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If you have a group that plays well together, and someone in said group is able to act as a GM/storyteller of sorts, then you can make a long-form story work well. Bonus points if that GM-type person is good with AE and can make custom missions for that group! Frankly, you could probably work off of newspaper/radio missions and weave a story together from those, on the fly as well. It's all about the group you've got and how well they work together...

So my suggestion is pretty simple: We have options for head, torso, arms, legs & feet that allow you to basically just glow a certain color. Once concept I'd like to be able to explore would be an animated suit of armor that has nothing inside of it. To that end, what if we could simple have our head, torso, arms, legs & feet be invisible? Perhaps in PvP, you are forced to have a glow effect, so you couldn't be completely undetectable. You could then layer over the various armor pieces or patterns, to your liking. Your thoughts? Thanks!

While I'm not against your concept in general, you have to think in terms of what could be done from a pragmatic perspective; They could make a temp power where you become a warhulk or hercules titan, and give you a handful of powers that the NPC gets, but to create a whole AT centered around this would be difficult. A better option might be to add a bit more to the maximum size restrictions and add some less human(oid) costume pieces as costume options.

It is an easy matter to make the power permanent, and possibly even double-stack it. Since it is a click power, there is no endurance drain after the initial casting. You can't be detoggled out of the power. Not every armor set should be identical. I can understand how this can be an issue early on, but the threats are less then as well. It's just a bit of a learning curve/growing pain you need to get passed...

Well, if you make your base character of a normal size, then make your mech suit a max height and use various robotic pieces, you can pull off a pretty convincing look. Yes, you're not going to be as large as a Freedom Corp Cataphract or Malta Hercules/Zeus Titan, but it could work...

I'd go for grav/storm. Yes, you can tint the colors dark, but basically every dark option becomes black with little hints of the other color you select.

Well, radiation and bio armor offer that too, and other benefits as well. If I had to guess, it's probably fewer toggles to have to worry about and less "must have" powers, if you want to dip into pools a bit more...

Try a dual pistol or beam rifle defender or corruptor with the traps powerset. Then, dip into the fighting pool if you want to be a little tougher. Use the various costume slots and costume change emotes to make it appear that you don/call down your armor - perhaps have a bind that changes your power tray and only use tough/weave when in your armor. You may be able to pull this off with a robotics mastermind, if you also want to command a squad of said robots, but if you just want it to be yourself and your gadgets + "armor", then go with the defender or corruptor.

So I recently rolled a demon/storm MM and have been loving the hell out of it, (pun intended). I noticed that one of the 2nd tier demons has a heal ability. Is it worth slotting for it? I have O2 boost from storm, so it's not a big deal if I don't, but it seems pretty effective. Your thoughts? Thanks!

Rylas, all that graph shows is that a lot of people take empathy, not whether it is more or less effective/useful/desired on teams...

So after some pondering and some great feedback here, I present to you my concept for 'Gravitic Armor'. This armor set makes use of an effect called "event horizon"; Certain powers will inflict this effect, while others make use of it in different ways. 1. Hyperdensity: Auto, grants minor resistance to all damage types except psionic, as well as some protection against slows. 2. Point of no return: Toggle, minor negative energy damage, minor taunt effect, and applies "event horizon" to nearby enemies. 3. Graviton barrier: Toggle, grants a base moderate damage resist buff vs smashing & lethal + a small bonus amount for every enemy within 10' or so, who is affected by "event horizon". 4. Point singularity: Toggle, grants protection to Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Immobilize, Repel, Knockback, Teleport, as well as a minor HoT for every enemy within 10' affected by "event horizon". 5. Gravitic lensing: Auto, grants minor defense to all, (except psionic), and an extra amount of DEF for every enemy within 10' affected by "event horizon". 6. Gravitic collapse: Click power, provides a minor heal, amount of endurance, and a temporary defense buff, for every enemy within 10' affected by "event horizon". Consumes "event horizon" from all such targets. 7. Gravitic distortion: (This one may be tricky) Ally-targeted click power, applies a stealth effect to an ally and wipes them of threat. 8. Einstein–Rosen bridge: Click power, you perform a short range teleport, causing heavy negative energy damage and stunning enemies in an AoE around where you appear. Consumes "event horizon" for added damage. 9. Big crunch: (Another tricky one to pull off) - Summons a micro-wormhole behind all nearby enemies that are affected by "event horizon", which rapidly collapse, knocking them inward toward you. Deals high negative energy damage and consumes event horizon. Thoughts? Feedback? Thanks!

