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Originally Posted by Angelxman81

Now with the new trail auras added to the game with I20.5 we really need an option to turn off some FX like:

Power pools: Hasten, superspeed, maneuvers, etc...
I want to use superspeed with the new electric trail aura, but without the golden cloud of fire of course...
Same for fly and, lets say rainbow aura. Just turn off FX for pools or give us an option to do so. That way we can handle our character design much better.
It doesnt make sense that sprint, flight or superjump got a rounded aura around hands and feets...

Teammates buffs: Sometimes is just to much stuff VFX happening. An option to turn off teammates buffs would increase graphical performance and would be better for visuals, sometimes it doesnt make sense to have an Ice armor tanker surrounded by flames from thermal radiation.

Originally Posted by MondoCool

Here's my take on a power choice for a Blaster Secondary. Martial Discipline. Notice how, say, Maelstrom is Dual Pistols/Martial Arts? That's kind of what I had in mind.

Three main attacks: Thunder Kick, Crane Kick, Dragon's Tail
Four support: Physical Perfection, Caltrops, Rise to the Challenge, Focus Chi
Two control: Cobra Strike, Crippling Axe Kick

1: Crippling Axe Kick (Minor damage, Immobilize, Fast recharge)
2: Thunder Kick (Moderate damage, Fast recharge)
4: Caltrops (Moderate DoT, -recharge, -run, slow recharge)
10: Focus Chi (Build Up)
16: Physical Perfection (Autopower, +regen/recov)
20: Cobra Strike (Minor damage, Stun, medium recharge)
28: Rise to the Challenge (Toggle, self +regen, enemy -tohit)
35: Dragon's Tail (AoE moderate damage, knockdown, medium recharge)
38: Crane Kick (High damage, knockback, slow recharge)

This isn't really me saying this is how it absolutely should be, it's just a rough draft of my take on a martial arts style blaster secondary. It should be feasible. Opinions, thoughts?

Originally Posted by Redd Rumm

Anything new secondary for blasters .. port over dom's stone assault or thorns. some kinda dark control/assault , spit balls , badmanners assault i
will take anything new as a blaster secondary cuz it don't look like i will ever get a martial arts blaster secondary for blasters

Originally Posted by JayboH

Ok, that would be awesome. It would never happen with the multiple costumes, but having multiples of yourself would be cool and do-able with the engine IMO.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

There's lots of things that could be done, but the problem is that the devs created the tier 4 powers specifically to be long term targets to reach for. That's why their costs are set *massively* higher than the tier 3 powers, but have only very small extra benefits in most cases (ironically, Lore has the best jump from tier 3 to tier 4, a power many people skip).

Some things in this game are specifically meant to be chased, and the chase is meant to take a long time. Tier 4 incarnate powers are explicitly designed to be pursuit targets. Players that do not enjoy long term pursuits are actually supposed to stop at tier 3.

Put it this way: if tier 4 was easily accessible, the devs would add a tier 5 that wasn't. Get that reduced to being easily accessible, and they would add a tier 6. The last tier is always going to be the one many people can't get without a ton of work, because in the end game system there is always going to be some fraction of it specifically intended for the players that want to pursue a long term reward and are fast at it. By making it have only a relatively small incremental benefit, they make it an unnecessary pursuit for those that don't want to pursue it.

Originally Posted by Rintera

for vitae I want to see +HP, +Regen in high amounts, or maybe some +to all resist in moderate amounts.

Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum

I agree, using an arachnos mace for normal war mace attacks would be awesome. Hell, bane spiders both playable and npc do it. Where it falls over though, is the reverse. If you make them both use the same weapon that means either you do the mace beam attacks with a normal mace which would look pretty stupid, or you have to lock people into the arachnos maces for everything if they pick mace mastery which would annoy people. So yeah, probably not going to happen.

Originally Posted by Zemblanity

Do you perceive the lag in BAF as a challenge as well?

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

I don't mean to be too much of a naysayer... but why should Melee ATs get access to a Ranged set?

Originally Posted by Zanthyna

The steampunk booster trailer looks amazing! I have to actually check it out before I can render my final verdict, but I think it will probably end up as my favorite booster.

I remember talking to Noble Savage at the San Diego Comic Con party last year about ideas for a steampunk booster and I am very impressed with what I have seen. It seems to have just about everything I have been wanting. Hats with goggles on them was on the top of my wish list so I am very glad to see them.


I wish people would stop complaining about the booster packs 'taking away' content or resources from the game. The whole point of the booster packs is to provide additional revenue that allows them the resources to create more content. The booster packs actually cause more content to be created. Granted, some of it is exclusive to the booster, but that's how they get us to buy it, so it has to be exclusive.

When the Wedding Pack (the first booster) came out, its success allowed them to hire more people to work on the game to the benefit of us all. This is what the boosters are for. The only other way to get that extra content would be for them to raise everyone's monthly fee.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

Well if we're going for pure shonen and to work with villains too (who are almost always loner types in Anime) it should be "100%!" (You are now using 100% of your true power!)

Seriously though, it keeps bugging me how people think anime has a single, unified appearance aesthetics outside a vaguely defined art style.

Originally Posted by Kurrent

I'd most dearly love to see a Sorcery powerset, maybe even two separate Sorcery sets with one focused on more ranged/control and the other focused more on buff/debuff/PBAoE. The ideal way (heck, really the only way) to handle a powerset as broad as Sorcery would be to treat it the same way we do the Peacebringer and Warshade powersets: at least one very broad set with umpteen choices of powers in that set, allowing very different builds with the same Sorcery powerset. If there were fourteen or fifteen possible choices in each Sorcery powerset, that'd give a tremendous range of variability, even with just a single set.

While that sounds like a huge deal, and it most likely is, existing Peacebringers and Warshades already have 14 choices in their primary set and 12 in their secondary set, so this has already been done in game. I'd think that a large percentage of potential Sorcery powers already exist in some form inside other sets, such as various blasts, buffs, melee attacks, holds, etc.; that would cut down the true amount of work the powers and FX teams would face creating such a set. We also already have powersets with different animation options and FX options, further increasing the range of personalization possible for Sorcery powers.

Now, here's my own personal twist I'd put on a Sorcery powerset: I'd make this the new unlockable Epic. Give it for free for players who have reached level 50, and make it a purchasable option for those who can't wait until they hit fifty. This way there's a reward for reaching 50 while still making the powerset available to those who simply can't wait.

Yeah, it's an odd idea, but I really think it could work.


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Originally Posted by Sailboat

Katanas have never been used with shields, historically, and they're not very well designed for it.

Why do you want to pair Katana with shield? Is this really concept, or just for the better DPS?

Originally Posted by Sailboat

Katanas have never been used with shields, historically, and they're not very well designed for it.

Why do you want to pair Katana with shield? Is this really concept, or just for the better DPS?