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Backpacks and sheaths/scabbards would help out and do a lot for the natural crowd. The last seventy jillion* costume pieces have all been tech in theme. I was pretty disappointed that my regular natural characters pretty much couldn't wear a single costume part that came with GR.

Also don't think we didn't notice Maelstrom's pistol holsters are combat animated to disappear when he pulls them out.

* = number may be slightly exaggerated or even fictional

I have plenty of chars with Fly that's either unslotted or slotted with a knockback IO (and in one instance a Winter's Gift) who are still blue-capped in the combat attributes window.

But only if you're a villain.

I distinctly remember it being only 5% at the end of beta, and I'm almost positive it was only 5% when I checked before on live. I always monitor RES and this is a reroll. It's also entirely possible I'm dumb, though.

I soloed the incarnate intro arc with SOs on my DP Corr so my mileage has definitely varied.

Don't pay too much attention to GG. Her viewpoint on things is strictly black and white. Once Defenders/Controllers get Pain Domination there will be a convenient reason/excuse why heroes can have it and it's not evil. Until then, yeah it's totally so darn evil.

Definitely. I started off with just doing Musculature and Spiritual for most of my toons. But looking at Cardiac for a few now.
Doing Cardiac on my Huntsman. For one she's going to be running a ton of toggles, and has a lot of AoEs, so she'll need the help (at 34 she's already sucking wind pretty badly). But it will also up her RES values and increase her range, which will be nice.

Musculature:
My widow. She's already soft-capped, has perfect end control even with all her toggles, has nearly 90% global recharge with a full attack chain and perma ML, and tons of accuracy and ToHit already. So she doesn't need anything else. As a result, just going more damage. With her global damage bonuses, double Assault, and a very rare she'll be doing +92% damage all the time. On top of having procs in her attacks.

Spiritual:
Most of my toons are doing this. Blaster, Brute, two Scrappers, Necro/Dark, DP/Dark. All these chars have decent global recharge, but the recharge bonus adds more to all their powers, especially some more underslotted ones. They also get heal and regen bonuses (big perk for the Necro and Brute).

Cardiac:
As mentioned above, Huntsman. But my Dom is also doing this tree. She has most everything else she needs, but since making her permadom she uses a ton of endurance even inbetween refills. She has a lot of location AoEs and rains, which are 26-32 end each. I went the range branch, which is great for her cone powers (especially Seeds of Confusion). And later on she'll get some bonus RES.

Nerve:
I really can't think of any characters I'd do this tree with.

Right, but that's my point. If you made a Troll character who got their powers from doing drugs, CoH would send you to work with a scientist in a lab coat. It's a bit of disconnect to me. "My character does drugs they got on the street" and "my character got their powers in a lab while experimenting with chemicals" are pretty far apart.

Outside of the first arc you can do blueside, is there anything else based on origin? Out of curiosity.

The game is pretty flip-floppy about origins anyway. For instance, it treats Science like The Flash -- "You received your powers either through purposeful scientific inquiry or some accident gone awry." Even though the game has a perfectly good example of a science origin gang that didn't result from exploding lab experiments: Trolls gain their powers from drugs (although I half expect someone to tell me Trolls are natural now).

Opinions can't be wrong; that's why they're opinions. And origins are opinion-based. If I asked two people what an AR/Dev should be, they'd give me different answers. Same as we're giving different answers for Superman and the TMNT.

My line of reasoning is that it's impossible for Kryptonians to have superpowers without the interference of a yellow sun (an outside force that has nothing to do with the person who ends up gaining the powers). Your line of reasoning is that since ALL Kryptonians would go through the same change given the same circumstances, that makes it "natural." I see your viewpoint; it makes sense; but I don't personally agree. That doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. No more than yours, anyway.

If you want, you can consider Superman a combination of both Kryptonian DNA (natural) and yellow sun radiation exposure (science), making him both natural AND science, and once again leaving it open to the interpretation of which one of the two they pick in the character editor.

But that's off-topic. Was just trying to prove a point. I'll avoid derailing concerning origins now.

Kryptonians only have powers when exposed to cosmic rays from a yellow sun. On their home planet under normal conditions they have no special abilities. Parallel: All humans gain super strength and invulnerability when exposed to the radioactive gas of the planet Spectron 9. Therefore, it's natural for humans to have superhuman strength (that makes sense right?). Sounds sciency to me.

Like I said, feel free to start a thread, though it's already been discussed excruciatingly. There won't be any single resolution. Fact is there's no guide or right answer to origin. It's all up to the player's interpretation. Even if the creator had something else in mind, it's the player's interpretation that matters, because it's their character and ultimately it doesn't matter anyway. There's no penalty for getting an origin "wrong," and in a lot of cases your character could be more than one origin (AR/Devices can be natural AND tech), but the game only allows for one.

In the game they'd be science, mutant, natural, or even tech if the player wanted. There's no strict rule on origins. Batman is a regular guy but he uses tons of gadgets; both natural and tech fly depending on your viewpoint. And start a thread asking what origin Superman is and that'll go on for 20 pages.

I do that sometimes. If I'm in a zone like Atlas and people are doing a sewers team or something, or a low-level mission team, I'll offer to join, and end up being on their team with a level 50 widow to help out. Usually it's good as a comedy factor, but it's nice to help out too.

People were expecting animal parts for science and/or mutant packs. And both failed to deliver. So people were upset.

My computer runs on the absolute minimum settings the game allows, and that room still drops me to 3 FPS.

I used to be able to run on nearly max settings, but after i17 my graphical problems have become completely ridiculous. And UM isn't even turned on.

The new warehouse room kills me.

Honestly I think the entire competition is silly. You guys are comparing sets with sleeps and non-aggro powers. The winner is just going to be the most patient person. Doesn't matter which set you're using.

I almost regret telling Castle that Super Stunners seemed out of place without a heal or rez. He went "They need a rez? Is that what you want?! FINE!" and gave them the painful, autohitting, end-draining, damage-dealing 100% rez.

But it's about time Freaks had a unit people cared about. I enjoy singling them out on my Scrapper and taking them out.

Ew, blue on blue.

In theory a new beast run would be no more work than Ninja Run, although 1) I really don't know how much work Ninja Run was, 2) Ninja Run doesn't come without its own set of problems, and 3) you'd always stand up and animate normally when actually fighting