BBQ_Pork

Well, you do a couple of IKEA commercials and the next thing you know, you get a children's show, a line of bacon-flavored breath mints,
And videos like these.
*shrug*

I'll write you a prescription for some of Prescott Pharmacueticals' finest products. Bear in mind that cases of Photosynthetic Scalp, Cloven-hoof Syndrome, Third-Rectum Disorder and Corneal Bleeding are quite rare, but may occur in some instances.

Howabout in conjunction with Hover, for fast unsuppressed movement without Fly's "drift"?

That you're an attention-seeker that feels the need to validate themselves in the opinions of others?
Lie down on this couch and tell us about your childhood.
*puffs on a pipe and readies a clipboard*

Actually, before someone could make a differently named version of thier character, they would see about a dozen "homages" of them in Atlas Park, all with the usual name-cheating tactics of adding odd punctuation, spaces, numbers and such.

1. Agreed. That would be handier than shoving the WW menu to the far left and the recipes and salvage menus to the right and toggling back & forth.

2. Agreed. Although your SG will likely have some sort of method for determining what goes into each storage table, sorting them in the list of up to 100 items is pretty much by date&time of deposit. Not the most convienient method, IMO.

3. Agreed. We should definately decrease the recipe storage on characters to match thier salvage storage capability! Okay, just kidding. But if you're that OCD about things, then in the meantime, feel free to do the memorization badges for increased salvage capability and then grind Rikti for the Vanguard Merits to buy the Increased (+10) Salvage Storage Sack.

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yvHWyvexZA

I would toss a few characters at this, including my first L50 and my namesake.
Of the seven characters that I have that would qualify by your standards, (3 Hero and 4 villian) only one (maybe two) would have been accepted on the Omega Team, since "Magic Origin only" seems to be the case.

So, Alpha Team was offline, whining about server hardware?

About as well as a Defence power would, maybe a tad better than "Sleep Resistance" for Health.
*shrug*

How about this.....
Fitness: Grizzled (Auto RESISTANCE to Cold, Toxic and Psi).
Flight: Afterburner (Click +FlySpeed)
Teleportation: Combat Teleportation. Toggle, (Minor +Def) Appears to be a series of short teleports around the battlefield, but mechanically it's a +Run/+Jump buff with a much flashier graphic.
Or..
Teleportation: Team Recall, similar to certain temp powers, you teleport the whole team to your location in one move.
Or...
Teleportation: Warp Gate. Cast the Teleport animation, choose from a flipdown list and teleport to any zone from where you stand.

I don't understand how people can claim not to be able to afford IO's, which fall FOR FREE from fallen foes, and yet can afford to replace stacks of deteriorating SO's every few levels.
*Sure, SO's also fall as drops, but not at the rates that they use to. (Use to be far fewer missions between "Enhancements Full" message.)
*And yes, some IO's are high demand/low supply, but you can build off of generics and lower-demand sets, or franken-slot.
*If IO's are so darn expensive to purchase, then they are equally profitable to sell when they drop.
Everything you do in this game makes you $Inf.


Anyway, back to Blast/Armor AT theory.
I've been intrigued by the Rikti AT as an idea.
Particularly the Headsman Gunner LTs.
Mostly ranged, but with a melee attack. Some light armor, a pet and manueverability (teleportation) in combat.
The trick is to balance the ranged damage numbers vs. the defensive values.
I'd suggest a self-debuff of some sort.
Have a gun-blade like the Rikti, with the melee attack being Lethal and the ranged damage being medium-level Energy. Have some defensive toggles, as well.
Have a (Click or toggle) Buff like Aim, but with a twist: It boosts Energy Damage, but at the same time DeBuffs your DamRes. Rationale: Diverting power from shields to boost energy supply to weapons systems.

If you think soloing is hard, please don't invite me to your team.
I carry my own wieght, but refuse to carry deadwieght.

Also: GvE Jump Jet?

Yes, the enhancement values of IO sets are impacted by ED, but the set bonuses are applied after ED has been calculated. So if you are stuck at +96% damage in that power's enhancements, but have +5% damage in set bonuses (from sets in other powers usually), then that power will strike at +101%.

"far superior"? Well, IO's will give better performance than SO's, but I will not use such subjective terms as that. For your standard attack power's SO slotting of 1 Acc/3Dam/1 Rech/1EndRed, you can do that with a set of L30-ish IO's (from any set without a Proc), get about the same enhancement values and never have to worry about them rotting as you level up. (and get a few minor set bonuses)
Or you can slot the upper L40's version of the same IO set and get let's say 96%ish damage, and 60%+ on each of Acc/Rech/EndRed. Better than what you could get on SO's.

As for your final point of Player Skill being the most important factor?
Yes, I would agree. I never gauge my team-mates by the bonuses listed beneath thier power selections.

But FF would have Force Bolt.
My MM has a chance for damage proc in Force Bolt, just for lulz.