Greycat

Hmm. Upper ranks: Banished Pantheon. They not only willingly worship and serve deities that celebrate and feed from negative emotions, but sacrifice people and spirits to them to feed them and bring them to Earth. These deities were bad enough to have *every other god* band together to defeat them and banish them. Nictus. Out of interest of just extending their own lives, they deceived their own (former) kind and started a war just so they could kidnap and eat them. They developed a device to siphon off Kheldian life energy from light years away to feed themselves. They'll deliberately keep other beings weakened to use them as, essentially, motels and take over, instead of work with, their hosts in some instances - either by force or by slow whispers. Mu. Yes, part of Arachnos, but should be considered separately (they consider themselves apart, at some level, at least.) Deity says "Go forth and perform genocide," and they're perfectly happy to. Even thousands of years later. Flip side of that is why I don't really consider COT *as* evil as the others. Yes, they're stealing bodies and souls now and yes, evil... but they're doing that because they lost theirs because they *wouldn't* slaughter innocents. I see them more as tragic - leading to a bad end, yes, being stuck as bodiless spirits for thousands of years twisting most of them. Vahzilok, just for the lack of humanity and seeing people as parts. I should put a mention here of some of Crey's newest dialog we see with them surrounding civilians (and unconscious/dead ones) at least in Bricks, and some question of what's going on with their tanks... which some of the dialog makes sound not-completely-voluntary (or at least not what they signed up for.)

The main issue with this is that origin is decided at character creation and, along with AT, primary and secondary, cannot be changed - and we now have literal millions of characters out there. And there are people who are very invested in both min/maxing and concept. Sometimes simultaneously. 🙂 While an interesting idea, and I get the urge to do *something* with origin, I'd think something like this would be problematic. At the *very* least, it would make people ignore the set because they don't want to "mess up" their character. (This aside from mechanical things like "How does an enhancement turn a travel power into an attack?" and whether that would be desirable or not. Which would be two *other* conversations and probably interesting to explore regardless.) This aside from your ideas of what each origin is not meshing with others ideas and concepts. For instance, Peacebringers were Natural origin - and they don't do Smashing, they do Energy damage. Why? Because that's natural to them. A creature made of fire would probably do Fire damage, because that would be natural to them. A wolf would likely do Lethal using teeth and claws. "Natural" doesn't mean "Natural human." Same with Tech - why that concept and not a taser, which is tech, doing energy, or something that sets things on fire, or creates a portal.... That said, I've wanted some damage-typed enhancements that (for instance) added a bit of Energy, Fire or Cold (for instance) to attacks - though I tended to think of them as a generic piece, versus part of a set. That leaves the "My character does X" in the hands of the player, rather than having a decision about something they can't change that they made potentially years ago have this sort of effect. If something like this were added, I'd probably just have it do "additional whatever-you're-doing-now damage." (I'll leave discussion on if that would be balanced or not to others.) Last thing, I don't know if sets can have a seventh (or higher) piece, but that in and of itself might start opening up the "build diversity" a bit and have people looking at sets that are currently less desirable if they can boost other stats in them. Especially older sets.

Yeah, right now "optional" is "Leave the group they're in alone until last." Especially when NPCs can get killed- on top of their "I'm gonna aggro ALL THE THINGS!" - having an option to say "Y'know... I've got this, just go" would be nice. Granted there are some you can't because, unfortunately, you need them (Lady Jane) but ...

There's precedent for it in the fighting pool, where punch and kick reinforce each other and cross punch. Are you looking at corruptor/defender or mastermind versions? Or doesn't matter?

*Rolls new alt, Mandarin Fricative. Makes it a scrapper just because.*

... sounds like how I do it. I tend to think of it like... pretend you're making a sound like someone tapping a high hat on a drum kit. Starting with that slight, kind of hissy "ts." At least that's how I've pronounced it. (And I remember going through trying to find appropriate names back on live for that Tsoo Faced AE arc.) (Honestly, the one "non european" name that will always get me when I read it is Nguyen. I've heard it as noo-yen or nyo-wen... and it'll always take me a second to process.)

I have the one from the DVD Collectors Edition, but it's labeled "Quick start manual," so I don't know how much of a difference there is... There's also this: http://www.cityofheroes.ca/game_info/official_guides/official_city_of_heroes_manual.html Which has a link to this PDF: http://www.cityofheroes.ca/global/includes/pdf/CoH_Manual.pdf

It's actually kind of fun (depending on your mindset regarding such things) to at least set up and run one, even if it's just you poking around - provided you have some space and a beefy enough machine to do so (though you can set it to load just the zone(s) people are in, versus every map, too, which helps on lower spec systems.)

Hey, hey, this is not that sort of game. 😉

Only thing I'm strongly feeling is a "no thanks" to replacing the taunt with anything. I use it as is, and tend to Brute more than Tank or Scrapper. Other than that, interesting ideas throughout on tweaking and adjusting Fury. The Fury mechanic I think is why I just like Brutes... I've had the same set pairings on Brutes and Scrappers and I'm pretty sure it's the "feel" of Fury I prefer on the Brutes (to where I've converted some characters that were scrappers on Live to Brutes.) I'd hate to lose that feel in any sort of rework.

I mean, that'd depend on the person who makes it wanting to do it for starters... But Michyo's City Mod Installer 😄 takes care of that "which version?" pretty well. (If anything, I'd say *that* should be part of, or at least somehow linked to, the launcher.)

No skill in creating tools for either, but those imply foundations for some exciting things - hope you get some great people 🙂

Yeah, been asked for in various guises before. Still for it, at least as a concept. And actually, yeah, as much as I love my snipes - and wish they could be kept "slow" - I have a hard time seeing a toxic blast snipe, thematically. (And not all blast sets have them anyway, even ignoring sentinels.) Honestly, I wouldn't mind a "toxic themed powersets added" patch. I'm personally waiting for a toxic armor.

I'm assuming you're looking at this as part of, say, a power pool that's energy themed? If so, I'd almost split the two into two different powers in there. Warp Beam being (from the description) somewhat like combat teleport, but doing damage in between. Warp Ball I could almost see as, or tied into, picking up the last power of the set and having that power have some effect on the others - in the beam's case, the ball. (Likely some sort of endurance modifying controls as at least one other power.) As far as "an enhancement to give it any type of damage..." unfortunately, outside of procs of various sorts (like the Postiron's Blast one that does a chance for energy damage,) a generic "damage type" enhancement doesn't exist. I'd *like* to see it, and have made suggestions about it in the past - though I don't think they're quite the same as what you're looking at.

... which does bring up another point. Is it time to go through, look at the sets (especially the early ones and/or least used ones - how many snipe sets in general get used?) and remove them from the drop table? Since some people may want to use them, or frankenslot with them, keep them available at a vendor or vendors, but start a project to revamp or replace them en masse? (Granted it'd take time to do, this wouldn't be Patch Day = a thousand sets moved to a vendor, with replacements in the drop table, after all.)