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I do not give two bleeps about endgame. I care about early levels, and mid-levels, which is where I find the most fun. And if it were up to me, the P2W vendor literally wouldn't exist, and nor would any power accessable by them. (not all my ideas are popular)

I don't see how you can say that if you want to let a flashbacked lvl 50 character have access to all powers even on a Posi 1 or DFB. Perhaps we have different definitions.

The topic has been asked a few times before. I don't know if there was ever an official response from HC Devs. I personally would not hold my breath. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/14022-finish-the-last-four-incarnates-with-awesome-uber-powerz-with-some-ideas

I enjoy the midgame FAR more than the endgame. I would be opposed to this change. That said, who knows? maybe enough want it.

It depends a reallll lot on the character I'm playing. If I have access to Confuse, the sapper may live for 30-40 seconds, but he'll be confused teh entire time. And if I'm on /SR, I ltiterally don't care if there's 30 sappers around me. Theyr'e all going to die before they can touch me. On a Fiery Aura or Electric Armor toon, sappers are 'huh? oh. I supposed that ticked a little" But certainly abilitiies that can contribute to being Ranked For Death enemy heals. If video games have taught me one thing, it's Shoot The Medic First. With extreme prejudice. endurance drainers, unless the character is well shielded. Still prioritize if teamed with folks who aren't. trash-summoners. Rikti Portals, etc. Annoying Man: mobs with buffs / debuffs or cc effects I can't ignore. Tsoo Sorcerors / Hurricane (also qualifying for Shoot The Medic) Tsoo Ink Men of all kinds. Devouring Earth Eminators, particularly Resist or To-Hit ones. Force Field Generators, etc then mostly Boss > Lt > Yard Trash if I'm single-target focused, or big clumps if I'm an AoE'er.

I have slightly under 40 characters, grand total. This makes it not so bad to log in once every month, when I took a break from the game. Also, very few of my character names are likely to ever be competed over. A few, perhaps. But not most. I would not be upset if the day ever comes when Name Policy is actually activated and put into effect. But I don't expect it to ever change anything, either. I strongly suspect that many names that people covet, probably exist on a lvl 50 character. Maybe a powerleveled lvl 50 character. Maybe one who took a long slow road up. But I truly doubt if the policy were put it place, that many names would actually get freed up, unless they also applied the policy to lvl 50's. And I doubt the HC devs would ever go there.

For this kind of character, I would probably just roll Energy Aura (if melee/sentinel) or Force Fields (if ranged/support) and just say "my bubbles are psychic barriers that deflect attacks". I mean, more choices is always good. So I wouldn't be terribly opposed to more sets. But really, I've seen a lot of "ooh I want a new set for THIS" requests that are very easy to create that type of character with an existing set and just get creative on your backstory.

I wouldn't report anyone for making a tribute-hero / clone of an NPC or clone of an MCU or DC hero. But I would say to myself "there's someone who will be generic'd in a few days...." And I'd have absolutely no sympathy for when it inevitably happened.

Honestly, I'd forgotten that a /hide command even existed.

I used to use "Steamroller of Defenders". My first experience with it was back on Live, Guardian server, an All Defender Task Force for Ernesto Hess. We had a Stormy, a Rad, a Dark, an Empath, a Forcefielder, a Trick Arrow, and 2 Kin's. Let's just say it didn't feel "low damage" at all.

I now want a mission where the enemies are Carnie Fashionistas.

It's an interesting idea, and I'd cautiously be interested in seeing how it could play out. But keep in mind, those tanks are tanky because of their toggles, and they're going to have a LOT of attacks coming in on them fast and frumious. Even a low % chance for an attack to drop a tank's toggle could get nasty when they've got 16 mobs wailing away on them. I'd also find it interesting in the reverse direction if enemy mobs had toggles and it was easier to take them down if you could drop their toggles. Suddenly Sleeps and the like become team-friendly. The trick is finding the balance that would make it "nice to have" without making people feel gimped without.

