Dispari

My thoughts on power pool customization:

There are only ten pools, with four powers each. Some of those are autos or have pretty minimal FX. But overall it's not much different than 3-4 sets. Now, 3-4 sets doesn't sound like a lot of work and by appearances could've been something they did at launch of PC. But...

Power Pools, unlike regular sets, appear way more often and can be used by everyone. Even something as common as Fire Control or Willpower is only used by 2-4 ATs at best. Hasten, Flight, and Aid Self are usable by everyone. While it's no big deal to add color tint to Energy Melee and call it a day, I doubt most people would be happy if the only thing done to Hasten is a color swap.

I expect the devs to pull a rabbit out of the hat and give us a lot more customization options for pools than they did for regular sets. I see epics getting the same kind of treatment that regular sets got, but I expect/hope that they'll look into giving us alternate animations and graphics for various power pool powers such as Hasten, Super Speed, Teleport, Tough/Weave, Aid Other/Aid Self, and some other options. The devs should be able to pick up on what powers are taken the most and devote some extra time to those. I doubt they need to worry about providing a dozen different options for Invoke Panic, but Hasten would probably be at the top of their list.

WoW's outdoor glowies are one thing I kind of like. Really though it'd just be like putting the glowies we have... outdoors! Really, I think what I want to see is more stuff that happens outside of instanced missions. More raids and zone events would be spiffy. But the important thing is to make it be things that people can't interfere with, screw up, and ruin. So far that hasn't happened, but adding rare enemies with rare drops and things would cause problems. I think our staff is smart enough to avoid that though.

I think of the MMOs I've played, Guild Wars has the most interesting missions. Most MMOs have the classic 3:
1) Kill X number of enemies (including to get X number of drops)
2) Find X number of objects
3) Talk to so-and-so

Guild Wars has cooler stuff though. You get environmental effects, interactable objects, and more interesting defend/survive scenarios that CoH really just doesn't have. There's never a turret you can fire, or doors you can shut. There's never archers on the roof you have to take down, or a point you have to hold against invasions. And you only get very occasional environment effects like lava or Circle crystals. I'd love to see a whole lot more of stuff like that.

I have my priorities.

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Powers w\ KB "Please... 09-05-2009 06:58 AM Good post. -Ethric

Is there a way to view older rep? I had some other good ones before.

Pretty much all my negative rep (which I don't have much of) is uncommented. When I leave stuff with someone I sign it as "-Dispari" as a courtesy. The one that actually left a message mistook my admittedly not-that-hilarious joking comment as a derail somehow. Even the person I quoted played along so I'm not sure how the repper found malacious derailing between the lines.

Most of my positive rep is from joke posts or larger, analytical ones. Though I haven't had as much forum presence lately so I haven't gotten as much rep.

Doesn't the day job give you a merit for each mission completed, whether or not it's in the RWZ or against Rikti? Probably works for people sub-35 too?

She's only a half saiya--err, incarnate.

I have a question about this power. Does it autohit? I ask because it doesn't report hit rolls in the combat window. Just damage. Everything else shows hit roll, but with Mud Pots all I get is:

Mud Pots deal 25.23 points of fire damage to Luddite Friar.
Mud Pots deal 25.23 points of fire damage to Luddite Friar.
Mud Pots deal 25.23 points of fire damage to Luddite Friar.
Mud Pots deal 25.23 points of fire damage to Luddite Friar.
Mud Pots deal 25.23 points of fire damage to Luddite Friar.

My Dom's a Plant/Earth. The tiny radius on it kind of sucks (especially when Hot Feet is so large), but I'm also curious what I need to do to slot it at the moment.

I thought of posting this in archetypes, or even in Virtue since I know most of the people who will be caring about this sort of stuff are on Virtue. So I thought I'd ask, where do you plan to park your characters for morality once GR hits? My characters:

Victoria Noir, my widow, is definitely a rogue. She's a widow but she also does other jobs. She has a vast need (ICly and OOCly) to visit Paragon. She's not a vigilante, because her work is all assassination to the highest bidder and she's not working for the greater good but rather to make money. But that also means she's for hire from goodguys who need to assassinate badguys. Also, she's my main badger and needs badges...! She will divide her time between both zones.

