Naraka

Complaining about LotG is like complaining about soft-capped defense. It's all old news. Players gonna min/max, even if it makes the game play the same. No point in fixating on what others do. Imposing challenges or limitations on yourself is another option over just aiming to max out the notoriety of the missions.

That's pretty much covered in the 1st paragraph of the OP. It's mostly for challenge and personal enjoyment. After building your 327th def capped character, a nice dose of variety is often the only thing that keeps the game interesting.

You could also do a sapper using Ice or Electric armor and Mu and focus on draining END bars instead of HP. Make it a game to sap their endurance before the team can finish them off. With the melee, you can kinda pick whatever like picking up psi or ice to hinder foe rech more, stone, mace or SS if you want to control, etc.

I would have said Kinetic Melee/Fiery. We all know the racecar noises from Kinetic Melee would be perfect.

All the more reason they should have put it in the game a long time ago.

I've been waiting for Battle Axe for forever. Assassin's Guillotine. It just makes sense. Since BA and WM are similar, 2 birds with one beheading.

Curious when they'll ever get around to adding a new Stalker set. I don't even remember the last one they added, I think Stone Melee?... If they did introduce a new existing set for Stalker, which would you want first? Super Strength? Titan Weapons? War Mace? I think the easiest would likely be War Mace and Battle Axe which I'd welcome. However, I've always been annoyed that Titan Weapons wasn't made an option for Stalkers. Just make it a giant scythe and it'll be golden. I wouldn't even mind if they made some of the activations slower, just keep the momentum feature intact and our crit-control and it'd be more than amazing.

Then report me. So having an opinion is attacking? If having a chuckle at our sharing a sideways inoffensive joke is going after someone's person but going after someone's creative faculties (in this thread, btw) isn't an attack, then we truly are lost. But with all that said, my main point from the get go is, if you're making copy characters for fun, by all means, come at the situation knowing someone will likely report you. Just have fun with it. I just found it funny that the justification most will use to report you is lack of creativity on top of copyright infringement.

You seem pretty defensive about this. Cease and desist are usually the first course of action but ultimately, it's going to hinge on a case by case. If I create an intellectual property that someone decides to make a shirt for themselves, is different from making and selling the shirt for a profit or to promote their own brand. Considering we're talking about playing a private server game for no profit (I hope), I'd gauge the severity on the low scale. A Karen will be the type to enforce rules that are minor and does so by hounding people in an obnoxious way. Easy example: when masking was "required" and it took violating 6ft social distancing to hound those people. I frankly don't care if you create a homage character or a copy or a unique character. It's not my job to police if people are following their Ps and Qs unless someone is actually possible being harmed. If it turns out more outside entities are pursuing legal action against HC or other servers for creating copy characters (those that are too loud about their copy character will eventually get generic'ed so there's that avenue too) then maybe I would be more concerned. I just don't believe there are as many eyes on or fucks for CoH anymore.

They both can be. The existence of one doesn't nullify the other.

I find this reaction kind of funny. I'm not going to tell you how to react to violations and what not, and better safe than sorry or whatever (I'm not running the site so it's not like I suffer for and consequences or am forced into extra labor to fix these issues)... But it's a common enough exercise to try to make characters resemble other characters. Again, it's part exercise and part just having fun. You'll see it in GW2, FF14, heck even Soul Calibur. I've even made some myself that I still play lol. As character creators of games get better with more options, what do you think people would do? But yeah, I'm not going to stop you from donning your Karen badge.

To be frank, you don't deserve a KB to KD toggle...

Maybe they meant they aren't fully aware how indestructible the can be now because they don't play incarnate content (like myself).

Is affecting an entire league that big a deal? How often do you even run in leagues? And how often do you not have such a saturation of buffs that you'd probably hit caps by just sneezing.

Stalker does engagement control. You can pick and choose who, when and where to fight. If a fight is going south? Placate and take a breather. Want to start sans a Lt or Boss? You have the tools to make it so. And when teamed, you can just scrap it out and get bonus crit chance for it. Why play a Stalker instead of a Blaster? Survivability and control. And just because an ambush is tracking you doesn't mean you're visible. You can still run and engage in a better location. All in all, if you haven't gotten into just trying stuff out of the ordinary and having fun with it, I don't know what to tell you lol. I play khelds because they are interesting and different as well as Masterminds for being management focused. Since the game is mostly going to be static, you're going to just have to take it or leave it. Either play around with Stalkers and get a feel for them your way or wait around until we develop ESP tech to infuse the mentality into your brain over the Internet. There's nothing inherently wrong with Stalkers that make then a poor choice or anything. They're just different.