Gorgar

If Clear Mind were a toggle, it would encourage teammates to stay near the empath.

I don't think it happens every time, but I've crashed to desktop twice upon hitting the middle mouse button while editing the base.

Is there a way to disable the camera snapback for Quick Look and the new default run forward behavior? As I get older, I find things like that induce a bit of vertigo. Playing the game is now unpleasant for me because of this. I hope there is a way to turn it off, preferably globally, as I don't want to have to load screens of characters to get rid of this.

I'm confused about the two-pass intent here. Sounds like the plan is to nerf a bunch of epic powers, then adjust later. Why not just figure out the right values the first time, and not change epics until you know what you want to do? Seems odd to nerf epics, have everyone who cares about that respec out of things, then buff some and people respec back. Kind of makes me want to just not play until they figure it out.

I would greatly prefer that they *not* do that. Different sets can play a little differently. Makes things more interesting.

Murder of Crows is really cool. Thanks!

I don't see a problem with it. It's not a huge bonus, and I don't think it's going to affect behavior all that much. I can't see alting for one PA from a task force if I'd prefer to play something else. If I don't mind, and someone else wants the extra PA, then sure.

I tested it on a mind/storm. I'm not really a fan, as it aggros the mobs without really doing anything much about controlling them. But, one of the reasons I play mind and illusion is because they *don't* have immob powers. That said, the grouping part is kind of nice. This might be useful on a team if you didn't take Fold Space and you wanted to shove some mobs at the tank. I'd probably rather see this power, minus the immob, in the Teleport pool. I liked TK as it was, an extra hold power. Also, this 30 seconds of toggle then dropping is a mechanic I dislike everywhere I've seen it: Afterburner, Phase Shift, now this. Weird quirk: while this power is active, if you hit one mob with Levitate, the whole group goes up and down, though it looks like only the target takes damage.

I have a few homages to favorite DC characters, but they're *very* loose allusions for the most part. No one has ever commented on picking up on the allusions. For one thing, the costumes tend not to match, and I don't name them after the original character. Generally they're named after songs, and their concept/personalities are a loose homage as reimagined for the name. In general I mostly came up with an AT and powerset I wanted to play, and the homage developed as I got to see how they played. Princess of the Dawn - inv/axe tank, mace/shield brute, kat/inv brute. Wonder Woman at heart, but just in white armor. Only visual cues are a tiara, dark hair, and the Hellenic Beauty badge title. Even in her brute forms, she's a tank at heart, and always takes leadership. Named after a heavy metal anthem by Accept. She started out looking more like Hawkwoman and always had wings, but the Princess thing sort of took over and she did start as a tank, so embraced the WW thing. Chord of Souls - dark/sonic defender, dark/dark controller. Nightshade from Shadowpact, but just looks gothic elegant. Named after a Fields of the Nephilim song, with pets named after a Sisters of Mercy song. Xiberia - mace/dark brute, db/will scrapper, db/will stalker, kat/dark brute. Hawkwoman (specifically from Hawkworld, where she's not as cheery). Another Nephilim song on another black and purple goth, with wings. Dark armor doesn't fit Shayera, but it goes great with mace, and I wanted her to fly, and she kind of developed from there and felt like the darker version of Shayera. Standing Horse - ill/storm. Phantom Stranger, but named after a guy who claimed to remember an alien abduction. Hawkwind put a clip of a speech about it in a song, and this is "what if that really happened, and it gave him strange powers?" He plays kind of like the Stranger: no buffs, goes off on his own a lot, doesn't team all that much. He lacks the signature hat, though. Shadowpaws - savage/sr stalker. Probably my most obvious homage, she looks more or less like Earth-2 Catwoman (the one that reformed and married Batman), back when she wore a purple dress and boots. Perhaps not coincidentally, these are some of my strongest characters, because I spent a lot of time on their builds, and it bothered me a lot when any of them didn't do well. I can't be playing a wimpy Amazon princess in spirit, now can I? Etc.

No question for me, my dark/sonic defender. I would miss the hell out of some others, but there's no contest: she's my favorite persona of the lot, as well as a capable soloist, great on teams, effective at any level, and just fun as hell to play.

Defenders (dark/sonic, thermal/fire, storm/dark) Brutes (mace/shield, fire/fire) Blasters (fire/fire, en/en) Stalkers (bs/da, savage/sr) Controllers (dark/dark, ill/storm)

I love to beat up wizards, and Croatoa is pretty much my favorite zone. Talos for utility, Croatoa for the mobs. CoT are just so smug that it's really satisfying punching them, and my SG is full of witches that think CoT use magic wrong and must be stopped. Almost every character of mine is magic origin, and Halloween is my favorite event. I think I was around for the first one, and Eochai impressed the hell out of me.

Making difficult content easy: dark/dark controller or dark/sonic defender Need a front line: inv/axe tank, mace/shield brute Damage: fire/fire blaster, fire/kin corruptor Am grumpy/bored: bs/da stalker, savage/sr stalker, ill/storm controller, dark/dark scrapper, storm/energy defender, en/en blaster Keeping tank or duo partner alive: emp/sonic defender, mind/emp controller, thermal/fire defender Need a tank but there are immob-happy controllers: dark/dark brute with fold space, fire/fire brute Lowbie TF (Positron or something): kat/inv brute, claws/wp brute, one of the "make difficult content easy" ones, fire/fire blaster I have other characters I like, but those are the ones I go to for those conditions.

Sure, this still happens. I don't like immob powers, so I sometimes have trouble with dominators and controllers. My dark/dark dom has Smite, and no other melee-range attacks. My bs/da stalker doesn't use the first sword attack. My ill/storm doesn't particularly want O2 or Gale. They're all fine powers, just don't fit into what I'm doing with those characters.

War Mace. I like it with DA enough to have both brute and tank versions.