Aett_Thorn

A few things here:

1) Power Pools are open to everyone, with the exception of PBs and WSs, who each are locked out of Flight and TP, since they tend to get those travel powers anyways. As such, you really couldn't lock out a Mastermind from this power pool, which would give them even more pets, unless you really wanted to hear some screaming.

2) Power Pools tend to be those powers which a wide variety of comic-book characters have displayed, regardless of what AT they would be in this game. Superman (Tanker), Iron Man (Blaster), and Storm (Defender) all can fly. Many different characters can jump high, or fight harder than a normal human, or can even heal others, really.

Because of this, such a niche power pool would be better off as a power set, rather than a power pool.

3) Some ATs will get screwed by this set. Scrappers, and other offensive ATs will make out just fine, since they'll get more offense, and some slight defensive abilities. However, Tankers generally don't need anything else taking aggro for them. And many Defenders are already quite good at doing what they do. However, Defenders and Tankers, based on the general complaints that I see on the forums here, lack offensive punch. Scrappers and Blasters would get more of this than them, and the Tankers and Defenders still wouldn't need the greater Defensive characteristics that they'd be getting.

4) Just in general, this would be completely imbalanced.

Ultimo,

I did want to warn you, though, that if your backstory and name are too similar to Thor from Marvel, you can get generic'd. Just because the name Thor is in the common domain doesn't mean that the GMs won't take a more conservative bent on the naming issue, and give you a generic name. I'm not saying that they will, just giving you a bit of a warning on it.

It was done to cordon off areas of the city to protect them. Basically, they are there to try to limit the ability of the enemies to move between the zones.

Also, Leo:

War Mace and Ice Melee were improved because we could demonstrate that the sets were lacking in concrete terms when comparing them to other sets. Ice Melee took us three years to get changed, even WITH data that showed that it was lagging far behind the other sets. Ice Melee still isn't on top for any one things, but it does everything well enough. War Mace still isn't on top for anything either, though it does a few things well.

If you're trying to get a power changed in a set, you do need to demonstrate to the Devs that the set is lacking somehow. Just saying that it's a mish-mosh of secondary effects isn't good enough. You need to take that and prove that because it's a mish-mosh of secondary effects, that it lags behind the other sets somehow. I've played it to 50, and don't think that it is, in any way. The set performs well, in my eyes, because it's not a one-trick pony, relying on one effect to make it work.

Having the ability to do different things makes it a better set, for me. If you want to show me any differently, you need to show me exactly how the set is suffering, because I've been there before on an actually under-performing set, and it's not that easy to get a set changed without data.

It's not the holds that prevent KB, it's usually the immobilizes. Most of the ST and AoE immobs from the controller sets also have a -KB component to them, which will help the enemies stay in the Hurricane. It's not that they suppress the KB from Hurricane, they just basically give the enemy some KB mag protection.

Also, holds prevent any running, as do Immobs, as long as they are strong enough to take effect on the mob in question. As such, if you're worried about the enemy running from Freezing Rain, as well as being knocked back by Hurricane, then I would take any of the following sets:

Plant
Fire
Earth
Ice


I believe, though someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this, that the Immobs in Gravity don't apply a -KB effect.

Those listings are highly dependent on the powerset you're looking at, and have very little to do with actual in-game numbers.

As far as the order goes, it's pretty much how you'd expect it to go, from highest to lowest:

Extreme
Superior
Heavy
Moderate
Light

However, there's no set formula that I know of that determines when a power moves from one to another. So, for instance, it's not that an extreme damage power will do 25% more damage than a superior damage power, or anything like that. The in-game listings for powers are often wrong, too, which further complicates the matter.

Freedom and Virtue are the two servers with the highest populations. So you might want to check those out. However, depending on your play time, they might not be the best option.

However, if all you're looking to do is PL and then play top-end content, you're probably going to be disappointed anyways, IMO.

You can create a bind that replaces the taunt animation with the emote, if you want.

Having him sitting down doesn't make him less of a hero. People tend to be remembered for what they did, not what their statue looks like.

Many people in King's Row, at least in the comic, IIRC, remembered him as a kindly old man, and sometimes, those guys can make more of an impact on people than superheroes.

I believe, though don't quote me on this, that in order for players to be able to have powers work while in the water, the ground needs to be there so that there's something to stand on when the powers go off. Basically, if the ground was too low, powers would have trouble activating.