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With just 3 attacks? White Dwarf needs a lot of recharge to build an attack chain, don't think it's possible with only SOs, and it's definitely a problem while leveling. Regardless, just cycling two ST and an AoE gets repetitive.

As to survivability, light form lacks any sort of debuff resistance, which could very well become the tank-form's niche.

Playing her story arc, I always felt Penny should begin her heroic career with Faultline and Fusionette, not be immediately pushed into the big leagues. Plus, the Vindicators are at most an informal group of Freedom Phalanx sidekicks, and Penny barely qualifies (she did receive some training from Sister P, but really...). Why is Penny leaving her former friends behind, anyway? They're much more competent than anyone currently in the FP rooster.

She's a member of W.I.S.D.O.M. if I'm not mistaken, she wouldn't just switch groups without a very strong reason. Besides, I don't think she's popular enough, she's just... there...

I think the Vindicators should be disbanded. They're hardly a group at all if no one could account for the actions of Malaise during the SSAs. Ms. Liberty has her hands full, tho, she inherited Statesman's estate, her mother's Freedom Corps and still has to keep a tight rein over the increasingly aggressive Longbow army.

According to most sources, he's british, and so is his girlfriend Lady Jade. Why would he stay in a dying city? Even if he did, he'd probably take over Vanguard or the Dawn Patrol, not the remnants of the Freedom Phalanx.

I can imagine the headlines...

TNP Today: ... In a triumph of the middling, a nod to mediocrity, and with gorge rising, it gives me great nausea to announce Raymond Keyes - Positron, himself - as the new leader of the Freedom Phalanx.
Paragon City Free Press: ... This lapdog of the marketting interests is as dull as he is unremarkable...
Asian Paragon: ...as lackluster as he is soporific.
Paragon Inquisitor: ... This reversion to the mean...
Paragon Bugle: ...this rebuke to the exemplary...
WSPDR: ...gives hope to the millions unfavored by the exceptional...
The Paragon Tattler: ... Ray Keyes: not the worst, not the best, just what we're stuck with.

Personally, I'm hoping for Warwitch to take over, but only after cleaning house abit

The problem with electric is two-fold, an all or nothing secondary effect and the lack of a Tier 3 single target blast. Give Tesla Cage damage on par with Cosmic Burst from Radiation Blast, and at least damage-wise it'd be comparable to the other sets. Energy Blast's solution is pretty obvious, with its versibility and the fact that it accesses the Tier 3 attack by lvl 6, if it had knockdown instead of knockback in the AoE cone and spread-ball Energy would be one of the most popular sets in the game, even if numerically mediocre.

I do, Minimal FX on the defense toggle bubble! If on top of that it proliferated to Corruptors you'd have a mob of people assaulting the login screen to create the first DP/"SR" in the game.

A set needs to be both "strong and pretty" (tm) to be popular. EA was pretty, but not strong, so it sucked until they made it strong. All of the above sets are strong, they're just not pretty (apart from Katana), so they suck until they're made pretty. They desperately need alternate animations, like mentioned a zillion times in the other thread.

Melee doesn't want it? Proliferate it to blasters! Making it available as a blaster secondary would be fantastic, and since everyone says it's crap it would fit right in with the other secondary blaster sets

I don't like it when melee sets mix swords and mallets and elemental punches and such. Stone melee and Fire melee suffer from the same problem (IMO), no consistency in its animations. Giving an alternate "non-sword" animation to sword/mallet attacks, plus alternate "sword" animation to non-sword attacks would be enough for me to play it (well, fire, I don't like ice, but whatever).

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Customization.

Yay! I nominate Waylorn to the Freedom Phalanx leadership!

I think it fits, actually, that the child of an active hero would want to take her parent's alias. I know I would. Since the FBSA register doesn't allow for two heroes to share a name, Ms. L and Hero 1 did the smart thing and changed a few letters.

Just a thought.

Thanks, but, hmm, bear in mind that I wrote this before the light-form changes. I think it's safe to say Peacebringers are a bit tougher now

I say it's about time the devs start listening to your requests.

Thunder kick with an actual thunder attached... yes please!

Pretty much this. 100% in favor of new animations and better power customization over new niche sets.

