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westworld,.. thats not bad. instead of a motorcycle travel power we could have a horse.. wait. what the heck happened to motorcycle travel power?!

and.. the 'very best' is very subjective. take a shot at creating a build using mids, post it and state your goals. folks will help you dial it in. (you've had about a dozen of these types of requests over multiple ATs, right? time to take the training wheels off) cheers on your chunk of change.

oh my @Cutter

Can you post this over to the.. bring your asbestos suit.

You should go for it. Energy Melee / Energy Aura probably for a broot, the other for a Tank. Energy Melee is solid and can hit hard after getting the T9. If someone never played any of the older versions they won't notice the revamp. Energy Melee had a combo mechanic added, and for a broot, some additional AoE. Total Focus was sped up a bit and we are nearly forced to use it often. There were many additional small changes. I've switched from Energy Melee to Stone Melee for the former feel of no combos, hard hitting with some active mitigation.

latest creation 'Mist' the anti-costume?

Hey now, turn that frown upside down. I agree the buildings can be problematic for say viking or medieval times. The buildings could work for time periods that take place post WW2 and into the future. There are large outdoor areas that are mostly natural and Circle of Thorns mission maps could be Fantasy thematic (without those pesky hall way torches). While some might be a stretch and have areas with buildings. Maybe: Some of the trial maps, Cimerora, The Abyss, The Hive, Tunnels of the Trolls, Winter Forest, Echo Plaza, Eden, Cascade Archipelago, The Chantry, The Storm Palace, half of Nerva?

It would be dreamy to have the game run on a modern engine, unfortunately as I understand it, that is basically a complete rewrite. I'm thinking more along the lines of using the existing game, which works, and has been largely updated for current systems and computers. Using that as a baseline, drop the existing lore/canon, and come up with something smaller and different. Trim out some of the non-relavent costumes, zones, and powersets. There's ~55 zones currently. Surely 10 or so could be cobbled together into a outdoor, city, or time period theme. Basically the same concept as used with The Abomination in Dr. Kane's being a repurposed Adamastor.

Would earning AE tickets still be available? Maybe increase the tickets a bit while dialing down other aspects? There a good number of levers that can be adjusted.

Stalker > Epic Power Set Weapon Mastery powerset > Physical Perfection should read: Physical Perfection By achieving perfect harmony of body, mind and spirit you are able to regenerate health and endurance slightly faster than normal. This power is always active and consumes no endurance.

Okay. I'll give it one more try. Regenerate, recuperate, recover from wounds, heal, etc are interchangeable terms. I didn't say any were false, in fact, I intimated the opposite, and stated that is silly to argue that Wolverine does not heal. Then, on a new line, in a different color, and italicized. I tried to say the CoH powerset 'Regeneration' does-what-it-does, and is not specific to any comic book character such as Wolverine. The face palms are a reaction to the responses to my comment which included "folks look silly when they try and argue..". All that said, I do usually try to keep comments short and sometimes that can be less than clear. C'est la vie.

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and silly you look.. don't make me pretend fan boi on you!! all said with a smile and respect

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+1 to @Outrider_01 suggestions. Energy Melee has so new stuff. Stone Melee hits hard. Radiation Melee, Super Strength.. it's hard to go wrong.

Oh dear gawd.. First, thanks @Frozen Burn Second, if folks wanna make a new set, just make one. no need to recreate the wheel. Third, Wolverine has a 'Healing Factor', and no offense but folks look silly when they try and argue differently. (Regeneration is not Wolverine, it is a CoH powerset that does what it does) @The_Warpact keep the ideas coming. Scaling regeneration based on incoming damage is totally doable. Making it specific to damage types might be over complicating it.

Alrighty! Slot Machine's Random Challenge 2022 is coming to a close. Hope participants had fun, maybe found some inspiration, or at a minimum fed that alt itch. I'll put together a brief wrap up and email out prizes over the weekend. Congratulations to everyone!! Triple grats to anyone who found a new favorite character!!!

@Spaghetti Betty So take the character creator, kept a good number of the relevant power sets (renaming appropriately) and lay that on top a different environment and lore, could that have potential?

How many players do you want? This answer will drive the rest of that conversation. Replay-ability is so strong in this game folks have figured out how to leverage existing mechanics to make it comically easy to create a new max build almost instantly. That's good.. and bad. It may be hard to think back to first starting and what hooked us. (it likely was not endgame builds and incarnates) There are folks who spent a year or more before getting their first 50 and were happy. I have suggestions if we're having a real conversation.

I was gonna say regen for melee. add in some epics, accolades, incarnates and it is busy.

Here's the thing, City of Heroes is old. That said, there is a little something special here that companies spend ridonkulous amounts of money every year trying to find. The character creator is a superstar. Gaining abilities and tweaking those abilities is an interesting time sink. Campaign variety (single mission, minor arc, major arc, trials, task forces, etc.). Being able to assist another player. Customizable bases. The variety of archetypes and number of powerset combinations. etc. (if you like, reply with what works great or even list terrible aspects) Portions of CoH probably could be parsed and stand as a game all on their own. Any themes out there that could be imagined as a reskinned game. What would you keep and leave out. Imma curious.

give demon exp N O W !!!

center mouse button and spin?

FUCK YEAH!! There's another.. better, cooler list. more to come [insert common COH trigger words/topics here to effortlessly derail this thread]