Rudra

Yes please!!!!

Is there a preview for them? I don't seem them on the wiki and I don't have Prismatics to check, so I only see Warshade and Peacebringer effects listed as their effect. (Edit: And maybe we can have an option for starting force field defense characters that doesn't cost 250 Prismatic Aethers?)

I've been thinking... yeah, I know... bad habit.... Anyway, I was looking through the auras already available to see what works as a force field for Tankers, Brutes, or whatever that want their defense to be force field like. The best option I saw was Victorian Decor. It has clean lines and follows the exterior of the body nicely, but the patterning doesn't work universally and it only applies to select body parts. There was also Battle Fury, but the presentation is too erratic. Glowing Aura can also be used, but it has no defined edge, just a filled area. So what about something else? Maybe just a bubble taken from the Force Field set and made available as an aura? Or better in my opinion, make a new aura derived from Victorian Decor, except that encompasses the character and lacks the patterning, maybe just a moving sheen the defines the barrier instead. Thoughts?

These parts are feasible, which is why I didn't comment on them.

This would require new animations for every Brute power.

You are misunderstanding me. (This seems to be a running theme....) I'm fine with the powers in the power set. I'm fine with you pitching a variation of Invulnerability because it does look fairly different to me. I'm fine with you specifically designing the set to better embody a powered armor set from the comics. The issue I have is that the defenses and other capabilities found in powered armors like Iron Man et al, is that those same powers are also found in characters that don't use powered armor. Or any armor at all for that matter. However, naming the set Power Armor runs into the same problems we see with existing sets like Necromancy and Super Strength. There are characters that raise or manipulate the dead beyond just necromancers. There are other forms of adrenaline boosted performance beyond Rage. However, there are players that are upset that in order for them to have an undead master Mastermind, they have to be a necromancer. There are players that complain that their super strong character doesn't rage, but gets an adrenaline rush that performs just like it. There is a lot tied up in a name. That is what I am asking about. The proposed set? Looks fine to me, the devs will have to go over it and make any adjustments they see fit. All I am asking is why is the set called Power Armor and are you willing to consider alternate names that fit the same theme such as Integrated Defense or anything else?

I don't have issues with what the powers do. And last I checked, a psychic manifestation of armor was psychic or psionic armor, not power armor. Cyborgs also use integrated weapons and defenses, but they may not have any actual armor, just a very robust frame. I don't care if @Ultimo creates a new armor set that works better for powered armor characters like Iron Man, by all means, go for it, I'm just asking for a more open presentation for it. (Edit: Or at least a good explanation as to why the set has to be called Power Armor with power names reminiscent of hi-tech powered armor.)

Why should the set be specifically power armor? This even cuts out other tech concepts. Cyborgs can have integrated defenses without power armor. Magic can too. So why specifically Power Armor as the set? Will it also apply physical, tech-based armors to characters that use it? (And if so, why?) Why not the Integrated Defense set for instance? Something that doesn't lock out other character concepts.

That would make the pool power rez better than some support AT rezzes.

The issue I have with the OP is the idea locks out other concepts. Why should a character have to be a power armor character for this? Edit: You can just as easily call it the Resilience set or something. Maybe as follows: Hardy Tempered Resilient Robust Impassive Evasive Quick Recovery Second Wind Overpower

Players are free to express their feedback to any suggestion. And as you keep bringing up the same topic, you should expect to get repeated responses about that topic. My previous post was going to be my only post, but this post requires a response.

The info screen for Brute's Irradiated Ground says it does Toxic damage, but the Detailed Info screen says it does Fire damage. It is difficult for me to tell which it is actually doing because while Irradiated Ground is hitting my test targets, it isn't listing Irradiated Ground unless it misses on my combat log.

My mistake. Thanks.

That's the thing though, support ATs are all about support. It is their identity. Players dipping into the Medicine pool aren't support characters. The Medicine pool isn't supposed to make your character a support character, it just gives you the ability to throw some supplemental heals. (And I just checked Aid Self during combat in the game. I'm not seeing any interrupt time. So the OP isn't correct.)

That is an extremely biased opinion.

