Chad Gulzow-Man

Only the Alpha Slot acts as a global enhancement. Every other Incarnate Slot that we know now about is a power. Judgement is an AoE attack. Lore is a Praetorian pet. Neither of them enhance your powers across the board, because that's Alpha's thing. Further down the line, we'll get access to a slot that enables you to equip a buff/heal power, and another that allows you to add various debuffs to your damage powers. That's the short version of everything that we currently know about the future of the Incarnate system (and is of course subject to change).

You think you're "painting an obvious picture," but really you're just finger-painting a smiley face and trying to pass it off as a Rembrandt, and your "paint" seems to have come from a male cow's rectum. If you're going to complain about something, try actually learning about it in depth instead of passing judgment based on the preliminary information.

Hah, I kinda like that idea actually. A little bit of hazing (on this scale, at least) for the new guy never hurt anything.

Yes to all. No. Temporary powers do a set amount of damage based on AT and level, and do not accept any damage buffs of any kind. I know pool attacks go towards Fury, but I'm not sure about temps. At the very least, those powers will generate aggro, which will cause enemies to attack you, which will in turn increase your Fury meter.

You've fallen into the OP's misinformation trap. I'm pretty sure he meant ED, but that wall of bit...text was a little hard to comprehend.

This. These threads "zomg, X is the new fitness!" threads are kinda dumb.

(No offense intended to the OP of this or any of the other similar threads.)

Couldn't have put it better myself.

CoH is my favorite game, and there's no sign of that changing any time in the foreseeable future, but there are definite flaws. Some of them are somewhat endearing, some of them are nerve-wracking. But I definitely think that, for the most part, the developers are on the right track.

It'd obviously be nice to see some of the existing issues (as mentioned in the article: PVP and base building, along with other much-requested features such as proliferating NPC costume options, further powerset proliferation and power pool customization) worked on sooner rather than later, but the rate at which quality content is being released is fantastic for an MMO, and I find I can't complain too much about what is and isn't coming soon(TM) for City of Heroes.

... Seriously, this is how all of your threads seem to start: you make an observation, relate an anecdote, and then give false data as if it were fact. The reason all of your characters use the same power pools is because you, as a player, are reliant on either maintaining a similar experience when playing each, or because you've been fooled--perhaps by yourself--into thinking they're necessary. Having read several of your posts, I'm guessing the latter.

Personally, I have Hasten on probably about half my characters. For some (my mains), it's part of their back story that they're supposed to be fast... but their alt builds (slotted for survival) don't have Hasten at all. For others (my Grav/Kin Controller), it's a matter of keeping buffs and AoEs up as often as possible. Regardless, I usually don't take it on characters until 35 or so, because there's either nothing else that I want at that level or there's an unnatural pause in the attack chain.

But yeah... with the new Inherent Fitness of Issue 19, there are suddenly 3 free spaces in most people's builds that need to be filled in many cases with powers that require little or no additional slotting. I'm sure that many players and/or characters who didn't have it before are taking it now. But Hasten is not, and never will be, necessary on any character's build, unlike Fitness on many prior toggle-holding builds.

The irony in his signature is palpable.

I'd rather just see a straight up Assault/Defense AT. Energy Assault/Willpower, woooo! @_@

The "Defensive Support" sets that the OP proposes just seem okay, but more focused on buffing than mitigation, which is what I'd prefer.

I'm also not advocating Tank Mages here or anything... I'd make an Assault/Defense AT have Blasterish HP, Stalkerish defense and Dominatorish attack damage; basically, more attack options, but less effective in every way than the existing, more specialized ATs.

The actual phrasing wasn't about Issue 19, it was about "Going Rogue, Issue 19 and Issue 20." There were, of course, 6 new zones in Going Rogue.

I didn't see any mention of "what's coming in Issue 20" other than a link to a previous article containing SM's monthly producer letter...

None of the dozens of Death Mages I've punched out in Portal Court tonight had lips any looser than the other couple hundred jerk bags I've beaten up.

FYI, the qualifications for the Apex and Tin Mage TF master badges are just to earn all the sub-badges for them, and they don't all have to be gotten in one go. The badges are not awarded for the standard "no deaths, no temp powers" rules that the other master TFs follow.

For Tin Mage, that means you need: Hacker (access all 8 glowies before the time limit is up), Midnight Dodger (no players on the team take damage from any proximity bombs [pets are okay to take damage]), Neu Man/Woman (defeat 100 Neuron clones) and Kitty's Got Claws (defeat Neuron before Bobcat takes 50% [I think] or more damage).

At this point, if you've done the TF many times as you insinuate, you probably just need Midnight Dodger What Dodges At Midnight. I recommend you get some friends together and have everybody grab Shivans, Warburg Nukes and Vanguard HVAS pets, then drop everything on Director 11 all at once. Heck, really you only need 3 or 4 people to do so if you've got a good number of ranged characters and a couple of debuffers on your team.

The 7 year rewards haven't been given out yet, and won't be doled out until late April.

Did you buy the Mac Pack or a Mac license to add to your account at any point? That's the only way you should have access to the Valkyrie costume bits...

You can fire off Dark Blast 5-6 (maybe even more) times in the same time it takes to fire 2 Moonbeams with similar slotting. As cool as I think the glowing swirly white Moonbeam looks, I haven't even for a second regretted respeccing out of it for Dark Blast.

Hence why we're going out to dinner tonight, instead of me hopping on a LGTF. Besides, she's busy tomorrow... I should be able to get at least two runs in between when I get home from work and before I have to go to bed.

It's actually kind of sad that I will never be able to adequately express to her what it means that I give up opportunities at badge hunting for the sake of spending time in her company. God I'm such a total nerd.

That's how I got Isolator, and I really don't have any complaints about it. And it's not "one every hour," it's "one every 30min to 3hrs." But I made some really good friends hanging around in that broken down tram station, waiting for that bum to show up and puke on my shoes.

The only badge I REALLY have a complaint about getting (other than all the Day Job ones) is Empath. I almost quit the game because, for about 9 months, the only thing my monthly payments went to was AFK heal farming.

Then the first heal badge nerf hit, and I got it on my villain badger in under three weeks during nights only. >_>

Quite honestly, I'd have no problem whatsoever saving up 50 Alignment Merits to buy a Bug Hunter badge. At least it's 50-100 days worth of actual gameplay (as opposed to the aforementioned 270 days of not getting to play at all).

I would only barely kick myself if that happened to me.

I did them for the badges. The double merit rewards were a nice bonus, though.