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Knockback is the entire reason energy blast is fun, so I'm 100% against any change that implements KB->KD into the set proper. I'd permanently shelve my EB/EA sentinel if this became reality.

Music, maybe graphics post-update. To be honest not much more than that, these days. It's turned into less of an mmo and more of a sunk cost simulator. Everything about their design is meant to keep you subscribed by making everything take a long time to do. Oh, uh. The game used to be a little better at showing instead of telling as far as story content goes, but nowdays to get any of the important parts of the story you have to read the novels, so I can't give it that anymore.

The incarnate system, to a lesser degree, fulfills a similar function to IO sets. Certain aspects of it are slightly more extreme, some are less. And the system does not patch every single hole. All it really does is allow greater freedom when building a character, because you aren't as restricted by the need to patch whatever faults your powersets may have in your build itself. Does it make the more powerful sets even better? Yeah. Who cares? It's a superhero game. It's about being super. Anything that makes my characters more super is a good thing. It also makes some of the generally bad sets more playable. Also, destiny isn't trivializing anything, unless what you're really getting at is that people aren't being forced to wait around for you to apply buffs to them. Judgment does way more to trivialize content, what with nukes flying around every which way, and I still wouldn't say that it trivializes anything.

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I generally build my characters around their concept, but I also don't hobble my characters in an effort to strictly adhere to a concept. I also don't think that RP needs to be dictated by out of character game mechanics. As for the psy debate: I have seen people with mind control powers act in pretty terrible ways, so I don't begrudge a single person who puts something like that in their bio.

Nature was the last powerset added to the cash shop and was only available for a short time before the game shut down iirc. Dark control, staff fighting, titan weapons, and water blast were all available prior to the shutdown. Bio armor, psi melee and martial combat/assault were going to be released in issue 24, I think.

You're never going to get everyone to agree on this. I prefer to play as if time just kept chugging along. No muss, no fuss. My characters did stuff in the interim, etc.

The amount of content. CO was given up on pretty early on and that shows. When I played CO, the only things they really added were costume packs. It was rare that any kind of mission or story content got added into the game. Mind you, CoH is technically a dead game, so there's really no content being worked on for it, but it still has years worth of content updates to rest on. CO? Not so much. There's other things, but that's probably the biggest thing.