Luminara

I flipped to a second build as a way to respec a character after running out of free respecs once... that's all I've ever done with that feature.

Come on, people, stop blabbering about C-listers and bench warmers. Squirrel Girl and the Wonder Twins are the real tragic absences.

I haven't seen that particular oddity, but there have been a lot of new AI bugs popping up in the last six months. Enemies in the same group attacking one another when they never did before, Crey Juggernauts aggroing even when they're -10 to the character and too distant to be affected by a damage or Taunt aura, pathing being even worse than it was in the past, reports of pets like PA ignoring enemies, enemies running for the hills and only returning after Thanksgiving dinner and a long nap, Rikti in Crey's Folly doing their absolute best to beat the shit out of HVAC units... a spawn trying to beat up the floor doesn't surprise me at this point.

I hold off on running Montague Castanella's arc until it's well past Lost levels, sometimes waiting until level 50. The Lost are all replaced by Rikti who have a much more diverse color palette (rather than green, green, green and brown, green, oh, look, green), and they speak English (some of those drones are almost poetic).

To aid in the avoidance of being forcibly entered into a combat state by external actions. Combat Jumping and Hover are combat mobility powers. Infiltration is not.

Do the auras appear if you deactivate cel-shading?

Those aren't identical. Shoulders, gloves and boots are different. Test each of the differing costume parts, by matching them precisely to what you know works (change them on the huge model to match the female model), one at a time, to verify that it's not a specific costume piece causing the problem.

The group settles in Brickstown. Swan and Manticore are in Brickstown, so they're tasked as Marauder's nannies.

*sesquipedalian angst*

Since the game is back from the dead, but not truly alive, I think that's a vote for zombie Statesman. Now, where did I put that rabbit army...

I'd team for that.

Here at Lumicorp, we're not evil. Irascible, inappropriately humorous, but never evil. Lumicorp, the megacorp with a shit to give. Two shits if you're nice to our representatives!

Yeah, and where's my goddamn deep dish supreme pizza?!

Resurrect, as Zombie Statesman! Doc V and The Clockwork King team up to dredge his rotting corpse out of whatever hole it's in, re-animate it and send it shambling after Lord Recluse, who subsequently uses his mental network to take control and uses it to launch an assault Ouroboros in hope of discovering a way to break his connection with the Well, but instead, creates a parallel Paragon City in which everyone is a rabbit! Doom bunnies, with deadly hopping powers and mind-bending nose wiggles, bent on domination of the Rogue Isles, invade Grandville, and heroes and villains team up to prevent the bunnification of the entire world!

... Does anyone want to field this one, or should we just cough loudly and give each other sidelong glances while we wait for him to check my post history and put two and two together?

They appear in that location for characters who have completed Primal Earth Provost Marchand's story arcs. So you're seeing them because you completed the arcs.

The attacks? Yes, unless it's +Damage, then no. More thoroughly answered, in the strictest sense, set bonuses are powers applied to your character, not to other individual powers. So if you have 45% +Accuracy, that's an Accuracy modifier on your character's base hit roll equation, and that adjusted equation then becomes the base used by other powers. That's how set bonuses work.

I didn't say you could post my nudes.

No-one's hitting the damage cap on any archetype with "a medium inspiration or two". You're not strengthening your argument with that kind of statement.

