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Originally Posted by JadeGhost

I was actually thinking of those exact two choices Kin/DP Defender or DP/Time Corruptor
prolly gunna go Dp/time Corruptor, but im also interested as two which would do more damage and by how much between a Kin/DP Defender and a DP/Kin Corruptor.

What are some other good secondaries for DP. /Time Thematically seems like cheating especially when u have guns ><

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I think the big test for them will be the inevitable need to eventually repalce actors - like will they go the WB/DC route of obsessively rebooting each hero franchise when there's achnage of actor or director/producer, or will they follow the James Bond model and simply hire a replacement actor who'll carry on in the role as if nothing's changed?
Comicbook readers accpet different artists drawing the same heroes in different ways, and if enough movie goers can be led to do the same, then Marvel could actually create a multi-decade movie universe, where there could be, say, 4 actors who've played Thor, but the events in the moves they were in are all part of one continuity.
Like I think it'd be totally awesome if the Avengers assembled in 2022, and the characters were still the same people who took part in their 2012 adventure.

Originally Posted by Siolfir

An actual change that I would like to see but would alienate almost everyone?

Get rid of the following ATs entirely:

• Tanker
• Brute
• Scrapper
• Stalker
• Defender
• Corruptor
• Blaster

Replace them with the following hybrids, named whatever the heck you want to call them, with any powerset available to either AT being available to the hybrid:

• Brute/Tanker hybrid:
  • Brute base damage with Fury
  • 500% damage cap
  • Brute AT modifiers for defense, resistance
  • Melee set primary, defense set secondary to build full attack chains earlier
  • Brute base hp and Tanker hp cap
  • Brute (ie, ST) version of Gauntlet
  • Target cap for power "Taunt" raised to 10.
• Scrapper/Stalker hybrid:
  • Stalker base damage modifier with current functionality of inherent criticals, both inside and outside of Hide
  • 500% damage cap
  • Stalker base hp, Scrapper hp cap
  • Melee primary, defense secondary
  • Hide added as an additional selection in the secondary (10 choices) available at tier 2.
  • Scrapper self-buffing modifiers
  • Assassin's Strike disappears, so the Scrapper primaries will remain as-is.
  • Assassin's Focus turns into an inherent toggle with 0 recharge and 0 endurance cost.
    • Assassin's Focus will increase your base critical chance by 10% (to 20% + 3% per teammate in range) on single target attacks and reduce it by 10% (to only the teammate bonus) on AoEs.
    • This lets you choose to selectively increase your ST damage at the cost of AoE damage.
• Defender/Corruptor hybrid:
  • Corruptor base damage with full versions of both Scourge and Vigilance
  • 500% damage cap
  • Defender buff/debuff/mez modifiers
  • Support primary, ranged damage secondary
  • Power shuffling in the secondaries to get t3 ST blast by level 20 for the sets that have them appearing later
  • All t9 "nukes" are crashless (see: Fortunata Psychic Wail)

As for Blasters... there isn't a good way to stay within the concept (only do damage plus die a lot), so they just get to make a Dominator (control stuff and still do damage) or the new ranged hybrid instead. That's why I said to keep the full bonus from Vigilance (including the solo/small team damage bonus).

Since this affects every single "free" AT, I'm sure it would impact a huge number of players and offend almost all of them. But we have too many ATs that all do the same thing, and the only reason can come up with that many of them were created was because CoH and CoV were originally marketed as separate games and so they couldn't just revamp the "old" CoH ATs. I think it's a good idea, at least from a future-balance and team role standpoint, but it would never happen this late in the game because people are too attached to their characters.

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

For the t9 attack instead of the Gun Kata from Equilibrium you could go with the Pistol Whip Kata he did in another part of the movie.

Originally Posted by Lothic

One would assume it has to some degree. On the other hand Marvel may look at it as an evolution in their business model towards being more "electronic/movie" based than "comic" based in the coming future. Same thing happened when telegraphs used to be the primary form of long distance communication and eventually things like telephones took over. Once everyone accepted telephones the telegraph was eventually phased out.

