Vitality

Originally Posted by stever

• That sounds like the n00bs who just want to rush to the end. " PL meh! I don't care about the game."
• I am pretty sure this is totally counter to the desire of the devs. I actually believe they WANT people to experience the switching process, and other new content they are slaving over.
• You might also while you are at it ask for the ability to just create new alts that are 50 from the beginning. You DO want a 50 Brute hero right? and you don.t care about the content?
• Get used to disappointment.

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Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

If you don't care about the story, why does it matter where you do your missions? You can't have it both ways when you're trying to justify what you want. Either it's super important for you to be a brute hero, or you couldn't care less about the kind of missions you're doing. Make up your mind.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

Hero Brute: the character grows up in the Rogue Isles and always wants to be a hero, but first he has to fight his way out of the Isles.

There's your RP rationalization.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Let's wait and see what you can/cannot do in GR before you state this as fact. Plus, this suggestion is a waste of resources.

Originally Posted by Seldom

Hey, I'm just looking at this from a practical end. When the game is stagnant, players drop off. So the developers must do their best to keep the game from being stagnant. As such, they add stuff. But they can't possibly add enough stuff for everywhere, so they have to choose where to put the new stuff. When they do, it's in their best interests to move as many players to the designated 'new and shiny' portions of the game. When they are immersed in the 'new shiny,' players forget about the stagnant outside.

With Going Rogue, you know what the new and shiny stuff is. You may wish to avoid it, but the devs will do their best (without being too heavy handed) to corral you and other players into the 'new and shiny' area. Once the new shiny loses its luster, They can open up same old outbreak to your brute for a new and shiny experience of bashing heads with fury there. But that's later. Right now, you are being steered into what is new and shiny now.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Option 1: You start the character in Praetoria as a scrapper working for the evil monarchy. You decide to leave. You go blueside. Done. Villain becomes hero.

Option 2: Write it up in your biography and start as a scrapper blueside like every other dark hero.

/unsigning the OP as a waste of resources.

Originally Posted by Seldom

But now that you've made the largest part of Going Rogue's content optional, the peeps that are stuck on one faction and won't go elsewhere are paying 30-40 bucks for nothing but archetypes. They play through the same old stuff in new ways, but they are still playing through the old arcs, not the new ones. This risks people crying out for content, or complaining about the lack of it in their area. If the devs make certain most of those using going rogue have to go through new stuff, the new stuff is used by more people, and fewer players are outside ignoring it. When Going Rogue goes live, can you get it and still ignore its new stuff? Yes, but the way they've made it makes this is highly unlikely. And you know what? I bet this is on purpose.

Originally Posted by Seldom

I'm thinking the lack of villain AT's blueside and hero AT's redside from the start might come down to this:

The upgrade seems to be centered around praetoria and the side-swapping content, wherever that may lie.

Players wanting to change side are focused through this new content. New characters hoping to play opposite sides are channeled through Praetorian content. People who want to stay with their factions, however, can go through the same content that's been around for some time, passing up the new content. Since the developers are spending so much time on the new stuff, I'm pretty sure they want to make sure as many characters use it as possible. Otherwise, their new stuff loses its pull. The more optional it is, the fewer people that will choose the option. If you are one of those people who positively won't try things outside of Paragon, but you've always wanted to try the other half of the archetypes, why would you use the new stuff if you can roll up a villain archetype in outbreak? If you could, the new stuff loses value as it loses necessity. Will they eventually? Maybe, but not until they make some finances on Going rogue.

Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint

because that is what it is about. go read everything you can about GR. everything you have described so far is part of GR. did you just wake up or something V?

Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint

the whole idea about GR is being able to switch sides. your idea would nullify that completely. good way to, figuratively, spit in the devs face for taking all the time to develope GR and it's content.

Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint

this idea would make GR pointless. so why did you feel the need to post this.

1,000,000% /unsigned.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

But why would the DC heroes and CoH heroes fight?

Originally Posted by Lazarillo

It should be:
Standard = Knockback + -Def
Incendiary = DoT
Cryo = -Speed
Chemical = -Damage

Are you sure you have the right ammo type toggled?

Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey

If you're talking about a respec build after you've already IO'd out everything... especially being /regen ...I've found dropping fitness to be realistic option that frees up 3 power slots.

Originally Posted by Organica

Is this a serious question?

Scrappers aren't forced to take Combat Jumping, you know. I'm sure it's a popular choice but hardly universal.

Originally Posted by ransim

No worries I went ahead and updated the OP with the name suggestions. If I get time I'll compile all the power suggestions made so far.