Rudra

If Ouroboros access were to be incorporated into available base design elements, then why not just treat it the same way other game available portals we have access to work? The Ouroboros portal itself can be an arcane portal option and an Ouroboros beacon added with both an arcane and tech option to be used with any given portal choice just like zone beacons. This would let players that want the portal design itself use it for their portals to access the various zones or other parts of their base for theme/appearance and also let players that don't want the portal itself but are interested in Ouroboros access to do so with their existing portal choice(s).

The MM discussion is not relevant to the OP. If you want to continue discussing it, maybe move it to a new thread or necro the old thread where it is. (And yes, I will say "No" to the MM/Armor proposal just as emphatically now as I did then for the exact same reasons I gave then. If MMs get to have an armor set and their pets get to inherit those armor powers, then what is the point of the current MM AT where we have to keep using our secondaries to keep the pets alive when the new MM AT can simply not worry about that since their pets get the benefits of an entire armor set as inherited from the PC?)

I'm not a fan of changing things just for the sake of changing things. And changing Bat'Zul's appearance very much feels like that.

Probably not going to happen. Doing so would require the devs to go through every faction of the game and create AV versions of every boss in those factions to implement this and this would encourage farming. And while the devs don't seem to have any issues with players farming, they also haven't demonstrated any support for providing farms themselves. (Edit: Oh yeah, it will also require new versions of every arc in Ouroboros that replaces the bosses for each mission with the newly created AV version instead, and it will require implementing a system that swaps between those two versions of arcs randomly every 2 hours.)

If I remember correctly, that was possible back in alpha, but was removed because of technical problems. Edit: Not just masks please. We've been asking to be able to remove ears when using alternate ears. So if removing ears because of mask patterns becomes a thing, then just being able to remove them in general so we don't have 4-eared characters with dis-congruent ears would be really nice.

If I had an idea about how to implement the OP, I would have. Because the only idea I had @srmalloy already pitched, I don't have any further ideas. While we are making requests of each other, how about instead of focusing on the fact I pointed out the potential problems of one of three proposals about how to make it work, you don't jump straight to "Rudra is simply disagreeing with yet another thread and trying to get it shut down" and actually look at what I am saying and why. And this derailment is now over. I will no longer engage with you on this thread.

You want to talk about disingenuous? Show me where anywhere in this thread I have called out the OP, the request to let players choose their weapons for their MM characters, and stated that it cannot or should not be done. Anywhere at all. Because the only arguments I have made on this thread are that yes bow and arrow makes sense for a ninja character and that moving MM native attacks from the primaries to power pools runs up against multiple problems. What problems? Go back and read my posts. The only arguing I have done against the OP and its proposal that players should be able to choose what weapons with relevant attacks their MMs get is you reading into my statements what you want to see in them, not what I have said. I have not argued against @Annapuma because I wholly understand his/her/their desire for players to be able to use a bow as a beast master or a whip as a beast master or guns as a ninja caller or anything else. I didn't argue against @Wavicle for the epic set option because while it would be a long wait, the MM player would still be able to play however they wanted with the ability to change over to a different weapon set later. I specifically did not say @srmalloy was wrong or that his/her/their proposal can't be done or shouldn't be done or has any problems because @srmalloy addressed the potential problem in his/her/their option while still making it possible to either start with a pet or with your preferred weapon. The only thing I argued against is ninjas not making sense for using a sensible weapon, but not against them also having a shuriken option, and breaking down the problems of moving MM attacks into power pools for multiple reasons. Nothing in my statements claim giving MMs their choice of weapons (with relevant attacks) is not possible or should not be done. So kindly stop reading your own biases of my intentions into my posts when they are clearly not justified.

The poster for the pools called them mutually exclusive. So you can drop that criticism. The poster calling for moving the attacks to pools is the one that assigned them to pools selectable as a regular pool. So if you want to present alternate method of MMs being able to select their weapon set? Go for it. That's the point of this thread. If you want to take exception to my pointing out the problems of moving MM attacks to power pools like the poster recommended in this thread? Then you should take the time to understand the arguments being made. As I have already stated. I am not against MMs being able to choose their preferred weapons. I am not arguing against MMs being able to choose their preferred weapon sets. What I am doing is pointing out the problems of moving MM native attacks to power pools.

The proposed pools moves the MMs native attacks from the primary sets into pool sets. With those attacks no longer in the primary sets, they can't be chosen during character creation. If they are pool powers, they can't be chosen until level 4. So the MM primaries would be: Level 1 T1 pet Level 6 1st upgrade Level 12 T2 pet Level 18 T7 power of set Level 22 T3 pet Level 26 2nd upgrade The native attacks would all be stripped out and moved into mutually exclusive pools for selection from after creation.

Especially for getting around zones like the Shadow Shard.

Which still leaves petless MM builds with unwanted pets that they have to take for the proposed pool sets to work. And regardless of how anyone other than the players that make those builds feels about those builds, the pool option takes that choice away from them. (Edit: And I will never support taking choices away from players.) (Edit again: And those would be START attacks, not MM attacks as well.)

