Kyriani

I'd like to suggest doing away with the concept of Villain Zones and Hero Zones. Cooperative zones would remain the same -- places villains and heroes can group up and work together. Former Hero and Villain zones would still disallow such grouping. One side or the other would see more friendly npc's based on their alignment and the zone they currently occupy.

There's a huge world that can be explored if we remove these artificial alignment barriers for both sides. There's no reason there can't be contacts in Paragon City for villains to get missions from... hell they could even be variants of existing hero missions from a villain point of view. The same goes for heroes in the Rogue Isles. Doing away with barrier opens the world up and can open new content to both sides.

Sure the zones may have more content for one alignment over the other depending on which zone you go to, but overall it could be a great way to add content without too much work involved as far as art assets are concerned.

Examples of places villains can easily acclimate to Paragon:

Faultline - heavy Arachnos presence in the southern section.
Atlas Park - There's a story arc that has a significant Arachnos presence in a phased part of atlas.
The Hollows - The entire southern section of the Hollows is dominated by the Circle of Thorns and virtually no missions take you there. It's ripe for development.
Brickstown - The Zig Need I say more? Might even be a great place to reuse the old villain Breakout map!
Independence Port/Talos - Both are ports with smugglers ships. Plenty of places for villains to find fun. One has a strong Family presence which can be used as a plot element to take a villain from the Rogue Isle's to Paragon City. The other has many islands out of the way with little reason to go there currently. Great place for villains to do stuff.
Peregrine Island - Villains already have their own version of part of this zone... why not simply make it the same zone and let them run rampant?
Striga is so far out from Paragon there's little reason it can't be a cooperative zone.

For heroes it's even easier... The Rogue Isles are just rife with villain and crimes and groups like Longbow, Legacy Chain and various benign NPC's who try to thwart the villains or make cameos as victims in the villain missions can have missions for heroes to fight back.

Villains by far would see the biggest amount of content increase if for no other reason by the sheer number of zones that would open up to them but it would also allow heroes to visit areas seldom seen and make the game feel fresher and newer IMO.

This idea can be a great way to add content with little relative development time required compared to what is opened up for both sides. Art assets would be unnecessary to add in most cases. Some assets that are seldom used now could see a revival (like the breakout map).

The only way I can see Blasters getting the love they truly need is for the devs to expand our power selections within our primary and secondaries... have some things be mutually exclusive (like how widows have the choose between build up or follow-up). This allows the devs to add new stuff to every set (though we don't get more powers, just a bigger variety to choose from within the set) and still hold true to the cottage rule so those who like things as they are can stay as they are. I'm not saying double the number of powers withing every set but 2 to 3 new powers as alternate choices sounds like a win idea to me.

This would benefit quite a few AT's I think but Blasters the most because it sidesteps the biggest roadblock to addressing blaster issues (the cottage rule). Not to mention it would just be great for the game overall since we'd have even more variety within our respective primary/secondary sets allowing players to individualize themselves even more.

Can we get this belt (for both male and female)?

I noticed it on a merit vendor in Sharkhead near the Black Market and thought it looked great. We need this! Oh and make the gem in the middle of the buckle colorable with a 2nd color!

While I don't expect this unique IO to be global... I'd love to see a new knockback IO set introduced that features a proc like this... say with no secondary function... just "turns KB into KD for the power you slot this into". I wouldn't even care what the set bonuses were like. If I had a non unique IO that could turn KB into KD I'd gladly rip out a damage proc from those powers to put this in.

While I am not one of those people who views KB as "teh eval" I do find it terribly annoying on many characters. Not even so much the scatter but the whole knocking mobs out of range and me having to move... or knocking a mob with a debuff toggle into another group... I'd gladly use an IO that removes that annoying factor from the powers even if that means giving up slotting something else in its place or using another slot in the power if I hadn't intended to 6 slot it.

My guess is that the next incarnate slot will NOT have a level shift and the Omega slot WILL... being lvl 54 seems like a nice number to stop at at least until they expand the incarnate system beyond Omega.

