Clave Dark 5

That looks sick, so of course I'll be working on Halloween. Still, good work, and have fun!

Yup, all correct. Mike Baron was a pretty solid superhero writer back in the day.

Never. I hit a wall sometime in the middle tiers, like say +2 where I either stop playing the character (new shinies!) or the process just becomes a pain because of the awful Incarnates interface. At that point, I may still pull one or two of the "mains" out for occasional BAFs or something, but dear god, aren't they already powerful enough?! Who cares?! I just want to have fun here, not jump through stupid hoops.

This really should be achievable fairly easily with community input. One could hold writing contests in the AE and lift out the successful ones, for instance. I know they do still require testing and all that, but writing them itself is still at least one step that the devs can farm out.

Plus there are some glaring problems with certain power sets, single powers, etc. Tons of stuff there that they could work on around the edges without creating new power sets.

I've thought of doing something crazy like that just for the hell of it. Beyond that, hey, if you can't reach them, they can't reach you either.

Carp melee, at last!!

I understand our HC overlords are "looking at" a number of things and that like anything, they'll be ready when they're ready. I have to admit it feels like it's been a long time since "big things" came out, but that could just be me; I'm not passing any judgement on them for that either. I'm hoping they've got some big update simmering away, juuuust about ready to come out.

Oh pancakes.

Just found this thread and this is a phenomenal amount of work. I haven't even opened one yet, maybe these are all terrible builds or won't fit my playstyle or maybe you kick puppies - doesn't matter, just a boatload of work for the community. Thanks!

Even after all this time here I didn't know this existed. I'm going to go lie down for awhile....

Badger was indeed 80s, I had many of them! My closest-related story was getting all jazzed about my new alt a few months ago - exciting funny character concept, found a good build for him here on the forums and off I went. I was somewhere in the 20s levels when I realized I already had another previous alt with the very same power-sets. I'd abandoned him at like 46th level because he just wasn't clicking for me. I put it down to having a different build and not having much of a character concept. Right now my newer alt is around 50th+15 and perhaps my main (and also right there at the end of my sig).

Not everyone min/maxes following forum guidelines.

I have an AR/Martial and have been discovering the same thing (I know DP's probably better, but I've done that power set a few times now). That shooting someone as they drift away after a Ki Push never gets old!

Can't believe I'm getting to be the first to say anything Grav is the most fun because of Propel. Throwing a forklift at someone' s head is really satisfying.

It's really blown up since it was posted though.

Why not just make all newspapers/radios usable on whatever map your on, why restrict that to just 50s?

That all makes perfect sense, thanks!

I just started one of those and was looking at Munitions, but I've never taken it before, so this would have been an experiment for me, if nothing else. What didn't work for you? I'd also be interested to hear what you end up swapping it out for!

HC can feel impermanent for those reasons, and yet it's also been up and running since what 2019? That's pretty long to feel like there's a sword of Damocles hanging over it, at least for me. I kind of think if it was going to fall, it would have by now. (Add in how much I've played by now and if HC disappeared tomorrow, I'd still be happy I got the time I had which I didn't have previously. This is not to say everybody would or should react the same way)

It's like that issue with buoy placement all over again!

This has happened to me with Howling too, a couple of times when I was leveling my "probably current main." Done it once or twice since by rushing over to rez someone without really thinking it through so they just just got dropped and are surrounded by five or more red+ foes -- I know, I'll go stand over by them and attack some of those foes to rez my friend! I may not be the sharpest razor in this box of rocks.

That sort of thing's always bugged me too.

On the other hand, Longbow deserves it.

I'd be happy to know just to have a toon that has enough End to play for longer than eight seconds below 50 without the typical Incarnates crutch. Currently leveling a Fire/Martial and I often have to leave those toggles off.