Gorgar

Thanks for doing this. I'm looking forward to using the Baron jacket. As was said above, it's really cool that you went back and did this.

It's stuff like this that keeps me playing for as long as I have. Seriously. There's been a nice history of QoL improvements.

I hope the dark control and beast sets are out in time for this.

I've always wanted Dark Miasma/Storm Summoning. Defiance would be lovely.

Fire Blast and Energy Blast would each be fun to double up on. Two copies of Fireball, etc for flaming death at range, or two copies of Torrent, etc, for double ridiculous knockback (and the damage that comes with being a blaster, not a storm/energy defender).

But if you could duplicate a powerset, Illusion/Illusion.

I do like sets when they help give a coherent look to a costume. I often will use the boots and gloves from one set, and the chest and legs from another. I don't have as much use for sets where most of the pieces don't seem to work outside the set, and seem like they're just there to fill out space and let you make Set Theme Guy with all new pieces. And overall, I'd rather just concentrate on the inspired pieces, and being more complete with those. For instance, if the Barbarian rings and belts had come out for both genders, and maybe some basic fur-lined boots and gloves, that'd have been enough. There are already barbarian-style hats, and I think it's limiting to feel that every pack needs to have a piece for every location. The strength of the costume editor is mixing and matching, not using preselected sets, in my opinion.

It might be useful to do occasional packs of really specialized but unrelated stuff, so that there's a way to put out things people are asking for without having to hype it as a complete set. As an example, maybe the Gunslinger thing could have worked as just a couple of pieces as part of a grab bag pack with friendly a la carte pricing. Not all packs need to be the same size and price.

Ill/Emp makes a great behind the scenes sort of character. Illusion's control is sort of peaky: it's amazing when PA is up, and kind of less than outstanding when PA is not up. So I run mine with Superior Invis on all the time, keep the team buffed and healed with the emp side, try to keep from drawing aggro most of the time (concentrate on two targets, one getting Deceive and the other Blind and Spectral Wounds until defeated), and save the day as needed with PA. It's kind of soloable at 32 because you can buff the hell out of the Phantasm, but a bit painful before that, especially if half your slots are in the buffs and heals. I think of mine as an empath first, and use illusion powers reactively.

Ill/Storm is far more active. There's enough control just in storm to almost count as a control set, and adding Illusion to it fills in some holes. I have aggro most of the time, but they're too busy dealing with my powersets to get to me. You can always run on low throttle, just running Freezing Rain from the storm side, keeping chaos to a minimum, and break out the fun storm tools when things start to get hairy. Solos pretty well at the point you have FR and PA, because stuff kind of melts. I'm on the offensive almost all the time on this one. Hurricane's debuff helps a lot here. You have to be willing to embrace the chaos, and if someone else goes immob-happy, you can run into trouble when everything just stands there and shoots you instead of flying around the room like it's supposed to.

I'd just like to see another pass made at golden and silver age comic costumes. Look at some comics and add in some bits that currently have no counterparts (generic stuff like ankle-high boots, thigh-high boots with low or no heels, belt symbols, etc), and add nicer versions of some of the older things that could benefit from a revamp (mask textures, etc). I'd rather have this than dinosaurs, underwater zones, moon bases, etc.

Since a lot of the basic old-school hero stuff was done really early on, and much of the later development seems to be aimed at other subgenres (steampunk, anime, etc), I think another look at the basics would be great.

I'd like to see a bit more benefit from using Taunt while solo. The range debuff is nice. Something further along those lines.

I bought 10 or 12 of the proc and about 6 each of the def/end and defense ones. I had about 5k points sitting around from deciding to buy up through Tier 9, and I have to spend them on *something* someday. I tend to use either just the proc on squishies and the set of three on melee characters.

I wouldn't buy levels, because I feel like I'd miss out on learning how to play the character. Though I eventually completely IO out my good characters, I don't use Mids; I figure out how the character plays as they level, and decide eventually what the build will be. I'd miss all that by getting free levels, and would not feel like it was *my* character.

I know how to grind A-merits on SSAs or hero tips, and I spent enough time marketing to make a couple billion, then stopped. I know how to get my LotGs the hard way, but I value saving that amount of time over the money it costs, especially since it's sitting around unused anyway. Might buy more before the sale ends, especially if I get around to doing a respec or two and using up what I bought.

Sometimes I like a powerset so much that I find endless other sets to use it with: Storm, Dark Armor, Dark Melee, Energy Blast, Illusion, Sonic Attack, Empathy.

Sometimes the first character I have with a given set works so well I feel like they've written the book on that set and it would be almost insulting to do another: Dark Miasma, Invulnerability, Battle Axe.

But anyone who knows me would tell you I'm pretty much known for storm, storm, and storm.

I haven't logged in since that bug went live. Half my 50s play very differently now, and not for the better, in my experience. I understand not minding or even liking this change for melee-centric people, but I went pretty heavy on the energy blast and storm sets, because for me they were the most fun.

I don't get why this isn't in the patch notes or the known issues. Either KB was changed deliberately or it wasn't, and they're going to change it back or they aren't.

I'll keep waiting, because what else can I do? In general I think the intentions are good around here. But if the subscription renewal comes up again at the end of December and still no one has bothered to type out "we changed KB, like it or lump it" or "oh hey that's a bug it's on the list", then I'm done. I'm not even asking when it will be fixed, here, just for a statement of intent. Given that entire powersets were built around KB, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for clarification: is this an intentional direction change or not?

Why isn't the KB issue on the list?

I agree: this does look deliberate. Like I said, if I hated KB, this is pretty much what I'd want done to it. Whether it made it to live deliberately or not, it looks a lot like someone was testing a low-KB option.

Whether it's a stealth test ("oopsie!") or someone forgot to use production values for physics constants, I don't really even care, but until they at least announce their intentions with this, with half my 50s being KB-based in some way (storm and/or energy) and now feeling very nerfy, I'm not investing further time in the game.

KD is great stuff. It keeps my Inv/Axe tank, electric scrapper, and shield scrapper alive. However, Storm Summoning should not feel like Battle Axe.

I tested this on a Storm/Energy defender and an Energy/Energy blaster. In both cases, it seemed that KB was greatly reduced in all the Energy Blast attacks, Gale, Lightning Storm, Tornado, and the blaster epic version of Bonfire.

It looks a lot like exactly what people who hate KB would want to see it changed to. Nothing goes more than a few feet at most. Using Power Push whenever it was up, alternating with other blasts, I couldn't move a yellow-con boss outside of normal attack range before it was eventually defeated. Definitely does not play like it did Wednesday. Felt like I was playing underwater or something.

Please fix this bug.

Dark Regen requires a bunch of slots to be effective, and a lot of those need to address end reduction in some way, but there are other powers that require many slots to work well: Cloak of Fear, Thunder Clap, Flash, Telekinesis.

DA is just more complex and interesting, I think, than some of the other sets. Like a sports car, it rewards skill and a big budget, but it's fun regardless, or nobody would ever get good with it. But it's never going to be as straightforward as, say, Willpower, and that's ok.

I was against this when I first read it, but then I realized this option

1. does not require me to change my build to keep things as they are
2. speeds up the process of identifying teams I don't want to be on
3. might mean we don't get this thread every week

I don't know if I have a next tank. I like my inv/axe and dark/dark enough that rather than level another one, I'm more likely to play one of those two.