Chad Gulzow-Man

Why would they change your AT specific inherent power if your AT doesn't change? Corruptors don't become Defenders just because they switch sides; they just become Heroic Corruptors.

The whole reason you go to Cimerora to begin with is to aid Imperious in fighting off the time travelling invaders who have given Romulus his might. They were the 5th Column (obviously), but even they might have been controlled by a greater force... you never do get to see who is giving Romulus his orders...

Once you're actually in Cimerora, though, you're completely right... all you really do is smack around Romulus' troops.

Not to mention the fact that every AT with a melee set gets Energy Melee except for Scrappers.

But sure, I'm down with the Assassin's Chop.

I feel you there, MB. I farmed it all the way up to 991 million before i13 went into open beta and people told me they were lowering it to 100M. I immediately switched to my Villain badger and spent the next two weeks farming with him instead.

I don't know about Claws, but that's not enough for my Katana/SR. It wasn't until IOs came out and I was able to slot the +Recovery uniques in Health that I was able to rush from one group to the next. You're running 3 toggles minimum, more if you take the Fighting Pool or Leadership or Concealment and/or want to run with a travel power turned on.

If memory serves, the Claws set does have lower endurance requirements than any other melee set, though... but the powers also recharge more quickly than the standard, so you'll be firing them off a lot more often.

Can you do it? Sure, it's definitely feasible, if you're willing to slot for enough End Redux in your attacks (and probably 1½ Lv 50 enhancements worth in your toggles to boot). But it's going to be... uncomfortable as you level up.

You might want to include Elude in your levelling build for the +Recovery it offers, then respec out of it if you don't want it as you approach 50 and get better enhancements. APP attacks tend to have a higher endurance cost than standard powersets.

There's speculation that this will be the case, since they've told us that Going Rogue will double the amount of storage we can have per arc (up from 100K to 200K). There has been no official word, however.

It would annoy a lot of level 50 characters if they weren't, myself included. Seeing as how it doesn't exist on primal Earth either, I'd say no. (It's a separate point in the space/time continuum.) It will probably have some links to Praetoria, if that's what you're asking. Highly doubt it. Or rather, it probably existed, since the timelines of primal and Praetorian Earth were very similar (though not identical) up until the main divergence--when Cole killed Richter in Praetoria. But since there doesn't seem to be any 5th Column in Praetoria, why would you ever need to go back in time to Praetorian Cimerora?

As far as your other two questions go... I doubt there will be any Powerset Proliferation in Going Rogue, but it might come with Going Rogue. It would be annoying to have to pay to get powersets that already exist in the game, even if they are on different ATs. (I'd certainly be ticked off on principle, and I'm definitely buying GR!) And of course, there has been no word on adding any defeat badges for existing factions, though I find it unlikely, given that the focus of the expansion is on new stories and factions.

I used a USB-connected Xbox 360 controller to play CoH once. It works in the technical sense, in that yes, you can move the character around and jump and use powers and stuff... but it just didn't feel right for the game. YMMV.

This explains why I couldn't get my Stone/Energy Tank past level 12.

Personally, I have issues with entire classes rather than individual powersets. I don't do ranged damage very well (so Blasters and damage-based Corruptors are out, as are Kheldians), and I'm generally turned off to Tankers due to their lack of damage output.

I like Controllers, Brutes, Scrappers, Masterminds and Stalkers (with that order representing the comparitive numbers of said ATs). Everything else I've got one or two of at best.

Isn't that exactly how it ended up in the first Freedom Phalanx storyline of the comic book series?

Not that States asked for the help, but Manticore was the one who enabled superpowers to return to the world. (States sure as hell didn't ask for an arrow in his suddenly mortal chest as part of the bargain, either...)

Which is exactly what was happening on primal Earth up until Issue 4/5 (can't remember exactly), when Sister Psyche was finally able to leave Aurora Borealis' body and return to her own. States was royally PO'ed over it, because Scott's actions almost killed Sister Psyche.

So it seems that Calvin Scott is willing to push the line and go against Marcus Cole in both universes to get his wife back.

They've already said it's NOT a mirror universe, just an alternate one.