Major_Decoy

Even with stuff like Pathfinder Kingmaker from Owlcat Studios, which almost exactly uses Pathfinder 1e as a basis, it can be difficult to bring a character from the pen and paper game to the computer. There are just so many limitations to the different mediums, adaptation is a struggle. Edit: At the end of the day, City of Heroes is more like playing a series of modules, not an adventure path, not a campaign. (I suppose the signature Story Arcs are more like adventure paths)

It looks like it's for Magmites only, as we are currently incapable of playing as Magmites, I don't see how adding it would increase any play options.

They're not bad. On a Super Strength tank I'd rather take Air Superiority, Boxing, Kick, Cross Punch, Flurry, over five powers from Super Strength. But Pool attacks are usually about on par with tier 1 or 2 attacks from melee primaries, kind of on the weaker side. The problem arises with the newer sets, like Street Justice, Savage Melee, Psionic Melee, Titan Weapons, most of the sets with special mechanics. If I swap out Energy Punch for Air Superiority in an Energy Melee chain, I lose the pompoms for one hit, but in savage melee, I'm not building Blood Frenzy, in Street Justice I'm not building combo points. These sets are necessarily balanced around using their gimmick (except for Dual Blades, which apparently performs better without combos). All of this severely limits the utility of the power pool attacks. Would it be unbalancing if power pool attacks could build insight?

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Your Nightwidow build seems to take Lunge at level 2?

Yeah, I had noticed that about Smoke Grenade, but I haven't gotten around to unslotting it because I barely used Smoke Grenade anyway. I thought I might be able to get away with it because it didn't do damage. You are absolutely right that it'd be a more useful tool without it. You're right, I'd still hit 85% Psionic Resist with Mind Link up if I lost one of the resist enhancements there. But I also need slots for Pain Tolerance. I don't really pvp. I'll show up in the zones now and then, but if I get attacked, I just leave. The main reason for Rectified Reticle is just because I get kind of paranoid about it. I've had too many missions on my tanks where I was thinking "wow, this building is pretty empty" and I had just forgotten that I had smoke in my eyes. I think I could shave another 4 seconds off of Mind Link (the Fortunata version) if I dropped it and added a Luck of the Gambler, but then I'd be at 2.5 (modulo 5)

I've got a Dark Armour/Kinetic Melee tank that I quite enjoy playing, but then, I also enjoy playing my rageless super strength tank.

Hasten: 1. I try to balance my builds endurance-wise pre-incarnate and very few of my characters don't notice the crash. 2. Only one ctrl+click 3. It doesn't feel necessary, outside of Mind Link, all of my powers seem to recharge pretty quickly. Softcap without Mind Link: I. The incarnate cap is 15% higher than the normal softcap, right? 2. It keeps me from getting locked in to any particular alpha slot No fighting pool: 1) I kind of resent the fighting pool. I play a lot of tanks and it is very nice to have but I also hate feeling like it's required. (I suppose this also applies to hasten?) 2) Endurance costs. 100% Slow Recharge resist: 1) it seemed attainable and it was nice to have. I suppose I also neglected to include my stupidest build constraint: I try to aim for whole number +global recharge% values. No good reason, I just prefer it. It is not a hard and fast rule, on characters I'm not building for recharge bonuses, I tend to just get whatever bonus I get and not pay any attention to what the end value is. I tried for a Fortunata build under similar constraints too (I was not able to get 100% slot recharge resist): Edit: For purposes of character theme, I kind of want to lean more Fortunata, but for purpose of game play, I'm much more familiar and comfortable playing the Night Widow.

Firstly: No hasten. Secondly: I was trying to get as close to 45% without mind link active. Those are my hard guidelines. I don't necessarily feel like I need to skip the fighting pool, but I hit the goal without it. The problem is that the build predates pain tolerance and I would like to slot it, which means finding slots to reassign. While I'm at it, I'm also considering dropping Dart Burst, but I haven't fully decided. Data Chunk

Nae Laird, nae master!

I don't disagree, but the current team doesn't seem to engage in that sort of adversarial game design.

