Winterminal

I would be fine with 1, 3, 4, and 5, but honestly, the "gimmicks" of the trials are the only parts of the trials themselves that I actually find annoying. Marauder's auto-hit artillery strike, Anti-Matter's auto-hit Pulse are ridiculous and not a proper "obstacle." So anything along those lines would be very annoying in my opinion.

Also, this sounds fine for an actual "Incarnate" mode, meaning that the mode is meant to be played by characters who already have run the trials and acquired their Incarnate abilities. In other words, too difficult for a character just starting their Incarnate journey. But given the amount of people wanting to play through regular content as a means by which to obtain Incarnate abilities/components/merits, I would say it would be a far better idea to cater to that party first.

Pool power customization (which includes Flight, Stealth, Teleport, and Super Speed) is something that has been requested many many times. The Devs are aware of the desire among players to be able customize the manner in which they fly/run/teleport/etc., but we've been told that it is a large undertaking due to the fact that every character has potential access to every pool power. What is probably holding them up is finding the easiest and most efficient way to implement all of this, while also delivering the most options to the player base.

The possibility of Mastermind summoning power customizations is slim, considering the animations do not activate nearly as often as some other powers in the game. And I can almost guarantee that we will never see a customization option for Rest.

However, everything else up is highly possible, and even probable, it just a matter of when.

I prefer ranged classes, and above all, Blasters. I'd say about 2/5 of my total number of characters is comprised of Blasters.

Blasters are the gunmen. Artillery, snipers, heavy machine gun operators... whatever real-world analogy works for you, they are the ones that fight from range and kill things before they can get close enough to retaliate.

While I agree that it would be nice, for the moment the Devs seem to be trying to find ways to increase or at the very least maintain trial play, and having the ability to do most of what you just listed would counteract those efforts.

As I've said in lord-knows-how-man threads, options that make solo progression more viable could very well be in the pipe-line, but they are likely a long ways off.

While I think that that graphic being specific to Soul Storm is cool because it makes the power unique, I agree that it would be very cool to incorporate into Gravity Control's Hold powers. /signed.

I am always a fan of new music, and would indeed love for some new stuff to be introduced with CoH Freedom.

Also, nice job on the song, Voice! I gotta say, if that was playing during the character creation process, I would probably end up making a lot of premature decisions because I would be getting too psyched for getting the character into the game

/Signed for new music!

I'm leaving my previous post as is, but I just thought of something: given that there has been no mention of removing "Tenebrous Tentacles" from the new blaster's version of Dark Blast, and Blasters have access to AoE immobilizations in the Patron Power Pools, are we going to have blasters that can immobilize entire mobs, bosses included?!

I mean, that would be kick-***, but it is just surprising...

*sigh* I was never on the wagon to begin with. However, since I shy away from melee, that decreases the number of possible alts I am going to want to try out. And you know what? If they have to enable my alt-oholism by making Dark/Dark blasters a possibility, then as they say "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care."

I'll second this, very much looking forward to making a Dark/Dark blaster and taking it red side for the Soul Mastery.

Based on the published changes, I'm guessing it will look something like this:

Dark Blast
Gloom
Umbral Torrent
Aim
Abyssal Gaze
Moonbeam
Tenebrous Tentacles
Life Drain
Blackstar

As for Dark Manipulation, I'm picturing something along these lines, based on what was announced and what they said in the U-Stream:

Tar Pit, probably only the slow component
Smite
Shadow Maul
Fearsome Stare
Build Up (or possibly Soul Drain with/without damage component?)
Dark Pit
Midnight Grasp
Dark Consumption
*no clue*

Bottom line: I cannot wait to make my first evil blaster Dark/Dark/Soul...

Dark/Dark Blasters FTW!

Not only am I ecstatic about a new Blaster secondary, but given my love for mono-thematic powersets, this finally gives me a reason to create a blaster that either starts as or becomes a villain, and dips into the patron power pools. YES!!!

Also, I can't wait to try out the changes to Energy Aura on my Stalker. I applaud thee, Devs!

and as for "When" Black Pebble let "October" slip in a post not too long ago, so probably thereabouts.

Unfortunately, houtex, our hope was dashed once Issue 21 was announced. The new zone that is coming is called First Ward, and you can read about what it is here.

Alas, we return to blind faith that one day we will be able to venture into outer space.

By the time we get to that "23 of 24..." status, I just say "Not it" and people start following suit until that 24th person hits the button.

I too have tons of costume files saved on my computer, but most are simply concepts. For example, "I have no desire to play a ninja lion, but what would it look like?!" So I create it, save it, and back out of the creator to play an existing toons. Then, if I ever find myself wanting to play a ninja lion, I have a tangible idea to go off of.

To get back on topic though, I think what Damz is saying is that he has been redoing so many costumes with the new additions (adding pieces, removing pieces, tweaking, recoloring, etc.) that he has run out of options with which to pay for these fixes. Unfortunately, though, I don't think we'll be seeing any new costume tokens until the launch of i21, where they will probably be sold for a (very hopefully) low amount of Paragon Points. And if you are strapped for cash, I suggest running Hero/Villain tips for 4 days, grabbing an LoTG: 7.5% recharge recipe and dump it in the market for probably close to 100mil.

Now, if you are simply compulsively changing your costume, there is really no fix for that except to be content with what you are wearing, at least for a little while until you can garner enough inf to pay for some more changes. If your thing is "I like to see it outside the Icon interface" and the costume is available at character creation, I suggest rolling an alt with a same or similar costume and running around Atlas Park just to see what it looks like, then delete the alt and log the character again, adding the necessary changes.