MayorOfAngrytown

It's a fair enough complaint, but it doesn't really bother me much in an overall way. The game has been around long enough with enough monkeys at the keyboards (as it were, myself included) for there to be quite a bit of repetition as well as unique variation.

I'm not really all that eloquent either, so I suppose the best thing I can say is that if someone wants to see more of a certain type of toon in game, then make them. I'm all for more tools in the costume creator to make that happen. Like say making it so that tintable dark armor can get closer to white than that lousy medium gray at the far right of the scale.

Regarding that last bit - there's always going to be "That time I saw a thounds XXX running around," and that time will be right after costume packs drop. Steampunk pack comes out, suddenly everyone and their brother goes steampunk. Happened with all of the old pre-Freedom costume packs, new pieces drop and folks want to use them. Of course there are a few handfuls of concepts/toons/etc that just occur over and over and over - that can get old, but what do you do.

That said, I *like* more options, and improved Gold/Silver era options would be rad. I've got nothing against adding more classic stuff, I just have something against arbitrary limitations.

This.

Or as the leader of another survivors encampent, hidden in the wilds and fighting the DE on their terms, free from the rule of Cole. Would make for an interesting interesting higher level Praetorian zone.


(Edit: Yeah, I comma splice. Enjoy. )

I dig your backstory; well steeped in game lore and open to a wide choice of AT/powerset. Sadly, I play melee more than anything else, so I can't help you on the min/max side of things, but it occurs to me that you could try an Ill/xx controller?

Illusion pets pass nicely for "spirits of the dead/astral beings" with the right coloring, and though I don't have personal experience with controllers past the teens, I understand Ill/Rad, Ill/Cold, and Ill/Time are fairly heafty combos when built out.

Heh, it's funny how persective can mess us up. I essentially always take CJ (I can't stand jumping without, and rarely play hover toons), and thus never considered the idea that a melee toon wouldn't have/or be getting it.

Pretty much, yup.

By way of for instance I have two words for you: Portal Corporation. That right there opens pandora's box for all sorts of dimensional crossings for all sorts of characters - many of which will probably not fit the "4 color" era mold.

I mean are you really asking the playerbase to limit their concepts to what your idea of a "super-hero" should be? I don't think you are, but you do seem to be bothered by it quite a bit.

Frankly, the primary reason I picked up this game (and continue to play it) is that I am gloriously unlimited in the concepts that I can pick and choose for characters.

Does it really dilute the games generic identity if I decide that my character is from an alien world, or an alternate dimension, or a summoned creature that broke free of its summoner's bonds, or a Cimeroran blacksmith who took up his hammer against Romulus, only to find his home trapped in a time loop created by the Midnighters - a never ending struggle that resets and finds his people right back where they started, driving him to villany on Primal earth in revenge? (That last one I actually run).

Heroism is an act, not a costume. That goes double for villany.

Don't misunderstand, I'm all for adding more options. More toon customization is better, seriously, but I don't buy into the idea that the multitude of options available somehow messes up the game because there are so many options available *other* than classic spandex in 4 color process.

This. It will be a % increase to your % chance - not a simple additive %. Still awesome.

Doh!

Of course it does, I forgot about that. Haven't been on my /SD brute in some time. I was just reviewing resistance sets for comparison, and neglected to double-check mez resistances on defense sets.

I wasn't active during /WP beta, but that's interesting considering how easy it is to get immob resistance from power pools.

This.

I'm a big /DA fan, and yeah, it's burly for endurance on SOs, but not unmanagable by any stretch of the imagination. Especially with Fitness changes and Energy/Body mastery pools. Maybe its a matter of perspective. One of my first toons way back when CoH dropped was a BS/DA scrapper. Yeah, back when the toggles were mutually exclusive and cost WAY more than they do now.

Remember, /DA is the only (Brute) armor that lacks any Auto powers at all. It already pays less per resistance toggle than other sets: Brute numbers again, but DE, MC, and OS (powers that give resistance) are .21/s across the board. Fire, Elec, and Invuln all pay .26/s for their resistance toggles, and .21/s for their mez toggles (elec and invuln only). Of those, only /elec has higher base values for (26.25 vs. 22.5). Fire and Invuln also lack Psi resistance at all. While Dark is weak to knockback, it is also the only way to naturally get fear resistance outside of Willpower. (iirc) Rare, but when you need it it's REALLY nice. Remember /Elec's -KB is an auto that only works when "close" to the ground, and if you jump alot to reposition in combat, that can be annoying.

All sets should have differences in strength/weakness, and the idea that we have to normalize out weakness is silly. My only complaint with the set is the rediculously high cost of CoF, and even that is a minor concern. Other sets have to work with some auto powers with low base values, and /DA gets a choice between a couple mez toggles that are optional, even skippable. Build flexibility is something that I happen to value in a set. I dislike feeling forced to take every power in a given set.

As far as Dark Regen is concerned, name another self-heal (not destiny) that when well timed can result in a full health bar while laughing in Marauder's face during Nova Fist? The high end cost and the chance of missing are the price we pay for an awesome heal. Don't care for it? Play something with a safer heal. As far as a combat only heal leaving you open to the "next alpha" if you leave a spawn with low HP - just jump into the middle of the next spawn and pop DR - full health and commence smashing.

