IanTheM1

I am surprised and enraged (well, not really, more generally perturbed) to find that the Mercy Island Clocktower Courtyard is unavailable. Blech!

As I so very quickly and brutally found out circa Fortunata Hamilton, the VEAT arcs...are not up to snuff. And I know plenty of other people have realized it as well.

So, I toyed around with the idea a while back, but there's no chance I would be able to live up to my plan: construct and write a complete VEAT storyline from 1-50. With only 3 arc slots, no less.

So I just had an awesomer idea: Let's all make a VEAT arc!

I'm not expecting a unified storyline, and I'm not going to go out of my way to organize anything too much, but I'd love to hear if anyone's interested. I already have a great mission to work into a 1-5 arc.

Just pick a level range, and write something befitting a distinguished Arachnos operative!

I think the next EAT should be something new and not rehashed. Ohohoho.

And on the subject of Shadow Cysts - I no longer fear them, after watching an uncoordinated sewer team at level 6~ take one down without trouble.

Would help a bit with all those multi-level maps that are misordered, too. /signed.

Seems like it should default for level 50s no matter what, but otherwise that's how exemplaring has always worked, AFAIK.

That sounds like a tricky animation situation to rectify. What about outside clipping? How are you going to stop people from driving a car up one of those tiny little corkscrew staircases in Steel Canyon?

Maybe I'm way off the mark, but isn't a common visual trope for ninjas a small squad of them jumping 50 feet into the air, then bouncing across rooftops and tree branches?

Ninjas and beasts (well "The Beast", at least) could both use Super Jump without any concept clash whatsoever, since the animation makes no concept assumptions outside of "you jump high/far".

Natural characters can easily...

Justify Fly as a jetpack (Nick Fury)

Take SJ anyway, and think of it as acrobatic travel.

Use Teleport much in the same way that Manticore does/did, hacking into the MediPort grid.

Take SS and not care how exactly fast you're going or the yellow glow. Your guy runs fast, so what?

Or, take both Fitness powers and call it a day. Who needs a travel power anyway?

Obviously, these will all be much more viable once we get the next phase of Power Customization, but nothing's stopping you much now.

The main problem with this concept has always been that the threshold at which knockdown turns into knockback is about 0.75, but knockback comes in several different magnitudes, making a single catch-all enhancement very hard to make.

I also suspect that certain powers are balanced around their knockback, which would reduce the scope of this.

Not to mention that Photon Seekers is not a true summon power. If I could use them like Seeker Drones to take/make the alpha, it would be a much, much better power.

I also wouldn't mind if they did something to make Luminous Detonation (and the WS equivalent) not be absolutely horrible.

And the requisite "make Solar Flare KD instead of KB". I'll stop now.


Anyway, in my experience:

Human-only PB: Brutal to play, but sorta-fun. You pretty much have to try and leverage your inherent when possible, and there's a distinct lack of good attacks in the set. I had to pick up Boxing to help fill a respectable attack chain. I blame the crummyness of Luminous Blast. Survivability-wise, they're actually really dang good.

Triform PB: Very, very workable. Basically, if you want a class that can focus 100% on the forms with little trouble, this'll do it. Of course, on the other hand, this makes them a bit bland, IMO.

Human-only WS: I've heard...interesting stories. Probably not outright terrible, but not really gripping either. If a really heavily disruption-based character appeals to you, I could see it being a neat idea. Otherwise, it would be kinda underwhelming considering...

Triform WS: An absolute blast. A little micro-managey, but the amount of crazy stuff you can do is great. You always have options, and it's hard to die unless there's a lot of mez flying around. Forget Mire, it's all about Stygian Circle. <3

Ooh, I like that idea. Bump up Buckshot's chance to knockback, but reduce the mag to knockdown.

I could've sworn there was some sort of announcement about Rooster Teeth and Kurtz being involved.

I'm fairly certain ToT mobs now latch on pretty firmly to their summoner, and will despawn if left alone long enough.

Plus they drop the Halloween salvage in the '09 version of the event, so there should be a lot fewer abandoned mobs.