Monkey_King

The emotes I could take or leave, costume change options are always welcome, but Ninja Run is awesome. I don't even really care that it can't be enhanced. I sincerely think you need to make a less ninja-y version, and introduce it as the third power of a new power pool. It's a brilliant compromise between Superspeed and Super Jump, when both are too extreme for your character concept.

Small quibble, the Ninja Run jumping animation clips just a bit when comboed with a shield. The other arm goes too far forwards.

The costume pieces are nice, although they're not lighting me on fire. Like all of these sets, what I'm likely to do is just tear them apart and cannibalize them for other costumes. The plain robes are nice and minimalistic, I expect I can find an excuse to use them somewhere.

Oh yeah, LOVE the Warrior half-helmet with Detail 1. I've been dying for a helmet shaped like that for ages. Thanks, Jay!

Well, I like it. Or I will, once we get it back. I kinda wish the male walk was a little more...dramatic? I guess this is meant for heroes and villains in their civvies.

I'd settle for whatever cheat code gives dev characters access to every powerset at once, and just make a disgustingly cherry picked god build. Or something stupid fun, take your pick.

I don't get it. The "Stop 30 Fir Bolg From Escaping" mission never gave me that much trouble.

That said, "Get the News Out" is really nuts. It doesn't even function like other object defense missions in the game. Normally you're suppose to take out the guards before enemies come to destroy the objectives. This one is made even worse by the fact that, by this level, enemies can snipe from a ridiculous ways away. You have to run way out and intercept the Nemesis well before they're anywhere near the generators. This is... difficult for a solo player.

Villains have a slight edge because they've probably seen this map before and know where the generators tend to be set up, but heroes are kind of screwed.

Showing up with three Fake Nemesiseses already wailing on the generator sounds like a big fat bug to me, though. That is definitely not supposed to happen, and I suspect all three ambushes triggered simultaneously before you even got there.

If calling the past on my time phone is wrong, then I do not want to be right.

Holy crap, look at the damage on Scrapper Shield Charge. That's heavier than Headsplitter, AoE, on potentially the same timer as Build Up. I desperately wish my scrapper was level 35 now. Are you sure you want to be doing that?

Hey, why not do Ice Melee/Ice Armor for stalkers? There's all sorts of delicious puns you can make for an ice-themed stalker.

Beyond that, finish porting the weapon sets to everyone else. Especially Broadsword for brutes.

I remember a long while back, before NCSoft took over, BaB mentioned that power customization would require rewriting the graphics code almost completely. They weren't going to do that unless there was a good reason to do so.

Well, now we have power customization, there's a new box expansion coming out, and a competing game just launched with state-of-the-art graphics. I don't think this is rocket surgery.

Brutes easily have better protection once you factor in enhancements and Energy Cloak.

With the numbers rounded, brutes get 26% Smashing/Lethal, 29% Fire/Cold, 32% Energy, 22% Negative Energy, and 6% Psionic/Toxic (via positional defense). They also get 12% resistance to L/S/NE, and 15% resistance to F/C/E/Toxic. Energy Drain restores 44.98 HP per target at level 50.

Compare with stalkers, who (with Hide suppressed) get 29% Smashing/Lethal/Fire/Cold, 33% Energy, 23% Negative Energy, and 3% Psionic/Toxic. They also have 12% Energy/Toxic resistance and 9% NE. Energy Drain restores 36.14 per target at level 50.

The defense numbers are pretty close, but the resistance makes brutes a lot more resilient, and they get more mileage out of Energy Drain.

Martial Arts/Crane Kick's animation lasts a little too long on my (male body) scrapper. After my character puts his leg back down from the kick, I'm unrooted and can move around again, but there's close to a full second where he stays in the neutral stance before he'll start running again.

Stone Melee: The Lava and Crystal "gloves" are scaled too small on female models. The Original and Color Tintable "gloves" are normal size, though. I know you fixed this bug at least once during beta, but it's back again.

Attempting to save or load a color scheme on my Robots/Poison mastermind bugs the menu so that no Poison powers can be customized anymore; it immediately reverts back to Original when trying to select Color Tintable, and remains bugged on all my costumes until I reload the client. The game becomes unstable at this point and crashes after a couple minutes. I also cannot reproduce this on Test with the same character.

When I go to the Test server to save some of the custom power schemes I made there, the powerCust files are generally not being accepted by the live game. They don't show up on the menu, like the files aren't there at all. These are just plain text files, so I don't know what the problem could be.

Hey hey, I was there too. Goggles and Oregon Trail T-shirt, over by the wall. I also briefly met Naienko over at the blood drive. Small world!

I never got a chance to raise this point, but one can't help but notice just how many superhero costumers were running around Dragon*con. I've got a photo of five Supermen all standing around shooting the breeze. And yet, none of these guys were at the panel, and I'd wager they didn't show up for DC Online or Champions either. There's some market you guys could be tapping here if you showed up and sold yourselves hard.

Also, seriously, Guild Wars stuff? You could at least send swag for the right game.