It's not a playstyle for everyone - sort of like how I don't like playing /WP. Great set, but to my taste.

I remember reading somewhere that slows in particular will trigger mob-flight (albiet slowly), and that exacerbated the trouble from Spines (DoT+slows). I could be wrong/misinformed though.

Not that I have much trouble with runners on sp/da/blaze - scrappers with good ranged dmg are fun.

Hilarious.

Definitely a lot of /wp, although I see a ton of /elec brutes out there as well.

That's how my spines/dark/blaze is built, mostly. Definitely a couple of considerations for endurance in the build, but it's really all about Ageless +rec. I wouldn't call it a "good" build per se, but it's definitely fun.

I really want to do a TW/DA brute, but I've already done /DA as an "organic nano-swarm" and I'm stretching to find a concept other than yet another graveknight/dark lord/shadow master that isn't blatantly stealing your "Sand" look or someone else's "Water" look (saw a really good one in game).

:lol:

Was thinking maybe psi? What are some other interesting /DA ideas?

Thanks for this. Placate indeed.

It sounds like this opens both grades of AO through in-game sources? (mentioned somewhere upthread)

My opinion of their simplest and best option for the remaining 5 slots:

1: Ignore the stockpiles. The number of people who will t4 a new slot the day it drops are probably few enough that it shouldn't matter.

2: Require iXP to unlock slots - iXP does not accumulate unless there is a slot for it to open. Whining about all that iXP one should be getting when there are no slots to unlock is autoforwarded to /dev/null. The alternative is to make a 2nd kind of XP and link it to specific, as of yet unreleased trials. I like this option less and it doesn't resolve the "where does my NoodleXP go when I unlock all the slots?!?!?" complaint, so why not just go simpler and use the existing iXP model?

3: Keep the same salvage for the next 4 slots that is used for the previous 4 (ie the ones in parallel)

4: Omega slot has unique unlock method and semi-unique salvage. Previous salvage can be "upgraded" to Omega salvage in methods similar to shards-> threads and so on. Omega Salvage can be "downgraded" to standard iSalvage or Alpha salvage.

Reasoning:

Alpha was the start, it had a task to complete to open it, and it's own salvage. The alpha slot was like buying our way into the club. We can craft an alpha with relatively "weak" components (in the incarnate scale), and we can also craft it using stronger components, which brings me to the 8 slots between alpha and omega:

These are where we build power, it makes sense that they are different from Alpha and Omega, but there is no need for them to be different from each other. Also, since many folks will craft multiple Destiny powers (and probably others), salvage/merit stockpiles aren't a big problem. People will just make multiple powers, and I imagine that while the "I have eleventy hundred merits and salvage" crowd may be large on the forums, I bet it is compartively small in game.

Which brings us to Omega. Setting aside the idea that these 10 slots are not the be all/end all of incarnate power, it is a pinnacle of a sort. Giving it its own salvage isn't going to kill anyone, and it gives the slot a sense of gravity. Here is where the real Incarnates are separated from the iKiddies. Many will attempt to climb the hill, but few will reach the summit sort of thing. I know mechanically it shouldn't be heavily prohibitive so that players don't feel left out or whatever, but it should carry some freaking weight of its own.

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I haven't tested it with /regen, but after crafting a t4 Ageless radial by mistake (meant to get the +rec branch, not the debuff resist one) and fiddling with adding ddr and -rech resist to my /DA scrapper I got to thinking that it might be an interesting thing to carry as an alternate on a /regen. Conditional to be sure, but against groups that can floor recharge, the rolling resistance might be nice to have.

I had a theoretical km/regen that was almost capped to s/l (43.1%), but had trouble getting e/n past 20 something. Not enough AoE in KM to get eradications into the build for the extra def. There's probably a way to get 32.5% s/l/e/n with that combo, but I'm not set-ucated enough to find it.

Never put much into it, but StJ looked to have some interesting options for slotting, but both of those toons are sort of in a holding pattern since I'm waiting impatiently for TW/ to drop before I start a spendy build on another character.

Yes. I have one in mine in beta, of course one has to have Momentum up to use it, but at decent recharge it's getting spammed pretty often. I don't have a high level ss/fire, but my gut feeling is that footstomp still wins though.

This, also, any brute can team.

Well played madam, I offer you one of my many Shield-A-Slaves (tm) in tribute. May your 500lb Nevermiss Sword (tm), um ... never miss.

What you really need is a macro that randomly selects one of your temps while saying "Hmm.. What've I got in me pocket?"

Hehe, your GMs would have hated me back in the day. Kender open doors, all of them. Immediately on sight. Yeah, I was one of *those* players. My Kender was a menace, a short lived menace, but a menace all the same. :lol:

My valley elf on the other hand was totally, like you know, just annoying or whatever.

Not that I know much about tanks, but I was thinking an AoE -res would be ... interesting. That's one of their things right? Bruising or something?