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Would you give this same Taunting slotting option / taunting power to a Scrapper? If not, why give it to a Sentinel? In many many ways, a Sentinel is a Scrapper with lower damage on each strike, but better range, and typically more AE attacks.

As long as we're talking like Rularru type threat, I'm okay with it. It really shouldn't be Dr. Strange's preferred method of handling a purse snatcher, though.

I'm familiar with the thread and the proposed set. I just think it creates the same problem in the opposite direction. How does that work for anything but Tech or Natural? OTOH, well.... if the existing sets already heavily favor Magic/Mutant/Science, particularly with some of the pets like Jack Frost and Fire Imps.... perhaps it's time for some sets that feel more like Natural and Tech, and are much harder to justify for Magic/Mutant/Science.

Mind Control could be a candidate for Natural, depending how you think of psionics. Plant Control could be Natural, if your character is not entirely human to begin with, etc. Still, I hear you. Most Control powersets are not really plausible for a truly Ordinary Average Guy. I can only make a Controller or Dominator work as Natural if theyr'e inhuman to begin with. OTOH, I dont know. If they actually made a Gadget Control with Flashbang Grenades for Stun, Curare Darts for Hold, Sleep Gas grenades for a Sleep, etc, then that would start to be next to impossible to justify that as working with Mutant ....

a) i like the existing animation. I'm fine iwth additional choices, but I wouldn't want the existing animation ripped away entirely. b) I'd be okay with a slightly curtailed animation where you spend slightly less time flipping in the air before you strike with the claws, plus a corresponding rebalance. c) alternately, some dead time could be tacked onto the shorter animation until they both take the same time.

I have no problem mentally treating an AE mission as "Canon" if I think it's a particularly well done story in AE. But also, there's some very strict limits on how many AE missions you can post per account. I don't plan to make a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th account to post even more AE missions.

I'd like a new Visual appearance for Granite. As it is right now, I'll never even select Granite if it turns my character in a stone slab and I can't see the costumes I worked on for so long. I'm indifferent on power changes. I do think Granite should *probably* remain a toggle, just because it was an Issue 0 power, and I think it would be massively disruptive to existing characters who have Granite and who simply respec out of the lower toggles for one build and keep the lower toggles only for a second Exemplar build. At the very least, I think you'd need to give Freespecs out if you started changing something so basic at this time. At the same time, I think "Team with a Kin" isn't a stance I'm 100% comfortable with if it's meant as "There's your solution". I mean, my main is a Mind/Kin. Kin rocks. Teaming with Kin is good. But CoH has striven to be a "Bring the player, not the character / not specific powerset combos". So I think there's grounds to stay maybe it's time to ease up on at least the MOVEMENT penalties for Granite. Even if you keep the -Recharge, even if you keep the -Damage, at least let them move at a reasonable pace and allow them to jump up as high as a lvl 1 character (no hurdle, just basic unslotted jump height). I think that would still be a big QoL change to help Granite without making it an automatic clear best choice. And if you DO happen to team with a Kin, well, you still will very much enjoy the buffs they can provide. (+Recovery, +Recharge, +Damage, etc)

You're not wrong but.... well. The human race is rife with examples of megomaniacal people who hungered for power. Both historical and current. It's not hard to find a litany of dictators who willfully chose that life of paranoia and over complicated mess to have POWER NOW. It's VERY doable to create an all-too-believable character who would make that same choice. You may or may not want to play them, but it's quite easy to visualize it and even empathize with such a character and imagine how this hunger came upon them. Me personally, I channel my meglomania and arrogance into safe things, like programming, playing redside, and playing Civilization type games. Where I can raze cities of millions to the ground, but it's just pixels on a civ map, so no one really gets hurt. Power-trip-fantasies have their appeal. We just have to be well enough adjusted to enjoy it while remaining grounded enough to separate the game from the real world.

