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How was that post worthy of that comment? He pointed out that there are many comic book elements in game, and responded to the rest of the original post.

But eh, just leave it. I feel like we have a lot of tight and classic superhero options already, but more patterns for them probably would be a good thing.

I had some stuff earlier in the thread. I think you can basically sum it up as "are there plans to adjust Kheldians in the next issue or so, especially Peacebringers?" Hopefully that's general enough and like the badge questions you got answered, but who knows.

Peacebringers are quite honestly the most clear AT/Powerset I can think of that has some adjustments needed (other than Devices). Its mezzing capabilities do not stack (and are weaker on their own than Warshades), and their +damage and pet powers are clearly not as good as Warshades, either. They're not as terrible as some people would like you to believe, but the above are obvious issues. I keep hoping an adjustment is going to happen, yet nothing does. I would love to hear some good news on this.

*sighs* Though if they stay true to form, they'll keep working a lot on these new powersets and not do much on old sets that still need a little something. Hopefully you can get some news to cheer me up in that regard. And hopefully "are they in sight for the next issue or so" is open enough... even if it isn't, I hope you don't mind asking.

Voo, they look to be fairly large tunnels, some of them being like the Praetorian Underground (like Chad said). So I think you'll have a lot more room to breath than in the dreaded blue caves.

Chad or anyone, how big is the Underground Trial? If it's 16 rather than 24, that will make them less claustrophobic as well.

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Oh, and thanks for the Street Justice info, Chad. Sounds nifty, though I don't like powers that can switch from Stun to Hold... makes slotting trickier (ran into this with Dual Pistols). I think I may go with SJ/EA as well, rather than SS/EA, just to not double dip powersets at all, and because it sounds cool the more I hear about it.

The new Defender set is an overlay of tights, and the IDF does not look anime at all. Just like a futuristic armor set, which is all over in a variety of comics. The glowie costume bits have a Thor and GL feeling to them, which might not be your cup of tea, but calling all this City of Anime is... kind of not accurate.

I hope they're just talking up the two new purchasable powersets, but even then, I do not like how this sounds. "We can phone it in more with non-purchasable sets" is almost how that comes across, which is a bad impression to give.

I get that they want to make them seem worthwhile to players, but... that's kind of what you want to do with all of them. It would have been far better just to talk about how awesome the sets are (from how they look, etc.) and not mention this angle at all.

I would agree. We already have a visual indicator when the contact is selected, they're on the map, and they have a little ring around their feet. I don't think they're that hard to see, and the ring is kind of immersion breaking enough.

I don't really find it to be a bad idea for someone new to the game. You can skip over the tab if you want, and the help is there for new players. Letting new players get into things more easily is a good thing.

Which article is that? I haven't seen anything anywhere talking about indicators over contacts heads, so more info would be nice.

I suppose some will like it, but I like my maces to be maces. I was kind of sad that it seemed like they combined the two. But it's a new mace and axe option, so I will take it.

Zombie, it's nice to know that we'll get the rewards all at once, but buying a year ahead of time isn't really an option for me, nor for other people (or so I would imagine). Good on you if it is, but I wouldn't call it an easy option for everyone.

Diablo II NPC character that you see in a lot of the videos for it, or so I believe. Does have pretty nifty glowing wings, with Talsorian like filaments/lengths. Can probably find videos somewhere on the interwebs for them.

These look pretty cool, though I'm not sure I'll be able to pick them up with my vet rewards... I'm not far enough along, if I'm reading the Tier stuff well enough. I'll be up for 72 months in August, I think.

You Kheldian hater. You couldn't even ask about them for me?

I'm not really keen on new powersets being gated, either. I could see locking it behind some points if you still wanted to access it if you were ever in Premium, but it kind of feels like a bad precedent for what they are going to lock behind points.

I suppose some could say that now you can pay what you want to pay for with these (I wouldn't haven't bought GR or used PP for demon summoning, for instance). The past few years show that more stuff ends up in for pay packs than in the "paid for by subscribers 'free' expansions," (at least for costumes) so I fear this is how things will be with Freedom.

I'll keep waiting and seeing how it works, though. Hopefully things will stay good and they won't gate too much stuff behind points.

MA comes with VIP, and it sounds like you can unlock it via rewards for when you are in Premium mode, or so I gather from the info on our homepage for this stuff.