Examples of things that would completely revamp a set for me:

- Beam Rifle (Blaster primary) - Eyebeam animations instead of a rifle
- Energy Manipulation (Blaster secondary) - Martial Arts animations instead of pompoms
- Thugs (Mastermind primary) - Professionals in black suits or trenchcoats instead of punks
- Illusion Control (Controller primary) - Head animation for Spectral Wounds, Phantom army creates copies of the character, Phantom creates copies of the character
- Forcefields (Defender primary) - Minimal FX option for the bubbles
- Stone Armor (Tanker primary) - Thin metal plating instead of stone slabs
- Claws and Spines (Scrapper primaries) - Dual Weapons animations, energy or psychic claws/spines (appearance only)
- Blood Widow / Night Widow - Dual Weapons animations, energy or psychic claws (appearance only)
- Arachnos Hunter - Dual Pistols instead of combat rifle
- Kheldians - Minimal FX option for Nova and Dwarf (retain your costume even if shapeshifted)

Don't raise that flag yet, we're throwing around the word "challenge" when it's mostly catching us unaware and unprepared. We (and the mission designer, I assume) are working under the notion that a lvl 50 incarnate is going to be playing with raised difficult settings, which of course clashes poorly with unexpected timers. Without spoiling it too much for you, a reasonably slotted character playing at base difficulty (with bosses turned off) will not have any problems with that mission

In this particular case, I welcome the challenge. The choice, and let me reiterate the word choice, to be irrational and take on a greater challenge is really worth it here, not because we get better drops or extra xp, but because the final outcome is better if we never compromise. There's a big difference between heroes and profissionals, who are ruled by logic and would never jeopardize the whole to save a few. Heroes are different, they would risk it all to save a single life, no matter the odds. And sometimes they succeed.

It is precisely because the players are expected to fail in that situation that victory was so sweet - unlike WWD, Dark Astoria definitely gave the impression that things could have gone alot worse if it wasn't for us.

I did the exact same thing, and it was wonderful that they included the option to be irrational at a certain point in the story and try to save *both* hostages. Needless to say, the first time I tried that it didn't work well at all

This makes sense. I'd divide the unlocking of non-alpha slots, though, where you'd have to purchase access to each slot individually, plus Dark Astoria and the individual purchase for access to each i-trial. Something like

- Tier 9 reward - Unlocks Alpha Slot (shard system only)
- Dark Astoria - Available on the store for 1200 points (also unlocks i-threads)
- Interface, Judgement, Destiny, Lore - Available on the store for 600 points each (total 2400 points)
- I-trials - Available on the store for 800 points each (total 5600 points)

Admittedly, it'd be very expensive to unlock even for Tier 9 VIPs (9200 points so far...), and a potential money pit if the devs keep adding new trials and i-slots, but it'd solve the problem of Premium players currently being locked out of most new content releases, since it's almost always incarnate-related.

Now, if you're only planning to play a few a year or so, VIP subscription would still be the best option, but some players are in it for the long haul, and I'm sure Paragon Studios wouldn't mind getting a massive bump in their income even if it would remove some incentive to subscribe in the future (they can always come up with more reasons to reward subscribers, like including new SSAs, powersets, power customization, costumes, pets, etc in the VIP package).

You are indeed "rite". Surprised?

Here's a list of surviving Eight members and their creators:

- Statesman - Jack Emmert -----------------> Dead
- Sister Psyche - Jack Emmert -------------> Dead

- Positron - Matt Miller
- Synapse - Phil Zeleski
- Manticore - Sean Fish
- Citadel - ???
- Numina - Belle
- Back Alley Brawler - Christopher Bruce

Others:

- Blue Steel - Blue Steel
- Castle - Floyd Grubb
- Mercedes Sheldon - John Hegner
- Sunstorm - Jonathan Courney
- Miss Liberty - Jack Emmert ---------------> Dead
- Malaise - Jack Emmert --------------------> Dead

This sounds like petty revenge to me, which should not be involving the players.

Anyway, I don't care about your "conspiracy", Jack Emmert means nothing to me since I don't personally know him. I do like his characters, though, particularly Sister Psyche, and they deserved better than the endings they got (Warwitch got a much better death scene in the comics, for example). And Miss Liberty is indeed a game character, albeit a minor one. She showed up in Mender Tesseract's arc, in the Freedom Phalanx novel and was mentioned several times in the official chronology lore.

Edit: Fixed according to GG advice.

You don't misremember it.

However, Positron didn't specifically state that the devs would be removing Sister Psyche from the game, only that they would be changing the game to remove Statesman in a future issue, which we all assume is i23. Considering i23 is probably at least six months away, it's possible that whatever takes place in SSA #2 will make this talk redundant (after all, Sister Psyche was a fairly popular character, and "comic-book" death isn't very reliable).