You are misunderstanding my posts and I am at a loss for how to clarify. From the villain player character's point of view, the character can choose to go with Arachnos via Operative Kuzmin or Kalinda, or the character can go a non-Arachnos route with Mathew Burke or just street sweep to level, or a combination of the above, yes. The interaction between Arachnos and the Destined Ones is as I described in my previous post. The player character is not part of Arachnos and Arachnos has no control over the character, even if the character does missions and story arcs for Arachnos. I am not trying to say that a player character by default is bound to interact with Arachnos, outside of the forces the character faces over the course of the character's career. I was responding to your statement about Arachnos and Destined Ones, and the fact that the way I read that post was the implication that the Destined Ones are faceless nobodies that form the body of Arachnos. And my point on that is that the reasons why a player character might do that will change from character to character, especially red side where such interactions makes less thematic sense, and trying to force a reason why they are doing so instead of just letting the individual players rationalize why their characters are doing so is hurting your argument. If I'm being brutally honest, I don't really care, I just think the implementation method doesn't work. The best way to add a reward is to have an objective that triggers said reward. Instanced missions have the benefit of completing the mission being the trigger that grants the bulk of the non-mob defeat rewards instanced missions have. You completed the mission? Have X xp and inf' as reward. Setting up rewards for street sweeping would most easily be accomplished by a bounty system, which would basically be a street sweep mission from a contact that gives out street sweep missions, where completion of the accepted mission awards xp and inf' as if it were an instanced mission, unlike current street sweep missions which do not. The problem with spontaneously spawning an AV after every X defeats, is that unlike a GM, AVs can, and quite possibly will, be wiped out by someone not on the team if they happen to encounter said AV 1st. So if you want street sweeping to have rewards and entice players into joining patrol teams, then you most likely should limit said rewards to the team specifically. And the only way I know how to do that, is by it being a mission completion reward rather than a spawned anything that just appears in the zone.

Here's the thing about Arachnos and Destined Ones. While there are lots of Destined Ones, that is because Kalinda cannot narrow down who the actual Destined One is to a single person, just to a group of potentials. And even at that, none of the Destined Ones, whether PC or NPC, is a faceless nobody in Arachnos. They are cast adrift and watched to see which can actually ascend to being the Destined One, but they aren't Arachnos minions. Even Bane Spider Ruben makes a point of telling you that. As does Marshall Brass and a few other Arachnos contacts. They highlight that your character is not part of Arachnos, is not subject to Arachnos commands (outside of an Arbiter), and holds no authority over Arachnos forces. So your counter-argument fails. (Though I do understand you are just playing.) There is no in-game explanation. There is an out of game explanation: humans are social animals and typically prefer to be with others. In game though? Playing a villain? There is no attempt to explain it because from a villain point of view, it doesn't work. Which is part of my point. You're spending an awful lot of effort to explain in game why heroes and villains would form street sweep teams, and it isn't necessary. With many such reasons requiring lots of mental gymnastics and sideways squinting for the reason to make any sense. If you want a street sweep thing? You don't need to pitch an in game reason for it. Reasons that would work for heroes won't for villains. Not really, no. My point there is that the opportunity to learn the lore is one of the rewards players get for doing instance missions. It is just one of the rewards though. And no rewards are currently available for street sweeping, which is why players don't typically do it. Add rewards to street sweeping and it becomes more enticing to players. And that is a problem. That is why teams work the way they do. And even if your suggestion were to be implemented, you will want to maintain that team dynamic or you will wind up with a whole lot of angry players complaining about being 'punished' for doing the implemented street sweep content. The last thing you want is team members being arbitrarily dismissed from a given team they just joined by any means because they changed zones or neighborhoods. Look at the Bug Reports forum for some examples there from players complaining that going into their SG base while a Rogue hero side or a Vigilante villain side and finding themselves dismissed from their team automatically.

So can the petsay command. That is even shown on the Petsay (Slash Command) page linked by both @gabrilend and @biostem. Edit: This site is more relaible: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Petsay_(Slash_Command) I don't know about binds since I don't use them, but I haven't had any problems with typing in petsay commands in the chat line or using them from my macros. (Until someone linked me to a file that shut my demons up, I would routinely type the sleep emote for them into my chat bar and they would go to sleep.) The Homecoming wiki does have incorrect data as evidenced by its difference for the Bodyguard Mode Mastermind's have. And what are you talking about? Mastermind players can do this whenever they want. RP'ing in Pocket D, passing time waiting on teammates to arrive in a mission, during a fight (though the emote will fail immediately as the pet stops emoting to continue attacking, so text only for here), absolutely whenever the MM player feels like. Edit again: *hits Enter key, types in /petsay <em flex>, hits Enter key* *clicks speech bubble icon on chat bar, moves cursor to highlight new Henchmen category, moves cursor to All Pets category, moves cursor to desired emote category, scrolls through emote list until sees desired emote, moves cursor to desired emote and clicks* Pretty convenient in my book.

That depends on your point of view. Confront: Provoke: 70 ft range 60 ft range 1 target 5 targets max (15 ft radius) 3s recharge 10s recharge 23.1s taunt 12.32s taunt -75% range (12s duration) -- So it depends on the player and how they intend to use it as to whether one is superior to the other. Yes, Provoke will affect 5x as many targets, but Confront forces the target to move towards you and affects the target for longer.

Yes.

Did he die in that mission? Then that would explain why he is not available in Underground Neutropolis. Gold side has some complications players need to be aware of. They can remove contacts from being available depending on what they do. Even if someone else introduces the character to the contact after.