Beam weapons and a street fighting set have been requested by players for years, so even if it doesn't sound great to some people, other people are quite excited by them. I'll wait and see for how they work mechanically and how they look. I'm not really keen on how beam weapons sound, where they depend on some debuff to do more damage. That's not a great concept for blasters, who always get weaker debuffs and want to debuff stuff right now, rather than ramping up their damage.

Street Justice (which should be Street Fighting to me, to be more malleable to character concepts)... could be cool, but it depends on the mechanics again. I was going to make a SS/EA Brute with the new EA changes, but I might go for Street Fighting instead of SS, since I do have an SS Tank already. Depends on how it looks and plays, though.

Yeah, I hate any PvP (or PvE, for that matter) where you can actually lose stuff upon failing. I know some people like that and find it challenging, but I despise it. Being defeated is enough, taking stuff away that I have worked on forever is just not fun. I'm fairly okay with ranking systems for "skill" that some games have, but even that can get tedious. Trying to get published in real life is tricky and difficult enough without adding a game where I have to worry about what I could lose there.

Any gameplay involving other people is tricky. I was in a Battlefield 1942 clan that had some great people in it, but also some flaky ones. That fell apart because of them. I joined another (that a former clanmate had joined) that was full of great guys, but the clan was basically part of a conglomerate of gaming clans, and the other ones did not like us much. The guy that was basically in charge of the conglomerate and its website decided competitive gaming was dead (because of MMOs), and dissolved the whole conglomerate and website, without asking anyone. We eked along for another season of playing BF2, but that broke up because of pettiness, too.

So mostly good experiences with others, still marred by other people being mean about... gaming. For some reason. CoH does better with its community, and also when I'm not a part of such an official group. I'm sure there are SGs out there with too much drama as well.

Still, if you can find a good group of people, the benefits are probably worth the drawbacks.

That'd be fun, but anything more than a chance for knockup on higher iterations would be okay, since most of the Judgement powers only have some mitigation in the same way. Definitely a cool idea that I would like to see. Maybe with a fist pound, PbAOE animation, or something.

My wife and I quite like Kreacher, so it would have been nice for him to be around more. But he's one of the many minor roles or actions that a book can have without too much fuss, but can throw a movie off completely. The Bellatrix and Molly fight needed to be put in, but it got too rushed with everything else that was in there.

I rather like how Harry faces down Voldemort in the book more than the movie, too. They went with their odd flying smoke bit instead (as they have liked to since Yates came in to direct, I believe), but I think the verbal interchange where Voldemort is left realizing his firm position is actually a house of cards works much better. The look on his face is always priceless, or at least how my imagination works it whenever I read it.

I don't know, it was a solid end, but it still leaves you wishing for more with some things. Snape's memories were strong in places, for instance, but also felt a little rushed and rough, and possibly harder to follow and appreciate if you haven't read the book.

You really don't need to ask the question, he says why he is like this in this post earlier:

"Granted. I really don't put much effort into most of my replies on this topic. For me its like talking to a young earth creationist, after I have shown them that a volcano has rebuilt itself 4 or 5 times or the eroded strata in the grand canyon whats the point ?

All the creationists do is put their fingers in their ears and start repeating themselves."

He refers to a completely unneeded and incorrect comparison and basically says "I'm right, the other side is wrong and won't even admit it." It's the complete, unassailable bastion of opinion. It negates anything the opposing side would say.

Any evidence to the contrary of his opinion is wrong. It just is. So we might as well give up and quit, because his word is law. Kneel before him, son of Jor-El!

I think you've hit on a better philosophy as well. I prefer Controllers and Doms to Defenders and Corruptors myself, but I honestly do not care what anyone brings to any content in CoH. I think the only things that really qualify for wanting some types of powers are Hami raids, Mo runs of some TFs, and the trials (kind of... most teams can do well on BAF, but it's nice to have some aggro control on Lambda for the two teams, and it's definitely nice to have area healing on Keyes). Even then, there is a lot of room for whatever ATs or powersets you want to bring.

Okay, thanks for clarifying. I've given up trying to shoot down some of the "Blaster are the weakz0rz" people around here because of how off base they can get, so I can appreciate your thoughts.

Kind of sounds like Letterman's usual delivery. Not even sure why he bothers with them anymore, he seems rather bored with the idea whenever he does them (and most aren't all that funny anyway).

That's... news. Do you mean the adjustments to Fury for Brutes and their damage values? You could call those a nerf or an evening of power with Scrappers and a way to better maintain Fury. And Tanks haven't been nerfed in... ages. Taunt getting a -range component, and then Bruising and the HP cap increase just before GR are the two more recent buffs to the AT as a whole.