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"A year is as a day!"

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"A year?! I wanna beat people up right now! I got the pajamas. Ha..yo...wa... wooo!"

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Without speaking to Knockout Blow itself, I'd say my own estimate for the probability that I16 either introduces custom power animations or creates the opportunity to customize power animations (in at least some limited form) is something between about one in ten (and I don't actually know if it is or is not coming: that's a genuine guestimate). Low, but not astronomically low. My guess that such a feature is added in some form within the next twelve months is much, much higher (better than even money: I'd take that bet).

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Agreed! At this point it's not a question of if they will be adding more power customization, it's a question of when they choose to add it. Cryptic goes to open beta in about 3 weeks or so and DCUO is just starting their pre-alpha testing so the proverbial wolves are at the door.

NCSoft ponied up alot of cash to buy CoH from Cryptic and then went on a hiring spree. I honestly can't see them wasting that investment by ignoring something like power customization. I personally think we will see it earlier rather than later, probably no later than the first of the year.

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*passes Castle a copy of the Geneva Conventions turned to the page about torture*

I suppose you could always claim you were just "following orders" when the players storm your corporate offices and put all you Devs on trial for war crimes.

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Yes, but is "forum-boarding" considered torture?

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IIRC, there was someone posting recently about being able to artificially extend the range of things like Shadow Maul through good timing and strategic repositioning. Can't remember where the link is though.

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It got apparently fixed shortly after the post showed up. Few days after the post the fix showed up in the test server. Came live with I15 so it is no longer possible.

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Hmmm... depending on how difficult it was to duplicate I don't know that "fixing it" was really something that was needed. Creative use of powers should be something that is not only allowed but encouraged, within reason of course.

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Just saying. We were told more info for I16 in July, now it's July.

MORE I16 INFO NAO!

Er umm... More Issue 16 info please?

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*Stares at the design docs on his desk*
*Laughs evilly*

Soon(tm)!

*Leaves without answering the original question*

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"What we have heah... is a faylyuh to communicate!"

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AC2, Tabula Rasa and Matrix Online didn't have the holy trinity ... the truth is out there.

*nods*

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No Trinity in The Matrix? Is she still dead?

IIRC, there was someone posting recently about being able to artificially extend the range of things like Shadow Maul through good timing and strategic repositioning. Can't remember where the link is though.

Another vote for Ice/Stone

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Characters are essentially "immune" to pistol fire after level 20 or so because the enemies stop using them and anything you encounter that does, is grey con.

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Unless they happen to be Crey or Malta.....

The fact that Heraclea is asking about her build with the caveat that she is already at level 41 and that she is looking to capitalize on her control abilities. You mentioned Frost as an option but Shiver is a better AoE.

She could plausibly drop Ice Sword for Frost but perhaps the Ice Sword is part of a character concept.

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How would gimping your damage output, esp AoE damage, ever be a good thing?

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When the damage AoE (Frost = 90° cone, 10 ft range) is smaller than the control AoE (Shiver = 135° cone, 60 ft range)and you are building for control over damage.

LOL! The ability to change where the powers are tied to(i.e. blasts from the hands or eyes etc...)

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You don't have Frost. You don't take Frozen Aura at 38 and immediately 6-slot for damage. You don't slot Freezing Touch for enough damage. You slot Frozen Fists and take & slot GIS as if they're effective attacks. This is why ppl still think Ice Melee has lousy damage.

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Just for clarification....

"I intended this tanker to be an almost pure team support tanker, not focusing on damage, but rather on team support through melee control, using Ice Patch and Freezing Touch liberally."

Ice Melee does not have lousy damage, it has lower damage than the other tanker secondaries but trades that off for being a heavy soft control set. As such most folks that choose Ice Melee do so for the control aspect rather than the damage.

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Co-op is not overdone, and there are only two Co-op zones/TFs in this game.

If anything I WANT SUM MO, I WANT SUM MO!

