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Rad and electricity make sense as you describe additional effects for them. Sonic would depend. Sonic as used by sonic blast is most definitely a smashing attack. You can hear the impact on the target as you pelt him/her/them with waves of compressed air. Sonic as used by the Sirens would work more like beam rifle. They aren't smacking you with waves of concussive force, they are causing vibrations that travel through the air that disrupt the target (or have other non-damaging effects like sleep [lullabies], confuse [charm like a bard], etc). Those vibrations could be defined as disruptive vibrations which would bypass smash defense and resist, disrupting normal physiological functions. Vibration as a theme is hard for me to define though, so, sorry. (In this game with the damage types available and to prevent players from having untyped damage? Yeah, definitely smashing.)

That would be my impression as well.

Defender damage does not functionally drop when on a team. It functionally does its normal damage. It functionally gets a damage buff when solo. I get what you are trying to say, but it doesn't work. You perceive the damage decreasing because it is no longer being increased. To say otherwise is like saying you are functionally suffering a damage decrease when you stop teaming with a player that has Assault active. You don't. You just stopped being able to enjoy the boost from that other player's power. (Edit: To use your example. it is not a literal or functional -Damage effect. It simply no longer has a +Damage effect.)

Are you sure it isn't the other way around? If the power's duration and activation time is less than the recharge, then you have to wait for the recharge to finish to use again.

When a power's recharge is faster than its duration, it is "perma". So yes.

*neurotically right-clicks every badge in progress* *stares at wall of text completely obscuring game and wonders why can't see what am doing anymore* Yep! I'd use this! Sign me up! 🤣 (Seriously though, I would use this.)

I have a bunny AR/Martial Combat blaster that has a 6-slotted Kick. That is for theme though, to have more kick attacks on my bunny gunner. (Don't call her gunbunny. She doesn't like it. 😄) (Edit: "Yes, I'm a lagomorph and I use a gun, but call me 'gunbunny' again and I'm liable to ventilate your empty head." 😆)

MM pets first please. This been asked for for much longer.

They're currently decimating the zombie Statesman's monkey clones with their cute nose wriggles and vorpal teeth.

You can't change the colors of any Lore pets, just the summoning effect itself. Why should the Storm Elementals power get special treatment?

Disruption of some type also works for non-concussive energy. I was trying to not step on fire's toes by saying a very minor DoT, so fire would still have the better DoT. Just throwing ideas here.

Just reading the power on Mids. It is a toggle. It is an armor. It does have penalties. So yeah, I'm serious. I don't like the stone armor set, so I don't use it. Mids is my only reference.

Maybe the "energy blast' set can have a very minor DoT secondary. Non-concussive/kinetic energy tends to burn after all.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Statesman is back and now he knows Monkey Clone Jutsu!!!!! 🤣

Except she is the one that explains to your character how to access the Well's power without being taken over by it.

Put a timer on them like some other temp powers. They disappear after an hour of real time, maybe a half hour. (Edit: Dimensional shifting of the powers renders them unstable and they phase back to their home dimension (for like the quills). The people who made them used unstable chemicals and they go inert (for like the grenades). The character simply forgot where (s)he put them for lack of interest and can't find them again. Trans-dimensional goblins thought you were hiding treasure in them or that they were valuable and stole them while you weren't paying attention. Whatevs.)

I know I'm going to get blasted for this... ... but here goes.... *dons Devil's Advocate horns* *dons flak vest and raincoat* *prays to survive* Okay, archers are not inherently keen sighted for being archers, neither are all archers actually keen sighted. Though I will grant that every comic archer character I know of has ridiculously keen eyesight, but I only know Hawkeye, Green Arrow, and Red Arrow/Speedy. (Some would argue inhumanly, supernaturally keen eyesight on these normal human characters, at least as Hawkeye is portrayed in the movie, but I digress.) However, so too do the gunners. Not the random schmuck thug with a gun, but the named individuals like Deadshot. So are you going to ask for this bonus to be applied to AR as well? Or Dual Pistols? (Since that is closer to Deadshot for his twin arm... whatever you want to call them.... *takes off Devil's Advocate horns* Okay, that said, I found archery as a set pretty damn boring. I don't think boosting ToHit on it is really going to change that or really improve its theme. I am open to just about anything that would make it a more interesting set to play though. I wish I had ideas for what, but I don't. Apologies. *preemptively calls funeral parlor and starts pricing coffins*

Maybe have Nictus start spawning in high level Council missions? That could be a good start at least.

