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Well, five of the powerset's eight attacks deal about 75% Cold damage, and Whirlpool deals 100% Cold damage. Fire Armor types will be pretty vulnerable to that. Ice Armor, meanwhile, has capped Cold resistance, which already gives them an edge there, but the 1/4 Smashing damage means the attacks have Smashing tags and will be frequently deflected by Ice's S/L defense. So, Fire Armor is considerably more vulnerable to those attacks than Ice Armor is.

Steam Spray and Geyser are the weird ones, but a Steam Spray at least would do most of its damage via burning, so it seems appropriate for Fire to do better against that. Geyser really should suck for both sets (Fire because you're drenched, Ice because it's a geyser of boiling water), but one power out of eight being slightly odd in its thematic interactions with player armor sets is within my personal tolerances.

Also, no, I don't think the name should be changed. Even aside from the opportunities for bugs and confusion, I don't think having an obviously-heat-based power like Steam Spray deal the obviously-heat-based damage type is a situation that actually needs to be corrected, certainly not by changing every fire power in existence.

This is where the GM's judgement call comes into play, but my understanding is that if your name happens to copyrighted in some way that is clearly not linked to your character, you're probably OK.

So, Apple Man, a Plant/Nature controller with a plant-y costume somehow reminiscent of an apple or apple tree or whatever, is probably fine. But Apple Man, an Energy/Energy blaster with a techy costume and the Power On chest emblem, is probably not.

So usually, it's not JUST the name that will get you genericed. The character has to be clearly infringing, not just happen to have a name containing some generic word or phrase that somebody owns when used in a different context.

That's the outline for Attuned enhancements, much like SOs and IOs and etc have their own outlines. That outline does not mean it can be Catalyzed - Catalysts specifically only work on ATOs, as they say in their description. So Overwhelming Force being un-catalyzable is not a bug.
Are you talking about the exemplar effects on enhancements? The game does properly display the adjusted value in each power's totals when you exemplar down. It doesn't display the effect on individual enhancements, but the total on mouseover should be correct.

The enhancements do appear to scale properly with character level - two Overwhelming Force: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance with required levels 42 and 45 respectively both give 21.2% enhancement on the level 50 scrapper I just tested with, which is the correct amount for a level 50 triple. The level requirements are borked, but everything else about the set's Attuned trait seems to work fine.

And, to expand on this, a significant fraction of players - I suspect a large majority, even among those who are knowledgeable and confident enough to provide build advice - aren't competent at building every kind of character. I consider myself a pretty competent builder, and I have firsthand experience with building almost every melee powerset, but I don't know nearly enough about Warshades to provide useful commentary on Warshade builds - I don't even know what a good Warshade build looks like, because I've never been interested in making or looking at one. So I'm totally useless in Warshade threads. The same is true, to varying degrees, for several other ATs as well, or for certain powersets, or etc. At least half of the threads on this forum are of no interest to me; I can't help even if I want to. Meanwhile, the AT subforums still have their fair share of build posts, and I frequent those forums anyway for the discussion, and I don't have to wade through all the builds that I know nothing about to see the ones I can help with.

Is this comparing Barrier Core t4 to Ageless Radial t4? The Detailed Info in-game says Ageless Radial t4 lasts 30/60/120 seconds, not 22.5/45/90.

If this is what you're comparing, shouldn't the table be:
0-10: 106%
11-30: 38%
31-60: 17%
61-120: 22%
?

The powers that do Cold damage can be used to douse fires. The powers that do Fire damage can't. A Geyser that can't extinguish a fire is rather odd, but not particularly more odd than the inability to extinguish a fire with a mighty hand clap or a conjured storm or an impenetrable force field that blocks oxygen. It would be cool if Water Blast powers were specifically tagged to do extra damage to fires, like how EMP powers do extra damage to robots, but attackable fires are vanishingly rare, so it's not a big deal either way.

The market supply would have to come from running the summer event, just as it does now. You might get a different group of players running it a lot, but not less players.

I think you've misunderstood what I'm saying. I'm not playing Urine Blast; why would I do that when I can play Lava Blast or Acid Blast or Ink Blast?

I'm saying, suppose I meet Urine Boy, who claims he is firing urine. I snicker, and ask why he's battling evil with the not-so-awesome power of lemonade. He can't prove I'm wrong. This reverses the polarity of the annoyance.

I agree that anybody doing reportable things will not escape a GM's wrath with some thinly-veiled excuse.
Probably because the term you chose to express that actually means something quite different to a lot of posters.

And the inability to sell drops on the market removes an incentive for players to run the content. I'm not sure why making everybody run the new content many times is particularly convenient for Paragon Studios, anyway.

Since the auction bug is another effect of the same thing that prevents it from being chat-linked, which is just a temporary thing to prevent leaks (try to link Water Blast powers on live right now - the only one that works, as of last week, is Whirlpool), I find it really, really easy to believe that this really was not intentional.