ClawsandEffect

Venom Grande?

Sounds like a rattlesnake dish at a Mexican restaurant.

Someone or another actually mathmatically proved a while back that a high recharge Fire/Fire dominator has the highest possible DPS in the game (in ideal conditions of course)

He was in the 350+ DPS range.

Doms got buffed a while back. The damage boost was removed from Domination and damage from your secondary was boosted. So now you get close to what you could get while Domination was up all the time. Perma-Domination is no longer necessary to deal good damage on a dominator.

Pretty much this.

Also, when you slot an enhancement you get a pop-up (provided you didn't disable it) that tells you "This enhancement will be permanently locked into this power. Do you wish to proceed?" (or something to that effect)

The game itself TELLS you that you can't take enhancements out of powers once they are slotted. The devs have said on several occasions that allowing 10 to be saved is being generous, and that they don't feel you should be allowed to pull them out at will.

They have shown NO signs of changing their mind on this, and I highly doubt they ever will.

Ah, yes.

Saying "Did you really just say something THAT stupid?" with nothing but a disdainful look. Tommy Lee Jones is an undisputed master of it.

Screw the eyeroll, we need a "Tommy Lee Jones disdainful look" emote NOW!

Well, power customization was a case of "We'd like to do this, but it's too difficult because we don't have the manpower"

That changed when they DID have the manpower to do it.

I don't recall ever having seen a dev outright say "NO" to the email idea, so from my perspective there isn't any evidence that they were ever against it in the first place. They just didn't do it for a long time, so I can only assume there were coding issues preventing it that they have since solved.

The full respec I think is a bad idea for my OWN reasons. The fact that the devs happen to agree with my stance is pure coincidence. If you could respec powersets or entire ATs you could start as something easy to level and switch to a late-blooming set later on when you reach an appropriate level. (like leveling a Willpower tank and switching to Stone after you get access to Granite Armor, or leveling as a Katana/Willpower scrapper and switching to Electric/Shield at 50 so you can farm with it)

As far as enhancements go, they have always been intended to be permanent. The only reason I would ever completely strip a character is if I intended to delete it, in which case I wouldn't care that I had to burn multiple respecs to do it. It's not like I can transfer those respecs to another character anyway.

The devs haven't done anything to prevent us from stripping a character, it just takes a lot of work and multiple respecs to do it. They don't seem to see any reason to make something we can already do any easier on us, especially since they never really intended us to be doing it in the first place.

As far as any of us is aware, they haven't changed their stance that 10 enhancements is the most we will ever be allowed to retain from a respec, and I don't see any compelling reason why they should.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=189427

Here ya go. I didn't use any Kinetic Combats at all, since I was focusing on positional defense rather than typed. I got my Theft of Essence proc as a drop, so I really have no idea how much it costs.

All of the expensive IOs (Numina's, LotGs, etc.) came as drops, so I managed to keep my price down. All in all, it was probably 350-400 million total, which IS cheap for a build with that kind of performance, it holds it's own well alongside multi-billion influence builds.

You have a mez power in your primary, and one in your secondary. The only thing you can really do is stack them and mez your enemy before they mez you.

The Dual Pistols mez (Suppressive Fire) is listed as a stun, but if you switch your ammo type it becomes a hold, and will stack with Petrifying Gaze from your primary. 2 holds will mez a Freak Tank, and while he's mezzed he isn't mezzing you.

You can build a damn good one on a very limited budget. I started a thread on it a while back, and it has since (with other people's input as well) become more or less a guide to softcapping a Sword/DA scrapper on a budget.

It has drawbacks, but is overall a very solid combination. Werner's is MUCH more survivable than mine, but mine is maybe 1/10th the cost.

Uh, yeah. Ever use Air Superiority while you're actually in the air against a flying opponent?
It has a very reliable -fly aspect to it. If you're hoverblasting on a non-devices blaster wouldn't something to knock other flyers out of the air be useful? The whole point of hoverblasting is to stay out of melee, and flying enemies can still enter melee with you. Air Superiority puts them on the ground in a hurry.

Depends on what AT is taking it. For a scrapper, tank, brute, stalker, dominator, or blaster it's an inferior melee attack. For a Controller or defender it's better than Brawl. Also, they deal Containment damage for Controllers, my Fire/Kin has Boxing and actually USES it to help kill bosses.

Besides, it's the Fighting pool, not the Duck and Cover pool. Having attacks in it makes sense.

What's wrong with Fitness? The powers are perfectly thematic. If you're physically fit, you can run faster and jump higher. My Claws/Regen used to have Swift, Hurdle, and Health, and skipped Stamina because I didn't need it.

They can't make every single power in the game ZOMGAWESOME!!! Sometimes you need to take some less desireable powers to get to what you want.

And if powers should all be mechanically connected, just look at the names of the pools.

Fighting implies that it gives you the ability to fight. It'd be kind of stupid if all you could do was dodge stuff, kinda need to be able to throw a punch or kick, or you're not actually fighting.

Fitness implies that you are in good shape and healthy. How does running faster and jumping higher NOT fit with that theme?

You DO realize that our sun is the star Sol, right?

Hence the "Solar" system. If our sun were Betelgeuse we'd learn about the Betelgeusean system in school instead.

Any time you see the word "solar" used, it is simply referring to our sun by it's name. You wouldn't get solar radiation from Sirius or Alpha Centauri....because those particular stars aren't named Sol. You'd get Alpha Centaurian radiation, or perhaps some Sirius radiation instead.

To be fair, such posts DO exist. I've seen them with my own eyes.

My point was that linking to posts where you say the exact same thing as in the post you're linking from is really kind of pointless, and somewhat arrogant.

Actually, if you want to be technical about it, they're BOTH additions. The difference is in exactly what it is they are adding.

+ToHit is a flat addition to your base accuracy. So, if you are at 75% with an attack an have a Kismet +Acc equipped your to-hit will be 81%.

+Accuracy is the addition of a percentage to your base accuracy. So, if your to hit is at 75% and you have a 10% accuracy bonus your to-hit with that attack is 82.5% (because 10% of 75% is 7.5%, and 75% + 7.5% = 82.5%)

What makes +To-hit more valuable than +Acc is the fact that it adds directly to your base chance to hit.

Using the previous examples: 75% + 6% to-hit = 81% to-hit. Now, if you have a 10% accuracy bonus on top of that your total chance to hit becomes 89.1%. This is because your accuracy bonus is applied as a percentage of the new value of 81% instead of the base 75%.