Demon_Shell

He's talking about the minor INF sink from buying SOs every 5 levels.

IOs could be attuned like their market version in that once you reach the minimum level, you can equip them and they'll level with you until they reach their internal max. Lower level IOs would still only drop at certain level ranges, maintaining their rarity. But there would have to be a number of changes for something like this to not devastate the market. Lower drop rates for both Recipes and Components below level 50 for one.

If TOs, DOs, and SOs were all combined into one type, they couldn't be as strong at level 5 as they are at level 30. That would either cause players to be too powerful against enemies that aren't strong enough, or for every lower level villain to be looked at and buffed accordingly. As for the INF sink associated with it, that would require no more than rebalancing the amount of INF awarded for a defeated opponent (at most, from 1-47) and changing the prices of the enhancements to reflect the smaller number that would be purchased. This has been done before.

And remember that players would still have to buy enhancements every few levels to fill newly awarded slots. They just wouldn't have to refill all the slots they have (at the time) 6-10 times.

Oh. I remembered something.

An Accuracy/Endurance Reduction/Recharge Reduction IO set. If an ability doesn't do damage and has no modifiable buff/debuff, you presently can't put any sets into it.

Costume Powers and non-Hide Stealth Toggles no longer locking each other out.

Fixing up Dark Armor for Stalkers would be cool too, but I don't really have a stake in that.

Coralax.

I still don't understand why they aren't portrayed as much of a threat. There's an entire civilization beneath the ocean (which makes up most of the planet so how many there are is anyone's guess), and they're attacking the surface. Why isn't this a big deal? Why isn't this the hugest deal? This isn't aliens coming down from space, this is a species humanity would regard as "alien" being here all along.

If the Coralax were created in the Cretaceous Period, that means they've been on Earth longer than humans. They have access to magic, they have access to psychic powers. Their god Merulina may be gone, but the Leviathan isn't. Even if they're physically weaker (their in-game level range), all they'd have to do is tap into the Leviathen's power and boom- We'd got an incarnate-level Banished Pantheon threat all over again.

Worse still? What's to stop the Coralax from joining forces with the Devouring Earth? They both want pretty much the same thing, the Devouring Earth just want it more. For now.

I'm still not seeing that as irrefutable evidence that a global transformation group exists, because each transformation type locks out something different. Granite locks out movement buffs, costumes lockout specific stealth toggles, Nova/Dwarf locks out almost everything. All they have to do after that is lockout one another. But the stealth that cause the lockout are all mutually exclusive with one another. You can't use Stealth and Shadow Fall. You can't use Invisibility and Steamy Mist. If the system is limited in such a way, it would be the perfect workaround to only allow one costume to be used at once; by tying it to a system where only one of a certain type is usable at once.

But I don't presume to know how it works. I'm just offering a possible counter to your idea, however flawed it may be. To my knowledge, no one that's ever worked behind the scenes has ever spoken on this particular subject. Which is why I started this conversation, to hopefully get that acknowledgement from someone with the means to change it. No inconvenience is ever terribly large, until money is involved.

And if it requires a large amount of development time, I'm right there with you. There will doubtlessly be more important things in the future then a lockout which can only ever affect (considering pool popularity and availability) somewhere around 2-4% of all player characters (if they all had the costumes/participated in the Halloween Event). If that's the case, so be it. But I won't be satisfied until I hear it said from someone with the means to set the change in motion that "it's not worth the development time" or "this is the reason why not."

Surrender to development time spent in other avenues, be they minor or greater. But never be satisfied with no answer as an answer.

I hadn't said anything because for some reason I thought this was yesterday and I wouldn't be able to make it.

I should be there to help out on Demon Shell again, if needed.

I understand the limitations in place presently. The reason I bring it up is because it's not an "as designed" limitation to purposely stop you from gaining stealth parameters while using costumes, because you still can. You've always been able to. Stealth IOs, anyone around you with an group stealth power, costume clad Illusionists can even cast Group Invisibility to stealth themselves.

The limitation in place currently is purely mechanical, imposed when the costumes weren't really a big enough deal to spend the extra time on. As something that can be purchased now, does this now make it worth investing whatever period of time it would take to resolve this issue? More specifically, what would that period of time be, and how many more costumes will be purchasable in the future to be affected by this?

I'm in the "just make them attuned" field. There's no sense of growth with regular enhancements past SOs, and your enhancement stats are constantly bungeeing up and down as you level for no reason. This is made the most apparent with things like Endurance Modification/Reduction and Accuracy, because unlike damage or heals these never grow on their own.

It was a money sink and it was never a very good one. TOs to DOs to SOs at least provide a gear upgrade. But from 22 (when you an first buy and use them) to 47 (when you can use 50s) SOs never get better. So why are you replacing them?

And let's remember that not all players can use IOs even if they want to sit down and craft them over a longer single period of time (even if it takes less time overall). Having to either run the exact same mission over and over again (DFB and it's SO reward) or stop and reslot the same thing they slotted a day or two ago in the same power for the third of six total times are not appealing options.

If you have an hour a day to play a game, do you want to sit there for 15 minutes and craft/buy enhancements?

Pretty simple request. The option to use abilities like Stealth or Cloaking Device with costume powers like the Freakshow Tank or Gunslinger.

How easy that would be to do? I have no idea. It would make them more attractive options on the market, though (Whenever they come back again, that is).

This is all incredible. I figured a placate would end up being presence's T5 ability whenever you guys got around to it, but changing the single target taunt into a placate and adding in a huge buff/self rez? Outstanding!

There isn't a single bad thing I can think of, outside of possibly looking at other abilities in weaker sets to give them dual functionality or power pick synergy. Good show!

I'd be happy to help out next time as well, if I'm around.

Hopefully with a more sedated "throw fortune" reflex.

This is my short argument for LAM being counted among the other snipes as insta if at 22% to-hit.

I've been told the point of the snipe changes are to make them useful while in combat, but LAM's recharge is tremendous anyway. Presently, unless you use it at the start of a fight, you don't really have any reason to use it in that engagement. Allowing it to be insta would be a small buff, but not much of one. Just enough to allow it's regular use in combat.

Though while we're talking about buffs to Munitions, if Sleep Grenade had its damage component removed I'd be pleased.

Among other things, I'm also particularly interested in this. (Thank you, Rejolt)

2:16: Jokes about Martial arts/dual blades for blasters, awkward pause. Likely planned and Hawk is trying is poker face.

I expressed my interest in this some time ago and even without the above being said, globalizing self-based damage mitigation in Manipulation pools, as opposed to target-based damage mitigation, seems to be leaning toward that possibility (or a relative approximation).