Response greatly appreciated. Normally, the OP doesn't read like a huge question to me, so a reaction without followup explanation makes sense to me. It is a response to a set idea, and an explanation for a response would be either rooted in a feeling or a view on current mechanics. This one read like a question rather than a suggestion to me, so the reaction without explanation left me baffled. Sorry for the imposition.

@The_Warpact, you gonna give a reason for the thumbs down? The OP asked a question. I never used the set, so I can't answer. You thumbs downed the OP, so hopefully you have an answer. You wanna share?

The Galaxies, War Wolves, Arakhn, Requiem, and possibly the Vampyri are all linked to the Nictus. The Galaxies have a part of a (dead?) Nictus placed in them. (In a mission from Dr. Shelly Percey, the Nictus is alive and whole, and is how a Galaxy is made. Another mission, contact not remembered, it is mentioned only a fragment of a usually dead Nictus is placed in a host to make a Galaxy, with the knowledge that a partial Nictus can grow into a whole Nictus. Unclear if dead is permitted or if must be alive to grow into a whole Nictus and take over the host's body.) The Wolves are noted in at least one mission as being failed attempts to use the Nictus and in another as simply made by the use of Nictus, means unclear. The Vampyri are hinted at having a Nictus connection in at least one mission, but are otherwise specified as being a type of super soldier.

The Flames of Prometheus are supposed to be their own incarnate bit according to the dialogue you see in the mission that unlocks the Mortimer Kal SF. Mortimer Kal sends you to get the Flames of Prometheus to unlock your incarnate abilities, which he had intended for himself. Unlike the incarnate powers you get post level 50 though, the level 20'ish Flames of Prometheus only give you a buff. Supposedly a temporary unlocking of incarnate ability from my understanding of the SF.

I really don't see Ms. Liberty getting Well of the Furies enhanced. It's not a hereditary thing. Then again, I didn't see Positron getting Well of the Furies enhanced either, but here we are. I'm not a very good seer.... (Speaking of Well enhanced individuals... why is Lady Grey such a weak incarnate?)

Novel idea. Question for hard light: how would you work the force wall? For it to be an obstruction, it would have to function as part of the map to some degree. Otherwise it would function like the debris from telekinesis(? The power that creates and hurls objects). Those don't block line of sight to prevent attacks and don't block movement, they can just be shoved aside by walking through them. Though with difficulty at times. And once you manage to make the wall obstruct line of sight to prevent attacks and force the mobs to go around it, using map geometry to force it most likely, how would it go away? Would it act like a stationary pet that has health and when either health or timer runs out, whichever occurs first, the pet goes away? If using map geometry rules, how would the pet work as map geometry and still maintain a temporary status? I like the idea, don't get me wrong. Especially the 'can affect the user instead of being ally use only part' (Edit: for light shield version), I'm just wondering how to make it work. Edit: Might I also make name suggestions? To add to the pool of possibilities? Basic use: No new name. It already has its name. Light Shield Force Field: Just Light Shield should work. Or Personal Barrier. Hard Light Force Field: Offensive Barrier or Damage Shield.

Boo, @PeregrineFalcon! Boo with your logic and letting player characters be both the main character of a game and the supporting leader rallying everyone to you! I wanted a shocked world from the Big Reveal that the Statesman rallying everyone to your banner as you lead the charge to topple Battalion and have Rularuu eat him was really Lord Nemesis! I say boo! 🤣😂🤣