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Not sure about Stalker. Pistols of any kind is firmly into the "Ranged Attack" group of AT's. Yes, there's a handful of melee range attacks... Spines has Impale, Claws has Focus, Staff has Serpent's Reach. But those aren't for a set-defining iconic attack like an Assassin's Strike. I think you'd be better off with a Dual Pistols / Ninja Training Blaster. Which you can do right now.

Sleeps and Immobs are two types of control that EB's and AV's aren't immune to. If you want to put more effects into Mezmerize and Mass Hyp, I won't entirely object. But DON'T leave a Mind Controller with NO WAY to park something that needs parking, Purple Triangles or not. And soloing, I'm quite happy using the Non-Aggroing Sleep nature of Mass Hyp to bypass mob that I dont' want to deal with. And as Greycat says, shutting down various armors is very handy as well. And an Immob ain't gonna do that, nor is a stun. If you can add something in without taking something away, I"m willing to talk turkey. But don't hamstring powers I rely on in the name of making them better. There's a bunch of Control Sets and no one who rolls a mind controller is going into it blind, you can see what hte powers are as you create your character. If sleeps were a major deal breaker for someone they just wouldn't pick the set. And I'm fine with that. I'd rather have some actual variation among control sets, even if some are pronounced better than others, than have everything overly homogenized.

One of my fav moments from live was joining a random PUG squad on my Controller. I think it was Peregrine Island. I know I was *right next* to them when they invited me. I joined, said "Heyo". The tank (In Granite Armor) then said "oh god ANOTHER controller? that's too many" I speed boosted him. "KIN!!!!!!!!!! HE CAN STAY! HE CAN STAY!!!" 🙂

.... and here I thought I was giving mez protection to the squishies. Aight, good to know. Maybe it should do a different color animation on primary vs secondary target then to clue us in that not everyone got all the effects. I guess from here on out, I cast ID on the blasters/other controllers/defenders instead of assuming one cast on the tank is enough.

Not gonna lie, most MM pets I don't care about, but I'm all "Noooooooooooo!" when I see a Beast MM's pets all yelp and flop down dead at once.

Although a Redside, "Sure Johnny, lets go watch Dad beat the snot out of the Paragon City Police and rob a bank", has a certain kind of #FloridaMan appeal....

I think a "Take Your Kid to Work" even event can be done well, with some kind of OPTIONAL quest line. key word "optional". If a player doesnt' want to start it by not going to City Hall / whatever place, let them opt out. let the player choose if it's "thier kid" or an orphan from the Rikti Wars / Praetorian Invasion / Something that they're taking under their wing. maybe turn the kid into a mini-contact, asking to be shown around to various places. You the player choose which places you want to take him to, you the player can say "Sure, Warburg? No Problem" or "Um... no, I'd like to keep you alive, thank you very much". Maybe a Hellion Golf Mission so you can show off for the kid in a controlled environment. Maybe a few Patrol Missions, etc. Maybe introduce him to other NPCs (Faultline and Fusionette would work well Blueside, redside umm....I dunno lol. Redside is not very kid-friendly, lets just say.)

No joke. It is in fact real. the screeny @Idiotfool posted is legit. The minature titan appears when you log in on any character. seems to be visual only. cannot be targetted or selected, and follows you around no matter what. Also, there is a Toy Bat temp power you can use to bonk people over the head with.

Never mind, even if you had a non-robotic character capable of even HAVING offspring, "okay, kiddo, lets go to the Shadow Shard!! Oh. You fell down into the infinite abyss. What you can't fly? not even Hover?". Or "Here's my kid, who I'm super-responsible for as a parent. Let's take him deep into Oranbanga to fight literal demons from literal hell, or into Dark Astoria to put him within 10 feet of lovecraftian elder horrors of the time before time...." Never mind if I were to somehow fall, the kid is TOAST. If you enjoy it, if you find it hilarious, hey, all power to you. I'm with Snarky. "immersion breaking" doesn't begin to cover it. However, since it's a short term thing, I'm not angry about it or anything. It's just a mental nails-on-chalkboard jarring that I can't simply ignore. So, tonight, I play Civ 4 Beyond the Sword. I'll be back in a day or two, no worse for the wear, no harm done from where I'm sitting.

I am told, this is just for April Fool's Day, and we got it a day early because that's how patches work. I suspect it will be gone Thursday. We shall see. [EDIT: It *does* look far more like a minature adult than a child.]

Increase Density (Kinetics) does buff all teammates (but not you) in a single cast, if they're in range. Just like Speed Boost. I main a Mind/Kin, really sure on this one.

