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CHRIST ON A STICK!

Yes, Id forgotten about that...don't know why, considering my PB gal is Human form only.
Sheese, I have to play with the sound turned right down when playing her in missions, it drives me freaking insane.

If there is one set in game that needs ALL the sfx looked at and tweaked, its PBs. BADLY.
Although Mudpots and Arctic Fog, along with CC, are pretty bad offenders too.

I stand corrected. I guess I just get mad at it when I have no way at all of keeping the mobs focussed on me in that one.

Saving 'General Suicider and Ambassador Death Wish', as they are known to me, becomes impossible when Aarons two powers are pistol...and brawl.
I mean, for the love of sanity, give the old guy an assault rifle? Something that lets him sit back and actually have a bit of a kick. At least the Ambassador has psychic attacks, mez and, when all else fails, a Rikti sword. Aarons, though, tends to die faster than a worm at a seagull family reunion. Especially versus Nemesis.

This is the problem I run into. The very first mob I run into, without fail, has the Rikti in. Unless im on a stalker, there is no way around this. Its like the 'Stop 10 Fir Bolg' mission in Croatoa; if you dont have a very specific power type or AT, your GOING to fail.

And thatm as far as I see anyway, is not fun.

Durrr, yes, sorry, complete and utter mindfail on my part there. I remember now
Well...yeah, why not in that case. Given the 'theft', it makes sense.
Bring on the Behemoths

And don't me started on slotting. Kheldians are hard enough with two forms. Can you imagine a whole SET of forms?
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Oh code....I think I'm gonna need to lie down for half an hour...

Weapon sets = 9
Non Weapon Sets = 58, including electric control and kin melee*

*(I included demons in the last count)

I don't think we're exactly starved for non-weapon sets. Saying "Why give people dual pistols, they can use thugs pistols!" .... Well, yeah...they can... that gives them three attack powers on an AT that is balanced around having pets, severely gimps their build options and probably makes them pariah from the majority of PuGs for being a petless MM. Thats like saying "Why give someone a Fireball set when that set has a 'Singe with Lighter' power in it."

Out of the requests I remember, Staves and some sort of bladed halberd/spear/scythe weapon are all the ones left I can think of that are in no way possible to fudge at the present moment. That'd bring it up to a grand total of 11.
Now, if they were going round making sets willinilly like 'Fire sword', 'Light Sword' etc which were, literally, just carbon clones, then yes, I'd complain too.

Heck, I'd like to see Dark Blast ported to Blasters, some sort of Dark Manipulation set, some sets that allow for PPD style Power armour (wrist mounted chainguns, nuff said)...and thats not even STARTING on the wish for a Rikti EAT.

Will it happen? Eventually, who knows? Will people be happy if they come out? In some cases, probably not. What one person will love, another will go "I didn't want that, I wanted XYZ!" The Devs simply can't win. The 'Question of Priorities' doesnt cater to one person. It has to cater to as many people as it can.

On that point, you have one, yes. Spines has the most, with a cone, ranged ST and a toggle PBAoE. Claws has two. So...possible.

Although I seriously think you have too much of a bee in your bonnet about weapon sets. I see you conveniently didn't reply to the hard number comparison of Weapon to non-weapon sets. We have about four if not five times the ammount of non-weapon sets. In fact, the number I gave was wrong; I forgot to add in Kinetic Melee and Electric Control. So it will be 50 something +2

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Sorry, that was a trick question, right?
Or rhetorical?

While I would still love to see a power set based on or similar to what the PPD Power armour cops use at the moment, simply giving a broadsword and saying 'pretend its a katana' is also pretty lame. Super (and, more importantly, NON super) Heroes still use conventional weapons too. Or things that at least look like conventional weapons, albeit with laser blades/dark matter blades/super-morphing death skin-metal stuff.

So...you just supplied a powerset that can in fact do that? Why not use it? Admittedly, it's where you can (Tanks, Brutes, Doms) and thats not perhaps as wide as it should be. Things dont appear overnight though.

Hmn. So, would you suggest anything? I know that something not possible with this game engine is attacking while moving, which a Super Speed melee set practically demands, if not outright needs. How many times can you punch someone really fast? It will still, in the end, simply be punches and kicks. 'Another Mundane punching set', hmm? Tastes differ.

It would only really work for the Dominator, though. I would STILL kill for a Ranged/Armour or Assault/Armour AT, though. And I would also kill for sword + pistol set, so we'll let that one lay about.

They weren't working on something they didn't have the tech for...because they didnt have the tech for it? This one confuses me.
Synapse, Castle and/or BaBs (or a mix of the three) said that JUST the whip attacks in Demons took the same time as an ENTIRE new set. Thats just three powers. Don't get me wrong, it'd be cool. And now they DO have the tech, who knows? But they have to do what they're told too, and part of that is a time/results ratio.

Can you suggest anyway it would work? Besides things like Super Reflexes, I can't think of anything. I'm not even sure how you'd get it to work as a buff/debuff set that wouldnt simply be an existing one with new power FX.

Hmn...
For Going Rogue we got four new power sets. These covered all the non-EAT ATs on both sides.
Demon Summoning
Electric Control
Kinetic Melee
and then Dual Pistols

So...thats 1/4 is a weapon set. One that Players have begged for since the game came out.

In total we have;

Weapon sets = 9
Non-Weapon sets = 56

Thats Including Heroes and Villains, and not including EATs.
I think you are, ever so slightly, blowing this way outta proportion.

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Fix't

Argh....Argharghargh I think I'm going to need to buy more AE slots

In a way, that would be preferable. Simply kill all the LTs, then mop up the minions.
Now its a case of everytime you kill one of the tougher, more damaging enemies, you actually make ALL the mob EVEN nastier.
Its a lose/lose situation, really.

Problem is, AR ISNT interesting. In fact its one of the most boring to look at sets out there right now. Personally, it'd be more interesting for me if it was all shoulder shots, because thats how guns work. Hip firing doe slug and burst doesnt look cool, it looks pretty lame really. Buckshot is fine, because, hell its buckshot; you fire it and stuff in front of you gets hit, no questions asked. M30 Grenade bugs me a little, because those DO require aiming. Maybe something that looks like either flipping the second safety off, or flipping up the grenade sights? Then firing from a more shoulderly stance. That'd be cool.

Flamethrower gets away with it, as does ignite. You cant really aim them in real life, either, you just douse stuff with it. Full Auto bugs me again, because, despite what movies show, you try firing anything other than a minigun like that in real life and you'll be about as accurate as a fart in a whirlwind.
Going into a crouch with the gun up to the shoulder and then opening up would look a lot cooler, IMO.

Anyhow, just ideas. Since he asked