Adeon Hawkwood

As Aett says, Mids is not supported by NCSoft it's an independent program developend by members of the community. If you really want to suggest it to them you'll need to go here:
http://cohtitan.com/forum/index.php?board=61.0

I doubt they'll do it though, it's a awful lot of work for something that is honestly pretty useless. The AE interface in the game tells you everything you need to know about the critters stats, you can't give them enhancements so there's no point mucking around with slotting.

I think that you are misunderstanding how costume pieces (especially weapons) work in the game.

A single character can have any number of "weapon" costume pieces and there is no technical reason that the devs couldn't allow you to set all weapons for your character. However in practice the devs only allow you to set ones that they will actually use for their powers since there is no point in setting ones you won't use. When a character uses a power that requires a weapon (except for temporary powers) the code checks to see if the character already has that weapon drawn. If the weapon is not drawn then any existing weapon the character is holding vanishes and he performs the "weapon drawing" animation for the new weapon. After this it performs the actual power animation.

It is therefore impossible for a player to use the wrong weapon in an attack (barring a bug at least). Additionally making so that an attack has different effects based on what weapon you have out is probably also not possible with the current engine (although I'll admit I've never seen a dev comment on that one way or another).

As for scabbards and holsters ect. for weapons. This is something that has been requested many times in the past. The devs are aware that people would like this but apparently there are technical issues with implementing it (similar to how we have wings but not rocket packs).

In regard to your proposed power sets, "Enforcement" is not suitable as a Blast set simply because Blast sets do not have melee attacks. What it is an an Assault set (aka Dominator secondary). Now a weapon based Assault set is not out of the question although from a practical point of view I'd like to see it avoid the redraw issue by carrying the melee weapon in one hand and the pistol in the other (I'd also prefer it to be a sword rather than a baton so I could have a Sword and Pistol Swashbuckler). And yes I realize that going this route would mean it could never be used with a Shield, it's still how I'd do it. Additionally regardless of whether it's a Blast set or an Assault set a Gang War clone would be hideously broken. The only pet type power in Blast/Assault sets is the Voltaic Sentinel in Electrical Blast/Electricity Assault and a new Blast or Assault set with a summon should probably keep it at about that level.

I really don't see how you could make a practical Buff set that uses a Shield. Overall I think that Force Field fills the same thematic role for a Defender while allowing him to shield allies without standing right next to them. The obvious solution would be to allow shield pieces to be part of a standard costume rather than a "weapon" for the Shield Defense set. Unfortunately the devs have stated that this is not practical since it would require changing to many animations. In fact the Shield Defense set was made for this very reason, players wanted the ability to have shields but the devs could not make shields work with the current costumes and animations. The Shield Defense set was basically a compromise by the devs to let us have shields on some characters without the massive breakage caused by giving all characters shields.

Basically I see your suggestion as boiling down to one of two different requests:
1. Make a new AT with an Assault primary and an Armor second (and a new weapon based Assault set to go with it)
2. Make a new Cop based Epic AT

Both of these have been suggested before on multiple occasions (check the suggestions forum) and overall I think the second is much more likely but to the best of my knowledge the devs have never officially commented on the future viability of either one.

The EAT option would also allow the Primary and Secondary to vary a lot more from the established norms since they would only be applied to one AT which in turn would only have one or two powersets available giving the devs a lot more leeway to use the AT modifiers as a form of balance.

Don't forget the Carnival of shadows are apparently the Carnival of Light and are presumably associated with the resistance.

Well blueside the procs are normally available at level 50. They are on the pricier end as far as recipes go but they're normally in stock.

Unfortunately I don't have mids currently available so these are just general comments based on my reactions:

1. Stealth is unnecessary. Super Speed and a Stealth IO in Sprint will PvE cap you against the vast majority of enemies (exceptions I can recall are Rikti Drones and some Ralaruu). The Stealth pool is useful if you want to stack LotG +rech IOs for more recharge however.

2. Even if you aren't going for perma-haste you probably want to three slot haste for recharge. See below for some ideas on where to get a few slots back.

3. There are a number of sets that you've six slotted that don't really benefit from it. In particular purple sets have significant overkill in terms of enhancement bonuses and can generally be 5-slotted with next to no impact. Add in the fact that the 6-th bonus is either toxic resist of psychic defense which while useful aren't what you're slotting for.

3a. For Fire Ball, Blaze and Inferno I'd say lose an IO from each set. The best option is normally the Dam/End or the Dam/Rech but take a look and see what works best for you.

3b. Similarly in Fire Blast the Devastation set bonuses you want cap out at 4 IOs. You might want to replace two of the IOs with two of the triples from Thunderstrike. You lose two set bonuses you don't hugely need (Hold Resist and Psionic Defense) and pick up an extra Recovery bonus.

3c. Kinetic Combat also falls into this. Unless you really feel the need for movement speed the fifth slot doesn't help much, unfortunately the first set bonus in most melee sets is Immob Resistance which isn't hugely useful although you could always put in a level 50 triple or quad for more enhancement of the actual power.

4. You don't really need two -Kb IOs. I run with one on my blaster and that protects from most of the knockback in the game, but since you don't really need anything else there you might as well leave them both in.

5. As with Haste for both Aim and Build Up you really want them slotted for recharge. I see where you're going with the slotting but you're going to lose uptime on both powers by doing so

Well Flash Arrow is only auto-hit in PvE, in PvP it requres a hit check. But then the to hit debuff in Smoke Grenade isn't auto-hit anywhere and it can't take Accurate To Hit Debuff. so yeah, I'm not sure what logic the devs used when assigning these sets either.

Ok, first off no blast sets do not get melee attacks. They sometimes have PBAoE attacks but those tend to have a longer range than just melee.

Given that a Dual Pistols set is being released soon I can't see the devs making another set based around single pistols. It might be possible for them to take the Dual Pistols set and do alternate animations so it only uses one pistol although I'm not sure that they'd bother for the same reasons Defenders have trouble with shields...

The problem with giving Defenders a set that uses Shields is that the Blast sets are all designed around using two hands. When Shield Defense was released the devs have to forbid it from being paired with several melee sets due to animation issues.

Even if you said it couldn't be paired with the worst offenders from the Blast sets (AR, Arch and DP) you'd still end up with several attacks per set that looked odd when wielding a shield.

In that case the end of Halloween is almost certainly your answer.

So you trust Silverado but not me *pout*. (just kidding, I'd take his word for something mechanics related to)

Also as a slightly interesting note on SSK and TFs. Characters who are below the maximum level are SK'd to the leader's true level before being exemplared down to the TF level.

For example suppose three characters of levels 12, 15 and 20 are running a Positron TF. If the level 15 character leads then the level 12 will be SK'd to him and will be level 14 (the level 20 will of course be exemped to 15 as well). If the level 20 leads however both the level 12 and the level 15 will be SK'd to level 19 before being exemped to level 15 for the TF (making the entire group level 15).

This applies even if the leaders level changes during the TF. So in the first example if the level 15 hits level 16 during the TF the level 12 will stop being level 14 and become level 15.

Well for me personally anytime after 8pm is normally good. (although States is the only one I actually need)

A slightly harder (but cheaper) method. By some cheap T3 common salvage, use them in th emepowerment station, delete the buff and reapply.

Good options that require only one piece of normally cheap salvage:
Confusion Resistance
Increase Flight Speed
Increase Jump Speed
Increase Perception
Increase Run Speed
Knockback Increase
Endurance Drain Resistance
Immobilize Resistance

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Empowe...nd_Ingredients