I mean, I can half-understand this. I played WoW for eight years of progression raiding. There were definite senses of achievement when you went from "oh dear god not this boss, no, we're just going to spend the next three hours wiping nonstop" to "Okay It's coming together". to "YES! Got You You Sonofabi**ch!!!!" to "Dude, we have this boss on FARM." Same thing even when you defeat a long and arduous single player game, whether Darkest Dungeon, or one of the Civilization games, or Diablo 2 on Hell. And of course, there's Dark Souls. But I never felt a sense of achievement in getting loot / gear. Just in defeating the boss / fight. Still. We don't always have to find achievement in the same aspects of a game. I would not want to see CoH change to be super grindy to acquire IO's or to build a base, etc, though. I served my time in EverQuest and WoW. I don't need to deal with a grindy MMO ever again.

Many fall in the face of chaos. But not this one. Not today.

Especially since many AV's are "can you stack regen debuffs on them?" And decades later I'm still salty over Purple Triangles screwing over my controller when the entire idea of CONTROL is supposed to be how they avoid damage. Yea, I can work out a build that softcaps them, too but... <Sigh>. Purple Triangles just feel like a targetted F-U at my fav archtypes.

My only hesitation there is I like being able to light Oil Slick arrow without resorting to origin powers. I know you CAN light oil slick with ... what is it, magic, and tech's free lvl 0 attack? But I'd want to do it with my secondary. That said, Trick arrow is AMAZING. I love my Fire/Trick Arrow controller.

I suspect there are non-trivial technical hurdles in allowing you to pop power B while power A is still animating. That seems sort of central to the engine. However, HC devs have already wow'd me on a multiple points. Maybe it's do-able. I very much appreciate the effort of trying to retain the essential nature and character of the set, while trying to work around what many object to.

This is why I don't work in customer service. Because I would likely reply to such a missive, "commiserating" with them about how awful it is in that in a multiplayer game you don't have complete control over the actions of other players, and how sometimes other humans act in ways that dont' always provide unconditionally beneficial results, and how sympathic I am to their plight. I would then be fired for being deliberately antagonistic to a customer.

For that matter, plain old "Kick" from the Fighting tree is a sad white-belt front kick animation. I'd love for it to have some better looking alternates, doing whatever is needed to keep animation / activation time the same.

If I were to make any change to procs at all, it would be to treat ALL forms of Recharge the same, So that if the power normally takes 2 minutes to recharge but you're loaded to the gills with slotted with loads of Global Recharge and running Hasten, and Speed Boosted, such that the power actually comes back every 30 seconds, then the proc-ability would be based on that 30 seconds, not the original 2 minutes. So that the Proc-Per-Minute is based around the ACTUAL number of uses you might squeeze out for that power over intervals of gameplay. I would also fully expect to be tarred and feathered if this were to ever happen.

I think procs are actually perfectly fine, given that going nuts with them means forsaking quite a few set bonuses. And they do open up some damage-dealing options for powers or even whole powersets that would otherwise be.... lackluster. Now, what I DO think is massively overtuned.... and quite possibly may deserve some downscaling...... <looks around nervously, pops Personal Force Field>.... is Global Recharge.

Indeed. I don't begrudge you the right to make the ask. Who knows? Maybe the devs will decide you're right, and I'm just Mr Grumpster channelling the "Change is Bad" meme. (and I am, sometimes). You never do know.

END drain is a relativey rare resist that very few sets get. Fire gets it. It gets pathetic resistances to cold, zero defense skills, zero DDR, zero knockback protection. Electric gets it. It get zero defense, zero DDR, zero toxic resist, knockback protection that only functions when you're near the ground. Bio gets it. Bio is wildly OP out of the box. Late added sets suffer from Bigger-Better-Faster syndrome. Frankly, if it were up to me, Bio would be nerfed. Stone gets it. If they have Rooted on, which is it's own punishment right there. losing some Perception Debuff resist doesn't even come close to the price the other sets pay for it. At least not in my book.

Willpower gets Quick Recovery to back up Stamina to keep on going when most others are fatigued, same as Regen. You also get very solid Psi resist as an example of your will to continue fighting. That's enough. The set doesn't need more. It was a conscious choice by the oldschool devs to leave this as a potential can-opener to Willpower. I see no need for that to change.