Adeon Hawkwood

Some yes, but an awful lot are actually timed to stop people from farming them (the werewolf ones in particular).

The thing is that CO was designed from the keel out for this sort of power selection. Trying to add it to CoH at this point would be a balance nightmare (heck, CO is horribly unbalanced despite being designed with it from the keel out). It's the sort of feature that we might see in CoH2 but are unlikely to see in CoH.

Inconceivable!

You did, but the OP didn't and I was responding to him. Even with the limit on Attack sets it's pretty broken. Do Fire & Assault Rifle replace Sniper Rifle, Beanbag and Ignite with Fire Breath, Aim and Blazing Bolt. You basically took AR, already the premier AoE set and upped it's AoE damage and Snipe damage significantly at the cost of a single target stun and an annoying to use single target blast. Sure it has some redraw but I could live with it for that kind of AoE power. There are other combinations (including some that are probably better) but this was the first one I thought of.

Because they are delicious and the bones make good toothpicks.

To the OP: As someone said up-thread, join the global channels for your server, they are normally the best resource for finding teams.

Yeah, I'm not quite sure where the damage thing came from. In any case it doesn't change the fundamental issue that endurance drain is basically all or nothing and getting the all is almost impossible unless you also have -recovery or are an Elec/Elec to have both Electrical attacks for the primary drain and a steady ticking aura to keep them drained.

Agreed, I really do not see any benefit to this in PvE since NPCs don't really move around that much. I guess time will tell but at first glance it doesn't sound very useful.

Well chances are if you're dodging patrols you're attempting to stealth the mission anyway and being able to dodge one patrol every 10 minutes isn't much use for that.

Well other people have explained why playing as pure support is a bad idea, Defenders get blast attacks in their secondary and a good Defender uses them.

Here's the breakdown on the Defender Primaries:

Cold Domination: A mix of debuffing and defense based buffing. Primarily a mitigation set but has some debuffs to increase damage at higher levels.

Dark Miasma: A very odd set. Leans towards debuffing with a solid mix of both resistance/regen debuffs to increase damage and mitigation debuffs/controls to decrease incoming damage. Also has an AoE heal but you have to hit for it to work.

Empathy: The "Healing" set. This starts off with only healing powers but once you hit the mid 20s and can slot SOs the focus really shifts to buffing. The problem is that the important buffs (Fortitude and Adrenalin Boost) are single target so the hard part with this set is learning who to buff for best effect. Unfortunately a lot of Empaths never do learn this or insist that the buffs are worthless and only the healing matters so the set has a somewhat poor reputation amongst players who do know how it should be played.

Force Field: Primarily a mitigation set. Can soft cap the entire teams defenses on it's own as well as providing additional mitigation through other powers. The downside is it's a very boring set. The upside is as long as you rememebr to re-bubble every 4 minutes you have a lot of time to shoot things.

Kinetics: A mix of debuffs and buffs. Provides some mitigation but it's primary advantage is that it can really boost damage through both recharge buffs and damage buffs. The big downside? Hearing "SB plz!!!!!1" ALL THE TIME.

Radiation Emission: Primarily a debuffing set with a little bit of buffing/healing ability. Has VERY good damage increasing abilities especially against single tough targets like AVs. Mitigation isn't bad but it's not the best. A very popular set.

Sonic Resonance: Very similar to Cold Domination but focusing on Resistance rather than defense. A somewhat unpopular set in aprt due to the unappealing visuals. Still it's a solid set.

Storm Summoning: A tricky set to use correctly. It's got some very powerful debuffs and a few ok buffs. However, several powers do knockback. Used correctly this is of great benefit but it takes practice to use them correctly and a poorly played stormy can cause a lot of trouble for a team.

Traps: Primarily a debuffing set but does have a couple of solid buffs as well. The powers in general tend to be more powerful than those in other sets but in compensation have longer recharges and are frequently immobile once placed. A strong set with a nice mix of damage boostign and mitigation.

Trick Arrow: A pure debuffing set. Can add a LOT to damage both through resistance/defense debuffs and straight damage through oil slick arrow. Adds some mitigation but generally not enough on it's own to keep a team alive. Has one of the best AoE holds in the game. A decent set but not one of the best.

I'm to lazy to cover the blast sets.

Wow... that really, really sucks. On the plus side the usefulness of stelth powers has not changed. Where did you get that from?

Actually I would argue the opposite, if a stealth power is useful at all it will be in the higher levels when you've got something to stack it with and/or have Recall Friend. Besides, all stealth powers are inherently situational. They do jack in a kill all mission

Why not, mechanically speaking there are only a few ways it can work. And it seems reasonable to assume that ti will be on a similar level to the existing bonus inherent powers.

It is specifically stated to be an invisibility power. Given the way stealth works in the game to avoid providing PvE stealth when stacked with a stelath IO it would need to be VERY low magnitude which would render it completely useless. The only powers of that low a magnitude are the phase shift powers and they provide something useful aside from stealth. The only alternative would be if it were a short duration click power rather than a toggle.

I would assume that you can pre-order the complete collection to get early powerset access but I concur, the wording is rather vague.


In regards to the Complete collection itself I'm a little upset about the new inherent power. It sounds like a stealth power and presumably it will provide PvE stealth (either on it's own or stacked with a stealth IO). My problem is that this further decreases the utility of the various stealth powers already in the game. I'm not to upset about the Stealth Pool since that's a separate power pool but for the sets that contain a natural stealth power this is kinda annoying. Some (i.e. Cloak of Darkness and Shadow Cloak) provide useful benefits along with the stealth but a lot of the others (Superior Invisibility and Cloaking Device) provide only a negligible defense buff. PvE stealth is already very easy to get, I'm not a huge fan of making it easier.

As Umbral said you can't dynamically reduce the endurance cost of a single power (look at electrical attacks). You can do either a recovery bonus or a static regen amount but you can't do an end cost reduction on a single power. Also this would actually be a function of the power itself not a separate power that needs to be cast. I'd prefer the recovery bonus myself. Given the pulse rate of most toggles you'd be adding a very small amount of End frequently. A recovery bonus adds larger chunks less frequently. Although a direct payback would probably work better balance-wise since it's the same bonus regardless of your total endurance. In either case you're paying the full cost of the toggle and getting some back at a later point though.

Yeah, I just don't see that as a practical solution. In addition to the amount of work required there's the simple fact that many enemies have fewer than 4 attacks. So you still get the all or nothing mitigation just at a different point.

The thing is I'm not sure that this is doable with the current power mechanics hence why I suggested providing a recovery boost if multiple toggles are active. It works out roughly the same balance-wise (although obviously it isn't identical) and would fit in better with the current power mechanics.

EDIT: Actually it might be possible to do the "reduced cost" as a positive endurance boost. The problem with both this and a recovery is dealing with endurance reduction (both the power slotting and abilities like conserve power) since there is no way to stop that from keying off of the baseline endurance.

Yeah, as I noted above you'd pretty much have to do it the other way around, the actual buff is on the passive and it keys off the toggle being active.

Probably not. Positron's Blast is almost as effective for a fraction of the price (leave out the Dam/Range and put in a generic recharge if you 6-slot). Purple sets can be useful on a scrapper, but I'd work on a purple set for my melee powers before putting one in my epic pool.