EmperorSteele

So, a Blaster Arch/TA will have the highest damage and a few unique tricks up their sleeve, but the debuff numbers are meh. Also get Munitions Mastery for concept TA/Arch Defender will have the highest debuff numbers, and slightly higher numbers for Stealth and Combat Jumping to bolster their own defenses. Arch/TA Corr won't be saddled by a wimp T1 attack, and seems like they'd fit square in the middle between the other two options. Or, if i wanted to be a masochist, i could roll a Petless Ninja/TA! Opionions/ideas? My only crutch is fitting in Stealth, Invis, and Misdirection, other than that, whaddya all think?

I agree with a lot thats been said: Synapse needs to deal with CKs hatred of Blue Steel. I actually wrote up what this would look like as a TF, but i dont think i ever finished. Citadel needs a few missions removed, and to make the rest more interesting. I dont even know what its supposed to be about! Don't we fight Citadel copies? Hess, ITF : i wanna fight the giant robots!!!!!

Shot in the dark: is your HD full?

Erm, not quite. See, when the power was made, it was LONG before IOs. It accepts jump sets (and as an extention, Travel sets) because it takes jump enhancements, so that you can slot it to jump 20 or 25 feet instead of just 15 (or whatever the numbers are, I'm on mobile atm). It is NOT a "travel" power. Turning on CJ and trying to get around Paragon City would be almost as much of an exercize in teidum as doing so with Hover (which accepts flight enhancements and sets, despite being slower than our basic run speed. I think we can all agree that Hover is not a "travel" power). Besides which fact is, if you want to jump around for your travel power, SuperJump is available at level 4 with no prerequisites. Your idea may have had merit back in the old days when SJ wasn't available until lvl 14 AND you had to take CJ first anyway to unlock it (well that or jumpkick, lol), but now? I personally don't see the point, sorry.

Despite its place in the Leaping pool, Combat Jumping is a defense power with a jump height bonus, not a travel power.

+1 from me, too! I'd love the "placate" animation for something like Mesmerize or Confuse, or a small head jerk to cast Levitate. Minimalist stuff like that would be gravy!

Can't you just summon your protector bot first, wait until he bubbles you, and THEN summon everything else?

To be faaaiiiir, even though "winter" doesn't start until late December, if you live in the North East of the USA (where R.I. is), then "winter" tends to unofficially start in like, November due to the massive amount of snow we -usually- get (the last couple years have been a bit forgiving in that regard). No one ever looks out their window on November 6th to see a bunch of snow and say "What lovely fall weather", they say "Yay/oh-oh/dammit (depending on disposition), winter's here!" Also, /jranger on calling it the Christmas event, even if it would be more accurate in an IRL sense. Over 30 holidays are celebrated between November 25th and January 1st, and most of them are just based around the Solstice anyway. No need to make any of our Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, African-American, British, Scottish, or Spanish fans feel discluded. That said, I'd be all for extending the "Winter Event" to like, March, or at least keeping the snow on the ground until then.

I know what you MEANT here, but, I think this blurb needs an editing pass 😃 That aside, I think we can all agree that some equalization needs to occur. However, I don't know if that means just equalizing the Animation times. I'd be okay with one primary doing more damage over another if animation, recharge, and/or endurance costs were increased to compensate. Of course, there's also the issue of stacking secondary effects. What keeps you and your team safer and more able to defeat enemies? -7.5% tohit, -20% defense, -100% recovery, a few ticks of damage, nothing, -25% recharge, just being asleep an unable to act until hit, or again -nothing? (That was all the primaries except illusion in Alphabetical order: Dark, Earth, Elec, Fire, Gravity, Ice, Mind, and Plant). If one of these has a more detrimental effect on a bad guy, and helps your team more, then that power should probably have a higher animation time, or recharge time, or endurance cost, or something of the sort to go with it. Since Grav and Plant have ST immobs with no secondary effect, they should probably have the fastest animation times, or have some other cost lowered. I'd argue that Dark and Earth have the effects that are most detrimental to foes, especially when stacked, so maybe they should have the higher animation times, so it's not so easy to stack those effects. And, I know we don't want to balance around IOs, but let's be real, the ability to load up more damage procs or other debuff procs into certain powers makes them much more formidable than the same power in a different set (as an aside, can the Earth control powers not be slotted for -Def or with defense debuff procs? Or is Mids being silly with me right now?) Muddying the waters, though, is that these debuff numbers are lower on Dominators, but still significant enough when enhanced or stacked. Perhaps some of these debuffs need an adjustment? If we convert these numbers to a D20 roll, -20% defense is like, a +4 to hit your foe. The -7.5 doesn't math out as well, but it's essentially just between a -1 or -2 for the opponent to hit you. That doesn't seem very equal. How much does the -25% recharge affect enemy combat efficiency? Like, have fights only been won because a bad guy could only get one rotation of attacks off, or has it not really deterred them from attacking? Or, do we not worry about the secondary effects at all, and just treat it like a small bonus for those who get it, and poo poo to those who don't? Should secondary efffects be added to those powers which don't have them? Of course, if we're doing that, then we need to look at the sets as a whole. Gravity gets more damage from its Impact mechanic, and Plant is already like, the best straight control set in the game (Illu beats is IMO, but it's such a different set that I think we can disclude it from this discussion), so as complete sets, they already make up for their lack of secondary effect in their immobs anyway, right? Ugh, I'm getting a headache thinking about all this. Or maybe that's an eggnog hangover, idk.

