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With the way this is worded I gotta ask, does this mean Mercy Island isn't getting a visual makeover?

Oops, my bad for not listing that. Yes, he's Claws/Willpower/Soul.

If it's just slapping pieces together then sure things will look bad but I think there's a fair amount of options available for decent redesigns. There's noticeable weaknesses here and there but in some situations I think it adds to the challenge.

I sort of agree on it seeming sort of off for a Primal Earth character to look so blatantly Clockwork though admittedly it's not a bad look in its own right. That's sort of my problem with Valkyrie. My mind says it's "wrong" even though I actually like your outfit purely from an aesthetic perspective. My two concerns are the fact that there's a tech origin to Valkyrie that's not shown in your version and the fact that there's not much variance from the base Valkyrie set.

I think the characters that need an update the most by default will be any NPC that use the "civilian" model. For all the complaint's about player outfits being outdated, the bystanders are what truly look bad. With that in mind, I opted to try making an update for Azuria:



The top is too shiny but nothing I can do about that.

I'm wondering, would it be good to swap Aimed Shot with Stunning Shot? It would probably be similar to Energize in that it skirts the cottage rule without actually breaking it since it's still ST ranged damage. Making it an actual control power, even if it's just ST, adds more protection for the Ninjas, gives a stacking option for some secondary powers like Thunder Clap, and increases slotting options. Might post this in the consolidated thread.

Actually one suggestion I had a while back for representing the Inverse Ninja Law was focused less on them getting weaker when there's more and more of them getting stronger when there's fewer. Give them Nemesis style Vengeance for whenever one of them dies.

Both of these seem to make a fair amount of sense for ways of improving them and keeping them balanced.

While Spec Ops should crit from their stealth, I wonder if it just might better suit their purpose if stealth granted them a Power Boost style buff. It would mean that their default control times could be made short and on quick recharges while the stealth would grant them stronger "alpha strike" capacity for their controls.

It's possible, and I'd like to help on the creation side of things, but there's a number of key difficulties we as players would have due to limited power selections.

Well, I have something planned for that situation...

Fixed.

This is my main concern. What will happen if a nominated arc is unplayable due to the current filter? Is it blocked from future nominations or does it just transfer out and can be nominated at a future date?

I've been sitting and thinking about this since I'm not sure if it can be disabled that way. However, I think I may know of an easier fix that would retain the same goal:

Ninja Jounin need to have their ranged attacks (Poison Dart and Caltrops) set to not break their Hidden status.

Poison Dart's crit is pretty negligible and Caltrops can't crit so I can't see where a balance issue could arise.

As someone on the receiving end, I feel it certainly did help. I think a lot of the problem is that many people don't give detailed feedback and even those who do usually have to do so outside of the game. Stars are an intriguingly objective system for rather subjective matters of taste and quality. There's no way to differentiate between "this arc is mechanically sound" and "I enjoyed this arc".

Possibly, though it could just be CoH's version of Charles Atlas superpower. He's so strong be cause of training + "eat your vegetables, stay in scool, don't do drugs"

My initial reaction was "when did that happen" to what you said but I sat and looked and now I see the problem. The female Syndicate pieces are missing. I had never bothered to check on the males since I initially made a few tests with a female character and when it disappeared I assumed it was gone for both genders. Guess I need to /bug it. Pity there aren't any 3D textured versions of the Syndicate "S" logo but that's for a different topic.