Oathbound

Minor nitpick... Time Crawl in your post has no icon, and the icons for Farsight and Slowed Response are swapped (in addition to the Slowed Response icon being cut off).

/OCD off

I've gotta say I'm NOT a fan of the recharge/duration on Farsight**. Even fully slotted with SOs it's only a 66.6% uptime? Bleh. I DO however like that Chronoshift can be perma'd. I guess I'll be making another Recharge IO build for the character I inevitably roll.

I'm honestly a little surprised at how strong the Regen debuff in Time Crawl is.

All in all it looks like a fun set.






**But I will give it a go on Beta because drawing any final conclusions.

Honestly, I have no doubt that Khelds were never even thought of when these new powers were designed, and that they'll simply never get access to the new flight/TP powers.

Sucks to be them.

I agree with the overall idea very much, though I would want the Ghosts to be far more like CoT Spectrals or Croatoa Ghosts.

It just feels to me that limiting them to essentially just be Soldiers does the whole thing a real disservice. If all a person wanted was ghost soldiers they could just take Mercenaries and Grant Invisibility and fake it.

I would probably topple human civilization, just out of spite.

Sure I'd eventually start a new one to replace the old one, but a few years in the stone age might do us some good. Re-learn to appreciate what we've got.

There's no such thing as too much AoE. Though if you're intent on getting rid of one I'd probably drop Psychic Scream, cause it's got the longest animation time and doesn't really do enough damage to keep it's DPA up with the other AoEs.


(also nitpick: Psychic Wail is the Psi Blast Nuke. Psychic Shockwave is the power you're meaning.)

Besides the forum log-out bug (grrrr), all day today as soon as I visit the forums it immediately marks ALL posts as being Read and only shows new posts made since I've been ON the forums as being Unread.

It started doing it this morning, I booted up my computer, hit the forums and everything posted prior to 8:30am (when I first came to the forums this morning) was flagged as read. Then it did it again when I came back to check the forums this evening. Everything posted before 5:30ish was flagged as already Read when I KNOW it wasn't.

This is incredibly annoying.

(The forums are set to Remember Me.)(I use Firefox.)

I find that I flat out don't like most popular comic book characters, period.

Either by way of power-creep, ridiculously convoluted backstory, constant retcon, or what have you they just shed my interest and become boring to me. Another thing is that the more *super awesome* a character is portrayed/advertised to me the more critical I'm going to be of them, because of the hype. If they don't live up to it then I'm sorry, there's no coming back from that.

This isn't limited to Comic Book characters for me either, rather it applies to ALL forms of media/storytelling.

Hell, as a Trekkie raised on Next Generation I don't care for Data, Worf and Freaking Captain Picard much any longer because the longer TNG went on (particularly the movies) the more they focused on just those characters to the exclusion/detriment of all others. (Well, that's kind of a lie... I -never- liked Worf.)

Of the proliferated sets I'll probably make a Dark/Mental blaster, even though I've never been able to get a Blaster past level 12 without getting bored and deleting it, I have a concept I really like so it might help me stick with it. (Reroll of a Dark/Psi defender.) That's really the only Prolif that appeals to me.

Of the new sets I'll play/roll the hell out of Time Manipulation. I'll likely make multiple TM Defenders, Controllers and Corruptors, then decide which one I like best and focus on that one. Not really interested in the premium sets. They're just not concepts that really appeal to me. (Maybe Street Justice, maybe.)

I'm more or less fine with most of those, except the Leadership Pool. While some form of End mitigation to balance the cost of the toggles would be mechanically nice to have, it doesn't really fit with the pool.

Now, if it were say a Team version of Conserve power (lower value/recharge), or something of that sort that would make more thematic sense to me in a set that's based entirely on team buffing.

The Presence pool power is also kind of Meh. The only real uses I can think of for it are Tankerminds or SoAs with very tanky builds. Very few others who don't get an agro aura actually WANT agro.

That said I don't really have an alternative for it, Presence is a rather wonky concept. I would like them to improve the Fear powers in general though, so maybe something that interacts with those in a similar way to how the new Flight power improves the effectiveness of other Flight Pool powers. (Mini Domination-esque ability?)



Fighting - Pain Tolerance would be very nice to have on some characters. I'd definitely pick it up a few times.

The Combat Medic power would also be nice to have for non-defense based sets/ATs/Builds that would still like a self heal they could actually cast once in a while.