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As a blaster, for instance, you'll have at least 3 "active" powers to use by level 2. Now, if you spam something like your immob over and over, you'll quickly run out of end and you'll be sucking wind for awhile. If you pace yourself, and make sure to detoggle powers like sprint, you'd fair much better, even that early on...

How fast would you make flight, then? Would you make it just as fast as SS? Surely no one would bother with SS, then. Strawmanning the need for balance doesn't make it any less of a concern...

It all goes with regen's "all or nothing" functionality; As long as you have 1 hp at the end of a fight, you'll heal back to full in pretty short order. The problem is whether your pool of HP is sufficient to survive multiple enemies wailing on you, since you have very few ways in which to dull the impact of those hits. IIRC, resilience didn't originally have nearly as much damage resist as it does now, either.

What would be interesting is if regen sort of had a "play possum" type of effect - basically, instead of actually needing to be defeated then self-rezzing, what if, below a certain threshold, enemies would basically mistake you as being "dead", turn to leave/fight other characters, and allow you to gain your second wind/heroic resolve - basically how many comics/anime depict a character as defeated, only to suddenly come back into the fight, (never having been actually defeated). Alternatively, lower the cooldown on dull pain, reduce it's total duration, but give it a huge absorb for a short while, to reflect you truly being (temporarily) immune to damage.

My namesake was a dm/regen scrapper, so after the nerf to instant healing, he had to rely more on dark's tohit debuff. I can't recall if I ever picked up tough and weave on him, or if I just played at closer to base difficulty on missions...

Probably a SS/regen brute. There are lots of options here; Everything from storm/elec for the Sorcerers, to martial arts, katana, or other scrapper sets. Probably archery/invuln or archery/SR sentinels. Maybe some form of DP/martial blasters for the gunslingers, or AR/ninja or AR/invuln sentinels. Perhaps an elec/elec blaster or some variation thereof for sappers. Maybe a robots/traps MM, too.

Awesome look!

Regen. It had quick recovery; Not only was it better than stamina, but you could get it a whole heck of a lot sooner. IIRC, they based much of CoH on pen & paper games, (Champions?), and so seemed to have implemented the combat system in a turn-based-like fashion; They probably didn't expect people to spam attacks as fast as possible, and instead expect 1 hero to trade blows with up to 3 minions until 1 side was defeated. A lot of my earliest memories consist of firing off a ranged attack from max distance, retreating around a corner, and taking on 1 or 2 enemies as they came to me. I remember using hover in lieu of knockback protection for many character's early careers, and trying to keep my TOs green. I remember choosing character origins based upon which DO shops were the easiest to get to at level 12, and heavily slotting only acc and end reduction, until I got stamina. I recall buying blue insp's a lot back then, too...

The times before getting stamina were tough, but slotting end reduction and not spamming your attacks as fast as possible taught you a bit of discipline. Hurdle + CJ was a mainstay for me on many characters, (otherwise I'd take hover just to get over those few annoying obstacles). For me, it was the sections of Perez Park with the dense tree cover that you couldn't jump or fly through...

Can you give us an idea of your AT and powersets/power picks, because this isn't my recollection at all? Especially for blasters or other ATs that have more "active" secondaries, there is always some power ready to use...

If Valve ain't gonna give us a continuation to the adventures of Gordon Freeman, then by golly allow us to do so here in CoH!!!

Frankly, (and I realize this would be a huge undertaking), but I'd love to see sets that incorporate weapons in some attacks but not others, given the option to use or to not use said weapon across all powers within the set, (where applicable). So, for instance, a psi sword option for all relevant psi melee attacks, an ice sword option for all relevant ice melee attacks, and so on...

I wonder what the feasibility is of adding a "while using travel power" option to the auras, (similar to how we have the "combat" option).

Or just steal/"liberate" the technology/techniques from Arachnos...

They could start in jeans and perhaps matching t-shirts, then get upgraded to matching uniforms, then finally uniforms + masks + themed gloves/boots/maybe capes.

If I could only get 1 set made, it would be one that makes you the leader of your own superteam: T1 pets would be "new recruits" - a hodge-podge of melee or ranged attackers, (think scrappers and blasters). T2s would be more experienced metahumans - maybe a tanker and defender-like character. T3 would be a seasoned veteran character - possibly a controller-type.

I would like more torso options that have bits missing or you can partially see through, sort of like how the clockwork chest has little gaps around the waist where you can see wires/cables. For instance, a skeletal torso, (with no "meat" still on it), would fit the bill...

This would be better as a full melee or ranged set; Psi melee already has a few attacks where you summon a large hand to do the attacking for you...

The only thing it needs is to have the keyboard and a trackball integrated into the control panel area, instead of sitting on top like that. I wonder if they just repurposed the Arcade 1UP cabinet, or if it's entirely new and they just used the riser...

Well, defenders get a buff when solo, now. Why not create both and see which is more to your liking?

But if the powers of these random mutants vary, then 1 will likely stand out as the best or preferred one; Perhaps just varying the appearance of the pet, but keep their powers the same.

Regarding your last point, ice blast can actually do that. As for your earlier ones, are you talking about the "irradiated" debuff from rad melee, or maybe the delayed debuff from time manipulation?

What would it offer that recoloring an existing set couldn't accomplish? Would such a set be more about debuffing than hard control side? How would you envision this set?

And a travel power - "Ambulance chaser"!

Well, the actual values of those buffs/debuffs turned into toggles would probably be lower, and there'd be a constant endurance cost to contend with. As for the "tagging system", you could just have it where you apply a debuff to enemies, and perhaps have a buff applied to yourself which stacks, based upon the number of enemies hit when said debuff was applied...