Bill Z Bubba

Replying directly to Zombie Man,

Gale isn't at attack. It doesn't exist in an attack set. The sub-optimal argument doesn't apply. It provides mitigation.

Tanker bruising was added to improve tank performance in much the same way that defenders received their scaling damage buff that maxes while they are solo.

Your request is nothing but a whim. Some widespread hatred toward a single power, an opinion I don't share with regards to gale as I use it regularly on my DP/Storm corruptor, is no more a case for unlocking the tier2 of a secondary at creation than some twit being mad that he can't make superman in game is a case for giving tanks the scrapper damage modifier.

Claws wins with two true ranged attacks: Focus and Shockwave. Add on Soul Master and chain Focus, Gloom, Soul Tentacles, Dark Obliteration, Shockwave.

But you could also go elec/sd for the two tport attacks and add the PPP in on top of that.

I've got a new spines/fire scrapper as well, but I haven't worked up a build for him yet. My general plan, however, is to go for max recharge, including 6slotting RotP to get me to the ED cap on recharge and damage.

Mitigation be damned! I'm a burning bush bomb!

Here are more reasons, ZM:

1: The first tier power in the character's secondary is forced by design. For attack sets, it forces the character to take what is probably a sub-optimal attack to strengthen the concept that the set is the character's secondary powerset. In the case of mitigation sets, it forces the user to take a power that is either integral to the archetype (see stalker Hide) or necessary for survival (see SR Focused Fighting.)

2: The devs did away with freeform power selection because it created a situation where it was too easy to tankmage or gimp yourself. The decision to allow a new character to choose either the first or second tier power from the primary and force the use of the 1st tier from the secondary was part of this decision.

3: The case has not been made by either you or the OP that there is any reason beyond whim to unlock the tier 1 power choice. Until a case can be made that shows this change is necessary or even needed, it won't happen. In this, the request is no different than my whim request that tough grant some level of dam-res to all damage types. As I can not make the case that this change is necessary or needed in any way, it won't be happening.

Better?

I don't bother with IOs until level 35.

36.66 +2 SO
36.70 Level 35 IO

And that's why. While I see the logic behind frakenslotting all the way, I don't find that the benefits outweigh the time spent crafting. I'd rather spend all my time killin.

I'm a lover of music and dig several musicals out there. Hell, I slap in JCSS just to listen to Carl Anderson sing "Heaven on Their Minds."

But that? Let's put on a badly blocked musical number with multiple people playing a single role, sing it poorly (especially the chick doing Magenta's bit) (note: none of the voices were bad, but the delivery was atrocious) with characters on stage that hadn't even shown up in the story yet? What?

Yea, I'm glad that a new generation will be exposed to RHPS, but I would have preferred it done in a way that didn't leave me saying, "Wow... that was really bad."

I honestly don't know if it would be as much of an issue as the OP thinks. To be honest, I kind of doubt it and that's what prompted my question.

I don't think that the stun duration would be enough to matter.

Oh how I wish they'd get rid of redraw.

Objective Feedback: Broken 3D Sound for users of Creative Alchemy. Thread on the topic exists here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ighlight=sound

Subjective Feedback: Sounds I've found so annoying that I had to replace them with a file of dead silence: Energy Melee background hum associated with all EM attacks. Peacebringer background whine associated with all PB attacks.

I might buy this one. I can see using a few of those auras on existing characters.

My FA/FM tank takes offense at that. And then he self-destructs.

As in the gladiator badges you pick up from time to time?

It's pokemon for the arena. You pick your minions and they fight against another player's minions.

I gots mine. I be happy. And waiting.

Because I can't stick 6 slots into inherent health and 4 into inherent stamina right now? So... why bother respecing now?

... silence the background hum of EM, color both sets dark with black/dark red....

It'd LOOK awesome.

Energy Melee/Energy Aura

Self damage from ET on a set that only gets +HP from its tier 9. A tier9 that can't be made permanent. Long animations on ET and TF mean more time for EA's pathetic mitigation to crumple. Pathetic AoE output means more incoming attacks which means even more time for EA's weak defense to fail.

Not that I've found, 23X. Best I've seen is the use of the /maxinactive fps 10 command. Looks like you can add that to the end of the shortcut's target line as follows:

"c:\program files\city of heroes\cohupdater.exe" -maxinactivefps 10

Which should cause whatever instance is in the background to cap out at 10 frames per second, thus freeing up some resources.

Someone mentioned in channel last night a command that is supposed to stop all rendering to the inactive instance, but I neglected to write it down.