Adeon Hawkwood

Gameplay-wise it only really matters if you're an extreme min-maxer, for general play it doesn't make enough difference to really matter. That being said while it isn't critical in terms of attacks the extra animations do break up the flow of motion which I find a little annoying, especially if I have to do it a lot.

I think the Mastermind option is the best one, the MM's attacks are pretty much optional anyway and from a theme point of view if you're willing to help a bunch of other players beat bad guys up you should be willing to help the minions (just make the story that they aren't actually your minions). Mercenaries, Thugs or Ninjas would be the easiest since they are free-willed and as such you can easily make a back-story based around the idea that you're part of their team and supporting them rather than the other way around. The others are harder although if you want to you could come up with something (as MonkeySpirit demonstrates).

Yeah, I'd like to see a "Gadgets" style control set for both Controllers and Doms. My personal inclination is something along the lines of a "Grenade Control" set using Grenades filled with various chemicals.

Something like:

1. Web Grenade (less -rech than the Traps one but with Smashing DoT)
2. Toxin Grenade (ST Hold with a Toxic DoT, enemies do the "vomiting" animation from PGT)
3. Wide Area Web Grenade (similar to the SoA power but with stats based on the controller AoE Immob powers and a Smashing DoT component)
4. Smoke Grenade (yeah, it sucks but I can't think of anything else and Fire Control has it)
5. Stun Grenade (ranged, AoE Stun, get revenge on Malta)
6. Fragmentation Grenade (AoE knockback with a small Smashing/Lethal damage component)
7. Tear Gas (ranged, AoE Hold)
8. Thermite Grenade (a fire damage patch, basically Ignite with lower damage and larger radius)
9. Defense Droid(s): Summons one or more robots kinda like the Battle Drones from Robotics, although obviously powers would need to be redone to be suitable for a control set.

There's definitely room for improvement but I think that would make a good start .

I'm pretty sure you can already change the default title screen if you so desire. I'm not sure how but I recall a while back someone made widescreen versions of the zone loading screens (before the devs fixed them all anyway).

Adeon's core power has always been that he is very, very good are reverse engineering, repairing or otherwise modifying devices built by other people and then incorporating them into his own gear. His actual origin is obviously Tech but I've never really decided if his ability is Natural or actually represents a minor Mutation (mostly because it doesn't really matter).

In that sense I could see him becoming an incarnate of a god along the lines of Vulcan/Hephaestus just in a slightly roundabout way. His current abilities do have practical limits in that the more advanced a piece of technology is compared to his own understanding of physics the harder it is for him to decipher it. An incarnate ability that either expanded his knowledge of physics (probably subconsciously) or simply allowed him to mystically understand how a particular piece of technology worked without knowing why it worked would obviously allow him to increase his skills by incorporating even more advanced technology into his suit. After all, magic is just a way of saying we don't understand the physics behind it...

I've seen Empaths with all four combinations of Heal Other and Absorb Pain and all four work. It really comes down to style and personal preference.

1. Healing Aura Only: The least direct healing but for most content this is fine, especially if the team has a second person with a support set or if the Empath has a mitigation heavy secondary (such as Dark or Ice) to reduce the healing required. The main downside is that it has less ability to react to spike damage which isn't a big deal most of the time but can be problematic against very tough enemies, especially with teammates who are reliant on Defense for damage mitigation.

2. Healing Aura and Heal Other: Healing Aura does the heavy lifting if multiple people are taking damage while Heal Other serves as a means of countering a spike or simply healing a single target if only one person is taking damage.

3. Healing Aura and Absorb Pain: This is generally played like type 1 with Absorb Pain as a backup power to handle spikes. It's ability to provide continuous healing is lower than type 2 but a lot of the time Healing Aura is all that's required anyway.

4. All three. Personally I think this is overkill but it does provide maximum continuous healing along with excellent ability to react to spikes.


As for having Healing Aura on Auto. There are times when that is useful (mostly Mothership/Hamidon raids where you want to spam it to heal people not on your team anyway) but in general it's not a good option. It limits your ability to react to what's going on instead you're hoping that whomever needs healing is near you when it goes off. Also depending on how much recharge you have you're spending one third of your time rooted and casting HA which is probably not the best use of your time.

Not quite. What actually happens is that once you hit level 50 all XP you earn gets converted to Inf.

I don't see it decreasing Hami popularity. I tihnk most people who do it do so for fun rather than the rewards. Personally I tend to take the merits anyway, I always seem to get the worthless HOs.