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I wouldn't say it's a no risk thing. As soon as those pets go away all the aggro they had immediately shifts to the pet summoner. So even if you have PA perma'd getting the second group out before the AV/GM floors you can potentially be tricky. In the hands of a skilled player PA can certainly make these fights very low risk, but if a power depends on a player's skill to do what you say is broken, then maybe it's not quite broken.

As far as the Devs go, I'd say they're probably busy in the i19 or i20 beta right now, whichever one is going on. Since a lot of that stuff could be considered an extension of GR (like the incarnate system) you could probably still just say "They are busy with Going Rogue" and it would work.

Actually since they're the animation department they could work on some of those new alternate animations for powers that many people seem to want.

And add me to the list of people passing on this one, for the same reasons that have been repeated over and over in this and several other topics. It kinda makes me wonder if one of the devs is reading this thread and then looking over at marketing with a "I told you so" look.

Just out of curiosity, any idea if it would be difficult to do something like flag legacy costume pieces as "old" or whatever in the database and then include something simple like a check box in the costume creator that says "show legacy items" with an If... statement attached that only shows items flagged as "old" when the box is checked? That way there's less clutter normally but those that want to keep the old options can enable them when they want?

I know check boxes already exist in the costume creator (the "use same colors" circle thingy) and it's already capable of hiding or showing costume pieces based on a database flag (ie; unlockable costume pieces), so those two functions would only need to be combined.

I only ask because it seems like this would be something that could be done very quickly, assuming you can get the programming time OK'd for it. Of course I only know enough about programming to be familiar with it, so for all I know something like this would be way harder than I'm imagining it to be.

Not only this, but just about every PPP hold is worse than the APP equivalent, are these things that will be looked at eventually?

True, walking through walls would only be feasible on certain maps, such as the banks in mayhem/safeguard missions, or some of the new praetorian maps. Of course if the devs wanted to revamp the current random maps so that they actually make sense I sure wouldn't complain!

You know that by posting you helped prevent the thread from being buried right?

Anyway, I used to think the minimum 5% chance to hit should be lifted from things like destructible objects, since it's not like they can dodge. But then I remembered that it's not just dodging, it's dodging/deflecting, and that's where the problems come in. As far as themes go it would have been nice if defense was separated into two different stats: Evasion and Deflection. That way the game could differentiate between something moving out of the way, like super reflexes, and something deflecting a blow, like parry. But it's way too late in the game's life to be making such a huge change.

But as far as NEVER missing, yeah, that would just break way too many things. Think of it this way, no matter how accurate you are, someone could still trip and evade your attack by accident, or if you're firing a bullet at them it could just happen to hit a metal button on their jacket at just the right angle and be deflected.

Now a "hex" temp power buff that makes things like that go in your favor would be kinda cool. Give it a long recharge and a short duration, say 10 seconds, but anything you do that has a % chance of happening WILL happen in that time, be it crits, IO procs, secondary effects, and just plain hits landing. If that's too powerful just lower the duration even more to limit how much you can do while it's active.

Yeah, this pretty much sums it up. It would be cool if the vanguard stuff could be given morality choices, so you could follow orders OR you could go do your own thing. But then, I feel the same way about doing missions for Hardcase too. :P

Well, that's why most of my suggestion is focused on reworking the TFs boss fights, that way it doesn't take up too much dev time that could go to new TFs and SFs. At least the main series of TFs required for the Task Force Commander accolade. People run these same TFs over and over, and will likely do so even if new TFs are added, so giving them a little bit of new shininess would probably go a long way.

Or even in story arcs, when you fight someone who is the leader of a whole villain group, or is a big name in some other way, the fights should be more involved than just the standard "pound on them till they're defeated" formula. The only problem with that is that it's probably hard to balance a unique encounter to be soloable for most of the playerbase.

How about phase shift allowing you to walk through walls? That would be a great comic book staple. As for TP, it would be cool if you could activate it and click on the map to teleport to that location. It seems consistent with most comics that you'd only be able to teleport in line of sight or to a place that you've been before. (ie, if the map isn't clear yet you can't tp there)

That's just it, if a villain were going to fight a war they wouldn't be rescuing longbow or diplomats, they'd be sacrificing the longbow who were weak enough to be captured so that they'd get an open shot on a rikti leader and take him out. The series of arcs in RWZ should have been completely different for both sides, playing to their respective strengths. But that was back when the game was still with cryptic and they only had like 16 people working on it. Now they have enough employees that they don't need to "get more bang for their buck" and make content that can be done by both sides.

Praetoria is a great example of how they can do in depth story for both sides. I'm sure it took a ton of time to get all those arcs worked out and put together, but boy is it worth it.

The end cost of hover is very reasonable since it can keep ranged characters mostly out of danger. If you take stamina you should easily be able to keep up your end as long as you're not running other expensive toggles with it, in which case hover will be the least of your problems. On the other hand, if you're using fly in combat instead of hover, then that could be the source of your troubles, but I doubt that's the case.