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If it's exclusively for RP reasons, I'd prefer the game not specify or even suggest a weight. To be remotely realistic or useful it would have to specify a wide range of weights, anyway, before even considering the ways in which supers can break that mold.

I totally agree, Khasei. Nevertheless, that's how it's looking right now.

The patch notes describe the change poorly: really, what changed is that HOs will no longer enhance power attributes unless the power is flagged to accept that kind of enhancement. Mind Link doesn't (directly) accept recharge enhancements, so the +recharge portion of Membranes doesn't work.

We aren't guessing about this, or trying to interpret it from the patch notes. You can copy a Widow over to beta and see yourself: Membranes in Mind Link do not enhance its recharge.

It was talked about in... seems like every discussion of Staff Fighting since its announcement, but maybe my memory is exaggerating that. It was definitely mentioned more than once, and repeated a lot by players in various threads, and has generally been known for quite some time. Not that I can fault anyone for not knowing every detail of the upcoming issue, especially if they haven't been following things closely.

The Producer's Letter talks about the releases planned for March, and says nothing of Staff Fighting. That's not proof it will be April or later, but it seems strongly implied.

SS isn't actually terribly noteworthy by itself. It's the way Rage boosts damage auras, Burn, and epic attacks that puts it over the top, mostly. So yes, there's lots of other valid options, especially if you're not pairing with /Fire.

Fiery Melee is a solid set. It doesn't have control or mitigation, but FSC is a very strong AoE (comparable to Footstomp + Rage, other than its radius), and it has good single-target attacks (better than SS, if you don't include Burn/Gloom), and fire damage is generally less resisted than smashing.

It doesn't HAVE to have a 100% proc chance to be worth using. It's still quite good with a 50% or 70% chance or whatever.

Well said.

Welcome back!

Tips are the basis of the alignment system. Snow Globe has written a guide on the subject, but in short, these days there are 4 alignments: Hero, Vigilante, Villain, and Rogue. Hero and Villain should be self-explanatory; Vigilante and Rogue are the "shades of grey" alignments in between, and can travel to both hero and villain zones (Vigilantes are outside-the-law types, like the Punisher, and Rogues are just in it for the money, whether that means hurting or helping people). However, contacts still treat Vigilantes as heroes and Rogues as villains, so they can't do missions for non-TF contacts on the opposite side, but they can do tips, newspapers/radios, and TF/SFs. Tip missions allow you to change alignment, or to reaffirm your current alignment (and gain bonuses for doing so).

Tips are separate from the whole Incarnate thing. Incarnate powers can be earned by level 50 characters, and Dispari has also written an excellent guide on the topic. Basically, you unlock a slot, then you obtain incarnate components and use them to craft a power for that slot. Each slot does different things - Alpha gives passive enhancement bonuses, Judgement is a massive AoE attack, Lore summons pets, Interface attaches a debuff or DoT to your attacks, and Destiny is a team buff.

That should give you some reading material to get you started. All this, plus all the other stuff that's been added in the last 3 years, not to mention all the changes with F2P just recently, can be quite overwhelming to take in all at once, so don't hesitate to ask any other questions that come up.

Is this a setting with widespread supernatural, superhuman, super-tech, or otherwise extranormal stuff? It doesn't sound like this is set in CoH specifically, but being able to call in, say, a psychic could dramatically alter how this would be handled. Or does this story take place in basically the real world?

Some players may persist in their "lolstalker" attitudes. The difference is, you will easily be able to deflate such comments with 600+ point crits on command.

Caveat emptor. Any purchase always has a risk of losing its value the next day, and if they're spending billions on something and haven't done even a bit of research, it's their own fault.

I mean, it would different if you reassured them "This item will definitely always be at least as valuable as it is now". That would just be lying.

Yes, it was changed just earlier today. You can see that Freitag edited it a few hours ago.

Pylons have 87% debuff resistance, though, so I don't think that's it.

Well, I'll try to get on a Lambda and screenshot it sometime. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, or maybe it's a graphics setting thing, or just not as obvious as I think it is.

Well, for Tanker Elec Armor, the +resist from Cardiac made capped S/L resist obtainable. But you can get that pretty easily now anyway, with the ATO proc.

Those Vigilante -> Villain missions (and the Rogue -> Hero missions) were added later, actually. When the alignment system first came out, your disappointment was justified.

But yes, they're cool missions You kinda slowly lose sight of the point of right and wrong and descend into madness.