Adeon Hawkwood

Personally I like the Patron Power Pools for Blaster more than the old APPs. An AoE immobilize is a surprisingly useful tool for a Blaster, particularly if you build up Ranged defense a bit

Most Blasters build for a combination of defense and recharge. Softcapping a single Defense (generally either Ranged or Smashing and Lethal) is possible but generally requires you to take either the Fighting pool or a S/L Defense shield from your epic (Cold or Mace).

It's because of New Powers As The Plot Demands of course.

Depending on his origin it's also practical to say that he's getting better at using his powers. Most of my heroes are power armor wearing tech origin characters and for them a change in powers (whether a respec, a new accolade power or simply slotting some IOs) represents an upgrade their armor.

There's also the possibility of introducing new tiers of rare/very rare salvage as well possibly with the Apex and Tin Mage TFs providing a shortcut to making that.

i.e. The could do a Rare salvage which requires you to combine a common salvage (or two) with a "Greater Incarnate Shard" which in turn is either crafted from X incarnate shards or rewarded from completion of the Apex/Tin Mage TFs in place of merits.

Not quite, the Rikti were actually mutated by an alien species from their home dimension.

To answer the first question Nemesis' original name was Gerhardt Eisenstadt. If you want to try and fight against him in-game then Maxwell Christopher's arc deals with trying to stop him. Of course given that he then pops up in the various RWZ arcs and the Khan TF it's unlikely you succeeded.

Well there's a simple solution to that . The wiki is updated by various players and tends to reflect the different interests that they have. If you feel that the article on Nemesis is missing vital information from the game the best solution is to put it in yourself.

Yeah, it's pretty much impossible to make an MMO that doesn't feel as if it's lacking in content at launch unless you use a random mission generator and that tends to result in content tends to feel very bland.

Last I heard they were using it.

Virtue TFs 2010 is also full and has started using Virtue TFs as an overflow channel. Maybe we need an overflow channel for Virtue LFG Alpha?

The problem (I think) would be proportions. Good looking hands and feet running requires a different ratio of arm length to leg length than normal humans have. Note how the Tuatha have very long arms compared to a human. I haven't seen the ghouls do it enough to get a feel for them.

I figure that Arachnos has a medi-porter system set up and provides it for villains either as a perk for working for Arachnos or in exchange for payment. So freelance villains pay Arachnos a fee for what is essentially extremely hi-tech health insurance.

Not sure about the other two but it's probably because being rude to journalists is not a good way to get good publicity. Remember, the primary reason the devs give these sort of interviews is to try and get publicity for the game with people who don't play. Playing nice with the interviewers increases the chance of being asked to give more interviews.

It's pretty obvious if you look at the numbers. The relationship between Damage, Endurance and Recharge follows a standard formula in most cases (there are some exceptions such as Sonic Blast, Claws and Fire Blast/Melee which have modifications to the formula as part of their powerset bonus).

I realize the OP was talking about redraw which is a slightly different case, but I was bringing up the general point that the devs don't really consider animation time. For example compare Executioner's Shot, Cosmic Burst and Power Burst. Same damage, same endurance cost and same recharge but they all have different animation times.

Agreed. The current EATs all have power combos that aren't easily replicated in other ATs that make them play differently from other ATs (even if IMHO the HEATs could have been implemented in a better way).

Personally I think any new EATs should endeavor to combine an interesting mechanic or power set with a good story. Rikti are definitely one possible option having a number of good storyline hooks and the potential for interesting power combos (such as having psionic powers, sword powers and some defensive abilities). Another group I'd like to see EATified would be the PPD. They don't have as many obvious story hooks as the Rikti (although I think they have some good potential ones) but between Power Armored cops, the Psi Corps and the Awakened Division I think they have some interesting options for a unique power setup (well ok, Awakened are basically Peacebringers with a different costume so scratch them out but the other two could work).

Excellent way of putting it.

How much different is the slotting? One thing to keep in mind is that you're fighting enemies a lot lower level than you so the difference in purple patch effects could easily be getting lost in the noise. I'd suggest testing against an even con enemy since the effects of the purple patch should be more noticeable.

Now it's entirely plausible that Time Bomb is immune to the effects of the purple patch that would suggest to me that pseudo pets summoned by MM pets are spawned at the MM's level instead of the pet's level.

EDIT: I just logged onto my Bots/Traps and confirmed that the seeker drones from the Protector Bots do spawn at the pet's level.

You can find them on RedTomax, it's just a little tricky. Basically you need to look at each of the finishing moves for the AT you're referring to and look for a line that ends in "If Dual Blade ____ Mode 2". That is the bonus from the combo (note that Typhoons Edge is the finisher for 2 combos so it has two different sets of bonuses).

For a tank those values are:

Empower
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...ades.Follow_Up
+3.3% To Hit for 10 seconds
+10% damage for 10 seconds

Weaken
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...des.AoE_Bridge
-7% Defense for 10 seconds
-7% To Hit for 10 seconds

Attack Vitals
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...ades.Special_2
5 ticks of 8.9 Lethal damage each over 4.10 seconds

Sweep
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...des.AoE_Bridge
25.36 Lethal damage
0.67 magnitude knockback (which is of course knockdown).

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Darn, beaten to it.

That makes a lot of sense. They don't seem interested in making Preatorians a separate third faction so they'd need to keep the "go to primal Earth at 20" bit in place but adding content for levels 30+ as either returning Preatorians or Primal Earth heroes coming to help out would make a lot of sense.

Here's the thing though, if you dislike Trapdoor, Apex and Tin Mage, it's a good bet you won't like whatever content is in I20 anyway. The devs intent with Incarnate content seems to be making content that provides some challenge not though making the numbers larger (as the attempted to do with Reichsman) but by introducing special mechanics that require something other than tank and spank. I really doubt that the I20 Incarnate content will suddenly go back to being Tank and Spank (although the non-incarnate content probably will).

Thanks for checking. Also, this seems to confirm my theory that base damage of the human version of Detonator does not scale with pet type unlike the non-human version. If you have a chance to verify it with one of the other pet tiers I'd appreciate it.

110% is the required value without DR, you'll need to apply DR to find out how much you need in PvP.

Here's Arcana's guide to estimating DR:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=126132

Hmmm... then yeah it sounds like a bug. Unless you had Healing Aura on auto-fire you should have been able to see the swirling graphic.

Were you on the ground or hovering?

I would say either a bug or one of your pwoers was obscuring the animation. What powerset were you playing? The "warning" graphic is a bit of blue swirling around your feet so I could imagine certain powers (such as Steamy Mist) making it hard to see.