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And the whole process of animating transformation is really not at all tied to being origin-specific.

It's tied to whether it would be a good use of BaBs (and minions) developer time to make those animations, and whether it needs a whole new powerset attached or if those animations could be made as alternate animations for exisitng powers.

Alternate animations for existing powers has been discussed down in S&I on more than one occasion (usually in the context of "magic wands" but your transforming arm cannon is the same thing with a different flavor).

So you might want to go look for those discussions and add your voice to a couple.

Basically, I think you weren;t asking the true question, but now hopefully we have helped you refine it to something closer to what you want (transforming arm cannons, etc., not necessarily a "tech-origin-specific" powerset).

That's the one all right.

I hate taking the walking tour of Mercy, dodging thru all those funky multi-level streets (so quaint, aren't they?) and piles of rubbish.

The one in Dr. Creed's arc where you get the Giant Hypodermic of Contaminated Doom is fun, so when if I bother to stick around Mercy after level 5, I enjoy that one.

Welcome to the game!

And because I haven't seen anyone say it yet -


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The Jewel of Hera - A lowbie (under level 6) mission guaranteed to be in the layer-cake cave.

Eliminate the Infected - The lowbie villain mission that takes you all the way across Mercy Island at level 3 or 4.

In a similar vein, I almost always try to gain a level or three before I actually go take down the Sea Witch (since it can't be auto-completed) since that one is tough for a lot of the villain ATs in the low 20s when it comes up. That's why I will always oppose any suggestion to auto-exemp to mission level when it comes up.

Those are the ones I always skip, and as an altoholic, I see them rather frequently.

Layer cake caves aren't so bad once I can hover up and down between layers.

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I just store it on a character, since Halloween salvage doesn't count towards the salvage limit on the character. I think my costume salvage carrier on Liberty has about 12-15 seta of each stored.

The Salvage storage in my base can be much better used for invention salvage.

I second Capa's list. We had/have a thread where we nominate items that we have found in-game that we would really really love to have in our bases - lamps, tables, televisions (instead of monitors), lab equipment. I particularly want to have all of the office furniture found in the villainside office maps and the various paintings found all over the place.

But my main wish is to have a base option that says my bases will never, never have to worry about raid pathing because my small 2-3 person SGs won;t be raiding (Capa's #1 above).

Blackberry cobbler is my favorite-est thing of all!

Horatio, I join you in your plea to have recognition of the anniversaries of our births in many and multitudinous ways!

And to you, Mr. Ocho, I say "Fie! Such Scroogish behavior masquerading as neutrality should be beneath you! Stop shilly-shallying and waffling and bring us back our cake AND pie!"


Wait, did someone mention waffles? Mmmm, waffles....

P.S. BTW Matt, you young whipper-snapper - black text works horribly on the CoV forum background.

My Ar/Dev Blaster is a mutant. Yes, she uses "things" to fight crime - but her mutant ability is her ability to Fly, her better-than-human regeneration (she has the fitness pool - Helath, Stamina) and her uncanny aim/accuracy.

I have to join those who say OP's idea seems to dictate origins - and to me, much more importantly - it dictates COSTUME. The character would necessarily have to be clad in some sort of powerarmor or at the least use Cyborg pieces to make the set look like the powers were appropriate to the costume. And let's not forget that the Cyborg costume pieces are from a BOOSTER and are not automatically available to everyone.

To those who have not liked the disagreement voiced in this thread - S & I is a place to temper your ideas in the fires of criticism from others. To benefit from this, there has to be both support and opposition to the idea. A string of "/signed" doesn't provide any way for the idea to be refined.

P.S. - My MM's Robots are Magick, as she is a Steampunk themed character and they are powered by magickal crystals. So, I definitely don't subscribe to the idea that Weapon Sets and MM Sets dictate a particular origin. They only do that if you limit your own imagination.

Well, I'm not a fan of the Axe because I hate drawing it out (it seems sssoooo slow) and it is only a single target attack. If I line up the Sands correctly, I can get multiple targets - pretty important to low-level alts when you are limited by having inly a few power picks.

I guess my regret was not finding the forums sooner and also not understanding the importance of global chat channels sooner. Both of those would have made my life here a bit easier if I had found them right away.

This is my first & only MMO, so I was also a bit shy about teaming at first. I just *knew* that everyone else was so much more experienced than I am. Even today, I can't team with any of my tanks, because I feel that I don't know how to tank and the responsibility to the team seems like more than I want to take on and then screw up.

So some of your point is that people who use pool powers rather than their entire Primary/Secondary are somehow playing their characters incorrectly?

I can't think of a character where I used the entire Primary *and* Secondary set without using PoolPowers and Ancillary Powers. The closest is my Katana/Regen where I didn't take the "taunt" equivalent.

And I don't think that Synergy and Balance are antithetically opposed playstyles and I can't see where that view comes from.

In my experience of rolling up alts, every powerset in the game has at least one power that I don't see my character using, so I skip it. And since you can pick 24 powers in total, but have 9 Primary, 9 Secondary, 16 Pool Powers (4 pools X 4) and 5 Ancillary Powers, for a total of 39 options, I tend to think that using Pool Powers was intended to be a valid method of playing your character.

I'm not min/maxxing when my Blasters take a travel power plus a couple powers from the Concealment pool plus the big 3 from Fitness. I'm creating a Blaster who can be sneaky (to help protect herself) who can Fly and Blast things tirelessly. Rail against Mid's all you want, but I've never even looked at that program yet decided that using 3-4 pools plus the ancillary pool was going to be the most fun way to play her. Just reading power descriptions and then testing them out (either on Test or on Live when I have a /respec available if I want to make a change) gave me that insight.

My 2 level 50's BTW are an Energy/Elec/Elec Blaster and a Rad/Dark/Dark Defender - not very FotM, but not useless in a fight either. I also have another Blaster, Scrapper and Corruptor in the mid40s and tons of other alts from level 2 on up. And, for the record, I also have Cold/Ice Defender and a Storm/Ice Defender and a Fire/Fire Tank and a couple of others you list as uncommon. I know I've seen others play those powersets, so I don't see them as all that uncommon.

I've never played on Freedom, but I keep seeing comments from others who do play there who state that your experience of being kicked for not being FotM or for being an "uncommon" build is not the norm and that in fact they have never experienced anything like it. I'm wondering if you are taking a couple of random odd choices by a couple of random odd team leaders and building a monumental problem out of nothing much at all.

Upcoming Supergroup revamps?

What upcoming Supergroup revamps?

This one.