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Now to even things out, I think Skulls need a special boss sort of like the Witch from Left 4 Dead.
mopey, sobbing, and with such a low perception range you could nearly step on her without her noticing... And then she notices you and you get ripped apart.

I'll /sign this, but I would like to point out that this is mostly an artifact from older game programming, namely way back before hazard zone level requirements were lifted.
Clicking the guy was supposed to be a way to check and make sure you were the right level before entering these dangerous places.
If you weren't the guy in the outdated PPD SWAT uniform would tell you "Too bad, bucko, turn around and move along."

I can't think of exceptions to this where zoning might have automatically been able to check your level and decline your entry into a hazard zone, namely the closest we've had to a new hazard zone since City of Villains launch was Rikti War Zone.

Personally, I'd like to also suggest fixing Hazard zone gates altogether. Have Legacy Chain, Midnighters, and MAGI heroes guarding the Dark Astoria gate, use the present PPD critters as the guards, and make the ones that became hazard zones AFTER the Rikti war look like fortified tunnel entrances rather than the enormous sliding doors we see normally.

tl;dr: I concur, let us be rid of an ancient artifact of older eras.

I'll /sign this!

I like it, Bill, I like this alot. I'm always all for zone revamping, hero or villainside. The only problem I can see is...

Well, the only thing I mind it Rain of Bullets, since that was stolen right out of Wanted, the DUMBEST part of wanted, and like the poster above me, I skip it on anyone not my blaster.
But another problem with it I noticed when playing said blaster, was that despite Rain of Bullets showing the shots curving around... I still needed standard line of sight to use the attack on someone when they were just on the other side of a pillar.

I'll admit, the latter quip isn't so bad namely just because I'm not sure how hard coded line of sight requirements are for honest to god attacks, and without line of sight, it could get VERY ridiculous and VERY broken, like shooting through nearly eighty feet of wall.

Hmmm... Bringing up Issue 19 and the need to have purchased GR does make me pause and wonder if this means that Incarnate will technically be like Issue 1 for City of Heroes and Issue Seven (Destiny Manifest) for Villains in that this will be something that might add a new zone to praetoria, higher levels of content, etc. etc.

Hey, awesome! Nice work.

Any time there a thread about mastermind primary ideas, I will always put in my best idea: (A rough idea)

Battle Servants: They make you tea, keep your lair tidy, AND NOW crush your enemies! What's NOT to love? The best part is, servants, on their own, may have a tough time holding up a household, but they work well together and get stronger the more of them you have out. Each Battle Servant can bring their own thing to the playing field to great effect, further more, you can harness your own ability to shout yourself hoarse calling for these servants from all around your manor or berating them for a mess they left.

Shriek (sonic blast)

Tier 1: Call Kitchen Staff
You can summon up to three cooks, they're as skilled with their knives in battle as they are in preparing food. The third Cook you summon will be a Butcher, specializing in in powerful, prime cuts to both enemies and meats alike. (Just make sure they never mix up the fighting knives with the food knives)
Base powers-
Knife Slice, Throw Knife, +Regeneration (Aura for Pets)
Butcher: Slash, Hack, +Damage (Aura for Pets)
Equip powers-
(The single knife is replaced with dual blades) Nimble Slash, Power Slice, Throw Knives (cone of knives) Sandwich (Uses the Heal Other animation, but instead of a tricorder, its a sandwich and does not shoot a green, healing laser)
Butcher: Build Up, Slice
Upgrade powers-
Vengeful Slice, One Thousand Cuts, Tea (Mechanically stimulate, but with tea and no green lasers)
Butcher: Disembowel, Head Splitter

Shout (Sonic blast)

Raise Servants:
By giving your servants an increase payroll, more benefits, and more tools to do their job, they hold back more of their snarky, one-liners and do more of their work!

Shockwave (Sonic blast)

Tier 2: Call the Butler/Maid
The Butler and Maid are highly skilled servants adept at many tasks and able to adapt to any new ones you throw at them, like doubling their duties as bodyguards. You will call one Butler and the second one you call shall be a Maid, both have their own fighting styles but make a seamless pair and are highly implacable and focused
Base Powers-
Butler: Poison Dart, Thunder Kick, +Res (KB, Immob, Confuse) (aura for pets)
Maid: Pistols, Dual Wield, +Res (Hold, Stun, Fear) (Aurea for Pets)
Equip Powers-
Butler: Storm Kick, Dragon's Tail
Maid: Empty clips, Executioner's Shot
Upgrade Powers:
Butler: Crane Kick, Cobra Strike
Maid: Piercing Rounds, Hail of Bullets

Great Expectations:
By promising your servants a place in your will, for a brief period they will really give their all, either to prove themselves as worthy of more of the inheritance or because they fear you're going to die and want to prevent it or make your last days your best for a short time until they realize you're not going anywhere for a while. They will likely be frustrated and need time to cool off their anger.
Targetted Ally AoE: +Special (Buffs, Debuffs, Heals), +Res (All Mez), +Damage, Dismissal of all servants after 90s.

