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Devil's advocate: * anything can be written to fit anything - it's just how much your suspension of disbelief can tolerate * The flavor text says "Your training has allowed you to become a Practiced Brawler, turning you into a perfect fighting machine." It's not just about being evasive; your character is seasoned in close combat.

Okay, cool, so I did understand correctly. I asked because it's self-defeating for normal content. For instance: You wouldn't want Banes and Tarantula Mistresses to spawn in Mercy or Port Oakes; they're unfairly tough for characters with such few tools. Conversely, you wouldn't want Wolf Spiders to spawn in Grandville because they'd be too easy; we know from Nu Council that the HC devs are not keen on making mobs easier to plow through at the higher levels for the same reward. What if the lower-level mobs gave less XP at the higher levels? Well now no one wants to fight them because they're not worth the lower reward, and content involving those factions is actively avoided. Alternatively, what if we make them only spawn in their appropriate level range or made versions of them with more/less powers at certain level brackets so they're an appropriate challenge? Well now there's no reason for them to be level-less.

It is certainly a set of powers...

I kind of get where you're coming from but why ugly and inelegant? The animations - including the drawing - seem to be exactly the same; none of axe's animations seem to have clipping issues when swinging a sword - at least when testing with Titan Icon. Also doesn't seem all that different from Dual Pistols already having crossbow options.

Am I misunderstanding your suggestion? The original post sounds like you want levelless enemies added for the suggested factions wholesale - in all zones, missions, etc involving those groups - but your supporting examples are all very specific, tailored encounters isolated from everyday content.

They need to gain new powers as you rise in level so that they stay a challenge and are thus worthy of giving a reward. It's not just about doing even-level damage. That's why the Council got buffed; it wasn't because they were conning grey to the teams running radios in PI. As far as I'm aware (insert SCR here), the game can't spawn an entity and say "only use certain powers at this level range." It has to list each power spread as its own version. AE shows each bracket of Nullifier gets its own entry. (There's two of each because it also has separate listings for male and female models too.)

I think a lunge attack fits more thematically with Katana than Broad Sword, personally. I agree on the whole that the sets could be updated to be more different from one another, though.

Demonstrably false, though? Sergeants only exist at 1-9, Chasers at 20+, and Menders at 30+. Even Nullifiers gain new powers as you rise in level, in spite of how ubiquitous they are.

It's a bit moot for factions that already span from low levels to endgame like Arachnos, Longbow, and Circle because their mobs change out at level milestones anyway - mobs gain new attacks, new ones are introduced, existing ones drop down a tier or are phased out. Even if you scaled Wolf Spiders so they spawn in Grandville, for instance, you'd either be watering-down the difficulty of Arachnos spawns or you'd have to make a new, endgame-viable version of them anyway, which defeats the purpose of making them scale up.

If you need ideas, feel free to take some from this post:

Villains would be unable to participate if you move them to PI.

@Rudra: Right. The context wasn't divorced from the original suggestion, though. In fact, it's a pretty direct progression. If I had to guess - and this is a really presumptive guess - it probably shoves you towards the nearest NPC pathing node.

So? Nerio's request is trying to address a concrete bug. That shouldn't require a player to adjust their build. I do agree with others that the proposed solution has too much room for explotation, though, so best to use the existing solutions (including your suggestion to take Teleport Target).

Slight semantic rebuttal: people can most certainly feel cheated for that. Whether they actually were is different, and I agree that they won't have been. My point is that people will feel slighted about changing the powers in Utility Belt, which have been listed on ParagonWiki for 12 years and two siblings of whose were added to Homecoming without their powers being changed, as opposed to making a new pool for your suggested powers. There's no shortage of recurring suggestions for side arm, nonlethal armament, and improvised weapon pools.

You would need to, yes, rename Web Grenade here. Multiple archetypes can get it which, AFAIK, the game goes to lengths to make sure you can never have two of the same power by name on one build, even if their effects are virtually identical. Overall, I don't think the remaining origin pools are where you want to make large paradigm shifts because either side will have people who feel robbed - people who wanted the travel power but like natural origin or utility belt theme, and people who like a different origin but would want more utility instead of the travel power they got. Especially since this one and Gadgetry are already fleshed-out and Experimentation and Force of Will were added to HC with the powers they had listed on Paragonwiki.

Physics Mastery To cover gravity, kinetics, and energy to a degree (since a lot of the masteries that pull from Energy Blast were made before Energy Aura existed to match up for the armor portions). BLASTER Crushing Field Gravity Distortion Kinetic Shield Siphon Speed Overload MASTERMIND Propel Kinetic Shield Gravity Distortion Overload Wormhole CONTROLLER Focused Burst Repulsing Torrent Kinetic Shield Energize Burst DOMINATOR Power Crash Repulsing Torrent Kinetic Shield Energize Burst DEFENDER & CORRUPTOR Gravity Distortion Repulsing Torrent Kinetic Shield Crushing Field Energy Drain SCRAPPER & STALKER Crush Gravity Distortion Lift Siphon Power Explosive Blast TANKER & BRUTE Crush Gravity Distortion Propel Siphon Power Explosive Blast

Perhaps Waylay or Lariat, given SS' other attacks are named Jab, Punch, Haymaker, etc?

In a world where we're all chipped with emergency teleporters that put us into miraculous healing devices that repair our bodies completely and instantaneously - mechanical, biological, or otherwise. The writing can be whatever it needs - more important is getting the mechanics down as a foundation.

Unfortunately, it makes fighting the EB harder and harder each try, thus solving the problem once and for all!

Powers generally have built-in safegaurds. Super strength includes stronger bones, super hearing has either an ability to filter out the excess noise or a brain that can handle the additional audio stimuli. Super speed includes the ability to overcome friction burns. Perhaps out of phase individuals don't move from their spot unless they will themselves to. There's also the fact that you're generally in uniform motion with the planet. Without wind resistance to change that immediately, you'll still be moving at the same vector as the planet at least for a few... I dunno - seconds, at least? EDIT: In the case of Shadowcat specifically, the Marvel wiki says she can selectively keep parts of herself tangible. It did also mention she's exploited what you're referring to, kelika, to travel westward as the Earth rotates under her. Hope that helps.

The camera is anchored to your character. As a stopgap, you can rotate the camera or character and the pivot point of your FOV is where you're standing.

Yup. Papers were part of COV at launch, starting in Port Oakes. Mayhems didn't exist until the following issue, so when the paper bar filled up you got a generic heist on a tiny mission map to complete so that the broker would introduce you to someone. Those poor speakeasies were getting robbed every five minutes...

I can't speak on gameboy's behalf but I believe it's based on COV's contact system at launch, features of which are still in place today. In contrast to heroes' contacts which fluidly introduce one another and upwards as you continue to level, you had to do paper missions to be introduced to new contacts each time you entered a new zone's level range - and each of those contacts only have a strict A-B relationship with another specific contact in the zone. This was in tandem with the fact that red contacts have less non-arc/badge filler missions, which are replaced by doing the paper missions.

That sounds like exactly the kind of people demons would want to manipulate. It's free real estate. IIRC, they're jokes to other villain groups but their pacts have put them above actual regular street gangs. I think it was the old origin contacts (Gregor Richardson?) that talk about it.

While we're on the subject: can we get the controls in all three types - RGB, HEX, and HSL/HSV? 👀 As a tangent, can we also get visible numbers on the body and face sliders? I hate adjusting things and going "yeah it's like... it was like a few pixels off from two-thirds."