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Originally Posted by Tenzhi

They could (and I would like to see it), but the initial suggestion seems to call for multiple damage types within the same set.

Originally Posted by Tormentoso

Brutes had upper hand for a while, now it's mostly even. There is no real "better." Fury generation was modified so that its easy to build but gets progressively harder. So in general Scrappers will still have the damage advantage while Brutes the survival.

At the end of the day, it depends on what you want to do with it and what powersets you want to play with. Fiery Aura? Go with Brute (::grumble grumble stupid mobs running away from my Burn... :: )

Originally Posted by UberGuy

The Miracle and Numina powers grant only the caster their benefit. If you put them in something like Healing Beacon, you will only get the benefit for 120s after casting that beacon. After that, the beacon would become the beneficiary of further buffs, which naturally isn't very useful.

The difference is that the Panacea proc is tagged to go off on the target and the caster, where the Miracle and Numina uniques are tagged to go off only on the caster.

Heal over time is still one cast of a power. Just as damage procs do not check to go off on "ticks" of DoT powers like Gloom, the benefits of Miracle and Numina (or Panacea, for that matter) do not go off on the "ticks" of HoT powers.

Originally Posted by Maudy

Okay, I'm planning to start a brute and a stalker soon (two archetypes I haven't played) and have been saving up paragon points to buy Staff Fighting when it comes out, and get Street Justice. I was thinking of doing a willpower brute and a ninjitsu stalker (powersets I haven't played). So:

Option A:
Staff Fighting/Ninjitsu Stalker
Street Justice/Willpower Brute

Option B:
Staff Fighting/Willpower Brute
Street Justice/Ninjitsu Stalker

What do you think would be more fun?

I don't know much about redraws, redundancies, etc., so I thought I'd post here.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey

Let's just fix the whole problem. Every toggle power or long lasting click-buff needs a "no visual effect" option.

Originally Posted by Border_line

Fair enough, I'll agree to side step that discussion, especially since the last time I waded into that murk I found out the back end of this game is managed in XLS spreadsheets...

All I'm saying, is that the animation bones already exist, and it doesn't imbalance anything, so...

Originally Posted by Roderick

Just because I'm infused with the essence of the Netherworld doesn't mean that I'm oozing darkity-darkness all over the place.
Just because my body is so hot that I'm resistant to heat and even burn those that get close doesn't mean that I'm on fire.
Just because my body stores a high electrical charge doesn't mean that I'm arcing all over the place.
If my Stone tank is already made out of rock, why do I need to stick more rocks to myself to be protected?

If I do want to have one of those effects, I may want to only run one or two of the graphical effects - when a dark or fire armor character turns on all their auras, you can't see any of them clearly, let alone the character underneath.

And, honestly, a lot of the VFX on the old powersets look like crap. Instead of asking them to waste artist time on redoing all the auras, why not have them just add a "No FX" option and let me use Omega or Bio-Plasma, instead of being awash in 8-year-old graphics that don't even look like fire?

I agree with the OP's suggestion 100%. There's no reason to be forced into the graphics on most of the toggles in the elemenntal sets (Icicles from Ice armor being the only one I can think of that should be kept), and several reasons to allow us to turn them off if we want to.

Originally Posted by Cerulean_Shadow

I suggested this on one of the "Freedom Friday" Facebook threads, and got a "great idea, but we're not doing that at this time" kind of response. So I'm mentioning it here.

We have the temp power to call a random signature hero to help during a battle, purchasable from tier 9 of the reward token market. What I would like is the ability to call forth one of my alts to help in a battle. How fun would it be for two of your own toons to fight side by side?

Gentleman Gladiator is fighting Lord Recluse and is in trouble. He quickly radios stablemate Abe Kadabra, who appears via teleporter and uses his electrical blast powers to help his friend take down the leader of Arachnos.

The power would work like this:

once activated, the power would draw forth a random, level-appropriate hero (or villain, etc.) from your alts. S/he would fight by your side for 5 minutes, then disappear. The power would have, say, 5 charges, or alternately unlimited charges but only usable once every hour.

This is something I would happily buy in the Paragon Market. The chance to fight side-by-side with one of my other creations - creations which are by the very nature of the game never permitted in world at the same time under any other circumstance - would be incredibly cool. And it doesn't seem like the programming would be too difficult either.

And I bet it would sell better than that wascally leprechaun!

Originally Posted by HardRider

I think we should just have them in Ouro.

Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker

I don't run many Lambda, find them annoying, personally. But a quick question: does Marauder have a really large AoE aggro/debuff power of some kind? Having played a LOT of MMs, this would be one way to get the behavior you're seeing.

Originally Posted by Codewalker

Honestly, even though it represents a lot of work done by Mids himself, and everyone else who has worked on it since, PS would probably be better off developing a planner from scratch than to acquire or support Mids officially.

Mids was originally created before in-depth power and mechanics information was known. So there are a lot of fundamental design decisions that resulted in things working differently from how the actual game works. And there are a lot of manually created workarounds for those. As they start using more and more complex mechanics in the game, that divergence of design becomes more and more of an issue, and it becomes increasingly hard to accurately model them within the existing framework. Diellan is having to basically write a whole new way of looking at enhancements to get PPM and the ATOs to work, and the normal/catalyzed sets require a new way of defining enhancement sets.

That's a big part of the reason why modern updates take longer, because of things like Beast Mastery and Assassin's Strike, or even the Scrapper ATO, which requires tweaking almost every scrapper power by hand...

If Paragon was going to do a planner they'd be wise to base it on the game engine itself to avoid having to deal with things like that.

Originally Posted by Nishastra

My problem with this push to make sure that everyone knows that "ATIO" is wrong is that everything except DO and SO with an "O" in it is wrong, because none of them have anything to do with Origins.

Sure, some of them you can stretch the definition to, but it's always been for the sake of convenience, not correctness. Why do people suddenly care now? And then, why only care about this?

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

This is... absurd. The sooner a nerf can happen the better, fewer people get used to the unintended performance of a power or IO. Making the wrong results last longer just gets more people upset:

Originally Posted by TrueMetal

If you feel the need to form secret societies and conspiracies in the community just to protect something that might or might not be OP or bugged from getting fixed/nerfed, you're investing a bit too much of yourself in the game imo ...