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My understanding is that they're investigating "No FX" options for key powers that suppress and show their original effects in PVP zones (so you can't hide your Hasten being active for a PVP advantage). If that works out, they will probably get around to altering pool power color options.

They can just beam it into our satellite-ready brain implants, because who knows how far technology will have advanced that many years in the future?

/e hopeful

Browse works great as long as you pay attention to the "Please at least choose an Archetype" reminder and select something (probably to prevent everyone from loading the entire database every time, I'd guess).

One thing I can't seem to find (might be you, might be me) is a button to get from the planner pages back to the Titan Network itself. Unless I am overlooking something, that would be handy at times if I don't want to open yet another browser tab.

In general, I can't say enough good things about your efforts, which have improved the quality of my own experiences with the game.

edit: Also, when browsing public builds, is there a way to see the player's name? IIRC that used to be possible.

There's also a channel specific to Tanker Tuesdays -- /e cudgels memory -- TankHQ or something like that?

Aha, here it is: Tanker Tuesday Tour 09. Details in that post about what to expect and what channel to use, even though that post is a general one and does not specifically mention tonight (9/22).

I've only been to two of these things, but they both involved a certain amount of mingling and chatter and /e flexing before we got underway. I think you'll be okay.

Once or twice. Considering it hardly ever happened before, that's technically an "increase," I suppose. But not statistically distinct enough from randomness for me to lodge a complaint.

A word about the content -- while there are lots of missions and Task Forces (called Strike Forces villainside) and additional endless possibilities for missions in the Architect system, this game is an MMO and like all MMOs has some repetitiveness. But unlike many games, the player characters are so variable here -- the costume possibilities, the wide range of powerset combinations that play so differently from each other, the personal biography space each character carries, the badges and titles, the color-customized powers or custom weapons, the alternate costumes, veteran powers, and special powers awarded for missions and accomplishments allow you to make a gigantic variety of character types.

Use that to make your experience better. In City of Heroes/City of Villains, you are a big part of the content yourself. Running a Strike Force on a Thugs/Traps Mastermind will be a totally different playstyle, and require you to focus your attention differently, than doing so on an Electric/Shield Brute or a Fire/Rad Corruptor, to pull random examples out of my...selection of examples.

Most ATs work pretty well; I recommend that you find power combinations that appeal to you, and spend some time making an interesting character. I find over the years that the distinctive, fully-developed characters stick with me and get played much more than even highly effective, but bland, generic characters I made because the powersets sounded strong.

So do you have Quills toggled on, or are you just glad to see me?

Permit me to piggyback a related question onto this thread.

I asked once long ago and at the time it wasn't possible, but things might have changed -- is it possible to set up so that members of coalition SGs can take from your bins?

We have a Senior and Junior SG coalitioned together, and it would be very nice to have the established heroes able to drop off items for the young 'uns.

Choice.

If 50 gave the best enhancement value (which it does) AND you kept all your set bonuses when exemplared, 50 would be the best IO level hands-down and everything else would be second-best.

But if you have to CHOOSE between top-flight enhancement percentages and utility when exemplared, well, for some people who want to exemplar a lot, those lower-level IOs start to look a lot better. They canchoose a slight;y lower percentage in some areas to get more flexibility. That makes these IOs viable options.

More options for a variety of different interests = a better game.

I'll jump in, as long as I can use the costume creator and don't have to subject anyone to my freehand drawing abilities.

Thanks Santorican, I admit I am going by memory, but I was trying to supply light not heat.

In response to the OP, I agree that Impale feels slow. I have less problem with Ripper since I also like Claws and Martial Arts, which also have slowish heavy hitters, so I'm more used to it. Impale sure differs from Focus in feel, though.

Jeminiks is dead on in his initial reply, that Martial Arts hitting harder and faster is okay because MA cannot hope to compete with Spines for AoE or for stacked secondary effect, for that matter. You have to let the poor MA guys have something besides style.

If it helps, try and think about it this way: your job is different as a Spiner. The kung-fu types are hammering away at specific targets (nasty mezzers, summoners, bosses) while the Spiners should constantly adjust their position to expose the most baddies to a lethal atmosphere of flying spines. Crowds melt away as you flow through your attack chain at a more stately pace.

It's early to cme to any conclusions, but my subjective feeling is, so far, so good. Plenty of teams and team requests whenever I was on this weekend, at a variety of levels; mostly regular missions but sometimes in AE. The AE ones were real missions, not farms, and AE wasn't especially crowded. No invites to bridge or fill yet. Still getting spam from inf sellers on the characters I haven't set e-mail preferences on; I take that as a good thing, since it implies the6y might keep at it because relatively few people use the feature to turn it off -- and perhaps they'll stick to that and leave us alone in other ways.

My PUG teams still broke up after a few missions, including the usual excuses. And people avoided the star like the plague. So everything's normal there.

This came to my attention because one of my favorite characters sports this badge -- they've FINALLY capitalized Untouchable!

It's worth noting that both defense and resistance have "hard" caps, points at which adding more % is superfluous because the game caps it. But while the resistance hard caps are within achievable range for most characters, as described above...90% to 75% generally...the defense hard cap is some astronomical number like 300% or something, and it's rendered moot anyway by the defense soft cap. The soft cap is the point at which adding extra defense is irrelevant (except to counter debuffs and to-hit buffs; and to0hit buss rare, but massive, in PVE) because everyone has a minimum 5% chance to hit.

That number is adjusted somewhat by the type of enemy -- bosses and LTs will have more than a 5% chance to hit -- but it's still as low as it'll go once you've achieved the soft cap.

Resistance doesn't have a soft cap, so when people use the term, they're almost exclusively talking about defense (assuming they know what they're talking about, heh).