After specific testing with my Ill/Rad using Assault Hybrid, I can confirm the following:

* Pets will only benefit from Hybrid when summoned AFTER Hybrid has been activated
* When Hybrid is deactivated pets will lose their benefits even if the pet duration lasts beyond the Hybrid duration.
* Phantom Army and Phantasm are both benefiting from Doublehit or the stacking damage buff (depending on which route you choose).


Assault seems far more useful to me than Control since the pets do not benefit from the Waylay mechanic currently. If that changes then Control Hybrid may have some value but I think Assault will win out for Ill/Rad since they don't have reliable methods of inducing aoe control. With that said there's something to be said for the Control Hybrid's Waylay mechanic since it is triggered by Confusion and Fear both of which illusion has.

EDIT: Also to add in cases where the Hybrid toggle bugs out and doesn't shut off, your pets will NOT gain benefits beyond the alotted time even though it may appear your toggle is still on past its duration. You'll also find the cooldown does not begin till you turn off the "non-working" toggle.

For me Hybrid is just forgettable. Turning it on makes no significant difference to me like other incarnate powers. Half the time, as I predicted, I forget it's even there.

Clarion MATTERS to me. I feel like hitting that button is important. Judgement is exciting to hit when it's available cause I know lots of stuff is gonna get fried. I feel a huge change in both mob defeat speed and personal safety when I have my Lore pets out. My spiritual Alpha has a HUGE impact on what I can do even though it's passive. My reactive interface not only noticeably improved my dps all the time, it makes me smile to see the debuff visual effect on mobs tell me that reactive is doing stuff.

Hybrid? Hybrid is a button I hit sometimes if I remember it's there and I can't even tell if it's doing anything or not. It certainly doesn't feel like it's doing much (and that's purely subjective on my part). I just don't feel like Hybrid is important in any real way for me. As an "on all the time" toggle, it would be because then it would be a part of my overall performance. But just having yet another cooldown click to hit that isn't exactly impressive even at the higher levels doesn't make me feel more powerful. It's just Ross and Rachel from Friends all over again: an on again/off again relationship that just gets real old real fast.

Some highlights of my comments from the beta forum about hybrid which I still feel now that it is live:

I'd love to see the Shining Stars arcs continue to 50!

From another topic:

Has there been any update yet as to when we can expect the changes to crafted IO procs to go live and if there has been any change from what Synapse laid out in his original post?

Or did I somehow miss this with the release of I23?

I am not a fan of trials in any capacity though since Mag is the only way to unlock the slot I had no alternative but to run it. I am one of the people who have unlocked Hybrid through 4 trials (3 failures and 1 success) and now have no desire whatsoever to return. Thankfully I need nothing else from the trial.

Count me as one of the people "allergic" to leadership roles and forming groups. With that said I appreciate how good I have it in COH that I can do plenty solo, I have the LFG system to use and I can watch the channels and if something forms I have an interest in I can jump on it with little fuss.

It might be nice if they had an "always open" option like the celestial wings have.

I post my suggestions (and believe me I've posted quite a few) here simply to say I did. I got the idea out of my head and into public view in the hopes that the devs see something they like and make it a reality.

Not every idea is great but even the bad ones can lead to inspiration for something grand. But even if the suggestions aren't acted upon it doesn't make this forum useless. Sometimes there's just limitations whether technical or financial that can hold back even the greatest of ideas.

I have about 20 suggestions in this forum over the years. At least one became reality (whether inspired by my suggestion or not). I feel this forum has it's place whether we posters see our ideas implemented or not.

While there are already a couple fan made utilities to allow this some have been left without updates and others are just very limited. Why not actually build the functionality into the UI to allow the players to use a picture of their choosing for the login screen and give them control over the coloring of the UI text!

Such a feature allows players to stick with login screens they've liked in the past as new ones come out or even turn a screenshot of a favored character into their new login screen. A function could even be added to allow a random login screen to be chosen at each startup.

I beat him tonight in my second attempt. I am not sure exactly what we did differently but around 18% health he suddenly transitioned and I couldn't see exactly what caused it. I know we handled the lights pretty consistently and avoided too many face plants to the lightning. I wish I could get a clear picture of how the mechanics work though.