Gorgar

The speed is nice, another place to put a LotG recharge is nice, and the added defense can come in pretty handy if you already have some defense but you aren't capped.

Two uses I've found for it are extra control and defense while stealthing missions, and as a sort of mini tier 9 on an invuln tank: if i've got a good handle on aggro already, I can throw out one last taunt, then hit Afterburner and take less damage for a bit while Dull Pain recharges and regeneration does its thing. Also would be useful for occupying one AV while the rest of the team fights another.

Egyptian, Native American pieces. More pieces but simpler ones would be better, to me, than fewer but really dramatic ones. For instance, I'd get far more use out of Native American style leather/deerskin pieces that can be recolored and integrated into other costumes than a big over the top feathered headdress. Not saying you shouldn't do that too if people want it, but for me, pieces like that have very limited use, and that's far less important to me than being able to integrate. The Gunslinger pack pieces such as the belt with the big star are an example of what I mean: I can't see using that on anything but a full-blown western movie type character, whereas there are probably ways to make a gunslinger-flavored belt that would still work on a more modern character.

More female hair, especially long. Cascading curls like Wonder Woman often has. More variations on existing styles, so I can reuse a style and have it not be identical apart from color.

Gloves and boots that match the Metal texture.

Golden Age, Silver Age pieces. Barbarians, medieval, and magic.

More elegance. Imperial Dynasty was *great*. Boots to match the chest/legs pattern.

Jewelry! I abuse the heavy neck chain shoulder option frequently because it's about the only option.

Long skirts and robes, maybe limited to powersets that don't have kicks in them, so nobody has to figure out how to animate Martial Arts, etc with them.

A third color. Probably not on the agenda.

Thanks for putting up this thread. Having a costume that fits the character and looks different from my others is about as big a deal to me as the powersets, and the continuing expansion of costume possibilities is really what keeps me in the game. What you're doing is very important.

If you're teleporting in to attack, just hit the key for the power after you start to port. You'll still be hovering, but it looks to me like the attack starts going off, so at least to me, it matters less about the hovering bit.

I think the hover is there because without it, you start falling immediately, and if you've got any sort of lag or shaky connection, you wind up falling out of the sky, potentially taking a bunch of damage and landing on hostile mobs, and they added the hover in to fix that. It would be nice to be able to turn that off, though.

I've never liked the exclusivity concept. I didn't like it when I was a couple months behind the people who had been around since beta, and I don't like it now when I'm showing a friend a costume and they can't use the pieces themselves because they haven't been around long enough.

I've since bought my way to tier 9 because I wanted to use a couple of the celestial pieces, and I'm not complaining about that; it was my decision. I don't care about the money involved for me. But it sucked when I couldn't do anything about getting a cool new vet thing like being able to use travel powers early, because I'd never heard of the game or the company until months after it was released.

It bothers me that the work's been done to develop the costume set, and here's a subscriber that wants to use it, but it would cost him three hundred dollars to get it.

Just yesterday I was thinking about rerolling an elec/elec blaster as a kin/elec, but I'll probably go elec/kin instead because every kin power I looked at seemed to work the same on a corruptor. I don't care that much about getting the kin powers earlier, certainly not enough to give up scourge. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, but I'll wait six levels for Fulcrum Shift quite happily if I can go from being a damage dealer technically because I'm a defender with kinetics, to being a damage dealer who also has kinetics.

I just don't see the point in making it a defender and giving up all that damage. Vigilance isn't something I feel I can build around. I guess I could skimp on end reduction for team-only powers like buffs, but otherwise I don't see it as a solid feature I can do much with. I'm certainly not going to build the whole character as endurance-challenged just so I can reap the benefit when I'm on a team of half-dead people. The damage buff is certainly appreciated, but I team enough that it often goes unused. I don't know how to improve the situation, either, but I do hope defenders get something that makes them a clearly better choice for reasons other than getting the powers earlier.

This makes me sad, as one of my best characters is a defender. I love the idea behind the AT, but I think corruptor secondaries are too close in power to defender primaries after Going Rogue and side switching. For what it's worth, I feel the same about scrappers and brutes: if the mechanics don't favor the hero AT (such as Sonic Blast's debuffs on a defender, or scrapper powersets that work better with criticals than with fury), the villain AT is probably a better choice. And I say that as someone that never plays redside, so these are not my pet favorites from back in the day.

Is there a post somewhere that explains what all of these are? I can pretty well guess at "Cyberpunk Costume": it's probably a cyberpunk costume. "Amplifiers" I am less sure about, but I could use a '64 Super Reverb if that helps.

Depends. If I'm on an energy blast or storm summoning character, I am the center of the universe, and it's all moving relative to me.

On a tank, I'm constantly shifting position a bit, which is how I can tell I definitely have aggro. If they don't pay attention to my every little movement, something's gone wrong. And I'm always trying to put myself on the other side of the group from the team, so the aoes hit them less.

My new dominator keeps darting in and out of melee range due to having pbaoe and cone attacks, and my scrappers go wherever they can do the most damage. Defenders go where they need to be to protect the team. Etc. Sometimes that means moving once per fight, sometimes it means moving a lot.

How will the change to PPM affect the Theft of Essence proc?

I put it in Fire Ball for two reasons: as stated above, it's a way to get ranged defense out of an AoE, and the recharge is better, at least while levelling up and pre-spiritual alpha, than using Positron's and a common recharge. I care a lot more about those two things than I do about the proc.