You are misunderstanding, so let me attempt to clarify. Using just myself as an example because I can't speak for others, the reason why I would not join a street sweeping team on my street sweeping only characters is because I do not want anything other than my chosen targets. My Croatoa street sweeper for example, which no longer does so for having out-leveled the zone, would only take down Red Cap bosses. And that was the only mobs I wanted to be involved in my character's progression. No minions. No lieutenants. No Cabal. (Though I was hunting Tuatha and Firbolg until I was high enough level to go after the Red Caps.) Because of my character's focus, I did not want any xp or inf' coming from other sources. I did this on another character where I was explicitly hunting Family bosses in Independence Port. Or a red sider that only hunted Longbow in Nerva Archipelago. Don't want anything from other sources. Yes, this is extremely niche. However, it is just one example of why a street sweeping character could choose to not join a street sweeping team. Because now their theme is out the window as the other team members go after what they prefer, even if that preference is everything within render distance. Poor example. I get your point, but poor example, because in Gotham, the city is very much divided up into specific gang controlled territories. They just don't spend as much time visibly shaking down the citizenry as in CoX. Most of their crimes are hidden in the back alley shadows, boardrooms, and political offices. In comics, villains most often band together to be able to defeat the heroes they know are going to come after them during their heists, but only after the heroes have previously prevented those criminals from successfully completing their crimes multiple times. Or they share an ideology, other belief system, or shared trait; so they band together into a set villain group. They don't band together just because. And often, their encounters with each other, at least during their crimes, are violent as they view each other as a threat to their own goals. That's part of the problem. While a patrol works well from a heroic stand point, it all but fails under a villainous one. The only times I can recall where villains did 'patrols' was when they were a villain organization, and those patrols were done by the faceless nobodies that formed their ranks. That was my issue/point. That there is no difference. Because the story is told in the instanced missions, and because instanced missions give better rewards for giving mission completion rewards whereas just moving around a zone smacking down down random mobs doesn't, if the devs want players to spend time out and about in the various zones, they need to include street sweep missions. Players are going to gravitate to rewards. That reward can be discovered lore about the game, it can be xp and inf', it can be whatever. I believe the reason why street sweeping is so unpopular is because it lacks a reward system. You can't just award bonus rewards if there isn't a trigger to award those bonus rewards. So instanced missions get mission completion rewards. (Which means street sweep missions should too, but they don't.) Delving through the missions and reading the clues, briefings, debriefings, and enemy chatter reveals a massive story behind the game, which is itself also a reward. Just moving around a zone and randomly smacking down various mobs can't do that, though at least we do have explores that also give game lore. Because of that, yes, players need to be told to go to King's Row and search the roof tops and back alleys because the CoT are sacrificing people. Because otherwise there is no real incentive to do so. The rewards are found in the instanced missions. Now from a lore/comic perspective? You're correct, supers should be out there patrolling their home turf for multiple reasons. PR being one. Home security being another. (Bear in mind though, that from a realism point of view, most of those criminals the patrolling hero is beating up to save the day? Are just down on their luck regular people trying to get something to live on. Not a concern in something Like CoX where everyone mugging someone is a gang member running wild, but if you were to get down to it, at least in comics, that's what your patrolling heroes have to confront. That not everyone committing a crime does so because they are evil.) Why would the player's mission change just because they crossed the street into a different neighborhood? Using your example, the player is in a group hunting Hellions in Hyperion Way with only 5 more to go until the mission is complete. The player now finds himself/herself/themselves in a different neighborhood. They would still have their Defeat Hellions in Hyperion Way mission with only 5 left. It would not suddenly change to Defeat 30 Clockwork in Argosy Industrial and negate previous progress on the Hellions in Hyperion Way mission. The player should then know to move back into Hyperion Way to resume progress unless the team finishes defeating the last 5 Hellions and completes the mission. At which point that player is still also flagged as having completed the mission for being on that team.

Doesn't really work with the VEATs. If you choose Soldier of Arachnos, your 1st costume is a Wolf Spider, Bane Spider, or Crab Spider. If you choose Widow of Arachnos, your 1st costume slot is a Blood Widow, Fortunata, or Night Widow. So if you were to choose Mu Mystic, you would be a bound, hovering, faceless Mu. Honestly, since there are Mu scattered throughout the game, it would be simpler in my opinion to just make some sort of electrical character as a player and call yourself a Mu rather than have such a limited VEAT added. (According to the game, approximately 80% of the people in the world are Mu.)

A point of contention here: @Luminara is referring to the Seed of Hamidon in the example, not Hamidon. And no amount of Super Speed, Speed of Sound, Ninja Run, or other similar power is going to get your character up to the Seed or most of the Seedlings.

Had you met Crow in a previous instanced mission? There are apparently multiple ways to get him removed as a contact you can walk up to and talk to, all of which seem to revolve around him being defeated in a mission.