Oathbound

While I think it's highly unlikely (particularly given that they opted NOT to swap Energize/Lightning Reflexes for villains when they updated Electric), they have in fact done it in the past, when they moved Tanker Taunt powers to level 10.

Really I think the power level swap is one of the most important things Gravity needs. Having to wait 26+ levels for your only real AoE control option just doesn't work.


I'm not sure they can prevent Wormhole from pre-notification unless they set the whole power to not notify mobs, removing the time delay on the stun would help though.

While I agree that slotting it for End Mod or Heal can be beneficial, I wouldn't say either is as critical as End Mod in Stamina. The timer on Chronoshift makes it so that it's wildly impractical to use it for Healing purposes, and the End restoration/recovery, while very nice, is (and can only be) temporary. If you have a tight build and you're not using Chronoshift for specific set bonuses though, I don't see any reason NOT to skip slotting it for Heal/End Mod.

I'm building towards perma Hasten/Chronoshift (once the Defender recharge on CS gets fixed) so I still need a truckload of recharge to keep that truckload of recharge permanent, since both Heal and End Mod sets have 5% recharge bonus options, slotting either fulfills that goal anyhow. (I personally despise the duality of such fundamentally gameplay altering effects having downtime.)


I would argue, though, that slotting Health for regen on a squishy is a complete waste of slots. The difference between unslotted and FULLY slotted Health with Defender level HP is less than 2hp/sec. Miracle/Numina uniques however are golden (and basically always included in my builds).

Along those lines of thinking, it's possible that level 1s have an XP bonus, because as a level 1 player (only having 2 total powers) they're considered to be more challenging than a level 2 player vs a level 2 Hellion, that xp bonus carrying over a few extra levels is just a side effect.

The History Channel hasn't been fact based for the last several years, IMO. Not since they jumped on the doomsday bandwagon.

It seems like the only programming they ever air that actually has anything to due with History anymore is World War II. The rest of the last few billion years may as well not exist.

Can't see that the Cottage Rule would apply. That only prevents changing the primary function of a power, adding a secondary effect doesn't do that. (And in fact, they did just add the range debuff to taunts not that long ago.)

Yep, it's also what lets them occasionally get a shot off at you even if you get the drop on them with it... which is damned annoying vs some mobs (particularly those with their own mezzes).

They handwaved the potential Paradox out of the way by it being an alternate timeline, not just the past of their own timeline.

(As tongue in cheek as that may be) The EA change that actually breaks the Cottage Rule has nothing to do with Scrappers though. It's the conversion of Repulse to Disrupt that Stalker EA got.


Looking at the standard DPA for ranged attacks, for Propel to be worth it's animation time it would have to be a ~3.56scale attack on a 20second recharge.

If it had the activation cut by 1.5seconds then it's current damage would actually be just fine. It'd have a 2second activation for 1.96scale damage, basically the same as Cosmic Burst (with a 2second shorter recharge, though that'd probably get changed. Propel currently gets higher than normal damage for it's recharge due to it's long activation).

Really they wouldn't even have to change the animation, they could just shorten the activation/rooting time to ~2seconds and allow movement/other powers to interrupt the animation in the same way that Jump Kick works. If you don't queue up another power or move then you play the full Summon>Throw animation. If you move/hit another power you play the Summon part then move on to whatever the other run/power animation is.

Damage Buffs and debuffs can't be enhanced because with the way the engine works, they would self buff themselves infinitely.



As is there's a maximum cap for Recharge Slows of -75% which quadruples the recharge of a power. (Note that there are many powers that will debuff for more than the cap allows, the higher value only comes into play vs AVs/slow resistant enemies.)

I'm not really sure if there would be wonkyness by allowing you to slot powers for -recharge, there probably is. Generally all the effects that cannot be enhanced (resist debuffs for instance) are that way because it breaks them.

Even if they *could* allow for -Recharge to be slotted, it would just mean they'd neuter the base debuff value, and I for one would prefer to keep the higher debuff without having to devote multiple slots toward it.

With the current recharge on the Defender version, you can't. The lowest possible recharge you can get it to is 100seconds, 10seconds shy of permanent. (Assuming capped recharge, which you won't be able to pull off without outside buffs.)

(The Defender version is 8m20s recharge, right? I can't remember, despite my Time Manip character being a Time/Sonic.)

Following you? Nonsense! *ducks back into the bushes*

I don't really think so.

For the most part (*sideways glance at Illusion*) Control sets follow just as regular and predictable a pattern as Melee sets. Other than making a couple unique powers the rest is largely copy->paste. I would need new animations obviously, but that's probably actually easier for Control sets, since you can just make the particle FX flashy and recycle the same ol' same ol' character animations, where all the new melee sets made recently have used specialized, unique character animations as well as particle fx.

I think it's simply that there are 4 archetypes that can use Melee sets (and more people who play them), and only two that can use Control. Melee gets priority because they can satisfy more people's desire for new sets for the same time/money investment.

Frankly, I doubt it...

We know powersets are in the works for Doms, but there was no mention of improvements to current powersets. Plus, given that there were many improvements to other sets in Issue 21, if there were going to be improvements to Gravity I'd have expected them to have happened then.

... but that's probably me being cynical cause of how long Gravity's needed improvement and not gotten much of it.

I pretty much agree with Sam here.

I *think* I like the Shoulder, Belt and Glove options, but the overall look of the new CoT is just so busy. It's hard to really take it all in and say for sure what's good and what's just needlessly gaudy.

Didn't necessarily mean to imply you weren't aware, rather that the internet as a whole doesn't seem to be, I'm sorry if it came across crassly.

It's just something that bugs me to no end. (So really I wouldn't want a "V mask" specifically out of pure spite. Not spite for any player or character, but for the internet.)

Really it's an unintentional benefit due to the functionality of HP crashes.
This wasn't a problem for the old Light Form that crashed you to 10% hitpoints, cause if you were below 10% hitpoints BEFORE Light Form crashed, whatever insignificant heal you got out of it probably didn't mean a hill of beans.

Hitpoint crashes have to function differently than End Crashes, cause a HP crash (without the hitpoint reset first) could directly result in your defeat, end crashes can't. --Defeat resulting from detoggling due to an end crash is different. That's a result of lack of situational awareness/preparedness, not the actual end crash killing you.--

I suppose they could remove the HP reset and just say "You're SOL if below 50% HP when you crash." but that would kind of defeat the purpose of the buff, if you have a chance of killing yourself every 90seconds.

I don't think there's a way they can "fix" the crash potentially resulting in a heal, without completely neutering/invalidating the intended use of the power. (Which at this point is intended as an analogue of Eclipse.)

Whereas, I, on the other hand find Granite Armor to be the -only- armor in the entire set I don't hate the look of. I would be very disappointed to see it go.


(Unless the new Granite was super-duper, blindingly awesome.)

This one made me lol.