biostem

Yes - Every bit as legitimate as a sword, a gun, a staff, or a mace. The only limit of what can be a "superpower" is your imagination.

And it is this sort of passivity that needs to be unlearned - why sit there in some queue hoping things will "pop" when a simple shout-out in /LFG will likely fill the team faster. It's an almost pathological fear of forming a team oneself...

I've been meaning to try my hand at creating a sort of "cosmic entity" character. I think this one turned out pretty well: "The Crystalveil":

Make the siphoning effect inherent to each attack - either as a guaranteed flat amount or a % chance. Have the buildup power simply push it to a 100% chance. Maybe trim the pause-like effect some of the powers seem to have between when the animation appears to have completed and the damage actually applies as well.

A "wand" set, sure. A "magic wand" set - no thanks. Just as we don't have a "magic sword" or "tech gun" set - the ones we do have are broad and general enough to encompass anything form an archaic flintlock, to a high tech energy pistol, to some sort of enchanted pistol-shaped object, so should be the case with a "wand"...

I usually request people with ranged attacks prioritize the surgeons, but there seems to be this overall attraction toward just hosing down the largest groups with AoEs, and ignoring those on the periphery - it's like some folks think they are being charged per power use, so can't "waste" any attacks on measly lone targets. That being said, I have also found that if you can get the team to chat during the TF, they will tend to respond better to anything said during it - if it's dead quiet and people are just sort of in autopilot, you'll get a similarly robotic response...

I hated it when matchmaking systems would finally pop, only for half the team to drop because they didn't like the particular team composition. If a person is willing to put themselves out there, stating their level, AT, and sometimes even powersets, then they are probably going to be a better teammate as well...

IMHO, people usually don't want to run content that often involves a fair bit of time commitment with "randos" that may or may not a) want to run said content in the same way, and b) may not have a more desirable AT or level composition. So, sure, if you don't care who you'll be teamed with, just queue up and see what happens, but don't be surprised if some want to speed ahead while others are underpowered relative to what may otherwise be desirable; Not wanting to waste one's time != "set in their ways"...

It's a cool design, but I don't think they'd add a special function for 1 specific power or powerset. I could kind of see it as a non-targetable, non-combat prestige pet or something, but even then, not an entire horde of them...

I'm not against your suggestion, but that would be better placed into the suggestions subsection. This is more for people asking for help designing a costume in-game, using what we already have...

Not to mention the myriad of ways that have already ben suggested to personally help out other players - get involved!

The problem is that your T1s are -2 to you, so they'd be -6 to +4 enemies, and AFAIK, that puts them firmly into "purple patch" territory...

There's nothing stopping YOU from taking a little time out of your play session to hang out in the starting area and giving a couple mil to a low level character that looks like they've put some effort into their character, (costume, bio, general good/earnest behavior, etc)...

Implement the OP's suggestion, but have it prevent the user or anyone recalled to them from being able to gain any badges or related accolade progress for 60 minutes.

Apparently it was a bad financial decision to try and market a line of magically animated toys that love their owners a little bit too aggressively, so they instead sent them out to deliver their unique form of love to bad guys everywhere... "Walloping Winnie":

For me, if I want damage and control, I'll play a control heavy blaster. I prefer controllers because I like having buffs/debuffs as a supplement to and a fallback for, my control abilities. I also feel like I'm more of a "team player" as a controller, (not saying dominators don't contribute, only that it's a perceptual difference to me)...

TL:DR - They're not implementing what I want, so I'm gonna complain.

His presence is a portent of great achievement or calamity; He is "The Maritime Beckoner" (Pyrotechnic/Marine Controller):

I'll go with my DP/Nin sentinel - also quite fitting.

Thanks for the correction. It was Nightstar whose mind was based upon or at least inspired by, someone else, (Dominatrix).

Can you please clarify. So someone sends me a tell. If I immediately hit backspace, it'll fill in /t for THAT specific person, and not someone that might have sent me a tell just after I hit the backspace key?

I believe they are entirely robotic, with Siege having his AI based upon Tyrant's brain patterns or some such. I think it's Malta [possibly?] and definitely the Nemesis War Hulks that have organic components.

OK, so I'm sure we've all experienced something like this; You put out a call for a team, and am getting tons of replies. You type /r for the quick response and it goes out to the wrong person. What I'd love to see is a similar quick-reply option that uses the time of when you typed the command contextually so it goes to the tell you received with the closest timecode (prior) to when you started typing said command. For example: /lfg Team lfm! /tell Person1 I'd like to join you! [this is where you type /r for some reason] /tell Person2 I'm in! /tell Person3 Invite meh! If you finish typing your reply and hit enter, it goes to Person3 under the current system. What I'm proposing is another slash command that looks at WHEN you started typing the proposed slash command, and figures out the correct person to send it to. Now, I realize I could have right clicked and sent that specific person a response, but especially if you're getting flooded with tells or there's a lot going on, it can be cumbersome to scroll back up and/or find the correct person...

She's the bug that zaps back - "Hornetta":

Because you're acting like I pissed in your cheerios when I suggested you could easily use both, then made a snide comment about "playing fast and loose" in response, as if my suggestion somehow disrespected your character or their concept. I never said you MUST play a certain way, nor did I suggest that the ultimate decision was up to anyone other than you. All you needed to do in your original post was to clearly state that you ONLY wanted to use one and never another, (or something to that effect, and the mere request shows that you ARE willing to change the color of their powers - if you were being true to your own claims, then stick to what you left the character creator with). Regardless, I'm done with you. Have a nice day.