Aett_Thorn

Well, I imagine that we will see some of what you are asking for. They are just going to come in rounds. Basically, they are tackling the easy ones first (actually, kinda the easy/rmost requested ones first). Reusing existing animations is the easiest thing to do. However, there is really only one wand animation in the game right now, which is used on all of the wands/staffs. Imagine an entire 9-power set that only has two animations in it, each with a different rooting time.

The Devs would need to make new animations for almost all of the powers in the set to make them match the right animation times of the powers.


And in this round that we are getting, it does create alternate animations for some of the blast sets.

Yup, this would really do nothing for you. Your character stays in-game for 30 seconds anyways, to prevent you from both griefing and trying to get out of a death by logging out. Because of that, if you tried to log in before the 30 seconds was up anyways, you couldn't, because you'd already be logged in. So a "log out now" button would functionally have no effect.

A Nictus/Hamidon combo? A Peacebringer merges with a Kronos Titan? Ghoul with a Crab backpack? Resistance Member/Shivan Mastermind crossover?

Everything is possible...with SCIENCE!

Only the top position goes up for grabs after a certain time period. The other ranks can stay as they are even if they haven't logged on since SGs were created.

Don't like the 'farming' in Atlas Park? Start in Galaxy City.

Wouldn't that be kind of counter productive, though? You're only taunting things in range of the repel, which is constantly forcing things away from the aura?

I can't see many Tankers liking a power that forces them to chase every mob they want to fight, constantly, for every attack.

Dechs, remember that Repel is only in the set for Stalkers. Brutes don't get that, and I'd imagine that it's the Brute version that would be adjusted and given to Tankers.

As such, only Conserve Power would need to be adjusted, and it would likely have to keep the End Discount part of it to preserve it's core function. However, I could see it being changed to a toggle end discount power with an aggro aura. Maybe to make it have a bit more survivability, give it a +Res per foe in range ability, or something like that.

The "You have to die to use this power" makes it a lot, LOT different than IH's change from toggle to click. The resistance part of it not only becomes a lot less than what it was, it also becomes only active once you rez for a short time, then you need to die to get it again.

IH, on the other hand, you can use it as soon as it's recharged, making it an 'at your discretion' power. The power's main focus is still to heal you.

You are suggesting turning Grounded, a passive -KB, -Immob, 12.5 % Res (Energy, NE) into a click rez, 1% Res (E, NE) power. And you don't see how that violates the cottage rule?



The Cottage Rule came out post I6. It was after "He Who Shall Not Be Named" left the Dev team. IH was changed in I5, I believe. Fold Space was well before that. Wet Ice going from a Def power to status protection only was before that. And this current Dev team saw what happened when they made those changes. They have learned from them, and created the cottage rule as a result of that. They are not going to change a power that dramatically, especially if the powerset in question doesn't really need the change.

You may want to check out Jay's Costume Request Thread, up in the dev corner. The Dev in charge of costumes checks in there fairly frequently to look for more ideas. It's long, and has a lot of suggestions in it, but that is the place to go.

Cottage rule.


Oh, wait. Yeah, this is the direction that people need to go in for this kind of stuff. However, the more 'optional' powers you have in a set, the harder that it becomes to balance with other sets, and sometimes by itself.

For instance, if each set were to get 10 powers, with 2 of them being 'optional' in each set, would they need to be of the same tier? Would you only have this extra power as, say, a tier 7 or 8? Or could it be a tier 9 on some, and tier 5 on another?

Cottage Rule applies.

<Standard 'would require the Devs to make a new skeleton for each animal type' response>

Two hours is now forever? Since when?

Well, quite honestly, I rarely see any AE babies or PLing anymore, since the changes went into it. So I doubt you'll get that on any server. I'm a native of Pinnacle, and love the community there. However, I started to fill up there, and have sense created a few characters on Liberty, and have been having fun there, too. So either of those could work. Liberty definitely has a larger population, from what I've seen, but since you'll be introducing yourself to a new server, you'll likely want to check out their global channels for events and stuff anyways.

Well, when you get down to only a few mobs left, they will show up on your map. Glowies produce a noticeable "whoom-whoom" sound if you get close to them, so pay attention for that as you're going through the mission.


There is no way to move characters between accounts, since that would open up a huge hole for gold farmers to just start making people level 50 characters, and then sell them.

As a Dominator, you should have the ability to pick up an area of effect (AoE) immobilize power. For Gravity, it's crushing Field. I'd highly recommend picking that up. It will let you fight more at range, keeping the enemies from moving towards you, but still allowing them to attack.

Edit -> Also, welcome to the game!

What enemy types were you fighting?