Admittedly, this isnt' a voting matter as such, it's a decision for the GM's / Developers to make. But if it were a voting matter, I would say hard no on a pre-emptive change. First lets see how it all pans out. We don't actually KNOW that there's going to be a massive shortage yet. I can commonly buy 50 or more uncommon recipes (frequently Taunt or Stun or Pet Damage) for 3,500 to 5,000 inf (each) on a given night, craft them, convert them, and post enhancements that sell well.

I'm fine with getting notifications to go to the Hollows, or Faultline, or Striga, or Croatoa, or any place with an actual QUEST CHAIN. Do not send me to Perez Park or Boomtown or Crey's Folly or Eden. Once a contact has "Talk to the Security Chief" as an option I exit out and don't talk to them again. The very last "Security Chief" mission I did sent me to the Abandoned Sewer Network to defeat 40 Rikti. Never again. Never.

My Orc Prot Warrior, in Naxxramus. Good times man. Serious nostalgia with guild runs, and crossing that threshold from "we barely know what we're doing" to "aw yea, we got this". Oh, you mean tank powerset combo in City of Heroes? 🙂 Probably my Invul / SS. Total Tank-Classic, not a giant in terms of AE damage, but extrordinarily durable. Can sit there and take punishment for days without his hp's moving much. And with the IO's, he doesn't have a hole for Psi anymore, and has very high resist vs several types of damage. He just feels like the tank that you can smash concrete beams over his head, and he'll just smile at you and say "Bro, do you even lift?". Or fling anything at him ... fire, cold, negative, whatever... and you'll just make him mad.

I'd like to remove the Repel effect from TK. Keep the Hold, nix the Repel. Other than that, I don't think it needs any changes, not even to it's endurance cost. But if TK is kept exactly as is, I'd still take it. MOST of the time I need a "This Cannot Miss" extra hold, I'm indoors anyway, and it's not that that hard to position myself so there's a wall / corner to use the Repelling into. Sleeps, I'm quite happy with as they are. I don't think a Immob or Knockdown is needed. I would not argue against Mass Hyp reapplying a Sleep effect every few seconds. Not an immob, not a knockdown, not a stun. A SLEEP. Will this make Mass Hyp more popular in groups? Perhaps not. Do I care? No, not really. I main a Mind/Kin and between my Holds and Confuses and Fear, i can lock down groups when needed just fine. Sleeps are primarily to BYPASS a group you don't want to fight, and a short-term re-application of a sleep effect would be nice to stop accidental breaks. But I dont' think sleep should be meant to stick through sustained incoming damage. I'd like to see Mass Confusion, a T9, have a cooldown not so many times larger than that of Seeds of Confusion, which is available so very much earlier.

My only caveat to this, is that if you're using custom-tailored mobs that can only do one type of damage and you have built your entire character around being near-immune to that kind of damage.... that should NOT be counted as "harder content". Not even if the dfficulty setting is +4x8.

The downsides to /SR, in my book. Nothing is skippable except your T9. And me personally, I still like having the T9 as an emergency "Sh** Just Got Real" button. this makes it lots harder to fit in Pool powers you might want, and i find myself delaying taking a real travel power for quite awhile. related to the first point, /SR has no damage resist power at all. So to slot Steadfast Protection and Gladiator's Armor +3% defense alls? You're taking Boxing/Kick and Tough. As with any defensive class, early in, lvls 1-22, you just don't have enough Defense. This stops being an issue with SO's, and as you stack set bonuses. Expect to faceplant a few times along the way. It happens. You are largely a one-trick pony. But, there's good points, too. Sure you're a one trick pony. But it's a DAMN good trick. Super High Defense makes you lulz as Sappers miss you, Ring Mistresses miss you with their curses, etc. Many really annoying debuffs still rely on HITTING you, and they mostly won't be able to once into SO or better territory. You get more Defense Debuff Resist than anyone else bar none. Even if Cimorieans hit you a few times, you'll keep your defense in place and most of them will just whiff. Those passives? They come with Scaling Damage Resist, so as you get hurt you get harder to kill EVEN IF, something hits you a few times in a row. Get them. Also, get Reactive Defensive Scaling Damage Resist to add more to this effect. For Sentinels in particular, Defensive Opportunity also gives you some nice healing-on-tap that would make an /SR scrapper or stalker a bit jealous. That alone helps patch one big hole people point at in /SR and you get this straight out of the box. If you find that Defensive Opportunity is not enough, there is a rather expensive but nice option to handle your "maintenence" heals as you level. Panacea Proc, in Health. Constant periodic heals you up without you needing to do anything, and, will ease your END costs as you go.