I'm not saying that folks like Marvel are going to instantly stop making comic books tomorrow. I'm just saying that they'll probably be making their primary money from movies (and by extension electronic forms of media) instead of paper-based comic books in the years ahead.

Originally Posted by Raith

Could we see some love put to hoods, Outside of the one from the magic-bundle most hoods have 2 colours but the secondary isn't used. Anyway I am getting tired of my characters being bald when wearing a hood (hood 1 and 2).

Originally Posted by Innovator

He still could. Nu-Kirk could still do it as well, but there are such things in the Trek universe as divergent timelines so Ol-Kirk could and will still do it. Ol-Kirk goes back into his past to steal a whale which in happenstance is also the past of the Nu-Trek. Nu-Kirk could still steal whales, but likely at a different time and place. Blows your mind..huh? I could draw you a chart...

Just a thought: ...Or Ol-Spock could just create a device with the recorded whale conversations from his timeline to prevent the event from happening at all in the new timeline. He probably doesn't even need the previous recording, as he did mind meld with a whale so he should know how to simulate the conversation.

Originally Posted by Nos482

Yeah, about that...
Kirk & co went back to 19something but the alternate timeline started much later, like four hundred years or so.
So is there a point in space-time where old Kirk is stealing a whale, even though he never existed that way in the new timeline?

Originally Posted by Cheetatron

if I had a 2 sets that offered a hold I would want both for stacking

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Zone events are great fun, but if we're going to take stuff from the Avnegers, then I want to be able to do this in a mission:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCqfncpIjJM

It's such as Scrapper way of solving problems

Although I'm not sure how a situation like that could really be worked into a storyline when we have Incarnte levels of power

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

I like Mutants and Masterminds because it is built on the D20 system and it is easy for most people to hit the ground running with.

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

Both Kinetics and Time are relatively click heavy sets, for that reason I really wouldn't reccomend pairing either of them with DP due to redraw. A less click heavy set (like radiation) would work much better.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Current projections now show that this weekend the Avengers should surpass the $500 million mark (world wide) and keep on going.

Originally Posted by Redlynne

Thread Necro ... but certainly appropriate in this case.



Talked to Arbiter Hawk this weekend at the Summit about Dual Pistols. I brought up the "unhappiness" with the balance of Swap Ammo as presently configured, and how the exotic ammo types weren't "different enough" to merit their effects (aside from Incendiary Ammo, because damage is always better than everything). He conceded that since Swap Ammo is occupying the slot normally taken by Aim or a similar booster power that Swap Ammo is somewhat inadequate and underpowered, and that it would be worthwhile to re-examine the balance of the effects that Swap Ammo brings to the table. I specifically mentioned the anemic differences of the exotic ammo types in their effects and got a thoughtful musing look in response. No promises of action (let alone any time soon!), but I got the sense that he substantially agreed with the perspective that Swap Ammo wasn't where it needed to be.

One thing which Arbiter Hawk volunteered (meaning, I didn't ask him for this and he brought it up himself) is that he is of the opinion that the animations for several of the Dual Pistols attacks are simply too long and could use shortening on their animation times. Specifically, he cited Executioner's Shot at 2.4 seconds, and said he felt like 2.1 seconds would be more where he'd want the animation time on that power to be, as an example. So not radical reductions in animation times, but things like -15% or so seemed to be around the range he was comfortable with so as to speed up the animations of some of the attacks (ie. not all of them!). Executioner's Shot was specifically mentioned by name, but he didn't reel off a list of any others.

Again ... NO PROMISES of action in this area anytime Soon™ ... so you can hold your fire on that score. This was more a matter of sounding him out to find out what Arbiter Hawk thinks rather than trying to figure out (let alone demand) what he's going to DO. The major point being that even if he isn't exactly in *agreement* with what the players believe concerning Dual Pistols, his is substantially in alignment with player thinking as far as this powerset is concerned.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

Tanker MA got the Defense bonus because it couldn't make use of the improved chance to critical the power has on other ATs that have the set.

All of your other suggestions sound reasonable, though, except maybe the MM PPP pet thing, since the ancillary pools are supposed to give you some of what your AT lacks, and MMs don't lack for pets.