Adeon Hawkwood

But they don't. Even ignoring pool powers a lot of non-melee characters have toggle powers that are linked to their survival. Admittedly they are more likely to be a debuff power than a self buff but they are still frequently linked to a character's overall survivability.

Doing a quick scan 4 out of 7 Blaster Secondaries have a survival oriented toggle (3 out of 7 if you discount World of Confusion, which is borderline). 8 out of 13 Buff/Debuff sets have a survival oriented toggle that will likely be run during combat (I'm not counting Kinetics since Repel is rarely actually used) and most of these have a End cost of 0.52 end/sec. 4 out of 9 Control sets have a survival focused toggle.

Not to mention that most non-melee characters have a defense or resistance toggle in their epic pool which have an end cost of 0.325 End/sec. Ok, those are Epic powers rather than primary/secondary but they are still pretty important to staying alive at high levels for a lot of squishies.

I'm English, we're occasionally fond of understatement.

Dust off and nuke from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

The wiki has a good list:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Issue_24

It depends on who you ask. Speaking for myself if Khelds were changed so that the forms modified existing powers rather than granting new ones I'd be ecstatic (including your resistance toggles simply increasing or deceasing in effectiveness with forms rather than detoggling). Practically speaking though I realize that a lot of other players would dislike it.

Arcana's suggestion of form specific slots is a good one (or possibly a Kheld specific power that allows you to trade a power pick for more slots).

Or just change them all to function like SBEs.

My theory is that we will see more level shifts but not "Incarnate Level Shifts". I think we'll see some new type of shift "Advanced Incarnate Shifts" or some such that only function in the Battalion Incarnate Content.

Well then good news everyone, we don't have an AoE Placate in two pools. We have a single target placate as the first tier in one pool (i.e. easily accessible to all) and an AoE placate as the fifth tier in a second pool (i.e. only accessible to people who invest int hat pool).

Sounds like a good split to me.

Adding a Taunt Aura to Presence would bring back the problem it currently has: Most characters that want the later powers in the pool don't want the first couple of powers and most characters that could use the first couple don't need them since they have better powers in their primary/secondary. Now I wouldn't strongly object to a Taunt Aura as the fifth tier in the Presence pool, but not the first tier.

Correct, in fact if you look at the healing enhancements on City of Data you'll see that "healing" enhancements actually enhance four different attributes, For example:
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power....Mutation_Heal

The problem with the Praetorian approach is that in a world of Heroes and Villains it's a bit immersion breaking (unless you want to go all out and have open world PvP). It works in Preatoria since it's more morally ambiguous and no one really cares if you beat up members of your "own" faction (heck, I think Marauder says in an early mission that he doesn't care if you beat up the Preatorian Police).

In Paragon City though it's more immersion breaking. Imagine that the Unbelievable Man is walking down the street in Steel Canyon and he sees a group of proud members of the PPD being set upon by a villain. He'd certainly want to help them out wouldn't he? But he can't because the villain is a player character and this isn't a PvP zone. It also opens things up for griefing since Unbelievable Man could potentially start buffing or healing the PPD (who are allies to him) with the villain fighting them unable to stop him.

I think one option that would have been interesting is if Heroes and Villains had different instances of the same zones. So there would be two versions of Steel Canyon that were physically the same but have different spawns and such for the the two alignments.

The in-game reward screen disagrees with you:

It depends a lot on the type of power you're using. In general the chance of them firing off together will be about the same or increase in simple click powers but will decrease in powers that have a frequent tick rate (auras and pseudo-pet powers like Caltrops).

You are correct. However if they fire at the same time then the magnitudes get added together and become knockback.

Just as a general point, a lot of self heals in Armor sets are also flagged to ignore external buffs since they have a Toxic Resistance so they aren't going to get ANY benefit from Field Medic.

Oh well.

Something to keep in mind here is that with the change to PPM in I24 the issue of procs in AoEs versus Single Target powers should be largely sorted out.

It depends on the AT. My Blaster's tend to stick Blaster's Wrath there but for several of my Defenders I'd rather have the PBAoE heal proc in one of my single target attacks (particularly if it's my only self heal).

Precisely, most people who take it now take it to heal themselves. So clearly the set as it is currently implemented can be considered reasonably successful in terms of providing self healing to those who want it (with the change to Stimulant being a buff for them). The changes therefore seem to be mostly targeted at people who would like some way to heal their allies.

You mentioned Masterminds and historically they probably have been the primary users of Aid Other since they can more easily work around the interrupt and animation time than a lot of other characters. Well with the change to Aid Other/Field Medic the Medicine Pool now becomes a more attractive option for players who want to support their team.

Historically the majority of my characters have taken the Leadership pool, if they have a few spare power picks it's a quick and easy way to add a bit of team support into my build irregardless of AT. With the change to Medicine I may well switch some of them over to that instead since in some cases it will provide a team support setup that works better for them.

For example I have a Domiantor where I'm thinking of switching out Maneuvers, Tactics and Vengeance for Aid Other, Aid Self and Field Medic. I probably wouldn't bother with Aid Self on its own since it doesn't mesh well with his playstyle (it will be useful for topping up between combat though) but with the change to Aid Other and Field Medic it gives me a good tool for patching up my teammates and Animated Stone which is useful (the loss of the recharge form the LotGs will hurt though).

Finally I'll note that sets that already have Healing are the LAST place I'd take Field Medic. Field Medic is a nice buff to have but I can't imagine a situation where I'd find it worth three power slots to boost my healing potential. Even on a set like Storm which has only a single target heal I'd stick with that over Aid Other/Field Medic (although admittedly that's not a perfect analogy since O2 Boost is a lot more than a heal and a generally awesome power).

I would say that the power is mostly aimed at characters who want to pick up Medicine for Healing their allies rather than those who just want a self heal.

Assuming that the interrupt reduction works by decreasing the cast time (as is being done with snipes) then Aid Other will have a cast time only a little higher than the cast time of normal single target heals (Heal Other, Cauterize, O2 Boost etc.). Field Medic itself buffs your healing which will help make up for Aid Other having a longer recharge than other similar powers.

Yes, Field Medic will help people who are using Aid Self but I think the devs want to make it so that Aid Self is still worse than having a proper self heal in your Primary Secondary while simultaneously bringing up the ability of Medicine to function as a means of supporting your team.

Overall though it still seems like good options. We've got the Aid Other and Field Medic combo (plus Aid Self or Injection) as a light-Empath option and Injection + Aid Self (+ Field Medic) as a decent self-defense option.

Speaking for myself I'm toying with the idea of taking the new Medicine on my Cold/Ice Defender. I've got room for the powers (if I drop one leadership toggle and Vengeance) the question is just finding the slots.

I doubt it unless you really, really want Aid Self and/or Injection. It doesn't boost regeneration effects and Reconstruction and Dull Pain and since Reconstruction takes Resistance enhancements it doesn't benefit from global buffs so only the -Res(Heal) would boost it, not the extra heal strength. That doesn't seem worth three power picks to me but YMMV .

This one is not actually true you can change the difficulty in between missions. Admittedly you can't easily reset a single mission but you can technically do it by having everyone log out for a bit (which is normally more trouble than it's worth).

Of course that one is not WAI since there aren't supposed to be any missions in the echo of DA .