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Here's hoping.

Ditto my gravity controller and Lift. I know it does Impact damage now, but because I'm using Gravity to represent manipulation of time (he predates the Time Manipulation set), he shouldn't have any means of throwing a person up into the air from a standstill like that. He does have Propel, though; after playing Portal it's not that much of a stretch to think of it as creative use of teleportation... still a bit of a stretch, but let's be honest, I enjoy Propel far too much not to take it.

Reminds me: I want to fire my Ion judgement out of a Beam Rifle.

Oh, we're playing this game? I have:
An escaped Arachnos science experiment, hybrid Human/Soldiers of Rularuu
A ninety-three-year-old immortal Midnighter, with IC game history knowledge, and his Praetorian counterpart who is with the Carnival of Light
The mutant teenage daughter of a convicted Syndicate boss, out for revenge against pretty much all of Praetoria for ruining her life
A perfectly ordinary Galaxy Archon (human-only Warshade)
A radioactive hero who got that way from a Terra Volta trial gone wrong
Three Menders of Ouroboros
An ancient Oranbegan golem
A Freakshow Meat Doctor with stolen Arachnos tech (Crab spider)
A thousand-year-old revenant knight commander and his army, playing off the idea of "The dead cannot change" (Mastermind)
I also have:
A lost space-alien warrior princess who is not tied to game lore
A time-displaced steampunk physicist who is only tied to game lore in that she works for SERAPH now as her day job, but that's not exactly major
A Rad/Sonic defender powered by the 1980s who pulls off her "natural" origin by means of "she's just that rad"

The latter three, though, don't contradict or actively eclipse lore, so I have no reason not to just go with whatever the game throws at me. They're also less fun.

Clunker trail and slime aura don't count? In fact, "black ichor oozing from joints and tumbling to the floor" sounds like exactly what the Clunker trail is. I've seen people color it red to use as a blood effect, and I use it colored light blue on my water-themed character so she can drip all over and leave puddles of seawater everywhere.

Not to say we shouldn't have more dark-colored aura options. A transparency slider is probably too much to ask, but making dark versions of all our currently-available bright auras (and vice versa - bright Tendrils, please; the Khelidans will love you!), while perhaps tedious, would solve the issue fairly simply.



EDIT - Speaking of bright and dark, since the Empathy and Pain Domination visuals are practically identical but for their brightness/darkness, can we please have them ported as options for each other? Even if the idea of heroic and villainous ATs hadn't been done away with when Freedom and the new tutorial came along (thus allowing your Empathy controller to be evil from the get-go), locking a good character into bright-colored powers and an evil character into dark-colored powers would still be ludicrous. Invuln could use the same treatment, too, because the Bright options available to Brutes can't be customized to look the same as the Original version for Tankers, most noticeable with Unstoppable in which Tankers' Original version has beams of light in several colors as opposed to Brutes' Bright option having two colors max, and Invincibility in which the Brute's original version glows bright purple before going dark which the Dark option available to tankers doesn't do. I propose adding "Legacy Bright" options for Brutes and "Legacy Dark" options for Tankers and Scrappers, that can't be customized but are exact copies of the Original versions from the other side.

Yep, I play an oldschool Midnighter too; new DA is the most fun I've ever had with this game, though I wouldn't say the Hour Thief has been enjoying it, per se

I can't speak for anyone else, but I feel slightly obligated to point out that it was only when playing IC, mostly with my supergroup, that I didn't use the already-built Lore and Destiny powers that she shouldn't yet have (on random PUGs and trials I am much more concerned with the team's success than I am with keeping my own concept). It also feels significant in a thread about deliberate gimping that I quickly found a way to tie Lore and Destiny to her concept because I as a player don't like missing out on additional power and merely put off her canonical gaining of those abilities, as opposed to skipping them entirely because they don't match everything else she can do already.

tl;dr I'm not sure it really counts, and draw attention back to the "necessary and/or worthwhile" comment because for me the answer is always yes even if I put it off.




However I'm also reminded of another SG friend, who recently repurposed a level 50 Illusion controller to be an alternate version of his much-lower-level demon summoner, and actually made a thread on our SG boards about how he could deal with the vast difference in power between the two (that is, find a way to bring the controller down to the level of the MM, because the MM is the 'main' version and supposed to still be learning). The eventual conclusion was that he could remove powers from the controller's tray temporarily, then gradually add them back in as the MM leveled up. I'm not sure what point I'm making with this, but I figure it's at least relevant as a clear case of deliberate power decrease, even if it isn't meant to be permanent.

Yep, this is why that melee Fortunata I mentioned before (the concept, as it happens, is that she's an escaped product of Arachnos superscience built to have innate Widow abilities, but because she ran away before she ever actually received any training she's supposed to play like some kind of amalgam of both paths, which I think she does pretty well) has Rularuu lore pets and Rebirth destiny. I didn't even begin to consider that strong a connection to the Shadow Shard when I made her, and until her roleplayed story took her there I never used Lore or Destiny while on teams IC.

There are also frequently ways to incorporate some conceptual aspect of your idea into your character's build without resulting in a power decrease: going back to said Fortunata, her psychic abilities are primarily concerned with manipulating attention, so I wanted her to be able to cause people to trip over their own feet in fights - I took Telekinetic Blast and Psychic Tornado to represent that. She's also a hideous monstrosity from beyond, so I made her Vigilante for the fear power you get that way. Now, actually using these powers was a liability, because of long animation times, so when ATOs came around I respecced out of them and returned to Hero alignment, replacing the lost effects with procs: Arachnos ATO set in Dart Burst for fear, and one more slot into Psychic Scream which now holds a Ragnarok knockdown. She's much stronger without losing any part of her concept, and as an added bonus I don't have to pretend that my not-conceptually-telekinetic attacks aren't throwing enemies upwards or backwards instead of just making people fall down.

A friend of mine does the same with her Bane Spider: only one ranged attack because the character is a hulking monster who ought to just be smashing heads, no Web Cocoon because he enjoys the thrill of the chase too much, and jumping through hoops on her build for him to fit the Fear proc into Crowd Control because OH GOD HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

Arm fins might be doable as a shoulder detail, but foot fins aren't going to happen without a new anchor point.


Ditto me with skirts.

Whaaaaaat.

and it can't be Nemesis, we already know what Nemesis looks like, and before you say the alternate-universe one might look different you have to take into consideration that the fake Nemeses do bear rather a resemblance to him...

I've been clamoring for them for months, to no avail... can't believe they didn't give any to us in either the Steampunk or the Gunslinger packs. Seriously. So far I've been faking 'em by using the Roman mask pattern, but the downside there is that Edmund can never take his mask off Heck, even if they give them to us and they're a Detail One, and can only be used with the mask off, that's still better... I can always keep faking it when he's wearing his hero costume.


re: everything else that has been said - thanks <3 It's really great to hear those things.

True, that would do pretty okay for most people. I forgot about the ears anchor point.

This is a brilliant idea. Can we have this?

Given that they're the same color as the top, I'm going to hazard a guess at "tattoos are included in top's color mask." The fortune teller you need to rescue for the Spelunker badge has the same top.

While we're on the subject of that skirt, how about just giving us ALL the Cabal costume pieces - including the muscular female chest Mary MacComber has?

Yeah, you can cancel it by moving while you toggle it on, but it still animates every time you walk through a door I REALLY wish I could get rid of the animation. It's most unbecoming for a character as soft-spoken and gentlemanly as mine.

Nanny Ogg????

Dream Doctor also has Kinetics. Cheatyface, he is.