ClawsandEffect

Uh...yeah. I remember the Death of Superman run, I had a large percentage of those issues.

They were all people claiming to be the "real" Superman, hence the names. And they all had their runs in the 4 Superman titles that already existed. And all were connected in the same storyline.

In the "more than one person wearing the mantle" thing, it almost NEVER happens simultaneously. And there's usually a convoluted and confusing storyline that makes very little sense when it DOES happen.

Bucky took over for Captain America after his death, he was NOT Captain America at the same time. Most of the time when someone takes over a heroic (or villainous) identity, it is because the original is no longer active, be it by retirement, death, dimensional displacement, whatever.

Going back to the Superman thing. All the "Superman" characters that were claiming to be the real one had similar abilities and powers.

Putting it in CoH terms, Superman is an Invulnerability/Super Strength tank with the Energy, Speed, Fitness, Leaping, and Flight pools. (yes, I realize he is MUCH more powerful than that, but that's the closest approximation to him in CoH)

Okay, now you have: A fire/fire blaster, an ice/ice blaster, a BS/WP scrapper, an Earth/Fire dominator, a nin/nin stalker....ALL named Superman. The previous example was 4 characters with the same basic identity, all of which were part of the same story. This is 5 characters that have NOTHING to do with each other....yet all have the same name.

Any time you see the same name on more than one comic title, it is either A) the exact same character in a different book (Spider-Man's many monthly titles springs to mind) or B) characters with a strong connection to each other through an interweaving storyline (the Superman example)

You never see two characters with the exact same name that are nothing alike and have nothing to do with each other.

There are also outliers in the 3 team specialists and the solo specalists. I have one of each of them (there are more than one)

A Shield/DM tank solos quite effectively, not as fast as a scrapper with the same powersets, but faster than most other tanks.

My Rad/Sonic can solo AVs. I'll just leave that one at that

My Sonic/Devices is actually MORE effective solo, because I have tools to use that most teams don't have the patience for. On a team I am effectively a Sonic/Nothing blaster because most of the Devices powers require set-up time.

I have a DM/Nin stalker that fills the role of a scrapper on a team quite well. My wife plays a Necro/Poison MM and we duo frequently. Her pets make a joke of minions and LTs, and my stalker 3 shots bosses (I've killed an EB with 6 hits before using inspirations) I solo great, but I have a purpose on a team as well. A brute will do more damage than me, but going in cold (with no fury) a brute will take longer to kill a boss.

Since there are such discrepancies within the ATs, any balancing attempts beyond what is already done will throw things out of whack for the rest of the powersets involved.

They never said it was impossible to do because of engine limitations, they said it was impossible to do because it was a metric crap-ton of work and they didn't have the manpower to do it. Kinda like telling 15 guys to go build a skyscraper, just not gonna happen.

Now they HAVE the manpower, so a lot of the things that were just too much work are now more possible.

When they said it was impossible there were only 15 people working on the entire game, now that number is 60+.

I'm not against the idea, like I said before. Some things probably aren't possible without rewriting a LOT of code, and other things would make life hell for some ATs (the healer taking alphas just for existing, for example)

Any change to enemy AI will have to be looked at, at great length, before it's implemented. There's a fine line between "More challenging" and "Downright impossibly unfair"

If you are inside Dispersion Bubble and YOU get mezzed, you will still have the benefit of the defense from the bubble, because the defender is NOT mezzed.

In the reverse situation, if you are inside the bubble and the DEFENDER gets mezzed, you will lose the defense bonus, because Dispersion bubble will be suppressed.

Toggle suppression only applies to your OWN toggles.

Rise to the Challenge de-toggles when mezzed because it has an effect on things other than youself. Any toggle that affects enemies follows the same rules (Death Shroud, Blazing Aura, World of Confusion, Against All Odds, etc.), for some reason Warshade's Orbiting Death is an exception, though I'm not sure why, since it is a damage aura.

