Greycat

No, we're not. I can see when someone's so against something they won't bother listening and is not worth attempting to discuss anything with. *shrug*

Right, and I was saying (alternatively) to have VS's attacks chain (since, hey, you know it's there, and since it's already got that cast time/duration...) and perhaps give that buff to AOEs while it's there or for 20s. The reason I'm iffy about adding that chance to chain for all attacks is that I'll usually end up casting it just prior to trying to pull something out of a room and not wanting to chain then (it'd be within that 20s.) Of course, I could just cast afterward then, couldn't I. 🙂 Disregard the objection then. Works either way!

Misremembering the chance on my part, then. My apologies, carry on.

You have not played with me, quite obviously, here or on live. Again. You don't like it. Fine. That's your choice. It is not a universal truth that it's "a negative." And what "shouting?" I've done nothing but post calmly. If you believe otherwise, notify a mod.

No thanks to that. (I use VS frequently. Pre-Defiance 2.0, it was how I attacked while mezzed.) Now, if you want to make *VS's* attacks chain, sure. I'd be for that. And/or have VS add that to AOEs.

No, you didn't. Just because *you* don't like it and/or have run into people who can't use it well doesn't mean it's useless. Please don't "fix" posts.

.... unless you're trying to pull. (And I could just hear DFBs then. "ANyone but electric, DFB, we're doing a badge run!") 🙂

Not exactly correct. Enemies *completely* defeated by other enemies (IE, you confuse them and just let them go) give no XP. (The same holds true if they're just fighting each other as is, without player input.) Do some damage, get XP.

Why should my energy baster have less chance of knockback - which I use defensively and/or as a soft control? (Not to mention the thematic feel of a blast hitting an enemy so hard it sends them flying.) Right now, I already *can* control my knockback - by positioning, by selectively reducing it by IOs, or by firing by above, turning KB into KD. Were this implemented, I'd have to reslot every KB using character with KB IOs, which would be highly annoying.

I use teleport not just as a "get across the zone" travel power, but positioning in missions. I can target something on another level and appear right next to them from right below them, for instance, not giving them a whole heck of a lot of time to react. Working as a click power is what lets me do this. It sounds like what you're suggesting would not allow this.

There are some clues in missions that reference things that either were put in game, or were meant to and never did get here. Who remembers what some of them were? Asking because I just ran the last mission from Wincott, where you recover some magic items from the Outcasts. And I started drawing a blank on what they were supposed to be tied to. 1. Worn Tome - You recovered this worn and moldy tome from an Outcasts' hideout. The strange, rusty red text appears to be Russian. 2. Strange skull - you recovered this skull from an Outcasts's hideout. It is highly similar to a human skull, but the bones are much thinner and fragile. (I believe this was supposed to be the Avilian AT - the one that got dropped when they got wings to work.) 3. Coral bracelet - You recoverd this bracelet from an Outcasts' hideout. When you touch the beads, your finger begins to bleed. (Coralax?) I remember one from a cargo ship where some scientists brought "something" up, I *think* it was supposed to be a servant of the Coralax (these had another name, L-something, I think) when that was going to be an AT instead of just an enemy group. ... found it in my old guide, the VIrtea. I think there were more hints like this (like the Eye of Horus in the Oakes oil spill, pointing at the BotBS,) but can't recall them all.

Which ones are left? Or do you mean you want (say) "Mistress of Olympus" on a male bodied character?

I'm an altaholic. I create new characters, and sometimes copy old, live costumes over... which sometimes have issues. One of the things that gets to be a little tedious is related to the fact you start with so many costume slots at level 1. I'm *definitely* not complaining about that, mind you! However, you can't pick a pool power - say, a travel power - until level 4. In addition, depending on how old the costume is, for those I copy over (yes, I *do* have stuff stuck on drives, why do you ask?) some have had parts renamed or rearranged... which means they get set to something default that often looks nothing like what you had. (Faces are notorious for this.) I'd like an option in the costume editor where you could pick something (say, your travel power - super jump is good for this) and have a check next to it that says "Modify for all costumes." Yes, you'd be charged whatever you would be charged for 5-8 costumes, but you'd just have to change it in one. Same with other costume parts - everything should have "Face 19," say, so you can select it and just have it copy across all costumes with that head type. (It'd be invalid on, say, a full helmet.) Alternately, at least for new powers, have the option when selected to color (or set to minimal FX) the way you want it by default. Purely a QOL request.

Honestly? What you want sounds like something I suggested back on live in a way (not exactly, but...) Namely, creating some non-set IOs that give some percent of a damage type 100% of the time. So if you wanted your Fire blaster to also (for whatever reason) do Cold damage, it would... assuming you slotted one of these IOs. Unique to each other (so you couldn't load a blast with fire, cold, negative, etc. - you had to pick one,) but you could use as many as you wanted across powers (fire brawl, cold lvl 1 blast, neg level 2, etc or fire in all of them.)

Which is why I said I'd *expect* them to, using the way toggles currently suppress versus trying to set up an exception, versus what I'd like. 🙂

Nitpick on that screenshot. Yes, wolf spider armor gives it at level 1. The other two aren't available until the level 24 forced respec, where you unlock Crab or Bane. They may show up as "level 1" after that, but it's not a "real" level 1. (Which, I know. Po-ta-to, po-tah-to.)

There used to be a "Malaise" costume set or pattern... it was taken out ages ago on live.

YEah, demo editing used to be the way to go. I don't remember a thing about it these days.

Well, if starting on (and generally alwys considering it home) counts, yep... MB.

There's always "Play in conjunction with hold/immob powers." I mean, if you're hit with a force that *should* knock you back and you're held in place, that should do extra damage. Containment is a thing, after all...

A lack of aggro cap nearly made me leave the game out of boredom back in the day. Almost every mission was "Wait for tank to herd map, possibly with emp in tow. Wait for him to bring back to THIS SPOT and DO NOT MOVE. When the tank says so, one blaster can nuke. Next floor." It was *dull.* Sure, you got to stand there and talk - but that was about it. No thanks.

THat works. (Though if they do toggle suppression, I'd expect it to be like current (non shapeshifting AT) suppression - defensive toggles yes, offensive get turned off.)

If my choice is between prestige and creativity, I'll take creativity - which not having to grind away to get prestige enables. If it's "I want to brag because arbitrary number," I see no need for it. Prestige didn't show how good a group was. It just showed that it had a lot of prestige. Which could be because there were one or two busy farmers, or because "You're in SG mode or you're out," or because the group actually was active. It's a measure of nothing but itself, and certainly not something to brag about. I hated Prestige on live, even ignoring rent. It can stay the historical curiosity it is.

Going from rusty memory here - I think this was just before, or what led to, patron and/or power pools having five powers. The live devs were revamping patron pools and, of course, had them on test. They had massively changed or outright replaced some powers in those pools that, well, "everyone" knew weren't taken or were underperforming or whatnot. (I want to say Bile Spray for brutes was one and a shield in the Doms was another. Again, it has been a long time.) The backlash was *amazing* to behold - and that just from the people who bothered to actually go download the beta builds and test. Amazingly, people used and depended on those abilities. Had those changes gone live, I'm pretty sure the servers would have melted well into the mantle. And again, I'm fairly sure this eventually led to "OK, we're not changing or taking away a power, we're adding one - you have five to pick from," which eventually spread to the other power pools. In short, dev data or not, "everyone's" perception or not... that perception can be very wrong and make a lot of people very angry.

Actually... the Nictus did it to themselves. You could call them a "rogue party," I suppose. Wrote up a whole guide on it back on live. 🙂