Goliath Bird Eater

Actual new powersets, according to Zwil.

FINALLY the Perez Park maze makes sense!

And that's not a bad thing, in my opinion. While I usually loathe when other people say this sort of thing, the old-style Tier 9 armors in effect punish players for using them. Instead of being useful abilities to have when you really need them, they're essentially big ol' self-destruct buttons - some far moreso than others - that, depending upon the specific situation, have players sweating bullets hoping they can overcome what they need to before the timer runs out.

They come from the same line of thought that decided the original Defiance inherent was a good idea -- that you MUST trade power for survivability in some fashion, and that you can only go big in either direction. As someone who started off in CoH as a Tanker during the beta and pretty much stuck to that AT until Brutes and eventually VEATs were introduced, I'd much rather see all the tier 9 armors be reworked to function more like Strength of Will.

Nope. The game was released in April of 2004. Cryptic Studios was founded in 2000, so the engine (the first iteration of it, at least) was created not too long afterward. And in relation to WoW: CoH and WoW ran the convention/expo circuit together in 2003, and were neighbors at I think E3 2003. CoH launched a few months before WoW.

Of course, this furthers your point.

For what it's worth, I'm only familiar with the image as a reaction image/meme. Based on your response, though, I don't think I wanna know where it's from.

You're alright, GG. You're alright.

I, for one, don't use Facebook because I have no real need for it. But I don't seem to have the same ... vitriol for it as you for some reason do. That's what I don't understand: the venom dripping from some people's teeth when the subject of social media is brought up.

Are you a wizard?

1) some people want everything RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW.

2) Some people actively avoid social media, despite the fact that it's fairly well-ingrained into the current fabric of the internet. In fact, some people actively despise social media; I cannot wrap my head around that one.

I just watched that part of the recorded coffee talk from last week. Absolutely NO mention of a specific date was given. All that was said is that changes to pool powers is something that will be discussed "in the coming weeks" (to quote Zwil), as in at some point during the summer.

An Emp/Water Defender named Lemon Aid!


While the palette WOULD allow me to create a hero who got their powers after falling into a vat of radioactive cola, the default coloration is so pretty that I really don't see myself customizing it any.

So ... you based your entire opinion on a powerset after reaching a level that takes like 30 minutes of play at most to reach?

Of course, I'm going to have to disagree with you. I will grant you that TW is both a very late-blooming set (until you have 5 or 6 attacks so you can take full advantage of Momentum) and can be rough on End. But it's by no means THE WORST melee set in the game. Plus, I think it's fun. That might not matter to min/maxers, but it matters to me.

I'd like to know as well. Since, y'know, Synapse has explicitly said that they don't design powersets to be sold in the Paragon Market to be any more powerful than powersets added to the game for free.

Unless Tiger_Lady also think that the developers would intentionally mislead the players in such a manner ...