I actually like (one of) the CO vehicles. (The rare grav bike that everyone strips of its weapons that are the best vehicle weapons in the game before putting the vehicle on the auction house for sale.) CO did one thing right with their vehicles though, they can't be used on instance maps. Which our travel powers in CoX can. (It also led to the problem of massive instanced outdoor maps not letting players use their vehicles despite technically being outside.)

Potential problem: fitting a large character the size of a car inside buildings and being able to maneuver, and justifying being able to do that. Proposed fix: Make a Mission Transporter power that calls up a taxi or an Uber that sends the player/party to the mission door.

You can't choose any of those powers in character creation. My point is that every AT gets their choice of T1 or T2 primary power set when made. The proposal to move MM inherent attacks to a power pool, or even a MM attack pool, would leave MMs with no choice other than to take their T1 pet during creation. (And for anyone choosing to play a petless MM for any reason, preclude them from doing so.) (Edit: Especially if done as a power pool since those can't be accessed until level 4.) As for power availability after making the character like with START powers? If playing through the tutorial for any reason, the START vendor isn't available in the Galaxy City tutorial until just before you enter the final area to fight the giant Shivan. So again, no MM native attacks for a while and petless MMs are stuck with a pet they wanted to avoid. Again, please bear in mind that I am not against MMs getting their choice of weapons. However, the proposal to move them to pools has more problems than the poster seems to realize.

Even if a separate series of pools that aren't classified as power pools but rather as MM pools with only 3 powers each were made available and only available to MMs, that would still leave MMs unable to start with an attack rather than a pet during character creation.

That would penalize MMs for power pools. We can only have 4 power pools and 1 ancillary/patron, so MMs that want their own attacks back would have to forego another power pool. (Edit: And if MMs were allowed 5 power pools to compensate? Then MMs could simply skip grabbing their native attacks and just grab 5 regular power pools instead, which goes from penalizing MMs to bolstering them but not their pets.)

This is my previous bug report thread moved to the appropriate location. While doing the save Marcus Valerius from the Kraken mission in Cimerora, one of the tentacles spawned half on the ship. Zone/Mission: IOM_KRAKEN_BATTLE Position: [1142.0 24.9 -749.0]

I disagree with making all defenses the same, but I do have a question. What damage resists or status resists, whichever you are referring to, are positional?

@Troo's post was a response to a question abut whether the Global channel provided by the game was across all shards or just across all zones of the shard the player is on.

You said if someone disagreed with a suggestion, they should be banned for a while. Guess what corrections to an idea are typically taken as. Even when posters say "I like your idea, but this part should be tweaked in this manner", the response from others has too often been that the person saying they like the idea but think it should be changed or improved is just disagreeing. You also said there are a players that tend to be negative to suggestions, and you have the perception that they are being malicious in intent. So how does that translate or differ? People have different views on things. And everyone is as entitled to their opinions and the opportunity to express those opinions as anyone else. Not just for the sake of agreeing with someone else, but to disagree or even say "I don't like it". Even if people say "I don't like it" to absolutely everything that could ever be presented, they still have the right to do so just as much as anyone else saying "I like it". And if you don't want to deal with that person any more? Ignore is always an option.

Bow and arrow ninjas makes perfect sense since that was one of the weapons used by ninjas according to the tradition and shuriken as in throwing stars rather than blades/darts are not lethal weapons, lacking the ability to penetrate things like bone (the skull). (Edit: Now if you just want to argue Rule of Cool, throwing stars are nicer for the AT than bow and arrow? That's fine. Claiming bow and arrows for ninjas makes no sense though? It makes more sense than Rule of Cool throwing stars, but aren't as theatrically nice.)

I never said never. I said not likely. Please do not change my words. (Edit: In fact, I even made a point in one of my posts to point out/emphasize that nowhere am I saying it will never happen. So your statement that my posts are saying it will never happen is a willful misrepresentation of my stated position.)

Not sure where you are going with this. I'm not questioning the existence of such powers, just questioning whether something like the proposed set with equal parts healing and endurance modification and everything capping out at duo effects would be likely to ever be brought into the game. (Edit: Hells, I'm not even arguing against the proposed set saying I think it should never exist. I'm just saying that given the way the game is set up and what we know about the devs and maintaining the core idea behind the game, it is not likely to be made. [Edit again: Hells, I'm not even saying it won't be made, just that it is not likely to be.])

Then how is the author finding himself/herself/themselves needing it, as in the power, when the power is available outside of the set as an incarnate ability? If the author finds himself/herself/themselves needing a power, then would that not be justification for taking that power? And if that power can be skipped due to other available options, then would not the author not find himself/herself/themselves needing it since they can just plug in an incarnate ability instead?

I did point out procs as being available in my post. And if we are counting procs, then the author already has access to the requested set in the form of multiple existing sets. (Edit: Which kills the author's stated reasoning that no such set already exists. So thank you for ignoring that.)