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I meant easier to get to RWZ redside than it is to get to Midnighter Club redside. The Vanguard Base entrance is closer (not by much but still) to the market and ferry than the Midnighter Club entrance. And once you're in there, the vendor is easier to find.

Yes, it is much easier to get to the RWZ blueside than redside, but was trying to figure out what so important that can't wait until level 30-35 on the red side.

While you can't get access to it earlier, what exactly is in the Midnighter Club before level 35 that you need access to and is causing you so much frustration, just out of curiousity? You can't access Cimerora until level 35. There's a store identical to the Vanguard Quartermaster's store, which is easier to get to red-side even with access to the Midnighter Club IMHO. And doors to the blue-side, which is also easily accessable from other points in the game without access to the club (Pocket D, RWZ, Sharkhead)

While its not exactly an even playing field between heroes and villains on the level of access of the Midnighter Club, there isn't anything there that's useful.

Perez Park used to be a level restricted hazard zone, so it has gates and security guards that used to prevent lower level characters from entering. There is no longer the restriction however to enter them you still have to click on the security guard at the gates to enter. You can't just walk through the gate, you must click the guard.

Don't forget the upgrade to metallic pieces with ultra mode to get reflections.

My guess is no, you'll still have to choose hero or villain, but you'll still be able to go back there.

There currently isn't any content after level 20 over there so it would be kinda boring. From what I understand, if there is any new content in praetoria coming in issue 19, it'll be for 50+ characters for the incarnate stuff.

I wouldn't expect to be able to stay praetorian any time soon unless they flesh out content from level 20-50 over there.

The reason power pools are taking longer is not because its hard to make the powers look different, its the questions and things that most of the people haven't mentioned or thought about yet. The unique part of pool customization is that any character can have any pool, which would greatly complicate the UI for customization.

Do you only allow customization AFTER you choose the power? That is inconsistent with the primary and secondary where you can customize them all whether its selected or not plus then they would have to spend inf or a costume change token to change it from the original selection unless you change the level up UI to allow you to customize it the first time on power selection, which is risky because you're modifying a established and working chunk of code that if it broke would be very bad.

But if you let them customize it before they select the power, you have to let them customize EVERY pool power from somewhere before hand on the character creation screens, which could lead to a very complex and cluttered UI if they use a similar format to what they have now, which they also don't want if they can avoid it.

They have the tech in place to do the actual powers different on different toons. That's not the hard part for them anymore. Its there, been there for over a year now so its safe to assume that bit of the tech is fairly solid and doesn't need much work. A big chunk of the development for power pools is figuring out the stuff I mentioned to keep the customization simple, but still flexible enough to make everyone happy with the choices.

Now that GR is out and going well, the teams have more time to go through and implement any new animations and UI updates to handle it. The devs are very aware of the player base wanting this and they aren't ignoring it. Just they've been busy with the Ultra Mode and GR overhaul since power customization came out. Give it time.

As most people have said melee toons are easiest to grasp starting off. I usually suggest Scrappers or Brutes due to them being less squishy and fairly high damage. Tankers aren't bad, but personally find their damage a little lower since they are intended to be the ones taking the brunt of attacks, but if that's what you like go for it.

Masterminds are fun, and easy once you know the game, but for a player just starting off, its a lot to take in on your first exposure and aren't for every one.

Stalkers are melee but still a bit squishier than scrappers, tanks, and brutes, but have a bit of additional strategy with their hide and assasin strikes for high damage.

Blasters aren't bad, but are fairly squishy, but very high damage. Basically ranged glass cannons.

Each class has their own strategy and can be very fun. And there is nothing wrong with making a lot of toons and trying them all out, in fact its recommended.

You almost have to try to make a completely gimped build in this game and nearly every combo is pretty effective at something. Some more than others of course, but everything can contribute especially on a team.

Check the various sections on the forums for specific advise for each AT and which sets are best, but if you're just starting off, just pick what you think looks fun and cool. You can always make more. Also look at MIDS if you really want to tweek your build. Link was posted above somewhere. But as said before, the main thing is to have fun!

Besides a couple +5 pts bonuses from badges out there, you always have 100 pts of endurance. No way to change that without the bonuses mentioned before.

Here's the wiki page explaining it in more detail: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Endurance

Just wanted to note that it doesn't matter what faction you started the game with, only what faction you are when you started the morality arc you're on at that time. A brute that has already gone from Villain to Rogue to Hero will get Hero merits after he re-affirms he's a hero.

Look into sets for Health and Stamina. If I have extra slots (rarely do at level 40, with all attacks 6 slotted, toggles 4-6 slotted, passives 2 slotted) tack on another slot for Health and Stamina. But instead of 3 slotting SOs, using Stamina as an example, use 1 Common IO, the End+ only from the Performance Shifter set, and then the +10 End proc from the same set. Just 2 Common IOs will get your 2 slots within a couple percentage points of 3 SOs. The End+ only from Performance Shifter + that 1 Common IO will give you the same base result. The proc will have a 20% chance of popping an additional 10 end points every 20 seconds or so, plus you'll get a movement speed increase from the set bonuses. Similar things can be done in health. More health/regen and end/recovery will always be useful. Plus at level 40, you have malta and sappers coming up.

Then there are boosting swift, hurdle, and whatever other single slot powers you have (combat jumping, hover, fly, super jump, super speed, hasten?). You may not think you have a need for more, but so what, if you really have the slot, put it there.

Tack on in a few weeks/months when I-19 comes out fitness goes inherent and you'll have a few more power slots to put powers in that use slots.

Also, if you're playing and epic AT, and you have too many slots at any point, your build is probably missing some powers that you can use effecitvely. Similar can be said about almost any other set combo. On nearly every build I've ever come up with, I'm wanting more slots for something somewhere.

Yeah, the edit came in after I was already replying so didn't see it until I had already hit post.

Want and need are two different things. If you want to fly and jump REALLY high, nothing is stopping you from doing it, but its not needed for the game to be fun at this point. Before ninja run, it was almost necessary to take a travel power in order to get around quickly, not completely, it was still very possible to run around at sprint + swift speed...but not very desirable. The addition of ninja run gave you a half super-speed/half super jump free power (after the booster pack charge of course) so it made getting around reasonably much more likely without taking a travel power. Concept-wise, yes people are still gonna want to super jump or super speed or fly or teleport. But it makes the selection of those powers more for concept and less a necessary utility in getting around since there are free alternatives.

I agree that just turning them on at level 1 would be awesome, but just thinking from a developer POV, minimize the balance effects on the existing game with this one change. If something became broken and completely too easy with those at low levels, they would have to change that, and so on and so on. Changing fewer things is always preferred over changing everything.

Pretty much any time they add, remove or change powers they give a free respec. Its only fair since the build was created when the rules were one thing, then they changed the rules on us. So I'd say its pretty safe to assume that they will since this is a fairly HUGE change to the rules and will drastically alter most toon's builds.

They could, however that would increase the boost any other set bonus applies to those aspects since the percentages go from the base values, which could lead to some imbalance. Also, as inherent powers, to keep the lower levels balanced, they could say that swift/hurdle/whatever they call it turns on at level 5 or 10, health turns on at level 15 and stamina turns on at level 20, like they do with rest at level 2 and ninja run at level 4 (note, levels just a thought for a good startup point in my head, no idea how or if they will do it like this). Keeps the lower levels of the game at the same balance because the players don't all the sudden have more regen, recovery, and speed until they would have been able to previous the change.

On top of that, he found the mission TPer and the ninja run, but couldn't find self destruct for the sign off...would be much more fun (if he had ninja pack and mac pack, surely he had the cyborg pack).