ClawsandEffect

What Smash_Zone said.

To put it in perspective for you, what you're asking for would require more than 20,000 separate animations to be coded pretty much from scratch.

I think Smash Zone is drastically underestimating how long that would take. You're probably looking at tying up the animation and art department for more than a year on just this one thing. During that year, you would get no new costumes, no new powersets, no new animations for existing powersets, no new enemy groups, no new ANYTHING that would require an animator or art guy's presence on. All so the small fraction of players that would actually USE a four-armed skeleton can have it.

So, that would be a great big honking "no" on that.

Tough one. I prefer Morley, but given the choice.....Crybaby. I like Dunlop's tone better.

Marshall or Mesa?

AMD.

Fender or Gibson?

I'd still call it solo.

The powers used were HIS powers, not temp powers picked up from a PvP zone.

I'd say anything that stays active when you disable temp powers counts as solo.

After all, Ill/Rads are considered to have soloed it, even though the bulk of the damage is coming from Phantom Army and Phantasm.

Well, Synapse and Citadel are two of the worst written and grindiest TFs in the game. It wouldn't surprise me if people juist don't want to do them anymore.

Note: I never said I WANTED harsher penalties for dying, just that if one had to happen, I would be okay with the one I outlined.

Let them pose all they want, it doesn't really hurt anything.

I look at it like this: If you even get to the cut scene in the first place, you've already met the requirements to get there.

I haven't been on a Lambda run since my very first one that got to the cut scene because we ran out of time. Every single run since then, the cut scene happened because we accomplished the objective.

When one team is done with their side of things and the other has 1 or 2 left there is no point in the team that is done going to try and help, because the team that has 1 or 2 left is so deep in the map that they will be done with it before the first team even gets to them. The team that finishes first can't possibly be of any help to the second team, so they might as well go dance in the cut scene.

Now, on the other hand, if the cut scene happens because you ran out of time and only have 5 of each temp power, and you see 6 people dancing in the cut scene, maybe THEN you can get upset about it.

If you got all 20 temp powers with time to spare before the cut scene and people are dancing, it harms nothing at all.

Why would it be such a horrible thing to add a 10% damage debuff that only applies when you use a wakie, lasts for 2 minutes, and can be easily circumvented by using a single red inspiration?

It's barely more than we have now. Since you only replied to the one sentence, I get the feeling you stopped reading my post right there.

I'd be okay with adding #8: Stacking Debuffs, with a couple caveats.

1) They can't be too debilitating, dying and coming back completely unable to effectively do anything would suck. Keep it something simple like a 10% damage debuff for 120 seconds after rezzing, or a 10% to-hit debuff. Nothing crazy. It could also be counteracted by something as simple as poppiing an inspiration.

2) The debuff should only happen when you use a wakie or a temp rez power. Any actual rez powers such as Rise of the Phoenix or Soul Transfer should not apply the debuff, since they are part of that powerset's theme. Ally rezzes should not apply it either.

3) Going to the hospital should not apply the debuff, and if you die multiple times within the 120 second window, going to the hospital should remove any that have stacked thus far. But, using rez powers won't remove previously acquired debuffs, so if you use a wakie and then die and are rezzed by an empath, it will prevent a second debuff, but won't remove the first.

4) There should be a limit to how many debuffs can stack at once. Like, say, a stack of 5 would be the max. If you die 5 times in less than 2 minutes, you have bigger problems than how many debuffs you have on you anyway.

It's something that would add some flavor to the game, but it wouldn't be too horrible for people if they happen to die a few times in rapid succession. It would also make sense, you just died and came back from the dead, or were on death's door, it is perfectly reasonable for you to be slightly less effective for a couple minutes afterward.

Now, I don't necessarily think this needs to be added. But if I had to choose something from the OPs list other than "Nothing", that's the one I would pick.

I've gotten 2 Very Rare drop tables over the course of 20+ trials. I've gotten maybe 3-4 rare and the rest were common or uncommon.

I'd say my experience here is probably about what the average should be on getting the drop tables. There are going to be people like the OP who haven't seen the Very Rare table yet, and I'm sure there are just as many who get the Very Rare comparitively often.

Random is Random is all I can really say about it. I wouldn't worry too much about it, to be honest. You don't get THAT much more by upgrading from tier 3 to tier 4. You get the level shift at tier 3, so that's where I plan on stopping on most of my characters unless I get lucky enough to get 2 Rares and a Very Rare on the same character (and even then I will probably use them for Judgement or Interface anyway)