Counter_Agent

Heheh I used to see ol'Tic Toc all the time on Justice. I use to go by the name Lei Kung there..was my first major character. A stormy

Those were the days!

Emm that looks like something ENTIRELY else to me..lol

I mean you are in a sewer!

Hi,


I was sitting here looking at the Concealment pool because I want to get Phase Shift and there are three invisibility based powers that I have to pick two of to get it and my character has no interest in invisibility powers..so I was thinking that there simply has to be a better way of doing this and then I remembered a thread I read a long time ago that had something like this in it. Not sure what that thread was but have to give credit where it is due.

Anyhow, Why not level gate the Power Pool tiers and accelerate that rate based on how many powers you have taken? When you think about this there are several really key levels where you get certain powers and you could easily make that the choice points, either take a cool power pool or your cool power from your primary or secondary. This already sort of happens with Ancillary/Epic pools because if you want all 5 powers from a pool you have to give up one of your top two secondary powers.


The idea is simple:
You can pick a tier 1-2 power or a travel power starting at level 4 by itself (this will in turn allow you to pick a tier 3 power at 14th and if you pick two you can also choose tier 4 or 5)
You can pick a tier 3 power without picking a tier 1-2 or travel power starting at level 24
You can pick a tier 4 or 5 power without picking another power from the set starting at level 34
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In this way if you want that tier 4 or 5 by 14th level you have to take an early power or two, just like it is now, but if you don't want that power you can just wait and get it at 24th when you would normally be picking a different power. Also, simply skipping to get the tier 5 power that normally requires you have two powers picked is balanced by putting it at the 35th power choice because you are having to choose between that power, your top two secondary and your epics.

Anyhow, I think something like that would work and still have checks and balances because simply grabbing top tiers from each power pool would count against that epic/top secondary group and help control a lot of the min/maxing that might be possible by allowing people to pick top pool powers without prerequisites. What do you think?

My number one want is a bird beaked mask..similar to Blue Falcon .

Thigh high boots for Men, i'd love a swashbuckler style but regular would work as well.

Amulet on a headband. More head bands and arm bands in general. Specifically technological looking wrist bands that look like you might have buttons to push on them.

I was pretty stoked they seemed to like my "dynamite bandoleer" suggestion and Rad armor is the set I most wanted them to make since City of Villains came out. I just couldn't understand how they could put out a Villains expansion without radiation powers! ZOMG lol

That is the Wellamental!

Yeah I saw it, hope they post the image so I can get a better look at it. It looked great from what I could make out of it.

Its tomorrow! Can you post some screen shots already

Must see cosmic aura thingy!

I don't know. I could be wrong here but I don't recall any week being this lite and with the character slots being half off..it makes me think we may see staff fighting today after a bit of a delay..which has happened in the past.

I've always thought, since the game first came out, that one thing CoH really missed was having a stable of "generic" villains for hire like you see in the comics that go from faction to faction just for the money.

When the safeguard missions came, and you put the rogues gallery of villains in there, I thought that finally there would be a push in that direction and that maybe we'd have a chance of seeing them in other places. But this never happened.

To that end I'd recommend creating a rogue's gallery of super villains . You can make them scale in level as needed or just have different villains that appear at different levels. With this system you could beef up the encounter fights that you think need it, while also making the encounter more colorful and breaking the GIJOE/COBRA mentality that seems to be in every faction in the game. You could also do random spawns called "heists" with special rewards and give people a reason to patrol . You could add all the new villains to the safeguards as well. I'd give a badge for each individual super-villain in the rogue's gallery and make it fun trying to collect them all.

I think these are the most likely elements.

1. Recharge Buffs
2. Slows
3. Some use of the new clone tech. Maybe as a pet, mirror image or a limited phantasmal pet like affect. (Think Gang War)
4. A hold of some sort, if not an AoE hold.
5. Regen or Healing probably hybridized with Recovery ability.
6. A unique take on self-intangibility/hibernation/timestop (I highly doubt they go the way of a cage power)
7. Something AoE that both slows the enemies and super recharges the team. (Temporal Flux ability similar to Fulcrum Shift)
8. A cool rez ability. Like maybe a Time Portal similar to the rikti portals that rez's everyone near it)
9. A level shift related power.
9. Something that combines a power we're use to with a teleportation affect.( Like an absorb pain 'rescue' heal that also teleports the target to the Time Manipulator)

Who knows thought right? can't wait to see the set!

I have always dreamed of a series like this for the Avengers. Now it is here! This show is absolutely fantastic. The story telling and characters are spot on and the giant tapestry of plot lines that are being slowly introduced leaves me really dying for each new episode to come out. WELL DONE MARVEL!

My only question is this. If you take the fitness pool as an inherent power, does it count against the 4 power pools you can have anymore?

Like now I may have fly, fitness, fighting and leaping on a character. Would this allow me to have fly, fitness, fighting, leadership and fitness as an inherent?

I'd like wider eye beams. More Darkseid or Cyclops like than Superman.

All I know is that if I don't get my bird beak soon I'm going to have an aneurysm. We really need to finish off the anthropomorphic stuff that is incomplete in this game.

If I were going to create a way to get around this I'd setup a list under options with each power that can buff you. I'd put three checkboxes for each where you could pick from 1) Auto Accept 2) Accept with no Visuals(in non PvP zones only) 3) Auto Decline