Oedipus_Tex

Somewhat off topic but is there someone somewhere who can even tell the following characters apart, and do you feel bad about not being to do so?

It's true that women in super hero comics are drawn to look sexy. I'm not positive it's entirely an issue of subjugation to male fantasy though. Take a look at the popular Halloween costumes out there. Many women like dressing sexy, and the concept of being "the hot girl" appeals to them. The character I more rarely see real life women want to identify with is the vanilla Lois Lane "hero's girlfriend" type. Or maybe I just hang out with particularly rambunctious women. Case in point, the last time I let one of my female friends play CoH unsupervised I ended up with a character on my account who looked like a cross between a cop, a cat girl, and a street walker.

As for me personally, I'm a gay guy, so the breast slider is a sexual non-issue, and yet based on the costumes you posted your friend would not like my costumes either. My "Joan of Arkansas" character, who I don't think anyone would think was sexualized in any way, has the maxed breasts because her armor looks unshapely without it; I wanted the clear shape of a woman there, and the maxed breasts was the best way I could do it. On the other hand my "Attila the Honey" character is intentionally over the top hot, but I left the slider at a more reasonable 75% because being dressed in what essentially consists of a Medieval bra and fishnet panties gets the look across. I didn't touch the sliders at all for "Quick Brown Fox" but the pretty much not there outfit definitely makes her look the most outrageous of the three. Let your friend say what she will about guys always wanting to max the sliders, but it's definitely not always a sexual thing.

I do wish Defender buff and debuff powers had bigger radii and range in general than other versions of the set. Keep crossing my fingers that one day Castle will agree. Meanwhile I don't know why (if?) the radius of Dark Miasma's heal was changed but the set is still very strong regardless.

I dont have Mids in front of me but look on the second or third tab for a breakdown of the effects. The sleep pulse duration should be longer. This actually CAN be a factor in the powers strength, because, for example, individual pulses of the power can miss.

Hmm.

"Hey Castle, Illusion Control, Dark Miasma, and Robotics accidentally got nerfed."

"Really? Let me put that fix at the top of my list."

I know you said not to say it, but Water Control is still at the top of my list. Especially because of how re-colorable it is. (But if we get it I'm sure we'll be limited to the 'Ice Palette" to avoid issues).

Gravity Blast. Particularly if they can think of a way to do a nuke that teleports enemies to a center point and damage is partly based on how many you slam together. (Basicallly: make the nuke a pet that has an AAO type power). Would also love to see a high damage PBAoE power with extreme knock up.

Luck/Fortune/Pre-cognizance. Possibly very easy to do without adding new art assets.

Entropy/Chaos/Strange Forces/Logic Manipulation, because it can be played as so many different things (spells, a curse, special technology etc)

Atomic/Molecular Control/Alchemy.

Cloning as an Armor set. Extremely unlikely, but we now have the tech to clone our characters, and even selectively recolor them. I think this would work much better for Scrapper/Brute/maybe Tankers than Masterminds as is usually suggested.

While we're on this subject, I demand to know why so many people are anti-Force Bubble. Force Bubble is huge mitigation against melee attacks. I like to leave it up all the time. Sometimes I even push enemies into the tank or a debuff patch but in my book any Repel is good Repel. I think its unfair when teams kick me, because it's just my play style. I have enough experience to know that teams always need enemies knocked away from them and anyone who disagrees with me needs to learn to play. Because that is huge melee mitigation and always better than bunching enemies up for mezzing or blasting. One time I did an all Force Field Task Force and we all turned on Force Bubble and we did ok so that means the power is always useful. I don't care if it slows down my team. They should learn to deal with it. If you disagree it means you're a bad person and a farmer who just wants enemies lined up in a row like bowling pins. I'm Oedipus Tex and I approve of this message.

[Paid for by the committee to waver conveniently back and forth about whether Repel is meant to be an advantage or a penalty in order to win a message board argument.]

I personally think the only set that really deserves the ability to cancel its own knockback is Energy Blast. I would just give it the Dual Pistols treatment (the "other" DPS knockback set that nobody ever thinks of as such because it already has the ability to turn it off).

Psi-nado is basically like a combination of Fireball and Air Superiority. When you cast it everything takes damage and have a chance to do the little flip knock up animation. It's both wider (20ft vs 15ft for standard damage AoEs) and has longer range (100ft vs 80 ft) than standard AoEs, but costs a lot of endurance. It works great with Electric because the cage power doesn't stop enemies from getting knocked.

I think the reason they attack unstunned enemies is because they work like enemies do. The pet aggros on whoever attacked them. I'm not sure of that but it seems plausible.

Superior Invisibility and Group Invisibility are not the same as Super Speed + a Stealth IO. The Stealth IO suppresses if you take damage or attack. Superior Invisibility and GI invisibility does not. Stealth IOs will get you part of the way but they do not let you move with the impunity that actual invisibility powers do.

Super Speed + an AoE stealth power (e.g. Steamy Mists or Arctic Fog) is also better than a Super Speed + a Stealth IO and also does not suppress. [EDIT: I misremembered this part. Super Speed stealth does suppress on attacking, the fog does not, so you keep 35ft of Stealth.]

I also believe SI is a must-have for PVP.

I agree probably Sonic Resonance and for good reason.