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Levitate can be nice because it's Smashing damage for those pesky robots and Banished Pantheon zombies that take verrrry little damage from Psi. Also the flip up and knockdown is a few seconds where you can put a loose mob under control without it beating upon you. Totally agree on going wild with Confuse. having an AE to go with it to tag mobs is also nice, but evne if a few here and there are 100% killed by other confused mobs, even if it costs a few xp per kill, you get a lot more xp per time. and it's just plain FUN 🙂

I also main'd an Enchanter back in the EQ days, and my main character was specifically chosen to emulate that. Mind/Kin Controller Mezzes (sleeps), Charms (Confuse), Stuns (Holds) Slows + Hastens (Siphon Speed, Speed Boost) Enemy Debuffs (Siphon Power, Fulcrum Shift) Team Buffs (Siphon Power, Fulcrum Shift, Increase Density) Mana Replenishment (Transference) Never regretted it once. It is true, Mind does not get permanent pets like Fire, Dark, and most other (all other?) control sets. But c'mon if you Charm Solo'd at all in EQ, you can totally do this in CoH. And you'll probably have quite a bit of fun, though it might be a little iffy getting off the ground at first. Full disclosure, Confuses are among my most favorite powers in the game. I am entirely biased on this matter.

Hephaesto, my Fire/Thermal Corruptor back on Live, became a Fire/Fire Sentinel here. He's FAR more what I wanted the original character to be. A well nigh indestructable being of living steel and fire, but who throws fire and sets things on fire, but doesn't magically summon fire swords. If Sentinels existed back when City of Villians was first released, it's exactly what he would have been. Instead, back in live, I had to choose between making him tough like a brute, or being able to throw fire but being squishy. He worked as a Corruptor, but I was never really happy with it.

I would love this. I'm sure it would be.... Unfun... to code. I think some animations / powers are regrettably intertwined. But the biggest reason I have never made a Tri-Form character is I *hate* the look of the squid. I know, lots of people love it, and all power do you. It doesn't do it for me.

This is true. I have switched costume colors sometimes when making a new character because of this, or gone to helmets / hoods.

Given that every other badge is Ouro-able, or has some other equivalent thing like Villian Disruptor to go and get Safeguards you missed, I can't think of any reason this one arc should be held sacred and special. If it would really offend the sensibilities of the devs (and I doubt it would, they enjoy this game too....), but if for some reason there was concern over "watering it down", "making it worthless"....maybe something like scale everything to 44 force exemp to 44 so you *have* to do it without Incarnate powers? Because that seems like it would ramp up the challenge a fair bit, while still allowing people to take another spin on the wheel later if they lost power or real life exploded in their lap in the middle of a mission.

For all that I see Lethal damage panned, my Claws scrapper has never felt weak. I mean, I won't turn down a buff... but I can't say i've felt like it was needed.

That's further than I'm willing to go. I can sort of see it for ONE SINGLE character. But "name-squatting" for a character I've created and just havent' played yet, is one thing. Reseving a character name, or several names!, on a server I don't even play on... that would feel wrong to me. I guess it does depend how much you bounce around various servers though. I tend to be only on Excelsior.

I wouldn't leave.... but I might simply retire characters rather than accept having to rename them. Depends on the character. About 12 of my character names I am VERY firmly attached to, because I had those names on Guardian back in Live. Even having to change spelling or add an extra word in front of them would distress me. I'd see if I could move them to another server and rename them, and if I could not.... they would simply be parked forever, and I would focus on other characters. I'd also probably take a 2-3 week break playing Civ IV BTS while I /pouted and railed against FirstWorldProblems, until I got back on and played the characters whose names I could keep.

Same. Although I will say, I get teams WAY FASTER, if I post in chat that I'm forming one, as opposed to waiting to see an LFG happening for what I want to do.

I absolutely LOVE /SR. The only bad thing about it? Every power is good. Every. Power. I always take all 9, for every SR character I make. Makes it very difficult to work in pool powers. I honestly forget how I managed it back before Inherent Fitness. I probably just didn't have more than one Epic power. The Scaling Resist in the passives, plus the Scaling Resist IO in Reactive Defense, plus the 5% Resist all PvP unique, plus Tough, plus set bonuses? It's not that hard to build up some good resists to pair with your defense.

Mocking Beratement has some nice Typed Defense.

I'm sure it's too many years of being Guild Main Tank in WoW, but the idea of making a Tank and not taking the Taunt power for an oh-sh** option just leaves me flabbergasted. I can see delaying it .... a little.... if there's other powers you feel like you need first. But not taking it at all? No. Not a thing that I could ever consider on any Tank/Brute character of mine.

Technically the Homecoming Dev team doesn't have "rights" to anything, not until there's a signed agreement with NCSoft. Hasn't stopped them thus far. I don't see it stopping them until/unless an agreement is signed. However, given that they cannot allow themselves to make a profit, resources and man-hours are never going to be there to crank out content as if they were a AAA gaming company. Anything and everything we get, is gravy, and should be appreciated as the gift and labor of love that it is.

