Ideon

I'm not really a fan of the boots and arms for females. They look kind of awkward. Still, by mixing with other parts, the Celestial Armor does look nice. :3

For example, here's my robot sword/shield scrapper.

So now that all four travel power (Super Speed, Super Jump, Flight, Teleport) pools have Tier 1, 2, and 3 selectable at level 4, with Tier 4 and 5 only selectable if you take at least two powers from the three earlier Tiers...

How about doing the same for the other Power Pools? :3 People who want to take Weave will still need to take Boxing or Kick, but it would be beneficial to those who want to take First Aid. People who are taking Tactics will probably take either Assault and/or Maneuvers anyway as well...

Is there anything new regarding power pools? Like, does everyone have access to all travel powers without picking air superiority, combat jumping, etc? How about stuff like First Aid and Tough/Weave? :3

So now that the Circle of Thorns have hired/threatened Icon and the Facemaker to make new togs for them, how about updating Diviner Maros? He's still wearing his skirt robes and feeling a tad left out.

So we have Longbow AND Arachnos fighting off the Shivans in the tutorial. Where's the Crey-sponsored supergroup Paragon Protectors to help aid in the fight? Background lore repeatedly suggests they have a public front as a superhero group, but in the game itself, we pretty much only see them harassing civilians or guarding Crey stuff or something. Heck, they even have the word "Paragon" in their names, and Paragon is used in tons of stuff these days, like the Paragon shop, the Paragon points...

So for the purposes of the tutorial (and for Atlas, Kings, and Steel), could we have level-restricted-by-zone Paragon Protectors actually fighting crime, even if we already know they turn out to be evil when we get to Brickstown? It would mesh better with the lore of the Paragon Protectors.

What did I buy...

- Beam Rifle power set (looks decent at the moment, love the giant energy rifle)
- School backpack (haha, it works for military-themed characters!)
- Barbarian costume pack (finally thigh high boots without giant toes! And fur option!)

Decided I wanted to buy some more stuff, so brought 4000 points, which just happened to raise me to Tier 9 VIP... so I got the three Celestial sets from there...

- 5 more character slots (because I pretty much only play on Union)
- 10 extra enhancement slot storage accountwide (each character can now hold 20 enhancements at a time!)

I'd like to keep Galaxy City in the train station, but with it obviously locked out and marked as such so people can waste their time attempting to get in and crying out in broadcast that they can't get in, haha.

Did you know before Issue 5, aggro caps were non-existent? That's right, you'd have some (okay, a lot) unscrupulous heroes who herd the ENTIRE map of enemies in a 8-man team into one spot and burn them to death, because AoE caps did not exist either. :3

Will Doppelganger tech for Illusion Control ever be available for Phantom Army/Phantasm, allowing an army of your current selected costume (but restrict it to two palette colours as usual)?

Ill/rad rocks when fighting Siege and Nightstar though - Phantom Army isn't affected by the three-count hold. In one run, the team I was in didn't have a tanker or brute assigned, so I basically tanked Siege with PA non-stop (thank god for perma-PA, haha) while team 2 took out mobs and team 3 fought Nightstar. Phantasm is lousy on Siege though due to his wonky MUST-MELEE-EVEN-THOUGH-I-HAVE-NO-MELEE-ATTACKS AI, so try to save that for making him cast his Decoy. I think it was because I tanked, I earnt a Very Rare reward table roll, haha.

As for the mental patients, ugh, I struggle on that too. I use Flash/EM Pulse/Lingering Radiation on the minions to try to slow them down at least. I think Spectral Terror works - but if it's already out, it can only do single target fears, which may not help much if there's a bunch of them together, and if casting, by the time it appears, it might be too late as they've run further ahead. For the lieutenants, I try to at least attach toggles onto them so any damage dealers (or me, I guess, haha) can take them down faster.

PA won't hold their attention at all. I guess the brainwashed guys' urge to run to the exit overrules everything. PA can do damage though, especially to lieutenants (as long as they're not chasing). You might want to stay on the grass to the side of the pathways to avoid being confused (and having all your pets turn on you, haha).

Lore pets might be an option if the majority of players have them, but that might be wishful thinking.

I've recently got both incarnate shifts on my ill/rad, so hoping it will make some difference. People new to the BAF will be either level 50 or 51, so the running lieutenants are +3 or +4, which makes a bit of level difference, especially since they can't be mezzed.

Put the contact on the red side of Pocket D where War Witch would be if it was blue side.

Who would it be though?

I should mention the team defeating the reinforcement mobs will be the only ones getting incarnate xp for the next 5-10 minutes while the other two teams are fighting the AVs, which may be considered a tad unfair, with everyone wanting to be on the mobs team, haha.

(Another reason why during a trial, the entire league should count as one whole team for purposes of EXP, but oh well)

One way to solve this is to have one person from each AV team join the mobs team, with the mobs team assigning two of their members to help the AV teams so everyone gets incarnate xp during the AV bosses. Granted, it might not be much depending on the person assigned to help the mob team (depending on their AT), but it's better than nothing.

They used to sell the alpha and omega costumes and emotes as a separate pack... but I can't see it anymore, how odd. o_O

My MA/Regen scrapper has had a somewhat tough fight up to level 41. She does fine solo or small teams, but in larger teams (6-8), suddenly her fragileness shows. I've gone red-side to pick up Leviathan Mastery, and took up Water Sprout and Hibernate for added survivability, hehe.

Regarding Dragon's Tail low damage - try using Eagle's Claw before using Dragon's Tail - the new "Eagle Claw's critical damage" proc should get Dragon's Tail to crit almost every time. :3