Rudra

Do what someone suggested on another thread: put BABs back on his trainer pedestal in Echo:Galaxy City. Since the Echo zones are there so players can still street sweep in them to get xp and experience the zone, having access to a trainer makes sense. Still should be no contacts or missions for Echoes though. And I will always be against any suggestion that ignores the story such as simply restoring Galaxy City per the OP.

Holy hells! We agree?! Edit: Though depending on my AT and who is joining, it feels more like being normal civilian teaming with Superman. "I'm so helpful! I got to attack a single enemy once before the entire room of spawns was defeated! I'm so good!"

We always started with Brawl and our starting attack. The origin powers were added because players thought that was not enough of a chain to take down enemies that possessed a single attack, usually Brawl. And if you want to revert the Fitness pool back to being a power pool? Then all of it gets reverted. Further, reverting the Fitness inherent to a power pool will free up exactly 0 powers for your build. Fitness was made inherent without taking away any power slots. So Fitness being made a pool again would grant that many power slots. Edit: CoX and other games have attempted to make Wall Climbing. I'm not aware of any games as old as CoX pulling it off. And I don't get the reasoning for removing Swift and Hurdle as inherents to simply re-add them without the names into the character's base move. So I'm opposed to your suggestion on several counts.

I partially agree and I partially disagree. Powers are how you level, but those new powers are the progression of said leveling. From a super point of view, it is the character gaining enough experience to improve his/her current abilities. That is not a RP thing, that is a character development thing. As for dead spots in progression, there are what, two of them? A whole two points in the character's progression until level 41 where no new primary or secondary powers are made available? Most likely with already unselected powers from those sets. Also, I'm not saying CoX will force a respec because I have no way of knowing how CoX will handle a level change or progression order for AT powers. I'm saying because I was constantly being forced to respec by CO, I am very much opposed to these kinds of changes. (CO would immediately put you in the respec screen upon login with your character as a new character routinely because a power's level got and prerequisites got changed or it was moved to another point in the set's order.) And @Greycat is right. When you level up and the new power is highlighted, it tells me "This is your new power. Take it." It's those dead spots that tell me it's time to either dip into a power pool or having dipped into a pool, go back and grab a power I postponed earlier to grab those pool powers. Yes, I am capable of making my own decisions and not relying on the game's cues for when to do what. Pretty much because I use Mids. Those signals are still there though.

No need to apologize. I don't recall ever having seen that pose though.

I think you are confusing Ms. Liberty with Dominatrix. Aside from that? No opinion on the OP.

Players always have choices. Powers from their AT's primary or secondary that they skipped and pool powers. The whole point of the leveling based powers acquisition is to show progression. The character progressively learns how to use his/her powers in more effective, powerful, or expansive ways. Even CO has requirements to access powers, with the nukes and other high end powers requiring several powers from the set to unlock. Which puts them behind two walls, the level requirement to have that many powers and the set requirement of prerequisite powers. CoX only has the level requirement. Each primary and secondary set for non-epic ATs only have 9 powers. With the freedom to improve the character from available pools to either increase survival, effectiveness, or increase available options for play such as stealth powers, heals, and so forth. Why the rush to get the key powers from a set earlier? Edit: If you really want the powers earlier, then we can go the CO route. Each power in a set requires the character have the tier-2 in powers from the set to get. So your T1 and 2 powers are available. Tier 3 requires 1 power from the set. Tier 9 requires 7 powers from the set. There you go. No more level requirements. Edit again: One of many things I hated about CO was that they changed power order. I've been forced to respec a character twice in one month because power order was changed. So yes, I am strongly biased against changing power order/levels.

I'm as against the nukes and other high priority acquisition powers being moved to earlier levels as anybody else. The game should not be made any easier than it is. However, neither should it have to be any harder. We already have the means to play a more difficult game with the difficulty settings. And the fully developed characters have been given the means to play on even more challenging difficulties which are being proliferated. Edit: I believe that if players are categorized, you have the Grueling Challenge players clamoring for Nintendo Hard, the Challenge players that want difficult fights but not to be wiped out repeatedly because game RNG hoses them, Casual players that just want to have fun, and Fair Playground players that make me wonder about them. And there are likely other types of players too, including players that move between categories depending on mood, AT, and friends.