My main is a Staff/Willpower brute. This is her build. I exemplar with this build, so it's functional all the way down to level 7 (the lowest available through Ouroboros). Looking at my oldest saved version, it's not much different. The power selection is level for level identical, and I leveled her up without planning a respec build. The slotting on the older build was a bit more haywire, because it was from before the travel power changes or addition of Athletic Run (63mph Jump Speed, without buffs), so my current build, the one I've included, is really as trim and lean as it can be, the result of over a year of tweaking and minor adjustments. It should adapt to scrapper well. The Energy Mastery APP was selected specifically for this character, as an extension of Willpower (Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection really fit that), because Legionette doesn't have any "special" abilities, just a stick and her determination to prove herself to the Sisters. Energy Torrent is, therefore, just a set bonus mule. You probably won't want or need Body Mastery, so you might consider Weapon Mastery (if i could've had that, i would've taken it). Yes, I have Infiltration as the final power selection, but I don't use it. I use Athletic Run, Sprint and set bonuses, and she's around 73mph Jump speed and 75mph Run speed. Legionette doesn't sneak. She might be timid at times, but she's not going to hide from her enemies, or try to avoid a fight. You can move Infiltration to a lower level and use it, or substitute another travel power, and de-emphasize the extra movement speed (put that extra slot in Sprint to another use, for example). Attack chain depends on the situation. No boss = Guarded/Innocuous/Guarded/Eye. One boss = Serpent's/Sky//Serpent's/Eye. Two or more bosses = Guarded/Serpent's/Sky/Eye. This build has just enough global +Recharge to make all of those work without the game giving you "Power Recharging!" honks. Form of the Body is the only one I use. Ask whatever questions you like, I'll answer.

Here's a summation of what I've collated from the discussion in this thread: Some imaginary secondary and tertiary characters from a fantasy story are being slightly changed in a filmed adaptation of that story, some people objected to that, the company filming the adaptation reacted to the criticism in a less than kind or intelligent way, and then everyone started acting like twats to each other. Yeah, I don't really care. That's a normal day online. If you tell me there's a massive controversy over banana smoothies in gender politics, I'll tell you that it's Saturday. And there's a subtext of intent on both sides. The "influencers" are riding this pony for all it's worth, manipulating people to make money; and the company, whatever the intent behind the changes, is now using this bruhaha to generate heightened interest in the adaptation in hopes of convincing more people to see it so they can figure out why it was controversial. Yes, the people who criticized the complainers, rather than respond to the complaints and engage in positive exchanges, are wrong. But so are the people who turned the complaints from a molehill into a mountain, for profit. Both sides are wrong. And the people maintaining the fight are wrong. In a year, this'll be a two paragraph blurb page on Wikipedia and everyone involved will be repeating the fight on another platform, another product, another mountain built out of a molehill, and laughing as they cash their checks at the bank. But at least I get to see a bunch of monkeys fling poo at each other. That's entertaining. 👍

Enhancement reductions were enacted to deal with that. Having all of your slots, and having all of the enhanced value of all of those slots, are not even remotely the same in the examplar system. The lower one exemplars, the larger the reduction on enhancement values, and with SOs being available at level 1 now, there's a fair degree of balance between native level characters and exemplared characters. That's my main exemplared down to level 7. At native level 7, I had the same five slots in the power, but presuming less intensive slotting, we can still presume at least two additional slots in the power, allowing an Accuracy SO, a Damage SO and an Endurance Reduction SO, all at 33% values. That's definitely superior to this slotting. Allowing SOs all the way down to level 1 was probably the most impactful balance change the HC team has made to date, and it was the right thing to do, from this perspective. Even if we presume the native level character is using set IOs instead of SOs, he/she is still receiving slightly better enhanced values than the exemplared values. There's no big leap in performance for the exemplared character, that hit to the enhancements does a very good job of limiting us. What I'm getting at is that exemplaring has a powerful impact on builds. The reduction of enhancement values was specifically designed to be that strong because it was balanced against the additional availability of a few extra powers. You get two or three extra powers, but you take a larger hit on all enhancement slotting, creating a broad parity with characters at native levels. Granted, use of IO set bonuses can offset some of the losses, but there aren't very many +Accuracy, +Recharge, +Damage or EndRdx bonuses available below level 22. Most of the "good stuff" comes at levels 25 and 30, and upward, and going below 22 costs significantly in terms set bonuses. We still retain purple set bonuses, ATO bonuses, PvP set bonuses and certain globals, but, despite with the general availability of these now, we can't assume everyone's use of them. And even when we do have them, they're not opening a wide gulf between native and exemplared builds. This same character has only two 15% Accuracy set bonuses, and 60% global recharge. That total +30% Accuracy is just bringing the character up to the native level character's SO use, and I don't have a complete attack chain to make use of that global +Recharge, so I'm not hammering away with a complete attack chain, I'm falling back on my origin power, Brawl, vet temps, just like the native level character does. Those set bonuses are just bringing me back up to strength in comparison to that native level character. It's a fair and balanced approach to exemplaring, doubly so now that SOs are falling from the sky at level 1. It's also why the proposal in the original post is a non-starter. Allowing all powers to be available at this level would have exactly the impact you theorized. Having a few set bonuses is fine, but having a complete roster of powers with which to leverage those set bonuses would be broken. People complain about Incarnates being a problem... that's exactly the same kind of problem this would entail. This suggestion is one of those things that will never happen on these servers. We may not have the best balance in gaming history, but I guarantee that the HC team isn't going to throw what balance we do have into the trash by implementing this kind of change.