Honestly, I'd just be happy if Arachnos 100% ceased to exist. I know, they wanted a Dark Mirror counterpart for States, etc, some big organization that could explain why it wasn't total anarchy or just steamrolled by NATO or the USA or Any Nation Really Peeved At What the Villains Have Done Lately. But I'd have prefered if the Rogue isles were essentially a Failed State, with multiple oligarchs and shady organzations and black markets, but not an NPC Evil Overlord. However, I'm realistic enough to know, this, will never change. Much too much baked into the cake now. I do like the current CoV asthetic, but I do think it makes sense for areas that are controlled by certain factions to be better looking. Slums should be slums. Aeon City should and does look nice. St Martial is a prime example. The glittering facade of money and power and dark underbellys all around. Nerva is.... Not my favorite zone. Longbow has taken over half of it, and it's allowed to stand? What? They should have all been eviscerated long ago. And the islands in Nerva are MUCH too far spread apart. It's really not a feasible zone to travel without flight or teleport unless you really really enjoy swimming. A smaller tighter archipelago would have been better.

Seriously. I don't know how hard it would have been to make them just howl once and fade away instead.

Full Auto is a T9 Blaster Nuke. I think that's a bit much club compared to say, https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Blaze_Mastery, or https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Darkness_Mastery. Minimally, it would have to be scaled down to an appropriate power level. I'm thinking simpler to swap it out for M30 Grenade. Also when Scrappers/Stalkers/Brutes/Tanks get a summon in patron powers, it's not a boss-level summon. Commando (T3 mercs pet) seems a bit over the top to me. The devs will do as they see fit, but I think you're asking for ... probably too much power here.

Once you've seen a team with 6+ stacks of leadership toggles, it gets real hard not to take them on every character. Although mass-stacking of Manuevers, Assault, and Tactics *does* require people to stay more or less close to each other vs running every which way.

It really is a damn shame that First Ward is so often deserted. The arcs are very well done and the enemies much more interesting than Even More Freakshow and Even More Sky Raiders for the level range.

Fiery Aura for Sentinels has the same thing on Cauterizing Blaze, just FYI.

to be fair, the undertaking is still probably a large undertaking to write a number of branching arcs that have allow you to flesh out where your characters lines are (if in fact, your character has any). Technically, I agree I don't think it's a massive lift. the game already has the ability to present you with choices and alter the mission based on the outcome. And, they have have missions that give a more subtle choices with no giant midscreen popup.... such as the Imperial City Power mission where you can choose to capture Ricochet even though it means leaving Zane, Arie, and Warrant to die, or the option to leave the mission, letting Ricochet, and then get the next mission to save your powers division buddies. I'd love more of that. It's just in terms of writing up good arcs, narrating it all, deciding where the character can choose to branch left vs right and why.... that's time consuming. So I could defintely understand how producing those arcs would have to come in drips and drops rather than a sudden shazam, here's 40 new arcs! Or they might decide time is better spent giving AE the tools to make such branching arcs and farming out the storyline generation to us.

I feel like there should be a /Regen character named ThankYouSirMayIHaveAnother

I keep forgetting the rating system exists. Can other people see your rating / comment? Or are they effectively ONLY notes that you yourself can see? (ie, I don't feel bad about not rating someone well if only I could see it anyway, but if I'm failing to give props to good team leaders, it's like failing give good ratings to a restaraunt I like) Nevermind, I see my question was already answered by @Riverdusk. "Star ratings are global and are actually saved locally to your computer"

Well... there's that. I don't remember who said it, but something like "The only thing worse than having to get up and go to work.... is not having to get up and go to work." I'm fortunate enough that I can work from home. My hours are wierd as hell, but, I have a job, and that takes me off of the "People with a right to complain" list.

You're missing a poll choice for "Good God Man! Where do you find that kind of time!??" So I'm gonna vote "No" because I don't think anybody should be turning a game they enjoy into a slog of things that they feel obligated to do.