So, if a Willpower character is mezzed, RttC will drop, but Indomitable Will, Mind Over Body, and Heightened Senses will remain active. Mind Over Body and Heightened Senses will not be doing anything, but the mez protection and resistance from Indomitble Will will still work (that is to prevent chain mezzes from happening)

If I recall correctly, it is a feature of the PvP changes that was carried over to the PvE game. In PvP if a mez hits it WILL affect you, so they added suppression so characters with a lot of toggles aren't spending all their time turning them back on. The fact that they carried it over to PvE was just a QoL addition.

Custom mobs are a LOT harder than regular (dev-created) mobs. When you make a custom mob set on standard, they have 2 powers from their primary, and 2 powers from their secondary.

A dev-created mob usually has 2 powers...total, a melee attack and a ranged attack. The fact that custom mobs have more than one attack to cycle through makes a HUGE difference. Instead of waiting until their ONE melee attack recharges to use it again, a custom mob can actually have an attack chain just like we can. That means there's a lot more damage coming in, due to less time between attacks.

Any custom mob will be a great deal more difficult than a standard mob, it's just how they work.

Mine is set up the same way. Over time (in AV fights) it does increase your damage output, but if you don't fight anything that resilient it may not be worth it for you.

Electric Manipulation Thunder Strike is a ST with splash damage, Electric Melee's version is a true AoE, everything hit by it takes full damage. So you were both correct and incorrect.

I can't speak for /Elec, but my BS/DA is absolutely unkillable unless I'm playing like an idiot. If I'm paying attention he never dies.

As far as your /Regen goes. The problem you were probably having with MI bosses is the Spectral Terror they throw out. DA won't have a problem with that, IT laughs at fear powers. The massive to-hit debuff the Ring Mistresses hit you with might be an issue, but that's an issue for just about everyone.

Yup. They left it alone for a long time, then people discovered you could use it in PvP to get around travel suppression and they put the power rooting back in.

Used to be the spinning animation pre-empted all power animations, now when it's running, you stop spinning, activate your power, and resume spinning.

It doesn't look quite right, but it was the only way to avoid the PvP zones looking like Oklahoma in June.

It's a game balance issue. The max speed for any travel power is in the 90-some MPH range. That's because the game engine can't produce terrain fast enough to stay ahead of you if you were going any faster. If you could run 400 MPH, you would run right off the map into empty space.

Flight is the slowest travel power because it is the safest. No other travel power will let you traverse a zone much higher than your level in complete safety. SS, Super Jump, and Teleport are all faster in a straight line, but have disadvantages that come with it.

Super Speed gives no vertical motion, you're extremely fast...as long as you stay on flat ground.

Super Jump is also very fast, but you run the risk of landing in the middle of a spawn and getting killed, because you travel farther in one jump than your perception will allow you to see. Not being able to see exactly what is at your landing spot is a big disadvantage if you're level 20 and in Peregrine Island

Teleport is almost as safe as flying, but it has a very high endurance cost. Teleport is the only travel power that can run you out of endurance just crossing a zone. To make up for that it is faster than any other travel power in a straight line (also annoying to use)

Flight has NONE of those disadvantages, you can fly in a straight line above any and all obstacles, you can fly high enough to never draw unwanted agro, and you can fly all day long without ever running out of endurance.

THAT is why Fly is so slow.

Base rent is the representation of any real world costs it would require to keep your base operational. If you're on the city power grid, it's an electric bill. If you supply your own power via generators...you need to supply fuel of some kind for them, right?

Since you're so busy fighting crime, you're not really going to RP that your character takes time out of their day to repair a broken toilet in the base, are you? You pay a plumber to do that.

"Prestige" is all of those real world costs rolled into one. It is rolled into one because the devs felt a minigame of The Sims (or something similar) to do base upkeep was a dumb idea.

On villainside you could steal most of that stuff. In THAT case, the prestige spent would be bribes to keep anyone who might care looking the other way. I can't imagine Arachnos would be too keen on you setting up shop somewhere they can't monitor your activities, a well placed bribe to an Arbiter would take care of that problem.