Heck the seeded quantities were so darn big they ain't going away anytime soon without dev action. I'm fine with the billions being there at the "failsafe" price for the duration.

It's a somewhat obscure movie, but "Real Men" (1987, Jim Belushi, John Ritter), had a few scenes where one of the character makes a gun with their fingers and yells BANG!.... and the target gets shot. To the original post though, the PPD Hard Suit and PPD Shells do have the wrist mounted firepower already. Admittedly, I've picked up enough to know that not every NPC move / animation is an easy-peasy port to players. Horrific Spagetti Code (with a nice vodka sauce....) FTW. But it might be a decent starting point at least.

more choices is good. I'm pretty well attached to the Metallic staff though, once it clicked "Babylon 5, Minbari Fighting Pike"

Fair enough.

Worked well enough in some old movies, at least for robots 🙂

Actually, I'd like to see Teleknesis changed from a Toggle Hold to a Toggle Immob + To-Hit Debuff, in exchange for having the Repel effect removed. I do not see this happening anytime soon. But I think it would be a valid interpreation of the power.... the Mind Controller is holding you mostly immobile with his mind, you can kind of attack but it's hard to be accurate when you're struggling to move so much... and would make it something that would have a chance to be useful in FAR more situations.

Sleep is a situational power. It's wonderful at the end of Posi 1 if you have your Friendly Neighborhood Mind Controller who can AE sleep the Shadow Team, and then you can pick them off one-by-one. It buys you time if more groups are added than the team can handle. Soloing, it, similar to Immobilize, is a form of control that EB's and AV's do not have special protection against. This is *extremely* important for those few control sets that do not GET an immobilize. I'll agree that sleep is useless if you only play in high end teams that race around the map nuking every spawn to death in 2-4 seconds, but Sleep has it's uses in a variety of other situations.

I seem to have gone deaf for an evening after that thunderous sound. 🙂 I do like the idea of creatures needing to spend more time to get back up. I ... suspect it was discarded as being near perma-able in some cases. At the very least, if it were added, the time spent getting back up would likely need to be un-enhanceable. Or you'd have a pair of Stormies using Gale alternating casts and leaving every single spawn utterly helpless for an entire TF. That said, despite still recovering from Galaxy Brain's shout, it *would* provide a nice extra mechanic to make KB vs KD a tactical choice and sometimes wanting one vs the other.

I suspect he may be thinking of Seeds of Confusion, which.... is... honestly overpowered. I mean, I love my Plant/Psi dom, and I would weep if Seeds were seriously nerfed, but if I'm gonna be remotely honest with myself it's ridiculous how strong the power is for so short a cooldown. However, IF anything is to change, I think it should be targetted at the problem power in question, not a fundamental rewrite of an entire mechanic. Agreed wholeheartedly. I hereby sentence @Lusid to level up a Mind Controller, without teaming and without being able to afford Proc's, all the way to 50. Okay, I can't really impose any kind of sentence on anyone but really... Lusid....I do not think you appreciate how badly this would cripple controllers. Also controllers already *have* a random chance to get increased cc magnitude, and that and the Lockdown Chance for +2 Mag Hold leave me plenty confident enough to solo bosses on a controller. Maybe not an EB or an AV, but Lusid's suggestion would mean my Controller could lock down and EB and then be unable to deal enough damage to kill it before I run out of endurance.

Both Knockback and Knockdown are fine. Both have thier uses, neither one should be removed. Soloing, Knockback, properly used, can be *excellent* damage mitigation, Not only do they have to stand back up again, but you sent them sailing out of melee. They might take a pot shot at you with a pistol, but they're not going to be able to WHOMP you with a sledgehammer while they're 30 yards away. Not to mention sometimes you can deliberately send someone off a roof or over a ledge to buy yourself LOTS of time to deal with his buddies. Grouping, most teams would vastly prefer Knockdown. and, grouping, so would I. a) you usually aren't in a situation where you have ot use pathing and geography with knockBACK to save your butt in groups. KnockDOWN is fine for short term disruption of incoming attacks without causing grief for melee or for AoE attacks. And man, you should see a Stormy using Gale slotted with 1 Acc and 1 KB-to-KD and decent recharge. That can stop a TON of incoming damage if you cycle it, and it's just hilarious seeing like 14 Freakshow all flop to the ground, all at once.

I was looking to make a Shield Defense character with a Loyalist Emblem on their shield.... Cole's.... the large star superimposed on top of a Wreath. You can't do it. It's not an available option. Neither is the Resistance symbol. These are of course, very low priority "It would be nice if" and I'm sure there's many bigger fish to fry. But I'm hopeful these would be relatively tame to code.