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You mean i could have reported the Poo Water guy i teamed with, who had all brown effects to water blast?

There is a DC Blackbird too .. but you would think that name is allowed as long as the character was not related.

Paladin was also a TV series character. Its also a general use term. Im curious if a D list, fairly obscure marvel character that already shares a name with other characters counts in this? My initial reaction would be that it should be allowed. But its def not up to me. I was surprised Thor was allowed, which suggests the interpretation is going to be a sane one.

Ill agree hasten was a bad idea. But its part of the game now.

The entire defense calculation was a horrible design choice. But changing it now just seems nuts.

I guess the question is do you rebalance the whole game at this point? This is probably why hasten was never removed or nerfed on live. If you were designing COH2 you wouldn't have things like perma hasten and perma dom. Your IO system would have been much more tightly controlled. You wouldn't have a defense softcap, but resistance hardcaps You would of considered animation time into dps. ETC But do you do that now? Wholesale? A huge rebalancing effort? Or do you accept things like hasten and rage and permadom are part of your game?

Great feedback GMs, thanks.

I did give the benefit, I suggested that 20 issues ago it would have been a good idea. I have builds where id much prefer to have two auto rech powers instead of hasten also. So it might benefit me. However its going to affect nearly everyone's builds, everyone has been using it the way it is now for years, and it would be highly disruptive. When considering changes, how it affects the way the game has matured is an important consideration. Thats why all the additional brainstorming posts on a new hasten are also a bit annoying. Its not like we are crowdsourcing brain storm ideas for city of heroes 2 here.

The OP suggested a perma lesser amount of +rch Hence nerf. The closer to perma hasten you were the more nerfy.

This would have probably been a reasonable balance suggestion 20 issues ago. At this point, my reaction was, "Really? Why?" There is no reason for this nerf, Everyone has access to hasten. Even Kheldians.

Have you played WP or SR tankers?

So its weakness is that its weak? It has the same end recovery as an invul. Also the same number of clicks.

I think people on these forums massively underestimate SR's survivability.

Same thing other tankers do. What does a WP tanker do? Unless you are talking those sets that offer some control

Needs to be able to jump curbs

MA ST damage is excellent. MA received several buffs to its attacks during the live years, giving it attacks with decent DPA. Contrary to the other posters' suggestions, Id recommend skipping Eagle's Claw entirely. You can get a lot of snappy hard hitting attacks, it just slows you down. The big downside is you have zero AOE. And no AOE mitigation. SR is late blooming, but strong. EA matures a lot faster, if that is a consideration. One of the newer Primaries would be easier for all around play.

You know I wonder if it actually went down the opposite way. "We need to have a Super Strength Set for Tankers! What Kinds of powers should it have?" "Well Superman does that Hand-Clap thing - cool add that!" "We should have like throwing a car? Car might be tough, how about a chunk of the sidewalk? -cool add that!" "Totally should add in the way the Hulk gets all mad and SMASHES -awesome we will call it Rage!" I highly doubt they were trying to be internally consistent with just one Super Strong character, and as such they were 100% consistent with none really.

The Toad maybe?

I mainly meant older established ones that ran on a long time. I should have been more clear. Certain comics series ran shorter / didn't have 20 different authors changing everything / had more internal consistency. I guess The Watchmen would work there. Or Justice Machine. The Elementals. Wild Cards. The new Ms. Marvel. And so forth. Characters like Spider-Man has had dozens of authors and a lot of different series and media. His interpretations are all over the map. Sometimes his danger sense works one way, other times another, later some author who should die in a fire decides to take it away from him ... etc. Other stupid things like sprouting spider arms, having his body taken over by Doctor Octopus .. and on and on. I suppose if you did have a Travel based Powerset instead of pools then of course the first power could be a travel power. That is a bit different, since then any sort of worry about Power Creep is baked into the balance of the set in question. Your Super Speed set wont have a Self Rez, it might have a Ninja Run scale built in Teir 1 movement power with built in defense.

I use invisibility and stealth on my stalker as LOTG mules. Since I have more powers than I need but not enough slots.

So your contention is that they will disallow Capt America, Iron Man, Hulk, etc. But allow someone actually named Thor, carrying a hammer as long as said Thor harkens back to the myth? I guess we will see. I don't think they will.

I realise he predates marvel. I realise that they don't own mythology. I just don't see the HC team making an exception for Thor considering his A list marvel status.

/jranger Whatever balance that is left is based on limited slots.

You mean Suspiciously Similair Asian red chilli sauce, right?

It should get the cobra strike treatment. EM is not a monster anymore