Grey Pilgrim

I like Fly just for being iconic and easy to use, though I do wish it had a higher speed cap... it's trivially easy to get to and... 58 MPH, I think it is? is not that fast. Fly and Hover are much better than they used to be, but this still bugs me.

Even so, I have Fly on a lot of characters, even a couple of Tanks and such, even though I mainly have it on squishier characters. I'd say Fly comes in second behind Super Jump for me. I like leaping about with it and/or Combat Jumping on Blasters, Tanks, Scrappers, and Stalkers. See plenty of people flying about, too, so perhaps it's just anecdotal?

Do you have the Fighting Pool with your Regen? Regen is really powerful with all its heals and regeneration, but all that power is not instantaneous: you need time to click your attacks, etc. I noticed a big difference for my guy when I picked up Tough, and when he got Weave and a decent amount of defense (from IOs), he usually doesn't need to have Tough on unless I have the difficulty way up or my team is facing something rough.

Regeneration is usually considered a higher skill secondary by a lot of people, as it isn't a fire and forget secondary like Willpower: you have to know when to use what powers, etc. I'm guessing Regen also hurts a bit from Stalker's lower HP cap (when our base was increased, the cap was not also increased). It should be easy to be at or close to the cap before using Dull Pain, and increasing your HP is a big boost from Regen, or it should be.

How do crits display in the combat log? I haven't really bothered to look and see if it says more than "you did double damage!" or whatever with a critical, or if it also adds what your chance for a critical was, kind of like your chance to hit rolls. Might be kind of helpful if it did say this, as Stalkers are supposed to have certain chances at times, and Scrapper criticals change depending on the target as well.

Yes... the use of "build problem" is quite strange. I can hear that for trying to fit more powers in, or more bonuses, or something like that. But having build problems for low level characters due to inherent Fitness? No. They are four powers that your low level character does not have to pick, nor even slot if you do not want. That's not a build problem, that's an inherent power ability, and is a buff compared to what we have now. Calling it a build problem is blatant misuse of what those words mean.

I could possibly accept the argument of people not wanting to jump faster or slower, but... they'll get used to it. You move different in other games, you'll get used to how you move here. It's not like we're talking inherent speed boost here, either.

I pretty much am making no new characters until I19, even though I have a few ideas I'd like to make. I still have one Praetorian pre-20, and I love the content, but not having Stamina does make him more of a pain. I figured I should just skip that feeling and wait on making any new characters.

All these anti new Fitness posts are really depressing. I actually was wondering if the Devs had goofed and it was too much of a boost when we first heard about it.

I have to think Weave would help you out more. Even with capped resists to S/L, there are plenty of damage types out there that are going to hurt, and having those attacks miss you more via Weave will definitely help.

Good, great, yes! More costume and animation stuff coming with issues. I've come to accept that we need some costume packs and such, but I only feel okay with that when I see good things coming with the issues as well. I'll be keen on seeing how this looks on my characters!

Between Lightning Rod and Thunderstrike, I don't know if Air Superiority is all that needed. Lot of knockdown there already. I do like Air Superiority on characters when I've taken it, but I really avoid it on powersets that already use that Haymaker animation. Really hope Castle and BAB notice how much that animation is used and that's one of the first to get some new options in the sets in which it appears.

Jacob's Ladder is a nice cone for damage, but it is a melee cone. Brutes and Tanks should have no issues getting enough mobs around them to hit a bunch of people with it, but you do have to reposition a touch to use it still. I don't mind that after playing Katana, Ninja Blade, and Dark Melee so much, but I know it bugs some people. I would recommend keeping it, though. I don't have Lightning Rod yet, but my Brute feels pretty strong in the AOE department with just Jacob's Ladder, Thunderstrike, and Chain Induction.

Came in as everyone was leaving the base, but I had a story arc up and Lanna passed me the star to start it (I thought Lanna was just going to choose it, but apparently having a story arc=promotion? Heh). Anyway, my team finished up "The Scroll of Tielekku" and then went on to Croatoa... where I thought other people were going to work on the Penelope Nemmers arc with me at the same time, but I think my Brute was the only one working on it? Thought it would help more of the group, though most of us had good progress on the Geas of the Kind Ones Accolade. Picked up Jack of Irons and Eochai roaming about, and a few of us got the Tuatha and pumpkin badges.

Went from 29 to 31, and think my Brute died the most of all of us. I keep hoping he'll get tough enough to sit in a spawn for 15 seconds without support (especially when I add a new power or set bonus), but no such luck. He'll get there... eventually. He's more fun to play now that he has a few attack powers and his heal, and Lightning Rod in a level should really take the cake.

Not sure what you all did after I had to go (just been exhausted lately... not sick anymore, but now I'm busy grading a lot), but I hope you had fun.

Yeah, I'm not sure it's worth discussing invention sets until you play the game for awhile and get how the game is set up.

Energy/Energy is a great combo, and pairs nicely with Hurdle and Combat Jumping, so you can leap in to do melee damage, or leap in to cut loose with your AOE powers and knock things down, which is a good way to keep your opponents from shooting back at you.

I don't know what we need that Paragon Wiki doesn't already cover. If you're in to making lists of your characters and such, that should go cross-server anyway.

I'll probably never run low level in the Isles again, unless I somehow begin to really miss Cap Au Diable, the only sub level 20 zone there that I like. But I had two lowbie villains run through there this summer, so I doubt I'll want to do it again soon. I really, really do not like Mercy and Port Oakes. Bloody depressing to run through and most of the stories aren't that amazing. Some of them are fun, but I've played through them a few times and they don't really make up for the locale.

I may run some characters through things in Paragon, as there's still something great about entering Atlas Park or Galaxy for the first time, and I like the Hollows. Having access to more content and team stuff is nice as well, I guess, but you can still run Faultline's last two arcs when you get in from Praetoria, and the Task Forces are there to run when you get back as well.

I'm probably mostly going to do Praetoria, as it's a lot more dynamic and interesting to run through. You can find teams to run through there, but it's also fun and good to do solo. I'm still making characters of all types. I had held off on a Brute until I could have him mostly blueside, but my two other new ones are a Blaster and a Scrapper. The only ATs I don't really care to play are Defenders and MMs, so those are the only ones I avoid. I doubt I'll make any new Controllers, though. They're pretty much team required for me until they get a pet, and I solo enough that this makes things difficult. Doms are the way, there.

Everyone else, I still like and will still play. All the ATs that I play are different in how they run so I can't see replacing one with another. The only reason I'm not going to have more than 2 Controllers is that I mostly like to beat stuff around, and I like to be able to solo when I need to. Doms are more fun for that, but I don't even play my one Dominator that much.