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You're in luck! You have several energy sword options. If you wanted to be truer to the damage type, though, energy melee and radiation melee have you covered.

What do all these images being posted have to do with not being excited about storm blast?

No, keep choosing ANY set and color it to fit your purposes. If you are limiting yourself to "dark sets", then that's on you.

Color any powerset (that allows it) white. Problem solved. Also, dark is not evil!

Look at the Peacebringer primary set, luminous blast. It basically consists of radiation blast, energy blast, energy melee, and a smattering of other repurposed attacks...

You are too hung up on the set or power names. Instead of thinking "light", look to any set that uses energy damage.

I believe empathy can be colored white as well. Kinetics could also work as a light set. Forcefield could be a "hard light" set of sorts.

You'd still have to enter the enh window, hit upgrade, then if any attempts fail, exit out, buy more, and try again, or just buy more than you might need, in that event. A simple right click -> combine -> select what you want would be much faster and a more elegant solution.

I got my obligatory storm blast character to 50, but didn't lament going back to any of a number of others using the more straight-forward sets, some having been in the game since launch...

The difference in CoH is that our characters aren't trying to sell them to some unsuspecting buyer, and ours, by necessity/game mechanics wouldn't have all the properties of the signature characters. Heck, the laws you cited may not even exist in a world where there is likely some piece of tech or simple spell one can use to tell a fake from the genuine article. that being said, I am perfectly fine with getting a "knock-off" version of these weapon models - by restricting the color or other such options. No reason our "Valkyrie fangirl" character couldn't craft herself a spear that looks similar to her hero's...

You can't directly compare comic books to how things would need to be implemented in a game. That being said, there exist precedent, like how Taskmaster has knockoffs of various heroes' weapons. Further, no one is asking for the ability to directly copy a signature character's entire look. Allowing access to Valkyrie's spear weapon model, only without its unique coloration, doesn't mean you actually have Valkyrie's spear.

You're certainly not alone. Not every new set is going to appeal to every player. Focus on the sets you do enjoy, play them to your heart's content, and don't stress those powerset or aspects of the game that you aren't as enthusiastic about.

It'd be significantly simpler and more compact than the enh/IO menu on the test server, so no issues with implementing it. Because that was never part of my suggestion, nor does it provide for the much quicker & streamlined process I suggested. If, for instance, I had 3 level 28 acc enh's and wanted a level 28 def, it'd be a simple and direct conversion, as opposed to having to buy a level 25 and 3 or more others, (allowing for some chance at failure after the first combination), not to mention needing to enter the enhancement slotting window before attaining the final level you wanted, then having to exit and purchase more, if a failure does occur.

Now compare that to how easy it is to combine 3 insps to another of the same tier. 3 of the same type & level to 1 of any other. Yeah there are many types of enh's, so the layout of the menu would have to be optimized.

Obviously it's a secret message to alert the ramen-eating Bulgarian Domingators to listen to accordion music on their secret satellite broadcasts that can only be watched on their old tube-TVs.

Everyone* knows that no one is seeing this for Miller. It's all about Keaton and the various rumored cameos. There are many arguments for and against, but personally, I have no issue separating an artist from their art. You can appreciate the engineering knowhow from the bad guys in WWII, without endorsing their ideology...

Try playing a 50 that only uses SOs - it's very enlightening, especially if you don't like to stop everything you're doing just to shop.

Agreed, but if you end up taking a hold from an APP/PPP, or otherwise proc one of your other powers to add a hold effect, this can really help. It's definitely situational, though...

I wonder how much of this hesitancy comes from "FOMO" as they may be afraid they won't have an insp they need at some later time...

I don't know if you would consider it to ever have been a "great game", but C&C4 suffered immensely, as they sort of reverse-ported what was originally a mobile/tablet game back to the PC, and the resulting game was of very poor quality...

Leviathan has a nice cone -res & KD power for tankers. The ranged AoE immob & damage powers in Mu are easy to use and effective. I'm not a fan of Mace Mastery on tankers. All of them, AFAIK, *do* benefit from the tanker's increased AoE/cone radius.

I like the art style, but can't get passed the non-fluid/jerky animations. It practically gives me a headache...

Radiation Emission is an "anchor-debuff" set. With that in mind, you may want to create a bind or otherwise be ready to tell your team which target(s) you are using as said anchors, so they know which other enemies to target or where they should be fighting, in order to maximize their effectiveness. As a defender, you receive the greatest benefit from the buff/debuff effects of your powers, which includes the rad blasts. Especially while running higher difficulty content, those -DEF effects can really help your team's attacks to land more often. That being said, since it is very difficult to keep accelerate metabolism permanent, you'll want to make sure you either have some of the unique IOs that grant you extra endurance/recovery and/or make sure to pace yourself so you aren't constantly bottoming out your end bar. That being said, since you get the most benefit out of the leadership powers, maneuvers, tactics, and victory rush can help your team and address your end issues when AM is still recharging...

On top of that, it can take a little bit for a non-optimized tank to gain enough confidence in any support-oriented teammates and their ability to either keep buffs on them or react swiftly enough to keep them standing - after all, a lone tank does not a team make...

I don't disagree with your premise, but do the team members talk to each other at all? I'm not pinning it entirely on you, but ask, "who is leading", or "who is going to be up-front". Setting up and getting your team to accept certain expectations can go a long way to smoothing things out, without devolving into a tirade on how to play...