Luna Desani, my snow bunny Controller. She's a goodguy. A snow bunny spirit. Kind of wistful and childlike. She wouldn't do bad things, but she MIGHT do stuff if someone can convince her that what she's doing is a good thing or something. I would lean toward keeping her as a hero, but she could become a vigilante with the right influence. I have a Dominator friend she'll be leveling with, so it depends on the influence of that character where she'll end up.

Mender Sissolie, my kitsune Dominator, would be a vigilante. She would want to be a hero by all appearances, but be a hero that does whatever it takes. Time travel is risky business and the menders are already a gray area. But even though she wants to seem heroic, she's actually working for chaos and disorder under Nemesis. She will spend equal time on both sides.

Kigi Kidate, my Plant/Earth Dom. She's like Luna. She's an earth spirit kitsune, so she sort of just floats about. She'd be heroic, but could be convinced to do other things. She'll spend most of her time in Paragon if possible.

Gemelle Sable, who is a mystic. Interestingly enough, her character design means she's one half of the remnants of one person who split into two halves. She's the darker and more "evil" half. As such she's still a hero, but more inclined to be a vigilante. What makes it interesting is that the other half would be a pure hero. She'd spend most of her time in Paragon.

Tesla Jin, my archery/elec Blaster, is a hero. That's about all there is to that. She's a heroic character who fights for justice and peace. She's a mage + archer who wears spandex and tights, and stops criminals who are stealing purses.

Tanya Atta, my Troll Brute, is a rogue. She's a villain and stuff, and doesn't care for order. She breaks and steals things so she can get superadine. But she doesn't work for anyone, and would have reason to be in Paragon (cause there are lots of Trolls and dealers there). She'd also be willing to take any job as long as the payment is superadine. She will spend most of her time in Paragon.

Tomatre, whom I have 5 (yes 5) different variations of, would be a vigilante. She's a heroic character who fights crime and stops villains. However, she also associates with a lot of people in the Rogue Isles and lets some of her friends slide on minor things, as long as it's not bank robbery or murder. She has, however, tossed some friends in jail (knowing full well they'll just escape). All 5 would technically be vigilante, but rogue is also acceptable, assuming that there are SG/VG conflicts, based on the angle that she does heroic things for money (which is also true). Toma tends to spend most of her time in the Isles.

Sudona Forte, my necromancer, is pure evil and a villain. She could be classified as a rogue simply so she can cross over and do bad in Paragon. However, she doesn't really have much need to. I could probably leave her as a villain, but a rogue would suit her just as well. Either way, she'll be in the Isles.

Riley Tiranis, my thug/trap MM. Her backstory involves her starting out as a hero, being a government spy and assassin. But then the government turned on her and she had to flee to the Isles. Now she scrapes by doing anything she can to survive, including theft and even murder. She's a Punisher type character who would be a perfect vigilante, but spend all her time in the Isles trying to right the wrong.

Dispari Scuro, my (boring) FF/Elec Defender. She's a hero throughout, and is at odds with Sudona Forte above. She believes in right and wrong and is on the good side always.

Xanthos Theta, my fire/kin Controller. She's someone who was previously taken in by the government and experimented on to use as a tool to fight the Rikti. She's now confined to a suit to prevent her powers from harming others. She uses them to fight crime. Because of the way she was mistreated by the goodguys, she believes very firmly in adhering to strict rules and guidelines, like "don't kidnap innocent people and experiment on them for the greater good." She's a pure hero.

Ardent Black, my crab spider. She's an Arachnos agent through-and-through, unlike Vicky above who does other work. She's motivated by and devoted to Arachnos ideals. She's likes the militaristic sense of order and control. She's a badguy, even though a somewhat laid-back badguy. She wouldn't fit in very well in Paragon, so is a villain.

Mitsu, of whom I have two versions (one Scrapper, one Brute). You can tell from the versions I already have that she can go anywhere. Both versions will end up being either rogues or vigilantes. She's a valkyrie who fights for the sake of fighting. It doesn't matter to her really whether it's right or wrong, who started it, or whose side she's on. She's a warrior-woman and wants to bash heads. She'll spend equal time in both worlds.

Kaimana Keahilani, my earth/fire Dom. She's a goodguy. She hails from an island in Hawaii where she and her sister bound a volcano spirit to prevent destruction of their friends and family. She and her sister already have a somewhat self-destructive nature, but still try to do good. They would fit in as heroes. Will spend most of their time in Paragon.

Looking at the list I notice almost all my characters are shades of gray, with very few dedicated heroes/villains. What does your list look like?