2025 - A Look Back, A Look Ahead

[BrandX]

14 hours ago, judicator2 said:

I want to see Melee with Defender powers, Both weakened of course, but just from the idea of creating a Holy Paladin with Empathy and Swords for instance, I would love this.

 

Well, you could do that with incarnate abilities.  Pick a melee AT, add in some Leadership and grab Rebirth.  🙂

[Sutekh the Destroyer]

7 hours ago, Lusiphur Malache said:

I've made 6 Widows in the last year and a couple soldiers. I even team so players can see one. Widows are just to subtle to be noticed. Did make a Mastermind finally so I may be at the end of the cool kids table.

 

Had great fun on an all Arachnos Soldier TF (there were 8 of us), all running with 150%+ to all defenses, thanks to stacked leadership buffs.

 

Would love to do the same with an all Widow TF!

 

[Greycat]

13 hours ago, Kartissa said:

Second (and probably far easier to implement) Vorpal shouldn't be doing Smashing damage of any kind. Vorpal swords are known for their Lethal cutting ability, not for bludgeoning.

 

 

But there are no swords involved with Vorpal. You take it, you sort of teleport-spin out and kick stuff in a cone.

 

 

So smashing's fully appropriate.  I don't know how much support there'd be for a lethal judgement, but a sword (or dagger) dance, especially if there's an option to use your current weapon, would be kind of cool. (Editing to add: yes, I know the meaning D&D has basically assigned to it. Other dictionaries just pick "lethal" as a definition, if they define it at all. If you want to argue it should be renamed to something else because it's not cutting things... I'm not picky either way, I just enjoy my teleport-spinny-kickingness.)

 

Other than that... a psy judgement would be welcome. Toxic...

 

Honestly, I want to see an entire toxic update. I have a toxic armor set I'd love to see, as well.

Edited 12 hours ago by Greycat

[Scarlet Shocker]

I have two very important takeaways from this:

 

Only just over half a million toons created in an entire year, and @Snarky was 2nd highest poster on the forums.

 

The only conclusion I can draw from those two facts is that the game is doomed.

Edited 10 hours ago by Scarlet Shocker
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[Snarky]

22 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

I have two very important takeaways from this:

 

Only just over half a million toons created in an entire year, and @Snarky was 2nd highest poster on the forums.

 

The only conclusion I can draw from those two facts is that the game is doomed.

[kelika2]

15 hours ago, kelika2 said:

well i mean unless they do something like shorten the range on all attacks and lower the target limit to things like sentinels

i woke up with this thought

but why do we still need all the extra powers?

 

Like with Bio armor what stance you have on changes other powers in the same set.  so with that in mind why not delete all the nova and dwarf powers but start using the main sets powers and change their specs depending on what form you have?

 

All the blasts can have their range and damage buffed when you flip on nova form but you lose access to melee attacks aside from dawnstrike and seekers.  dawnstrike can even be turned into a ranged aoe and its animation can be using one of those seekers just amped up to x5 size or so and lobbed onto a target or reticle target

And a mix/mash of offensive powers in dwarf form.  short range laser beam eyes/lumi blast or enhanced target cap solar flare and the heals can get buffs too and maybe a toned down version of dawnstrike.  and hell, why not add a small aoe to their version of total focus whos name i cant remember right now

[Maginary]

Congrats, team. I love a census. #KeepPosi1Number1

Edited 8 hours ago by Maginary

[TauntingMonk]

in 2025! maybe?

 

 

 

Oh,  I also wanted to add. Does it really surprise anyone that the Mastermind numbers are so HIGH! They do in fact, have the least amount of primaries to choose from.

Edited 7 hours ago by TauntingMonk

[Ironblade]

6 hours ago, Greycat said:

(Editing to add: yes, I know the meaning D&D has basically assigned to it.

 

D&D?  The phrase 'vorpal sword' appears in the poem Jabberwocky, which Lewis Carroll wrote in 1871.

[Starhammer]

On 1/8/2025 at 11:27 AM, ZamuelNow said:

For analytics, I'm curious: How many supergroups/villain groups were registered?  How many AE arcs were created? What were the most and least populous zones?

Something else I would like to have seen among the most/least popular is how many of those ATs and powersets were on level 50+ characters, and how many were on characters that never passed level 25.

[Scarlet Shocker]

5 hours ago, Snarky said:

 

Fun fact: For about 236 years, @Snarkywas Mother Theresa's understudy.

 

that's right folks, he was second to nun!

 

#tydydk

[Snarky]

27 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

 

Fun fact: For about 236 years, @Snarkywas Mother Theresa's understudy.

 

that's right folks, he was second to nun!

 

#tydydk

she didn't take crap from nobody either....

[SeraphimKensai]

On 1/8/2025 at 2:34 PM, Arcanum said:

Not going to be pulling more data for this year's post, but mentally noted to include some of these on next year's!

Thanks for the bit of data we got. Still holding out hope for an update at some point to the character AT/Powerset stuff Cipher released back in the day. It would be interesting to see how trends have adjusted over time since HC launched.

[SeraphimKensai]

2 hours ago, Ironblade said:

 

D&D?  The phrase 'vorpal sword' appears in the poem Jabberwocky, which Lewis Carroll wrote in 1871.

Sadly not many people read the classics these days.

[Riverdusk]

On 1/8/2025 at 12:24 PM, TygerDarkstorm said:

I think I have like 30-40 of those MM's lol.

 

I was honestly surprised to see MM's as the 3rd most popular AT.

 

Well, based on the previous stats given years ago Masterminds are very popular for people to create, but not so much for them to actually reach level 50.  I'm assuming the stats given here are just for created/overall characters.   So, a lot of those masterminds probably didn't get very far if that trend held true.   Personally I love MM's, but they do take a bit of time and slotting love before they get good imo.  

 

Anyway, I'd like to see stats for level 50's for each category again in addition to the overall numbers.  Although of course it is nice to see any kind of stats at all, they are interesting.

[Greycat]

6 hours ago, Ironblade said:

 

D&D?  The phrase 'vorpal sword' appears in the poem Jabberwocky, which Lewis Carroll wrote in 1871.

I'm well aware of that.  Vorpal itself not having a definition at that point, as he made up that word as well as many of the others in that poem. He could have meant "made out of liquorice and so a perfectly appropriate item for a snack." D&D leaned heavily into that being "extra slashing damage, high chance for decapitation."