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I'm surprised the Vanguard lore didn't get one, since Longbow gets a Cataphract...

After playing it for a bit, you become hyper-aware of watching how many stacks of static you have and recast Faraday cage a LOT! I prefer the set on controllers or masterminds, where you have more permanent pets available to target off of. I know defenders/corruptors can take the sentinel, but I don't care for it.

I rather like pain domination. One big thing for me is that, even with how good kinetics is, you sometimes want/need that heal that doesn't require you to target an enemy. Electrical Affinity is also very good, but it takes a bit to get the most out of the chaining effect.

It doesn't have to be aim, necessarily, but a toggle is more of a secondary power, (read: non-blast set power). Maybe something like: AP rounds: Click, +tohit, causes all attacks to apply a -res (all) and -def debuff on enemies for a short time.

The other question is whether there was some sort of "Paragon Village" or something beforehand, since the HC Wiki article mentions Colonial villages in the 18th century. The big coin in KR has a date of 1823, so maybe that's the first time it was officially dubbed "Paragon City"...

I'd love to see D.U.S.T. soldiers as options for these costume replacer items. I'd also like to see a Malta Hercules Titan, as well as a female Crey Agent and Paragon Protector.

I would rather forego the grenades, and make this a "pure" SMG set. What I would instead do is incorporate a variation on dual pistol's ammo type: 1. Single shot 2. Double-Tap - 2 accurate, moderately damaging shots, fired in rapid succession to the same single target. 3. Controlled Sweep (cone) 4. WP Ammo - click power, adds fire damage to all your attacks, and adds a small AoE component to single target ones. 5. Aim 6. Headshot 7. Flechette Rounds - click power, adds a lethal DoT and -res effect to all your attacks for a short time 8. Three-round burst - 3 devastating shots fired in rapid succession, at the same target. 9. Empty Magazine - You empty your entire magazine into all targets in a wide cone in front of you.

I'd love to see a special Vanguard Ancillary Power Pool added for all ATs. It'd require becoming a Member of Vanguard, which corresponds well with the level 35+ requirement of other such pools. I'm not going to break it down for every ATs, but here are a few examples of powers: Impervium Armor: Toggle, S/L/E resist. Willie Pete Round: Deals initial lethal damage, followed by a fire AoE DoT. SIGIL Round: Deals initial negative & lethal damage, and applies a -max endurance debuff for a short period of time. Psi Bomb: Ranged AoE, moderate psi damage and can disorient targets. Plasma Blast: Ranged, moderate energy damage, -regen. Bayonet: Melee, moderate lethal/energy damage, foe -res lethal/energy Tear Gas Grenade: Ranged, minor smashing damage, foe hold in an AoE. Flashbang Grenade: Ranged, -tohit, -defense, disorient. Defense Aura: I would change this a little from the NPC version, (maybe change the name too) - Make it a click power that deals minor energy damage, has a chance of putting enemies to sleep, drain some end, and debuff recovery. Have the chance to put enemies to sleep applied LAST, so they don't get immediately woken back up. There are also a bunch of repurposed claws attacks, which deal energy & lethal damage and apply a -res lethal/energy effect. You could also have one of the generic Vanguard soldiers as a temporary summon as the capstone to each iteration of this proposed set.

There's a giant one that emerges from the ground at the end of the Galaxy City tutorial, but I think it's just an upper body...

Don't one of the PvP zones center around the Shivans? I'm not against adding a Shivan GM in general, but I think you can find them elsewhere...

I suppose my concern was that the mayor or police chief would only really get involved in the truly critical issues. Even kidnapping, arson, or murder, in the scope of Paragon City, pales in comparison to the various alien/extradimensional invasions that happen so frequently. I wonder if something like you start by dealing with a mayoral aide, then work your way up to speaking with the mayor directly, could be implemented...

Maybe just have the effect apply to single-target powers, in that case.

Water blast and Seismic have their own unique variants, so I see no reason we couldn't continue that trend...

Or, while under the effect of aim, add a stun effect to all AR powers. Maybe call it "Shock and Awe" instead...

I wonder if individual sections/pieces an be sized independent of the main body sliders...

How directly involved in day to day activities would the major or police chief actually be, though? It would be interesting, though, if the major was something like a hero with duplicating powers, and you'd see a bunch of them all doing different tasks, though - then, maybe, it could explain why they'd be able to make time for us.

Agreed. Funny how they can't see that is exactly what they did, though... I guess it's par for the course. It's one of the pitfalls of trying to RP in an environment with no GM/DM who can rein in such behavior. Guess we gotta just take it in stride. I usually just chalk up such a character as being overly boastful about their own power, but I guess stating as such can further aggravate the other person, as you stated...

The alphas could use some clarification in their description; Instead of saying "For all powers", it should read "For all powers that are able to accept the following enhancement types, increases X,Y, or Z by A%"

Why couldn't that person simply says "Oh? Hmm, I don't feel any different. I guess it didn't work. Thanks for trying, though..." I mean, YOU cannot tell me how my character reacts to your powers, and I can make up any of a number of reasons why your "god-like" powers have no effect...

So if my understanding is correct, the original, or at least an earlier iteration of Blue Beetle, discovered the eponymous scarab, but couldn't activate/unlock it, but was able to derive some technology from it, that they used, while the modern incarnation did manage to trigger/activate it, and it bonded/connected to them. If so, I wonder if there will be any explanation for this, or will it be handwaved as either the scarab liking Jaimie better or it being the right time to activate?

So my understanding is *something* is causing each to switch positions when any use their powers. I wonder if it's going to tie into some sort of multiverse thing...

I've played around with Nightcafe, even loading in screenshots of my characters to use as a starting point, and besides taking cues from the character's overall color scheme or gender, the resultant images really are depictions of that same character, even if I tell it to *not* diverge from the source image that much. I'm sure AI art will get there eventually, but until I can say "depict this character in this style and in this pose", and actually get that, I'll happily save up my money and commission a real person to do a piece for me...

It's a little known fact that all the minions of Rularuu used to work for the IRS...

I could see some more alternate animation options for energy blast, but beyond that, I think any drastic departures from how the set fundamentally functions would be better left to some other energy-based blast set...

Some sort of diminished visuals would be nice.