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Please do not. Having eight of most every set would make it take 2-5 business days to pick one in the character creator. We might not see a new War Mace character before the heat death of the universe. -- No idea about balance but it might be funny to see someone try a gimmick combination like Fire Blast substitute toxic + Fire Manip sub psionic. "I do toxic damage. And my secondary effect is to do more toxic damage. Enemy group resistant to toxic? Doubt they have psi resist then, so try two psionic damage auras and psychic Burn."

Would you like to take a controller - any sets - and compare how often the CC affects an AV versus how often cycling Jab/Punch/Haymaker alone knocks regular enemies down? Rage is very easy to perma.

That was my point in mentioning the purple triangles. Underlings to bosses are whatever. Why would it be okay for a melee set to do more viable crowd control on AVs than an archetype dedicated to, and balanced around, crowd control?

Aside from balance concerns in isolation, it would also be unfair that controllers - an archetype with considerably less raw durability and heavy reliance on CC - have to deal with the PTOD while SS tankers recreate Vanden's forum avatar:

My own selfish asks would be... The older, thinner, less-flashy version of the character creator UI (which, IIRC, AE's custom NPC creator still uses elements of). Galaxy City back as a starting zone along with its contacts, as if the meteors didn't hit yet, until you outlevel the zone. -- To this chain of discussion: maybe the idea is that original content not offered elsewhere is worth more than parallel content, even if that means skipping low-hanging fruit?

As an option, definitely. I'm not opposed to it as long as I'm not forced into it. I just want to chime in as one of the (crazy?) people who uses the game behavior of your character turning to face their foe for AOEs as a feature, heavily.

Pulverize, Jawbreaker, Shatter... Who is wielding this wand? Mash Burnedead?

The change would have an impact on combat. Being able to anchor it to an ally means not having to re-anchor it every mob as long as you keep your endurance up, and your ally can reposition as requested. I don't personally think they'd need nerfing but, given the track record on power changes, it seems safe to assume the devs consider the current status quo precisely balanced and any improvement to efficacy or efficiency - no matter how minor - would be met with a trade-off on some other aspect.

That is an odd response to give. I didn't say anything about the code. If it's an immersion issue, allies also aren't debuffed by standing within those same debuffs' areas of effect. The same as not taking damage from friendly Fire Ball or Rain of Arrows; the same as not receiving negative effects when they're the anchor for location debuffs activated via /powexeclocation. My guess is the counterpoint will be that powers like Darkest Night need to physically pour out of the anchor's body from inside, thereby they can't evade the debuff.

Some questions: Where can that inf be used - stores, the market, traded/emailed, etc? What happens if someone deletes a character with an outstanding debt?

Thrown weapons would be nice to pay homage to characters like Moon Knight or Dio Brando. The version I suggested a while back looked pretty much the same as Steampunkette's, especially leaning into being "ranged claws" with lower damage but also low cast time. Personally, I'm not fond of every new set being suggested with Swap Ammo or builder/spender.

As long as it's an optional feature, doesn't matter to me. I just wanted to point out: Imagine playing an MMO and talking to people you elected to group with. 👀

But you just dismissed two alternative suggestions that wouldn't force it on people. 🤔

What happens to recipes that use that type of salvage exclusively? Do they only cost INF now?