Greycat

It's not "lose a damage slot," it's "losing functionality I have to do something else to get back." On top of dictating slotting.

Yeah. Seeing a team flop out the reactor doors on a failed respec when *your* team was about to go in...

Which I'd give a hard no to, thanks. I should not have to slot to get functionality back I currently use. The only time I'd say "yeah, that KB should be KD by default" is when it's used by pets/summoned things you can't control (including MM pets.)

I'd have to agree with "Leave states dead." I don't, and never did, hate the character. He just did nothing to impress - and honestly, I kind of liked the "OK, you can rest now" during his death. He'd been heroing for decades. That said, some "in the past" arcs where you're fighting alongside him or helping or something via Ouro? I wouldn't argue. He's in the middle of lore moments like the first Rikti invasion, the Nemesis invasion, discovering 'dyne's "see other dimensions" (at least what I gather from boomtown plaques) properties and more. Plenty to work with.

I have to admit, my recollection in the early game was more "Oh, sure, statesman did stuff. Hmm? Yeah, he's ...er... around. Somewhere. I'm sure." Then you get to the 45-50 range and it's "Oh. Er, by the way, he's been captured by his evil double in Praetoria. Could you be a dear and go rescue him? Thanks." Basically a lot of tell and no show.

I still say the all-Kheld Yin should just be referred to as a Kheldyin from this point on. (And it was a lot of fun.)

... which is a strange thing to say after pointing out they're adding content... Regardless, remember. They're a small volunteer team trying to (and managing to) do a lot. We're not going to get 4 issues a year, packed with powersets, tons of arcs, etc.

Well, if you do the arcs (working with Lt. Lovesick With A Tacky Hat,) you do - or work your way towards it, but I don't think there's a contact right after...

Hmm. Not sure where I'd put slow - though it's usually not just slow but -rech as well. I do like it as a secondary effect on my Warshades (with pretty much every attack,) and I certainly don't mind it on my ice or poison using characters. Good for both offense and defense.

Mm. Definitely. Though I don't think they really expected it to be "rare," after all we've been using the same mechanic to update enhancements ... pretty much since the beginning. And combining *then* was as annoying as the boosting you're doing *now.* So it's not a new problem. For boosting (and for that matter catalyzing,) I'd love to be able to click a button and say "boost all" and/or "catalyze all" and just have it done.

Both. They do different things. Aside from the previously mentioned -def, you can place Quicksand if (say) you're expecting an ambush - not only will it slow them down and give a nice bit of -def, but because the front mobs are slowed first, it'll bunch them up as they come in for AOE goodness, which both you, solo, and the rest of your team can appreciate. (Though, to me, it's more of a "take now" than mud pots.) Earth/earth? Drop QS, volcanic (keeping them there longer,) then head in with pots for damage. (Or, given the upcoming teleport changes, drop them all under you and yoink the enemies around you straight into them en masse.)

I'm generally not a fan of illusion, honestly (... despite having a few,) but I've got to say Poison and Storm are my favourites to play...

Seconding that. Not sure why that never got fixed. It's at least as old as Cimerora. (Issue release, not "back in ancient rome, computers had many problems and maps autozooming ... ok, wasn't one of them. But would have been if they had electricity and the internet.") I think the only other things that come to mind are that we don't really have scaling elements (or I'm missing them) - some of the small buttons were fine in the days of 800x600 or 1024x768, but with HD, 2k, 4k and above monitors, they're *tiny.* That and we don't have the ability to lock *trays* - we can lock powers IN the tray, but can't lock individual (or all) trays to keep from accidentally switching them with the arrows. Hmm. What else. Base storage. There's no easy "Set all" and/or "Change default" for storage items. You put down eight enhancement storage tables, for instance, you have to go to each one and set every rank (or whatever you want) to "get" and "put." Oh, yeah. My typical UI: Team or League tends to go on the left. If I'm a MM, minions go on the right.

I don't know if there's a technical reason it's not there or it's just "they didn't get around to putting it in" (given how late Absorb came around, I'm suspecting the latter) but if possible, yeah.

I don't know that I'd rank them. They're all situational. For instance, I can Sleep the patrons/heroes in MLTF/LRSF in one hit. I can't do that with a hold. They ignore my KB. Sleep will also shut down a Dispersion field, and even if the enemy is immediately woken up by an attack, they don't put that out right away again - making it easier to defeat everything else (and not have it mez resistant.) People get so hung up on "but it's broken by damage" and ignore the other things it does. KB can help position, which a hold won't do (... well, telekenesis, but hold's just part of that power.) Confuse is more useful than others when faced with a buffer/debuffer - sometimes. Knocked up will take an enemy off the field for a few months, and may lead to some awkward questions, especially if the enemy is male and winds up in that state. (Let's not get into robots and ghosts.)

WIth the hundreds of alts I had on live, and 100 here? Sure. Doesn't help that I play quite a few Kheldians...

The only thing wind control inspires in me is comments about it being broken.

SG night - nope, easy choice. Other than that? Depends who I feel like playing. I'll sometimes spin the (mouse) wheel and pick from my... hundred or so that way.

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I did say for the most part. That said, I've seen people come up with some interesting ways to make these "not the expected origin." Turning beam rifle magic's the most obvious one, alongside demons/zombies actually being tech or science constructs.

It is not a wormhole replacement by any means. Wormhole's got longer range and flexible mob placement. This just yoinks whatever's in 100 ft to you. Epic, as used in terms of Epic ATs, means tied to a story - IE, Epic of Gilgamesh.

I know in thUS, the thing right now is "Go Vote!" Right here? "Go test!" And unlike voting, do it often! 🙂

I think both of these have been suggested several times. Probably the broom less. 🙂 I wouldn't argue with them.

This has been talked about for over a year. Posted about by the devs saying "This was not supposed to be player facing and will go away." They could have just shut it off at any point -but now we have multiple ways of getting around. Free power that will take you anywhere you spend a minute getting explore badges from. Plus multiple replacement powers, in both P2W and day job form - Base and supergroup portals/tp still let you put in a code. (Hmm. Didn't test. Could these be macro'd to pass along a base code? Devs?)

... I've spent enough time around badgers to "get" that. Sort of. That said, the current (live) LRT doesn't give you every zone. It's fairly limited. If you go into a zone for something, you can spend - two minutes, perhaps, aside from Nerva and IP (long) or the Shard (... the shard) getting the explore badges and end up with a custom list for that character. (And I'll say, as someone with 100-ish alts already (and growing) I already do this just for the merits. I always seem to find a few minutes I'm doing nothing in, or see I'm 5 or fewer mertis away from something I want, run to a zone, grab the explores and get it done. Nothing says you HAVE to do this all at once.)