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My idea: Give DP something completely different. How about a 'bullet time' effect? Obviously you can't slow everything down but you can speed yourself up. So how about a power that for x seconds gives you +Recharge +Speed +Defense +To-Hit +End Discount. It could be used defensively (run away covered by higher defense) or offensively (your heavy hitters cost less end and recharge quicker. It would fit the theme of the set, and between the activation time, the duration, the recharge time and the level of the 5 buffs there would be enough levers to buff the set as desired. (The end disount might look funny thematically but the higher recharge would otherwise otherwise provide little benefit if you are in any way end limited which many players are.)

[The ideal case would be to have a set of shorter animations for every power in the set that would be used when under this effect which would increase the DPA of every power but the development time might be a bit much ]

I would always take it. Yes it is true that in a lot of cases Accuracy slotting and bonuses are enough but you will love it once you are fighting enemies with higher defense or to-hit debuffs. On other characters I often try to squeeze in tactics for the same reason (or get the Kismet unique).

Thanks for the responses!

Thanks for the response. It caused me to go back and research some more and as well think it through a bit. I still disagree with you but that isn't really a bad thing. Below is why I think this was an oversight on behalf of the devs and I'll see if I can draw someones attention to it.

I just noticed for the first time that Hail of Bullets grants the user +Defense but it looks like it is only positional and not typed. Can someone tell me whether this is correct? And if so, should it be this way?

I remember that certain powers were modified (i.e. Combat Jumping) to include all types and all positions so that they would stack regardless what buffs are applied to the player. I don't see a reason why this shouldn't apply here...

My search-fu might be weak, but I only found this thread (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=189317) that suggests something similar but it doesn't quit hit what I am thinking about. Apologies if this is old news...

I believe character customization is a big part of the CoH/V experience. Secret identities are also a staple in superhero comics. That leaves the question as to why this isn't tackled in the tutorial. My suggestion:

1. At the end of the hero tutorial suggest to the new hero that they should better establish their secret identity and send them to a tailor (located either in the tutorial or in Atlas/Galaxy)
2. Upon arrivial players receive a new costume slot and a 'plain clothes' outfit (a few choices in style/color might be nice but anything mundane would do)
3. To be in line with the linked post above players might be allowed to tweak their original costume for free

For villains it would be a trip to a facemaker with the suggestion to blend in a bit better after just breaking out of the Zig.

This would introduce new players immediately to the costume slots & tailors and allows them to include varying costumes for their character from day 1 and not just after level 20. Anybody agrees that this might be a good idea?

I'm jumping in late here and have to admit that I haven't read all the posts. To me the important thing is to get get rid of the prompt. In my opinion a prompt should be reserved for high griefing potential items only. The only ones that come to mind are Teleport (move someone potentially into certain death) and Rez (revive someone in a hopeless situation).

The next question then becomes whether or not there should be a general option for this which comes down to what level of character interaction should be optional. Given that CoX is an MMO I'd lean towards very little being optional. As such my prefered solution is that it is handled just like any other player 'buff' in the game (forced auto accept).

An interesting thing for me was that the issue went away going from test to live. I have an older AMD rig with 2 NVidia 7800 GTs and I was getting horrible input delay in closed and later open beta. I couldn't find any solution for it. On the same machine with everything running the same way the life servers are fine. Maybe that might help track some issues down.

Not sure if it is remotely related to your issues but I recently played around with some videocards and at one point missed connecting the extra power cable to the card. Performance was absolutely horrible as the drivers automatically reduced features/quality. Might be something worth checking out.

Well, that sounds like an interesting business decision from NC Soft. I was actually in the process of writing a long post showing why but I think it should be fairly obvious that they are just being greedy here. I hope they will see in the end that this doesn't pay off but I guess that depends on how many of us our willing to not go for the crappy pre-purchase deal.

I certainly will not.

Not offering a solution just wanting to raise some questions: Why have we become so comfortable with Stamina being a Must-Have power? Why is the game so much easier with Stamina? Why is a non-Stamina build basically a non-option?

As I said, just more questions and no answers but I am inclined to try and make a no Stamina build work outside of the obvious ones (MMs, Regen, ...)