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Man, I know all the tricks. I come here before you, a veteran user of the tricks, and I say to you: more range on the rez is just better.

The patron pools were designed to be "stronger" pools than the hero epic pools from the beginning, so no surprise LBE is weaker than a t1 blast in a patron pool. What is weird is that Laser Beam Eyes in Body Mastery is stronger than Laser Beam Eyes in Energy Mastery, whereas with patron pools it's the Scrappers and Stalkers with the weaker, faster-recharging ranged attacks. Really shows you how scattershot the design in APPs is.

I've been playing a Nature Affinity character lately, and that 45-foot range that Rebirth gets is amazing. Not having to venture into the instant-death zone to revive someone that got splattered is a revelation. Since Resurrect does nothing besides get the target back on their feet, unlike all the other primary/secondary rezzes in the game, how about giving it more range, too? And maybe reduce the recharge, too.

The alignment system isn't the reason red and gold zones go largely unused.

But the whole point of the VEAT storyline is that they're not destined ones.

APPs are practically designed to recycle powers. I can see why a developer might drag their feet on putting together entire primaries and secondaries based on reused powers, because it can come off as lazy, but reusing powers for APPs has been the whole idea since their inception. Which is why it's so frustrating that we've gotten new APPs like three times in the whole lifetime of CoH, despite how easy it should be to add them!

I was thinking they would use the laser blasts from Paragon PD Hard Suits and Guardians, Laser Spray and Laser Burst, for the gadgetry attacks. Force Netting would be good for Nano Net though.

I think the PPD stuff would work better as a set of APPs.

I'm not entirely sure having them as an alternative reward for high-merit activities could work; right now they exist as a way to take inf out of the economy and help curb inflation. You can use merits to make inf, but it's by buying things like converters and selling them on the market, which also removes inf from the economy. Someone with a better grasp of economics would have to chime in.

Give characters a free Heroes & Villains or Rogues & Vigilantes super pack alongside the following badges: The Really Hard Way Master of Magisterium Master of Keyes Island Fabricator Field Crafter Partner Overpowered I tried to pick time-consuming badges that couldn't be AFKed so players who want to get lots of packs don't just create alt after alt to earn free packs.

Sounds like you've never heard the phrase, "Don't s*** where you eat."

I’m over here knocking over entire spawns with Shockwave, so I can only assume this is user error.

Tyrannical, you should get into demo editing, it's a pretty easy way to make proof-of-concepts for how powers would look in the hands of players. And I would know!

The power is probably coded to ignore pets so a single Mastermind teammate doesn’t max out the bonus.

Most of the time that "flavor" comes at the cost of performance. Combat Readiness in Street Justice is strictly inferior to Build Up, for example, so the set's just better on Stalkers. Same story with Power Siphon in Kinetic Melee, which functions at odds with the cast time on the strongest powers in the set.

That's the opposite of liquidating

Shiver is the stronger power, but as you said Snow Storm unlocks powers in Cold Mastery you actually want.

No player or NPC powers have more than one positional tag.

In the mission Check Out the New Dimension from Tina Macintyre, your character discovers a dimension where an alternate version of themself killed every person on Earth. Every character can get this mission, and it's always an alternate version of that character that ruined the world, which means it's not multiple characters visiting the same dimension. This means that every time you create a new character, you murder an entire planet! I hope it was worth it.

Aid Other's heal amount is identical to Heal Other, et al. Again, it wouldn't break any principles. Pets are overall rather weak, like little newbie players that didn't take any defensive powers and die very easily. The only characters that can make especially good use of them are characters with support powers to keep them alive long enough to actually reach their full potential. Boosting Aid Other's effect on pets gives every character an option to help them keep their pets alive even if they don't have a support set.

Aid Other would still be interruptible, shorter-ranged, and have a longer activation that those primary/secondary targeted heals. Giving it healing over time (ignoring cast time) on pets equal to those powers would not make it a better power than them.

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Got pets but no way to heal them? This would give you a viable option. (Note: A typical single-target heal like Soothe or Heal Other gives identical healing to Aid Other, but recharges in 4 seconds, while Aid Other recharges in 10 seconds. That's where the 2.5x figure comes from, it's not like it's my go-to number when asking for buffs.)

Well, if you're a full-time flier but your only flight power is Mystic Flight, I'm guessing you have endurance issues, especially if you're running Tough and Weave and make regular use of Snow Storm. There's some things you could do to address that. First, move the Preventive Medicine proc from Frigid Protection to Health. The 50+5 IO in Health is only worth ~1.2 HP per second, so no big loss. Then put another 50 Endmod IO in the open slot in Frigid Protection. In Stamina, the strongest possible IO for one slot is a Performance Shifter proc, so put another one of those there. Next, Shiver is pretty much redundant with Snow Storm, so you could just drop Shiver and move those slots to Snow Storm. Last, grab Hover to use in combat. You're full on pools, but if you drop the Concealment pool you can pick it up, and even keep using it as a LotG mule. This will cost you one LotG slot, though. Now, if you're not attached to the Sorcery pool, that opens up some options. You could drop Sorcery and Concealment; replace Arcane Bolt with Fire Blast, Mystic Flight with Fly, and Stealth and Invisibility with Hover and Afterburner. This would lose you Rune of Protection, though; from how you slotted it I'm guessing you like it, so I'm not sure how willing you'd be to do that.

Because this went so well last time.