What does that have to do with the biggest section of the OP? Literally the first 9 paragraphs of the OP go on about game difficulty. If I ignore the biggest part of the OP and just focus on the proposed solution? Then it is about either jumping straight to 50 or bypassing content players may not want to do again. And if they want to level straight to 50? They can already power level in farms. If they want to skip content? They can skip that content. There is no mandate to do the TFs/SFs. There is no mandate to do the story arcs. There is no mandate for players to deal with any part of the game they don't want to. And the parts they don't want to do are skippable.

Then please explain what you mean.

If you just want the lower levels to be harder, then play gold side. Several of those missions are excessive. My contention with the OP is the assumption that players fall into two categories: Grueling Challenge and Fair Playground. Never mind that players more often fall in between those two extremes. I hope I'm reading the OP wrong, but it feels like the author wants the game to be "Nintendo Hard" until you max out and everyone that thinks otherwise should just skip to 50 and be done. And there is a place that comes to mind where that kind of thinking can be dumped. We already have the option of going +4/x8 right out the gate, so there is your lower levels be Nintendo Hard mode. Or are the lower levels somehow so powerful that they are clearing that difficulty level on autopilot somehow? Edit: Just for clarification, by Fair Playground I mean a kid playground at like the state fair.

Check https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page to check costumes from existing factions. Check the Beta forum for the entry on the PAP costumes for new additions.

How would Silos or anyone else change where Battalion lands its first wave? There is no access to off-world events to change that. Edit: Basically, with Ouroboros, the players and Menders are attempting to change things on-planet to better enable the world to fight back against Battalion. Nothing being done in Ouroboros has any impact on what Battalion and its forces do, just what position the world is in when the invasion finally hits.

This has been brought up a few times. The issue is the story's current progression. Galaxy City has been obliterated with the Neo-Shivans arrival. The story needs to progress to the point where Galaxy City is reclaimed and then rebuilt. Like with Faultline and Boomtown where reconstruction has started but has not progressed because the story has not gotten that far yet.

If the issue is God Mode in PvP but Gnashing Lamentation in PvE, then why not a split operation? PvP already has different mechanics for mezzes from PvE. And we already have enhancement sets that have different effects depending on PvE vs PvP. Would having /Regeneration function as is in PvP but function differently in PvE be viable? (Please note that I am not claiming that /Regeneration is either God Mode or Dumpster Fire power set. I'm using hyperbole.)

Apologies then. As long as I can still sneak around. Edit: *grumble**grumble* That was meant for @Blackfeather. Edit again: The grumbling isn't meant for @Blackfeather, the apology is. The grumbling is because I again did not line up the comment.

Yeah... missing a crate with a snipe at short or point-blank range twice in a row is rather infuriating.... (And I'm weird in that I only fire my snipes at the crates. Don't know why.)

You are capped at 95% chance to hit the target. Even with my attacks maxed out for accuracy, I will miss up to 4 or 5 times in a row if RNG feels like it. That is why Streakbreaker exists. If you have a high enough chance to hit, then Streakbreaker ensures that if you miss with one attack, the next one hits. Most characters have their chance to hit at the point where Streakbreaker kicks in on the 5th miss to make it a hit. The target's defense still has a chance to turn that hit into a deflection though. So if you attack the target and it says deflected, you hit the target but the target managed to avoid it. It looks like a miss, it feels like a miss, but it is not a miss. PCs get the same thing if they build up their defense. As for having a higher accuracy that tapers off as you level? The game pretty much already works like that. That is why when you do certain arcs/missions. particularly the Hearts of Darkness and Shining Stars arcs, one of your contacts tells you that you need to slot enhancements to keep up with the level shifts.

I'm not seeing the claim that EA would be horribly wrong or unbalanced for Tankers on this thread....

Swordless fire and ice melee too? For characters that just burn with flaming fists or freeze with frozen ones?

That would be nice. Especially if they did that for psionic melee too.

The whole point of the sonic fencing is to prevent that from happening. Edit: And First Ward already has the Seed of Hamidon. And Night Ward is not actually in Praetoria.

*shrug* Repost there, ask a mod to move it, leave it here and treat it as a suggestion instead. Whatever. Just letting you know there is an actual bugs forum.

It has a heal over time. And there were no green numbers floating up from my character when I used it in that boss fight. There are green numbers floating up from my character every other time I use it. (Including against the same bosses in other missions.) Edit: I use Unrelenting with Energize on my energy/energy Blaster when I fight red bosses. I'm very sure of the HoT component. It may be negligible compared to other heals, but it keeps me alive in those tough fights. When it actually works as advertised and the HoT ticks away.

It was aimed at the comment I quoted. The one that said to just proliferate all powers to everything and worry about balance afterwards.