Zyphoid

It dawns on me that they missed a chance to put different stances in the game with Staff melee. How much cooler would the set have been if each Form caused you to fight from a different stance?

I realize that it may be an bit of an illusion that you are fighting from a different stance with powers like ninja run. I say this because you still attack, and return to the base stance. It is the ready stance that is different.

Great! Now we know what we want. We want to go from Grocery Store Brand Vanilla Ice cream to Hagandaz! I prefer Bluebell when I could eat the stuff, but whatever.

Maybe I am remembering Jack and Geko too harshly, but judging by how they handled their last Super Hero MMO, I don't think I am. In the end I think Jack is a Megalomaniac. :/

I have friends who love their characters and don't want to roll alts. I know this is something that would appeal to them as well. I feel it is something else that is going untapped in the Paragon Market.

Really I think how the players latched onto customization, and the fact that this game became the leader of character customization took the original devs by surprise.

We love our characters, and anything that makes them look different makes the game better to us. With new animations I could play through the game with old sets that seem new because they look different.

I had a discussion with Synapse about this not long ago. My stance was that we need new animations for old powers as much as we need new power sets. He didn't really agree, and said that it only takes about a week longer to make a full power set than it does to just do alternate animations.

I see powers like TW and Staff and get where he is coming from. Then I look at Street Justice, which is my all time favorite set, and wonder if those animations had been offered as alternates for MA if the set would have been needed? I think yes, and Street Justice was a good call.

I can also see where new power sets being made is job security for Synapse. I am good with that, he is my favorite dev, and I don't want to see him go anywhere.

However I am still looking at animations for BS, Claws, and several other melee sets, as well as the ranged sets, and what I see are weak and unimaginative animations compared to everything made after Dual Blades. Even when they did offer alternate animations, well, they were not very good.

So I am curious as to what others think. Would you want to see more all new powers, or alternate animations for current power sets?

I would even be willing to pay for alternate animation sets in the store. Say 600 points for a pack that has alternate animations for all of the claws powers, or power of your choice. Yes, yes I want to get stuff for free, but I also see where things are more likely to get done if we pay for it. That is just how the world works, sorry.

Outside of badges and my attempt to like non-melee during x2 xp, I have been playing nothing but stalkers. They are fun now, that is a good thing. I do think the buffs may have been too much on top of things that were already there, but I really don't care. What is important is that they are fun now, and I see plenty of them in the game. Stalkers are good stuff now.

Scrappers are not bad stuff, they are not in any form of trouble in the game. What they lack is their own "thing" something that is unique to them. They have no ability that is their own, that is not shared in some form with the other melee ATs. That is the point that some of us are trying to make in multiple threads.

I agree with EG, power creep, and balance are really nonexistent in this game. However it is a superhero game and I don't think things should be perfectly balanced in PvE. We have mission sliders to set our own challenges, incarnate trials and zones to use.

Even with that in mind there are things that will affect what little balance there is less than others.

I do not like EG's original suggestion. I could care less what a mob's stats are, am going to attack it either way. A team buff would be cool, but that doesn't really excite me either. More end would excite me, but that can be done by adding Superior Conditioning to the body pool for scrappers. I think it would be cooler if it were an inherent to scrappers, but I may be the only one.

I just want something unique for the Scrapper, because right now they lack that.

I loved the mission, there are a few things that annoyed me though.

It would have been nice if in the ocean the Rularuu had actually attacked the ship. I spent 10 min running around looking for them to kill them.

There should have been a badge at the end. I chose not to take any help (I am an incarnate after all), a badge would have been nice.

Even w/o the badge for not taking help, some kind of badge for completing all of the arcs would have been nice.

It was the climax of a 7 part story, and it was all in all a good story. I just think there should have been a better reward for the first time completing the final mission. A badge would have been best I think.