I for one like Battle Axe just as it is. No gimmicks, relatively few outlandish animations. I like the appearance of the Minotaur Axe from Titan Weapons better than any of the Battle Axe options, but I tried TW and didn't like the slow, slow, fastfastfast nature of the set at all. Seemed to be effective, but variable speed attacks are a thing that, now that I have tried it, I don't enjoy. Yes, I'd rather play Battle Axe. I hit things with an axe, they take damage, sometimes they fall down, I'm happy.

Add a new powerset, everybody wins: even if I don't like it personally, there's more diversity and enthusiasm. Revamp an old powerset, the people who prefer the new way win, the people who don't prefer it lose. And many of those will be old vets that are here for the long haul.

So, fixing obvious inconsistencies like the really slow old Flares animation made sense, but adding gimmicks to old warhorse sets, to me, does not make sense.

I wonder if something as simple as increasing the range on blaster attacks would help. It wouldn't do much for blappers, I guess, but I've found my main, an energy blaster with Boost Range on autofire and extra range from Cardiac, is a lot more survivable by being able to fight not only outside the range of melee attacks, but most ranged attacks as well. Mezzers usually die running up to get in range of using their powers.

I enjoy that one plus a couple of others I've had for a while, but I doubt I'll roll any new blasters. Damage is really the one thing they're designed to do (aside from outliers like the elec/elec end drain), and the nuke makes them special, only in this age of incarnates, you don't need blasters to obliterate entire spawns, because the tank can do that with judgement.

$300, I think, almost all on store-bought enhancements for mid-level characters: slot store-bought set as slots become available, never worry about upgrading the set or effects of IO level on exemping again. (I don't care about going below the minimum level of the set.)

I think it should be free, because to me it's just finishing what they started with the primary/secondary customization. Which, by the way, is probably keeping me in the game; I started losing interest, but when that came out, characters felt much more like they were something I had invested in and created, rather than "my powerset/otherpowerset guy".

That said, yeah, I'd pay for it. I'd pay for it even if they did an overt cash grab, such as announcing you can buy it now for many points or wait six months and then get it free. I'd buy it the instant it became available, because powersets and costumes are what make the game for me, and costuming powersets is a big part of that. In the end, I care a lot more about that than I do about how they finance getting it done. I just want it done.

I like some of the ideas here. I'm all for using the existing powersets on critters in new and interesting ways, and against scripted gimmicks such as are found in incarnate trials, specifically patches of doom, untargetable things, etc. I prefer for there to be a hard way and one or more easier ways than to feel railroaded. A good general example is the end of the ITF, where you can separate the healing nictus from the AV or just try to overpower the healing effects with more damage.

What I'd like to see is smarter mobs in a few ways:

1. Individual mob AI
   Specifically, support mobs. Tsoo sorcerers are one of my favorite mobs, because they really do make the whole group harder to deal with, but their targeting seems a bit random. Often I'll see them frantically trying to heal a doomed minion. Maybe they could prefer bosses and lieutenants.
   
2. Group composition
   For critters that work well as a team, have the presence of one increase the chance of spawning the other. Also, more variance from spawn to spawn. For instance, Malta are a harder group, but generally there will be one, maybe two sappers. Add a mob group type, then have each villain group have a few single-purpose options.
   Malta could have a sapping squad, CoT could have a squad of Earth Thorns with their slow powers mixed with heavy ranged damage, etc. A spawn group could then have one big squad, a mix of smaller ones, just one smaller one, none at all and just random critters. This way, groups aren't all the same difficulty, and fights are more interesting because you have to look at what you're facing.
   
3. Group AI
   Right now, mostly groups stand around until they detect enemies, then fight the enemies. They're pretty much unaware of any other groups, and there's just the one option: charge in and fight the players. Instead, they could flee towards another group, possibly a patrol, so that players will have to fight two groups. Or, sort of like an ambush, they could call for backup, and a patrol group, if there is one, or all patrol groups, start heading for the location the original group was in when the distress call went out. Or, they could head for a bit of useful terrain, like a bunch of pop-up turrets or the blue and green crystals in CoT maps. If there was a chance for each of these things, there'd be a lot more to think about while beating down groups of mobs. They'd also seem more intelligent, which I think would add a lot to the atmosphere of the game.
   
4. Maps
   I'd like to see a new kind of map that more closely matches real world buildings, and also is, in the case of headquarters, designed to be defensible. It's hard to have the groups act more intelligently when the maps are really convoluted and seemingly random, but a counterexample would be the Council map with the room of death in it, where it's hard not to engage the entire room at once, and you get shot at from all over. That would be a good place for fleeing groups to retreat to, for instance. Or, the high level hero tip mission where you rescue people from Arachnos has a map with a really long corridor and some things you need to fight in the corridor. There's always a spawn at the back, but that would be a great place to put some Nemesis-style long-range snipers that will start shooting when you're engaging other spawns. Add some short-range protectors for them that *don't* charge the players unless they get close, and then players have to take the snipers out at extreme range, ninja in and disable them unnoticed, or just take the extra fire until they can get there as a team. I think that would be doable with what we have now, and would be a way to add challenge with multiple roads to success.

Rereading, I'm pretty much just agreeing with what Arcanaville said, especially regarding constellations of mobs, encounters being a bit less predictable with (more or less) the same mechanics we already have in place, and I really like the pacing idea. That gives people who don't want as much challenge the option to take it slow and let the groups peel off one by one, and for greater challenge, the team needs to hurry through the regular mobs and then survive the bigger encounter at the end. Probably rough on people who routinely stealth through to the end of a mission, though. Not sure if that's a problem.

On Virtue I get "Cannot find map!", to which I want to respond, "Have you tried using both hands and a flashlight?"

Hope it's up again soon, as I spent real money to buy attuned IOs and the sale is over in a few hours.

About 20% cooler.