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I am hoping creative costume gurus might take an interest in designing a particular look that I'm having trouble with. I have a design worked out, but I'd rather not show it for now, in the hopes of drawing out fresh and better ideas as to how to get the look. I will show my attempt later in the thread if there's any interest.

The concept is simple; executing it in the costume creator is harder than I expected.

A kid wearing a colander on his head. Yeah, a spaghetti strainer.

He either gets his mental power from the colander, as if it were magic, or thinks he does. The rest of the costume should be relatively "clean" (not crusted with doodads) and if possible, naive or idealistic.

If you can come up with anything that portrays this concept, I will be very happy. This isn't a contest or anything, I'm just soliciting ideas and creativity.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and for anything you care to share.

It's a pretty big game with a lot of things going on; it seems like something one could miss if one wasn't intently following every development.

Alien GUI. Get Jeff Goldblum to bring over his Powerbook.

SR had some of the most complete mezz protection back before new sets were added, and before the change that lets defensive toggles stay on while you're mezzed. It's the combination of the later toggle suppression rules and the new sets tending to have some exotic mezz types added to their protection that makes the older sets sometimes look incomplete, that's all.

Your confusion may stem from the fact that the Suggestions forum was moved into the "For Fun" section; it used to be outside that section. If you never go into that section and tend to skip over it on the index, you could easily completely miss the existence of the Suggestions forum you remembered seeing in the past.

I'm flabbergasted by the speed of your accomplishment, SP! A thousand thanks.

Now, on to the carping!

Well, some minor buggy things, anyway, which you might already know about. But just in case it's useful to you:

When you select a pool and select a power IN that pool, you can unselect the power but apparently never change the pool without reloading.

The initial two powers in a primary (the ones you can take either of at level one) seem to sort alphabetically. This doesn't really impact use, since both powers are correctly selectable at level one, except that the order the powers appear in on the character creation and power selection screens is fixed and that's NOT alphabetical. So, for example, the Shield set normally has
* Deflection
* Battle Agility

but your planner sorts B before D:

* Battle Agility
* Deflection

It's just jarring to see that.

That's minor stuff though. Overall, a great and needed effort!

Here are some brief and incomplete driveby comments:

Why the 5 Doctored Wounds in HPT? One of the main points to that slotting is it recharges well, but HPT doesn't need recharge. I'd slot 3 heals and save two slots, or slot up the resistance. RTTC doesn't need recharge either (unless you PVP, I guess.)

Why the 5th slots of Reactive Armor? 0.625% increase to F/C defense (the rarest of the 3 main typed defense categories) might not be worth the extra slot, and the AoE def is redundant, WP is a typed defense set.

Same logic for the 5th slots of Seredipity.

I am digging the Adjusted Targeting dual in Follow Up, that's thinking a little outside the box.

Lastly, I'm not sure how much good Hasten and lots of global recharge bonuses will do you. A Claws/Willpower Scrapper is perhaps one of the characters that benefits the least from global recharge (which is not to say it has NO benefit, just that it might be worth more to you to invest in recharge for other alts).

Willpower gets zero use out of recharge aside from RTTC getting detoggled in PVP (and only in PVP).

It's nice to have global recharge for your attacks, but Claws attacks come back quickly, and there's a point of diminishing utility somewhere. You'll get well-slotted Spin back up in 4.5 seconds already; recharge can shave that down, but one or two attack animations is all you can squeeze into that window before you're ready to Spin again. I chose Spin because it's one of the best PBAoEs in Scrapperdom, but the same is more-or-less true of your other attacks.

More recharge is good, but if you're calculating a very precise attack chain, you already clearly know how much recharge you need (and you can ignore me on this); if you're not, you may find it's not worth a lot of effort and money to tie up your slots for recharge when you could be slotting for other things.

Yes it's the 60 month veteran award. I don't use Mids and can't answer the other half of your question, but I'll bet it's been addressed on the Titan forums.

Ah, here you go.

If I understand what I'm seeing, it looks like he intends it to be selectable in case you have the vet power, and trusts you to know better than to select it if you don't? He didn't seem to regard it as a bug.

The only thing I look at is what kind your powers give you, before you slot any IOs. If you have even a few percent of typed, go with typed defense IOs. If you have positional, go with those. If it's mixed (pretty uncommon if it exists at all), which is higher?

IMHO, trying to soft-cap from base zero defense consumes so much of your attack slotting that it would hamper you in-game, with every attack -- much more often than you'd be hurt by any situation that would make a difference between positional or typed.

If you have zero defenses at all, I'd be inclined to go with positional -- you can control that in every encounter, but you can't change an enemy's damage type.

"The problem with making resistance bonuses more widely available on sets is that someone could abuse them to make a character literally somewhat more powerful."

Sorry for the confusion, guys. I was just trying to be humorous in pointing out that is one replaced all the debt reduction percentages with equivalent resistance bonuses, you still couldn't pile up enough resistance to be more than "somewhat" more powerful.

Someone gave me negative reputation for this?

When the answer turned out to be in the Open Beta forum? Specifically, the forum for imaginary "what ifs" that may or may not ever come to pass? The forum that, even if I looked there and read the info, I still couldn't be sure it had made it into the live build anyway, until I saw it in an official I-16 release note -- where it turns out not to be posted?

And after I thanked the people who helped me?

Sheesh.

My thoughts (as someone who knew nothing about the beta; most of this is brand-new to me):

LOVE the new super-sidekicking. One of the biggest irritants to getting a team going was setting up the levels acceptably -- completely a non-issue now, just throw out the invites (after asking nicely!) and you're rolling. And no frustrations about some low level pubbie refusing the SK offer and soaking you for exp.

Expanded difficulty looks great too. I didn't see any reference to the old confusing setting names, Invincible, Tenacious, Villainous, etc. Did they remove those terms entirely and just replace them with "enemies are +1 to your level," etc.? So no more "wait -- is Tenacious harder or easier than Rugged?" discussions in chat? Cool!

Power Customization: Surprisingly, I am getting less use of this for existing toons than I expected, because a lot of my concepts were built to accommodate the pre-existing colors and animations. For instance, I have a Sixties/Seventies Blaxploitation homage Martial Arts character built around her infamous "lead-filled platform boots." She's not going to be turning any of her kicks into punches using the new MA animations. Similarly, I have a character using the Rad set to represent chlorophyll, plant pheromones, pollen, and "green forest energy." She won't need to recolor Rad.

So on existing toons, I am mostly using Power Customization to turn off or tone down effects; taking the flashes of light out of Martial Arts kicks (as much as the options allow, anyway) and finally turning off that weird circling curtain of light associated with Invulnerability's Unyielding power.

I'm sure NEW toon concepts 3will be born which will be better suited to exploiting the customization features. As a matter of fact...<runs back to the drawing board>

Here's a thought -- come to one of the Tanker Tuesdays. There's threads on the various servers and dates in this forum, Player Events, and in the calendar items (also showing at the bottom of the forum index) so you can find when they're coming to your server(s), or just make a baby tank on the server they play on next.

Meet a whole bunch of Tanker enthusiasts, see them in action (if they ever stop chatting and actually run a mission!) and maybe a taste for tanks will rub off on you!

Maybe you're thinking of Defender Dark Blast. Most of the set (including the first two powers) does "ToHit -9.375%" for varying durations, according to City of Data.

Dark Melee does "ToHit -5.625%" with most of its attacks.

City of Data hasn't been updated in a while, I think, but that makes it more likely that these are not newly changed values, if you think about it.