It probably is, but I admit, my Plant / Psi Permadom can easily keep two Spirit Tree's up at once, and that provides a TON of +Regen for a class that's normally low on self-heals. Esp since her Spirit Tree is six slotted with Preventative Medicine. Biiiig boost to the regen, and +8.75% recharge, and some nice resists on the side. I wouldn't want to lose that abiilty to double stack it for harder fights. Heck, I've been on Villain teams where my Dom IS the Healer, the Tree's are only maintence heals but that plus her lockdown makes it good enough to roll. Now, on my Dom, the recharge is good enough I don't worry about whether the trees follow me around. But for a Trapfender or other build at lower levels? I've been hesistant to place it "wrong" and it ended up becoming "Too Cool To Use" except for the last final fight of the mission.

I want a series of 8 or 9 doors. Maxwell Smart style.

Honestly I'd like to have a few Rogue story arcs where yea, you're a mercenary, but you have the OPTION to go with it heedless of who is harmed, and you have the OPTION to say "No, that's a line even I won't cross" and have options to work to foil your employer's schemes (and if you should happen to loot his bank account while you do it, well, that would be a happy coincidence....)

I'm not gonna say thank god not all heroes are like that. I am gonna say thank god each player can create a hero of whatever type they want. You want to be a noble hero like Cap or Supes who never falters, and always stays true to their ideals no matter how dark and gritty the world they find themselves in. You do you. It may mean you never get a Patron Pool, but hey, only about half my VILLAINS even use a Patron Pool. I'm often happier with the Ancillary Pools. And Concept > All Else, anyway. You want to make a Doctor Doom or other no-bones-about-Bad-Dude character, who always stays Villain and never chooses Rogue? You do you. Some of my villains are out for total world domination. Some because they just want it. Some because they feel they alone can guide humanity to it's proper destiny. One of my villains looking to outdo Thanos, and are on quest to cull the worlds human population. She'd like to drop human total population to just around 1 million hunter-gatherers, everyone else dead. And she considers that merciful, to give humanity a second chance to live in proper balance with nature. (proper balance as she sees it, of course) You want to make a scoundrel who has no problem being a con-man, no problem with robbing banks, but will draw the line and refuse to do anything that would harm kids or hospitals, and even has contacts and friends and family and entire neighborhoods that they hold dear and don't want to see harmed? You can do that. You want to make a character who is Sick and Tired of the legal red tape and due process and thinks its high time good guys took off the gloves and started going at Mafia Bosses and Drug Cartels in the only language they understand? You can do that too.

Having Triage Beacon follow you, (aka, Triage Drone) might be better. Then you could still create a second one while the first is still active, if you have enough Recharge. Although that might have it's own issues, if you WANT to place it as a specific location and have it stay there, even if you personally backed away from it.

Absolutely. I've seen some "your jaw will hit the floor" creations for SG bases, that I'm sure people are just super proud of and want to share. I mean, if I had even 1/8th of the skill of Bob Ross or some other painters, Damn Straight I'd be putting my work up somewhere where people could ooo and aaah at it. Answers will no doubt vary. in principle, I don't object to additional community tools. Batman may have his Batcave, but he may allow select other people to visit it from time to time. He's probably never going to have a full on Block Party with the GPS coordinates on an invite posted all around Gotham City though. Similarly, some people will be selective who they want to come visit their SG (just SG members) and others will actually WANT something closer to a block party. that said, these days I'm very reluctant to join permanent guilds or associations iwth other players. I personally am content to just use the community of Help Chat, and General Chat, and my Friends list. I would probably accept a Coalition invite if one is ever sent to me, but whether or not I would eventually withdraw from the Coalition would depend on how the rest of the Coalition acted. If it was just another chat channel to socialize in, or "hey if anyone has a free moment, could you do XYZ?", I'd be fine with that. If someone tried to start beating the Raid Drums and kept telling people to come join their iTrial or Hami Raid, I'd exit the coalition and never look back.