biostem

Doesn't the Council use a lot of drugs and other such implants/procedures with their soldiers? Maybe they selected them for their sizable savings, and gaining another body was just a convenient side-effect. Another possibility, related to my 1st point, is maybe they have some inherent compatibility to becoming warwolves or vampyri...

Nope - just a spoiled brat who didn't get everything they wanted. Don't let it get you down...

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I know you weren't quoting me, but I actually like how in the fire and elec APPs Sents can get heal-other abilities...

Sounds like a "you" issue. Have you tried changing what "you" are doing? Maybe try a different AT, an unusual powerset combination, or just take a break for a little while - burn-out is a very real thing...

Which you can already do - just impose those limitations on yourself. It'd also be counter-productive to try and maintain different code basses for different servers...

This thread may be of some use to you. Here's another that may be of some utility...

OK, then I'm wrong. That's the funny thing about guessing - you can sometimes guess incorrectly. Regardless, I'm sure there are some pylon test threads out there, or you could level up an EM brute and conduct your own...

Again, my *guess* is that the devs overcompensated out of fear of a high-fury brute dealing too much damage, and under-tuned the set. I don't have any kind of pylon test that I myself ran, and my only high-level experience with EM is on a stalker...

I think your premise is wrong. I'm not sure why you think, one way or another, that more people should be talking about EM on brutes. If I had to guess, though, I would say that brute EM is nothing spectacular, hence why you don't hear much discussion on the matter...

The Praetoria Police gloves do have a wrist computer on them, and they do seem to be in the proper location to match the animation...

Here is a good primer for how to use the costume change emotes. For your specific requests, here's how I'd do them: For wolf form: /macro Wolf "local RAAAARGGGGH!$$cce 1 cchowl" For human form: /macro Humn "local NNNGGG...!$$cce 0 ccfurburst" Note: The above macros assume costume slot 1 is your human form and costume slot 2 is your werewolf one. Costume slots start with slot 0 being the first one, which is why the binds may seem 1 lower than the actual costume slot number...

I could be wrong, but I believe the hologram devices are treated like powers, in which case, you can replace the emote commands with a "powexectoggleon hologramdevicename" command...

Honestly, my only gripes with certain costume contests is when they don't keep us apprised of what's actually going on; "OK, we're starting now", "OK, we're just tabulating the votes", etc, or when those holding the costume contest don't respect the players' time - if you spend all this time announcing it, especially if done way ahead of time, then please start on time and don't take over an hour to come to your decisions...

Maybe they could do something like with inspiration combining - 3 salvage of the same type can be combined into 1 of the same tier...

Does containment do what I suggested in the OP?

Here's the great thing about the proposed ability - you wouldn't have to use it if you didn't want to.

Yeah... imagine if NPCs had some sort of special anti-mez effect... perhaps represented by purple triangles or such... oh wait! NPCs can already do a multitude of things that player characters cannot. There is absolutely no reason, nor is there any precedent, for NPCs gaining player abilities in a tit-for-tat manner...

I really like dark assault - I feel it adds a bit more self-sufficiency that other assault sets lack. I don't really have any high-level experience with plants, so I can't comment on that. While I like illusion, I feel like dominators lack some necessary tools to really take advantage of PA like controllers can, (barring maybe sonic assault). While savage assault does offer some nice +recharge and -end cost, the set just doesn't "gel" for me like the full-fledged savage melee one does. Fire control definitely has some great tools at its disposal, (especially if you put a kb->kd IO in bonfire), and I think dark assault can complement it nicely.

It irks me when I see the winner of a C.C. is using like 90% the same costume set, or if they're undead...

Maybe they could add a university or general invention contact/tutorial person to the Vanguard base in the RWZ, since it acts as a hub for many people as well, and is cross-faction. Have said contact call out to you like the intelligence officers do as well...

Something like "traps control" or a more tech-oriented control set could work. I think it shouldn't be all grenades. A "control arrow" or "archery control" set would fit thematically with trick arrow. Maybe we could get an archery-centric assault set for dominators as well.

I really like my dual pistols/radiation armor sentinel - you get a lot of versatility through swap ammo, and radiation armor provides a whole host of tools to keep you on your feet and fighting. I tend to stay in cryo ammo for the extra range, but incendiary, chem, and standard ammo have their own uses, too. particle shielding is your mainstay power and the extra +recharge from particle acceleration is really nice. Ground zero is a decent PBAoE to complement your other attacks, but also heals allies and can debuff the enemies it hits. It's just an all-around great combo, IMHO!

One of my more recent characters is an earth control/pain controller. The idea is that she can generate various compounds to harm her enemies and aid her allies. Her name: "Ana L'Gesia"

What I generally do is to run some AE content, use the tickets you earn to buy common invention crafting components, then craft generic level 25 IOs. Start with some end mods in stamina and put some end redux in your attacks or other frequently used powers. Also make sure to slot some acc so you're not missing, and dmg, where applicable, so you're defeating the enemies more quickly. If you have any higher level alts, (particularly with reward merits), I'd grab a panacea chance for +end/+hp unique, a miracle, and perhaps a performance shifter.