Lazarillo

Not that I'm doubting you per se, but if a big part of the set involves Recharge buffs, and pets aren't affected by those...well, I guess I'll have to see for myself this evening.

By basing the choice on the wide variety of content, powersets included, and the far more economical price? I paid $30 for GR and got 1-20 arcs, side-switching, Incarnates, etc for that value. At last word, we were looking at $10 for a single powerset, which means that for the style-conscious, things like individual animations carry a bit more weight in the total bang/buck ratio equation.

Have things like people wanting to be able to preview attack animations and the like been taken into consideration with the for-purchase powersets? Will they be selectable and then buyable like costume pieces, or will they be grayed-out and unable to even be looked at like the GR sets?

Guessing the latter, but I can speak for myself, at least, and say I'm a little hesitant to put real money into a set when I don't know what it looks like.

Maybe it's just me, but the "muscular" look of the costumes to me just looks, well, like it's part of the costumes. The Archer-style minion is the only one who where it looks like the costume is contoured to the skin; the lieutenants and bosses all seem to be wearing what looks more like armor. It's not so much that the mages themselves are all that buff as they where buff looking clothes for intimidation purposes. For all we know, their real bodies are floating in there, are only five feet tall and weight less than 100 lbs.

Yeah, that's precisely why I liked the female models that were posted. It's always seemed weird that the Circle just snatched bodies left and right, and despite that, were always old men.

The new costumes, I do think, seem baggy and image-obscuring enough that while they're clearly using the game's male skeletons, most of them look like they could pretty easily be either gender, though, so I won't have a huge cow if we lost our Thornettes.

I would totally love to see a Keyes team that was coordinated enough to finish the second and third reactors (or at least the second, since there's no need to clear enemies) before Anti-Matter can show up. That'd be one finely tuned machine, there.

That said, people seem really bad at following directions on Keyes. I don't know if it's because the variety of, and consistent changes of mechanics makes them too confused, or they don't care, or people just don't remember to add League chat, but it does seem to be the case.

I was on a Keyes earlier today that was going for Bunker Buster, an attempt that everyone discussed and seemed to agree upon before starting, and where both the leader and others repeatedly told people "Only [NameA], [NameB], and [NameC] should be attacking the bunker doors". Of course, about half the League then started attacking the door at another bunker.

Flipping that around, I don't see why letting someone respec their powers at level 6 would do anything other than allow a person who did make an oopsie save an hour or two.

/signed, simply by virtue of it not really having any reasonable downside that I can see.

To be fair, Keyes has a great reward/time ratio...for people who haven't unlocked their slots.

I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case. That said, it would be nice, given that it makes very little difference in terms of general play. I've already done similar things to the OP with no real regard for the fact that it mucked with that little icon, but it'd be kinda neat to have it match.

There would have to be something done either about enhancements, or to restrict changing a bit, though, otherwise Yin-Os would become more than a little nutty in the early parts of the game.

Not sure if you're confused, missed it, or if this is just sarcasm...because the first time Anti-Matter shows up, there is the big warning letters screaming "DAMAGING HIM INCREASE DAMAGE FROM THE PULSE" or something very similar. Granted, there are so many other needless warnings that it's very easy to just sort of phase it out, I guess.

Well, people were totally up for repeating the same trial thirty times, so it's only natural.

"We heard you like repeating content so we put repeating content in your repeating content so you could repeat content while you repeated content."

And bringing things full circle, you might even say that they want us to...
*puts on sunglasses*
...Burnout on it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9rD4...eature=related

According to the various rumors floating around after Comic Con, they're apparently only in the travel pools. They are:
~Speed - Burnout - Instantly recharge all your powers, but costs 50 Endurance and has a very long recharge of its own (I've heard both 30 and 60 minutes, and that it can't be buffed, ala Strength of Will).
~Leaping - Don't know the name, but it's a Lightning Rod-esque attack.
~Teleport - Long-Range Teleport - Let's you immediately jump to another zone.
~Flight - Afterburners - Fly at near Superspeed levels, but you're in Only Affecting Self mode.

Yeah, that's sort of what I've always assumed, too. Similarly, I've assumed the woman in pink on the far left is supposed to be Numina, the guy on the far right might be Synapse and the woman "above" him to be Luminary. I have no idea if that's supposed to be right or not.

He's also comically small. That's worth at least a bit, to my mind.

I'm pretty sure it's already been stated somewhere that Khelds and SoAs will automatically skip the tutorial (the way that SoAs already do) and just continue to use their own respective introduction missions.

Of course, I doubt they'll close off side-switching to them.

This tends to be true. Light, even slightly baggy clothing, actually tends to be best for warding off heat-related illnesses, and, obviously, exposing more skin similarly exposes one to harmful UV rays (and the painful sunburns that go along with them!).