This all seems pretty cool! My main issue is that it seems both too niche and trying to do too much at the same time. PBAoE inherant effects with ranged OR melee attacks along with Armor OR pet-focused secondary... Also, when I think alchemy, I think of potions and chemestry and stuff. I know you SAID you took references from different places, but the reliance on FMA-style transmutation is a bit on the nose. It's like making an AT that has melee fighting with ki blasts and different from-armors and who get stronger whenenever they die, but then saying that its not just related to Dragonball Z. Even so, this looks pretty neat, I'd love to play it! You clearly put a lot of thought and work into this, and its definitly an idea worth pursuing, imo.

It's also not just up NCSoft. If you're on Twitch, it's against THEIR T.o.S. for you to stream content from pirated games or servers, which HC is. The only way this will be resolved is to get NCSoft's blessing on this whole enterprise.

I'm gonna sell the packs at just below HC's price. Winter packs going for 20m? I'll sell for 17.5-19m, though i have to see what people are willing to pay while others are doing the same thing, and what others are willing to sell at. I'm sure a few people will dump a bunch for like 10,000,001 and eat the loss just for lolz.

Have I got great news for you about hindsight!

Oh, yikes! Dunno how I got that mixed up, thanks! That woulda been super embarrassing, showing up a day late and standing there by myself for like an hour wondering where everyone else was!

One of my votes was also revamping TFs, as it's something I've been putting some serious thought into beyond "they should do something". I'll save the specifics for that thread, if it happens 😃

...you hafta work on a sunday? =(

The only problem with this request is that there was a LOT of drama going on at the time. Bad things were done, hurtful things were said... Re-treading the goings on, and who was involved, and who may or may not have done what, the WHYS of some of these events... It's stuff we don't need to dwell on. But unfortunately, there's no way to truthfully retell these events withOUT bringing these things up. From the moment SCoRE was revealed, to the coming together and splintering of groups, to various parties jockeying for recognition and developers... We got our home back, but it cost us (the CoH community) our soul. And that's just the preamble!

I agree with @Yomo Kimyata's basic point: we need moar stuff to buy and sell. We used to have that, but HC got rid of temp power recipes and put them all on F2W. Which is just as well, they either sold at vendortrash prices, or were hillariously understocked. So then, what else could we sell? How about a new breed of IO that needs Dayjob Salvage to craft. Dayjob Salvage would be just what it sounds like: an item you get for X time logged out at a DJ location (my thinking is about a week?). The new IOs would need DJ salvage from 3 locations, so you'd either have to spend 3 weeks just to craft one IO, OOOOORRR you could just use the market to get the ones you need... or just buy the IO at a markup. The big downside of that is it would just make things more complicated (also Dev time to create the new IOs and salvage), but it would certainly shake things up!

Looks cozy! Just, uh, don't let the cat-girls near it...

We're beating him up, not stabbing him in the back of the head!

If my character is from the 22nd century, is 21st century considered "retro"? =P

Edit: double posted on accident, sorry!

Man, why do people always want everything for no effort? Btw, still waiting for everyone to send me all their monies!

Display bugs aside, the only issue I have is that everything is either a) expensive or b) (essentially) vendor trash. It's hard to make a decent profit on anything that isn't a purple or a special proc/unique, so you kinda have to play converter roulette if you want to make some extra scratch. Is this really sustainable, only having a few dozen items (out of tens of thousands) that sell well? My solution to this issue is elegant and simple: everyone gimme your monies plz!

WHATS BETTER TO PLAY ALIANCE OR HOAERD?! ALSO HOW DO I BUY GOLD PLS K THNX!