Cygnus-X1, my Mind/Kin, lives in Steel Canyon, in comfortable walking distance to Paragon University where he taught for a long time. Trifid, my Plant/Psi villain dominator used to live in Talos Island but she's.... not really human anymore... and these days hangs out in Nerva when not plotting ways to cull the human race. Thundercrow, my Storm/Sonic, was originally a surfer dude slacker from Long Beach, and now has an Apt in Faultline where he sometimes jams with Jim and Annette. Feril, my Spines/Regen rogue stalker never had a home as such and has a lair deep below one of the Rogue Isles. Far down in the sewers, gets you close. But you can't get to it normally there is no physical passageway into the actual lair. You have to shift into the shadow realm and phase through some walls to find it. He can often be found in Cap Au Diable though, near the WSPDR building. There's 28 others, but you did say "mains" 🙂

I hope they finish and I hope it's a good game. Even more I hope they can stay clear of Microtransactions. I will never ever ever ever buy a game with microtransactions ever again. It colors the development angle to "how can we motivate people to buy" instead of "what makes it fun". I'm totally on board with a subscription fee if they need ongoing money. But not microtransactions.

Plant Control is mad crazy fun. You will not go wrong with Plant, either as a Dominator or as a Controller. Corruptor, maybe if you used Water Blast or did a Dark/Dark. But still, better on teams. Blasters, I would look at either Archery/TacArrow or Something/Martial. But fair warning, I have not gotten either one up past 20 yet. So maybe I don't know what I'm talking about on them. Stalkers are not squishy. Stalkers are every bit as scrappy as a Scrapper. ESP if you get the Stalker ATO's. And really, you should, at LEAST the procs, even if you got no others.

there's already an idle to read from a book when you're not fighting. having the book open to cast spells during combat... eh... I'm not a fan. I can see it as a power customization option, perhaps. Or maybe kinda like "Aura - Hands - Combat Only" kinda thing where if you choose it as part of costume customization you'd see it in combat. But even my magic-origin'd character, my headcanon from them is they know their spells back and forth and back again. They don't need to have the book open for crib notes. But if you were going with kind of a learning-apprentice type of angle on your character, I can see it.

I would like some alternate Fx for a few powersets though. Case in point: If I ever make a Stone Armor character, they will never take Granite Armor. They will get by with the lower-tier powers, because I didn't spend that long in the costume select to just run around as a stone slab. What's most useful or beneficial is entirely secondary to style points.

I have definitely used this to kite some bosses on my Praetorian Gravity / FF Controller. (no, maybe, not the best AT / powerset combo to solo praetoria 1-20 with, but I have to have one Praetorian of each AT....)

There are .... many.... threads requesting this exact change. I guess more never hurt if you really want to drive the point home, but this is a seriously pulverized deceased equine. Would I refuse a change like you outline? No. Do I think /Regen really needs it? No. I understand I'm probably in the distinct minority of that opinion, but I was charging into walls of 16+ council and freakshow and DE last night on my Spines/Regen stalker, aggro'ing packs of them ahead of the group and SOLOING packs of them if the group went right when I went left in Scrapperlock Mode, without even clicking Instant Healing. And he's only lvl 38. No incarnate powers were in play. He still has lots of slots left to go. And he's a STALKER for crying out loud. Not a tank. Not a brute. Admittedly, he is pretty well IO'd out. If you feel that all powersets must be balanced around SO's alone, okay, I can see where you're coming from. But frankly, you can do an awful lot with a /Regen, and when you stack up the set bonuses, your health bar will barely move when you do it.

Nothing. This is not a strike against other players. This is purely a defensive mechanism of my own. I get sucked into things and allow myself to feel obligated even when no one's asking it of me. And even more so when people ARE asking it of me. One reason I hung up the gloves after EIGHT YEARS of WoW was realizing I was literally scheduling my entire life around being there for the guild on raid nights (I was one of two main tanks). Visiting friends midweek? Nope not on Tues, Weds, or Thurs. And Saturday we either did a mop-up for leftover bosses or an "Alt Run". Going out for drinks after work? Monday or Friday sure, no other nights. Visiting mom and dad? "Can we do Sunday....?" Scheduling vacations to actually GO somewhere on a trip? I found myself giving my guildleader between 2 weeks and a month's advance notice. This was not asked of me by my WoW guildleader. She never insisted I do anything like this. But I did it anyway, because I was firmly in "I must not let the guild down" mode. Never again. Never. I will do just fine as a guild of one, thank you very much. Experimentally, anything else becomes bad for me. Is this a personality flaw of mine? Oh ya, you betcha. But just like a drunk needs to learn not to drink. I can't join guilds.