You may be better off asking this in the forums section of the server you're playing on...

My concern would be the same that I have for any truly F2P games - too many trolls/griefers and not enough GMs/moderators to wrangle them in. I am truly appreciative of everything that the volunteer devs & GMs/mods do, I just don't want to see the game widely publicized, only to have a bunch of haters coming in to ruin other people's gameplay.

It's ok... it's ethereal...

I want to see an "Inferior Strength" set, where enemies die from laughter at how ineffectual you are. 😉

AP peaks out at level 6. You are meant to be leveling up as you run such missions, and they probably expected a certain amount of random street fighting to get in a bit more XP. Don't you have an NPC helping you in Twinshot's missions? You also don;t get XP debt until level 10, so perhaps it is meant to be a little "tough love" early on, to help you learn not to get in over your head...

If you turn down the various bloom and other such settings, it should reduce the brightness and such, for the powers. I play CoH on both a desktop, (where I have everything maxed out), and a laptop, (where I have to turn everything down), and I definitely notice a difference in how bright or "loud" things like power effects are. Stupid question, but would something like one of those screen privacy filters help you?

Well, I want the set to convey the trapping and attractive aspects of gravity; We have plenty of sets that knock enemies away, so I wanted something that would draw them closer...

Oh! I just refer to that as the "Windows key". In that case, sure, why not...

I wouldn't say we need a mute command per se, but something like "setvolpow, setvolvoice, setvolbgm", which could accept a value from 0 (muted) to 100 (max), would be great. Then you could just put the 3 commands, with values of 0, into a bind to mute all sound...

So I've really come to enjoy playing my various gravity control controllers and dominators, and think that the set could be adapted for use by melee characters. Here is that attempt: The set would feature a special effect called "gravity well". Gravity well is a short lived immobilization effect that also causes targets affected by it to take more damage from other gravitic melee powers. A target can only have 1 stack of "gravity well" on them, (I'm debating whether this should be allowed to stack, so you could immobilize bosses, EBs, or even EVs). 1. Gravitic jab - minor smashing damage, fast recharge, minor chance to apply gravity well 2. Gravitic smash - moderate smashing damage, moderate recharge, greater chance to apply gravity well 3. Gravity wave - You swing your arm in a wide arc, trailing along gravitic energy which afflicts all in a 120 degree arc with moderate smashing damage and the gravity well effect. 4. Gravitic empowerment - applies a tohit and damage buff to you, and inflict gravity well on all enemies in a small PBAoE. 5. Gravitic slingshot - You use your fine control over gravity to rapidly spin yourself, damaging all enemies in a PBAoE. Moderate smashing damage and a moderate chance to apply gravity well on all targets. 6. Taunt/Confront 7. Gravity pulse - you create a micro-singularity behind your target, which rapidly collapse and emanates a shockwave, knocking them toward you. Moderate AoE damage & recharge. [I imagine this as creating a pseudopet behind your target, which detonates and causes a knockback effect, thereby knocking them toward you] 8. Singularity strike - you generate a micro-black hole in your hand, and rapidly thrust it into your target's abdomen, dealing heavy smashing damage. If the target is already affected by gravity well, their regeneration is significantly debuffed and emit a small AoE that deals energy damage. This consumes the gravity well debuff. 9. Gravitic collapse - This relies upon the same "pseudopet" effect as Gravity pulse, only it creates several of them in a circle around you, knocking all targets back toward you. I'd appreciate your thoughts & feedback. Thanks!

I wonder how difficult it would be to add a version of the T1 and T2 pet powers, which only summons 1 of them, but at the same level as you and sufficiently buffed to compensate for the loss of the other 1 or 2...

Not likely, as it'd need an entirely new pose/animation. Perhaps if you wouldn't mind your character *standing* on the broom, it could be done more easily... I suppose they could just use a generic sitting animation and just have your character ride sidesaddle or something...

The OP noted "The damage and such should be reduced accordingly" - By making them the same level as you, this would remove the issue of them being so much less effective than the enemies you're facing, due to the purple patch and so-forth, when facing off against enemies higher level than your own.

What happens if you were to bind a targeted AoE to, say, alt+lbutton, then simply look where you want to use it and press those 2 buttons? Does it produce an error?