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I'm actually kinda tired of heroes and villains being all chummy. I'd like to see things where we have PVE vs PVE, much like the battle zones in Siren's Call, but not necessarily PVP. Task forces that counter each other (via Oroborous for example) as villains do X and Heroes try to undo it, giving nice rewards to wresting control from one side or the other.

I want to see COMPETITIVE zones. It can't be that hard to do without resorting to lolpvp.

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A very cool idea! I nominate Boomtown for the PvE Competitive Zone!

Agreed! So would being able to change the fetter for your powers!

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For, a Superman homage though I was thinking either Fire Melee or Nrgy melee.

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On the one hand, with the BS level amounts of S/L resistance the devs gave every two bit mob in this game, I can see exactly why a statement like this gets made.

The fact it got made in the first place, and the reasons why should be a red flag to the developers if they knew what they were doing.



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While I'm not so sure about Fire Melee I think that Energy Melee is a perfectly acceptable choice for an homage to Superman. It wouldn't work for a Superman clone but for an homage Invy/EM works just fine.

I would go the ancillary pool route. Ice Storm and Shiver in Arctic Mastery would be a good addition for more crowd control.

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Since changing you colors will be -20% damage how many of the non-carebears will actually do this?

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That 20% is a maximum value. Remember, it scales depending on how far you deviate from the correct color.

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This would explain why the red side electrical assault powers and blasts "feel" so much weaker than their blue side counterparts.

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Whether or not any powers ever get alternate animations has nothing to do with luck. I've never personally been against the idea of having alternate power animations, quite the opposite. We've simply lacked the tech to do that and the time to create said animations.

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Funny how you say that in past tense. It's almost as if your subconcious was screaming that you now have the tech and the time and that we may see this in I16 along with color customization.

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My subconscious is currently eating pretzels. I'm not sure if this is significant.

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It's only significant if they are somebody else's pretzels or your subconscious is naked while eating them or your subconscious is thinking about your mother.

Personally, I would go with an Electric/Electric dominator.....

Oh yeah, they don't have those yet! That's okay, I can wait.....

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Jetpacks, may not be here now. But I don't discount them. Put them in as a back option (Crabs will thus lack a Jet Pack...could give them a Crab Backpack and a Crab Backpack with jets on them?)...when you fly, the thrusters turn on...

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Or, when you fly the legs face backwards/down and become thrusters... just spit balling here.

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I DID bug it, and I DID post on the forums about it. I don't know what else was expected.

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And we're very appreciative that you took the time to do so. I don't want you guys to infer that bugging things in game is useless, just that it's only one avenue to bring things to our attention. We get bugs from many sources. Sometimes they come from QA, sometimes they're pulled from the forums, other times they come from PMs or even personal experiences.

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BackAlleyBrawler ,

Did you see that it was posted on the forums 8 days ago? I can link it again if you need it.

(I'm not being snarky. I'm seriously asking.)

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No, I didn't. I'm pretty busy here right now with Issue 16 and I don't have the luxury of being able to read every post in every thread. Most of us are lucky if we can find a couple of hours every few days to just skim through and catch what we can.

I can't say that no one knows about the bug, just that I personally hadn't heard about it and Castle hadn't heard about it either. It may be sitting in programmer land right now or our QA department might be verifying it. *shrugs*

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Awwww! C'mon Brawler, you couldn't let just a smidge of info slip about Issue 16!

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Tanked him with my Stone/Stone tank a few nights ago and he 2 shotted me through Granite and Rooted!

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This is disconcerting!

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You also wind up running Rooted with Granite Armor for the healing so that slows you down even further.


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Only in very rare situations, and it's even rarer that you would want to move in that state rather than being camped in front of LR and his banes for example and effectively stationary. 99%+ of the time, you don't need the extra regen. Teleport also fixes a lot of these issues, if I need granite with rooted, I TP into mobs if a kin is not present.

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Fair enough and I am not really taking anything away from Granite Armor. It's just that for an SO slotted Stone/Ice tanker Granite Armor is not really needed for the majority of the game content.

If we are going to start emulating pro wrestlers I want to see a 2x4 added to the weapon choices for War Mace.

Okay, tough guy! /e thumbsup