Tier 3: Call the Groundskeeper
The Groundskeeper is a fellow with good knowledge on all manner of exotic plant life and the skill to precisely, artistically manifest these visions into reality and the skill to maneuver around existing works to maintain them or add new things. Her shouts of "Don't step on the grass!" also helps them guide other servants around both enemies and her garden work alike.
Base powers: Entangle, +Def (Aura for pets), +Acc (Aura for Pets)
Equip powers: Roots, Spore Burst
Upgrade Powers: Seeds of Confusion, Carrion Creepers

I'm kind of curious, looking over the fact that side switched ATs in GR are going to be getting a literal rehash of their closest AT equivalent on the opposite side, this means that certain APP/PPPs combined with other sets will now result in the doubling of powers.
The biggest (and possibly most devastating) example will be a dominator's ability to get Power Boost x2.
A lot of this seems to fall over to dominators and their assault sets, but there are others, but this still leads to the question: With the Cottage Rule set in stone, and the VAT APP powers seeming to be the same so close to launch, is this a sign of the devs repealing another rule once set in stone about avoiding a single character's ability to get two of the same power?

Now for an Shamalanyan TWEEST, the new MMO is NOT City of Heroes 2, but a MMORTS with customizable units and vehicles that will allow for fun things like a horseback mounted, Gothic Knight, Champion to LITERALLY joust an M1 Abrams Tank and win.

Or maybe as a change of pace from City of, it's a Renaissance Era fantasy MMO.

Or a reboot of Tabula Rasa.

I'll /sign the recovery boost as well, just so that way I can run around and pretend it's a TF2 dispenser since Corrs can't get immobile Gun Drones for sentries. ;_;

I would like to drop in my own proposal to help stalkers here, if that's okay: Rather than boosting damage and or Armor values, I would like to propose the idea of giving them Corr/troller level team buffs, debuffs, and heal values as well Defender/Corr level control durations.
While this would not directly increase their offensive abilities, it would help with mitigation, like say with energy melee the ability to use one attack on each target and leaving them stunned long enough to return to a hide state without placate, as well as possibly help their teamwork.
The working logic of this is that while even if a stalker fails to kill you, their methods (such as poisons or whatever you'd like) will leave a painful, weakening mark against you that will leave you all the more vulnerable to the finishing blow.

Another possible suggestion is the make the formal AS provide a massive debuff against its target in all fields (-res, -def, -rech, -regen, -dam, -ToHit, -speed, -jump, -fly speed, -control duration, -heal values, -debuff values, -buff values, etc. etc. Let's just say I mean ALL), this would especially help them on teams for priority target elimination, even if you don't kill them, Reichsman is suddenly too busy reeling from that last hit so his best shot'll just make your squishiest teammate blink unamused.
The idea behind this just being that even if you survive such a powerful strike, you were hit by a carefully aimed and highly wound up attack that'll leave you on your knees if you somehow survived.

Oddly, story wise, my self-dubbed "Japan Trio"

Takezo, my katana/SR scrapper would be the one I want to get first, ironically, storywise, he can't become an Incarnate because he's the reincarnation of basically a god/demon/angel/fey killing psycho. But in theory, this also means his "Incarnating" would basically be him learning to make full use of that without the desire to kill most of his friends, acquaintances, contacts, etc. cause you know, in the City of Universe, trying to avoid planar outsiders it like trying to avoid air.

Then Kaede, my emp/energy defender, would be the incarnate of... Herself? Well, her virtue-self managed to attain lesser divinity in her life and gained inter-shard awareness, soo... Yeah. (She'll feel really weird about the ego-centrism too)
Also, given how useful she ends up being on a team compared to even my scrapper, she's likely to be my first incarnate despite my wishes.

Likely my last to incarnate will be my archery/energy blaster: Sakura (my love letter and deconstruction of magical girls), and depending on how powerful it leaves a character, I plan to totally play it as her becoming an Exalted.

Don't forget specially spawning cars that can be hit with AoEs and summon a large of horde of zombies, peelz that give you temporary HP heal, and shawts.