It's okay to go with other light colors, the Egyptians did have various dyes from sources such as berries, roots and minerals ground into powder and mixed with fats. What's important is how the dyed fabric would interact with sunlight. Light colors reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat, and that's crucial in a desert climate. A deep brown or red, on the other hand, would absorb heat, cause the wearer to sweat more and lead to dehydration and exhaustion. 11 is definitely closer to true linen than 10, but 10 wouldn't be physically debilitating, so if you like the yellow, use it. I'm poking around in the costume creator, and I'm seeing that the Black Knight 1 belt (Clean) completely covers the pouch (as long as you're not taking up-skirt shots), and is metallic, so it'll take a fairly golden color in one channel and allow you to add a splash of color in the other channel. There's a little clipping in combat stance, but not a horrific amount. I also played around a bit with Chest Details and noticed that the Imperial Dynasty detail has a great look on bare chests. I think that would work for pharaonic adornment, or an acceptable substitute for the scale chest armor I mentioned charioteers using earlier. That looks fantastic. The belt really adds an excellent touch. Something similar to that actually happened several times. At various points between Dynasties, power vacuums occurred. A pharaoh would die without an heir, or the heir would be too young to rule, or lack the ability to retain power, or just die before reaching maturity, and being so close to the throne, a high priest would step in as regent, or take the throne him/herself. And at least once, a pharaoh turned the tables on the priesthood. Akhenaten packed up all of his stuff, ordered the people of Thebes to follow him into the desert, and built a new capitol from which to rule, Amarna. He cast down the entire pantheon and proclaimed a single god, the Aten, and left the priesthoods of the other gods standing with their dicks in their hands in Thebes. They were, understandably, furious. Wealth in ancient Egypt was measured in arable, fertile land and the people to farm on it, so when Akhenaten turned his back on the old gods, he was also denying the priesthoods the people needed to plant, tend and harvest crops in their nomes, effectively rendering them paupers. After he died, worship of the Aten declined, and his son, the new pharaoh, was convinced to return to Thebes and re-institute worship of the old gods. Amarna was abandoned, Akhenaten's works torn down and recycled into other projects, and almost everything bearing his name destroyed (ancient Egyptians believed that not only did the soul go on to live after death, but also that one's name was just as important in keeping the soul alive. to have one's name scratched out was to consign the soul to destruction). You might recognize the name of that son. Tutankhamun. Yeah, that Tutankhamun. Oh, and Akhenaten's wife? Nefertiti. Uh huh. That Nefertiti. This is why I've spent 40+ years reading about this stuff. Tom Clancy, eat your heart out. I'd completely forgotten we have that option! Use it! Using tattoos as make-up, you'll want blacks, greens and reds. Black and green were used interchangeably, symbolizing life, and both colors were used for eye make-up (black on the upper eyelids, green on the lower). They made black make-up by crushing charcoal or galena to powder and mixing it with fat. Greens were made with malachite, again, crushed and mixed with fat. Red rouge and lip paint was made the same way with red clay. We know they had lapis lazuli and used it extensively in murals, statuary and glazes, and it can be mixed with fat just as easily, so there's nothing really stopping you from throwing some blues in, too. 7 is definitely working. 👍

How dare they.