Bosstone

Thing is, even though the T1 has a 4 second recharge, Momentum lasts 5 seconds. So even at level 1 you're able to make use of it. It just feels super slow because you've got:

Slow attack->wait 4 seconds->fast attack->wait 4 seconds->slow attack.

But that wait is generally true of any set at low levels, it's just that with this set all the animation time is frontloaded.

And once you get a few attacks and start chaining things together, you realize that first slow windup only accounts for a small portion of your attack chain, and the rest of it is stupidly fast. Momentum may be a gimmick, but it's a gimmick that dramatically changes the pacing of your attacks in an interesting and IMO fun way.

Personally I've never felt tougher on any other set, not even Super Strength.

But of course, YMMV.

I'm stealing that killball concept. Don't make me mug you for it.

Yeah, VEATs are pretty hardcore. Like I said, the tradeoff is that you have to deal with the Arachnos motif, and that gets up a lot of peoples' noses. I think I've seen more people say that they'd play a Crab if only you didn't have to have the stupid backpack than I've seen actual VEATs.

Nope.

It's the classic tankmage. Difficult as all hell to balance yet still be interesting. Right now the tradeoff is that you have to deal with the Arachnos motif, which is a surprisingly effective throttle.

Not to mention that 150 Vanguard Merits is a hell of a lot if you haven't participated in a mothership raid. Threads arguably drop more often.

My life as regards City of Heroes is complete. I love Titan Weapons so much. I have never played another set where I felt comfortable, nay, wanted to jump into the biggest throng of mooks I could find right at the very low levels. I've built characters able to handle +8 spawns with proper IOs at level 50, but this is the first one where I've felt comfortable tackling more than +0 even before getting DOs.

The sloooooowWHAMWHAMWHAM pacing feels natural and powerful. It turns some folks off, but it just works for me. Even taking on a hard target is awesome. The animations flow into each other, and it's the first set I've personally seen where you can get a chain as early as the first three attacks. Defensive->Titan->Crushing->Defensive is graceful and completely destructive.

Possibly the funniest thing about the set is a quirk of the enemy AI where they will not instantly engage you, but will watch you until either you've loitered near them for several seconds or actually hit them. More than once I've started the Momentum-building attack, winding up for a major hit, while the target just stands there and watches curiously. Then the first hit lands and it's a world of freaking pain.

It definitely doesn't match my idea of what a Stalker is, but that doesn't really matter. Given the extent to which powersets have been proliferated, theme is clearly less of an issue these days, and it was poor form to give it to 3 of 4 melee sets. That's just red-headed stepchild territory there. Stalkers need some love, and Titan Weapons is love. Let the players decide what restrictions their concepts dictate.

The only thing I can think of that would give Stalkers an actual mechanic imbalance, which is the only justifiable reason to restrict a powerset (like Ice for Brutes back in the day), is that attacking from Stealth negates the disadvantage of the slowness of the initial attack. But they still have that disadvantage midfight if they can't drop the spawn in 5 seconds, and Energy Aura Brutes (and anyone who takes the Concealment pool) can attack from Stealth just fine.

City is more than a superhero game. It's progressed into a kind of themeless melting pot where anything and everything is possible. Superheroes in tights and capes roam the city, but so do warriors lost in time, aliens from other worlds, travelers from other dimensions, mutations and technological wonders every day.

It's a modern day Sigil. That makes it special.

Plus the gameplay, though intensely repetitive at its core, always manages to be satisfying in hundreds of different ways. Even if development stopped entirely right now, I don't think I would get tired of playing the game for another 5 years. There's always something else I haven't tried.

At levels 5-10, fighting groups of 2-3, I had half my Fury bar filled fairly regularly (about 140-160% Damage Bonus). It's more than enough to whup on LTs and Bosses.

Paragonwiki.

Click on the tier name for an individual Lore ability, like Total Radial Improved Ally, and it'll tell you what pets you get for that tier and what abilities they have.

Most support pets tend to have a heal and some other minor support ability, either a buff or another heal.

If they do for Staff what they did for Titan I'll be content. ~10 models, ~6 basic, ~4 in a pack, pack is free at launch.

If they short the number of weapons or don't make the pack free for a limited time, then that will engender some harsh words indeed. Indeed.