follow up question would be how do I do this. I tried retconning my character and it still only let me choose from the elctricity powers. Is there a bit Im missing. Again thank you for the response.

[galadon3]

Originally posted by Marquice:

Thank you! This was super helpful. For some reason there is never a straight answer on if you can in fact take multiple powers. So I suppose a follow up question would be how do I do this. I tried retconning my character and it still only let me choose from the elctricity powers. Is there a bit Im missing. Again thank you for the response.

Normally when you have picked the first powers and try to pick a new one, on default the game just shows you from those powerset you already picked powers from.
There is a bunch of tabs at the top of that power-selection window. Each tab is for one "family" of powersets (like elemental, wich contains Fire, Wind, Electricity, Force). When you click the tab and its "highlighted" you can then click the symbol of a single power-set (like just "fire") and it shows you all the powers you can pick from that power-set at this moment.

Due to the limitations I mentioned in my first answer (need to have some powers already picked) its possible that early on you don't have much choices outside your "starting" power-set but after you took 1 or 2 non-EB powers at least the lower-tier ones in the other sets should open up.

(theres also a dropdown menu in that window where you can choose wich powers you want to see, by default it only shows those you could pick at the moment. If you open the drop down menu and check the box next to "unavailable" it shows all the powers in the set. Those you can't pick atm are greyed out)