Honestly, without adding any new set bonuses, I think it'd be nice if all the sets had two or three new enhancements added to them.

I'd say "Just make a note in the bio" but I never think check the bios on characters I've just logged in to play. I suppose for some of them, like "only use Training Origin" I'd remember upon looking at the enhancements because "Why am I using training origins at all?" (Even when the game was live I'd just wait until level 12 and slot dual origins), but something like "I must fail every timed mission" is harder to remember.

I'll send you all the dual health/stamina inspirations I've got.

I think there should maybe also be "Smart Like Ox" which is a passive that increases damage but also has a 2 PPM chance of a mag 20 self-confuse. Or that's a good fix for Rage. Instead of a damage penalty and a defense penalty, you get a 10 second mag 20 confuse effect.

Maybe a kind of suite of options along side rage. You can only pick one, but you get an option of which one fits your character thematically. No numbers because I'm just spit balling things. Strong like an ox: Increases the base damage of Super Strength attacks. Deliberation: You attack slower but with more damage and more accuracy. Toggle, penalty to animation time, not recharge. This would require some work to have a set of super strength attacks that animate a bit longer. I would also have this increase the base damage of super strength attacks. Let Loose: All of your attacks are now AoE. Toggle.

I would have Ryan North make it and post it on Dinosaur comics. Edit: I am kind of torn between the idea of having it indistinguishable from all the other dinosaur comics or using City of Heroes images in the same poses.

Balance is not done at a power vs. power comparison. You might as well ask why Build-up doesn't have a two minute duration like Rage does.

As I recall it was originally knockback, but sometime around issues 4 or 6 they went through and decided "You know, the melee classes don't seem to find knockback as fun as we think they should" and changed most melee knockback to knockdown. Edit: I was wrong, looks like it was issue 2. Edit 2: Knockback+Unyielding Stance was particularly annoying.

Yeah, on City of Data 2.0 it's (-10 * Melee_Ones)% Knockup, Knockback Strength (self only) for 10.25s and Melee_Ones just looks to be 1 But it does also have 2.5PPM of Mag (0.67 * Melee_Ones) to Knockback (all affected targets) And while I've only seen Avalanche: Rech/Chance for Knockdown cause knockback while paired with something that already does knockdown, I don't have the experience to entirely rule out the chance that it might happen with Overwhelming force.

Knock-down is just knockback with a magnitude less than one. (typically it's .67) If you're fighting lower level enemies or enemies that are weak to knockback, it will do knockback instead of knockdown. Edit: If you had slotted Overwhelming Force: Dam/Chance for Knockdown/KB to KD into Dragon's Tail, then it would have a chance to do knockback if both Dragon's Tail and Overwhelming Force proc (.67 + .67 > 1) but slotting it in Thunder Kick should have no impact on Dragon's Tail. If you were fighting Clockwork, they're weak to knockback. Or if you leveled midmission and all of the enemies went from white to blue. Aside from that, I don't know what the issue would be.

This is a worse idea than my "Praetorian Death From Below" where your level 1 gets just absolutely murdered by level 54 devouring earth.

In this game's nomenclature, that's known as "Hardcore" because of Diablo II. I think in this game, an Ironman run is "play as a controller, but you only get to use powers from the power pools and brawl" (This started pre-City of Villains, it might have been changed to play as a Mastermind) There's also "Only use what drops" "Only use Single Origin Enhancements" "Only use Dual Origin Enhancements" "Only use Training Origin Enhancements" "No Inspirations" Edit: I suppose there are also the even harder challenges, like "No travel powers other than sprint" "No using the tram" "No using Ouroboros to travel"

It's clearly stolen from D&D, like the miss chance with the roll a 1 or a 20. It was more obvious with the mag 16 stun it used to have, when there was a solid chance of all your toggles dropping when rage did.

Since 2004 I have wanted an auto-power that increased Super Strength damage, my reasoning being "Major Decoy is just abnormally strong, he doesn't get angry, he's just strong all the time" (though these days he's Major Distraction, Shield/Street Justice, at launch Major Distraction was too long to use as a name)