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... well, that causes some minor problems for my arc in the 30s about stealing from the Family. Yay. Guess it's time for me to unpublish until it's fixed.

The final mission of my arc... no longer spawns enemies. I'm not sure when this happened, but I suspect it was with i15, since I played it a couple of weeks before then and it was fine. The enemy group on it is Family (the 5-40 set), the map is CoV Office 5, and the mission pacing is Flat. All of this currently checks out as A-OK by the editor... but if you go in, that map is entirely empty except for the glowies and hostage. I tried re-publishing it to no avail. I know mid-level Family had some level problems for heroes, but now it's not spawning at all even for my villains.

Any ideas on why this is happening or how to fix it?

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Brutes: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Corruptor: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Dominator: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Mastermind: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Stalker: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries

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Oh, and THIS. To keep it fair, I guess heroes can get patron pools too. They can learn to cough up furballs as a ranged attack, courtesy of Mynx.

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And that is less silly than throwing freaking *ghost sharks* at enemies how?

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Exactly my point.

What I'm suddenly curious about is the correlations between ATs... It looks to me like some people tend to roll along fairly clear lines, like preferring range, melee, damage dealing, buffing/debuffing, or team-based ATs.

Now cross-reference with this!

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Brutes: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Corruptor: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Dominator: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Mastermind: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries
Stalker: New epics that are actually thematic to primaries/secondaries

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Oh, and THIS. To keep it fair, I guess heroes can get patron pools too. They can learn to cough up furballs as a ranged attack, courtesy of Mynx.

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/Rad, /Thermal, /Cold, and /Sonic MMs (one of those four, I don't expect. The others, I expect to see eventually.)

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Ummm....MMs ARE getting Thermal in i16. Most likely to thematically pair with Demon Summoning, which is reputed to be fire-based.

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Then I am both pleasantly surprised and forgetful!

Here we go.

Defender 5
Dominator 4
Blaster 3
Corruptor 3
Scrapper 3
Brute 2
Fortunata 1
Mastermind 1
Stalker 1
Tanker 1

This is just currently existing characters, so it's probably a little skewed toward the ATs I enjoy. I solely play on Virtue, roll a new character every week or so (every day for the first year or two), and have few qualms about deleting characters, so I've deleted zillions. If you count the ones I've taken to 30+ before deleting, I think it looks more like...

Defender 8
Mastermind 6
Dominator 5
Blaster 5
Corruptor 5
Scrapper 5
Brute 4
Controller 3
Stalker 2
Tanker 2
Warshade 2
Fortunata 1
Crab Spider 1

... if you count everything I've gotten to, say, level 5 or 10, most of these probably approach 100.

1. Revamping old content, especially pre-i6 heroside stuff. This includes TFs. Ideally, I'd like to see heroside move toward villainside's focus on arcs over standalone missions and missions in the same zone above gallivanting around the world, but I know there are some people who prefer the travel.

2. The ability to color the body separate from clothing, so that characters could have skin markings and tattoos with any outfit.

Giving hazard zones to villains used to be my #2, but with the spawning changes in i16, I'll be able to get big enough groups of enemies solo.

Thermal/Fire Defenders
Psi/ Corruptors (only if they don't get that thing Blasters call a psi primary)
/Rad, /Cold, and /Sonic MMs (one of those three, I don't expect. The others, I expect to see eventually.)
/Poison Corruptors
Stone/ Stalkers. BECAUSE OF ALL THE AWESOME. (sneaksneaksneak... WHOMPF)

Archery/Trick Arrow Corruptor used to be my #1, but... i16!

Edited to remove stuff we're getting in i16.

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Depending on just how far they are rp'ing the scenario you could just treat it as some outrageous claim they are making and rp the appropriate level of skepticism... If they are RP'ing it such that the "named character" is actually in the room agreeing about the relationship then it gets a bit tougher.

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Pretty much this. Anything a character says in RP is just that, something they say. I could walk around in real life telling everybody I know that I'm the illegitimate offspring of Stalin and Neil Armstrong, but I doubt any of them would really believe me.

Of course, the fact that it's usually hard to do that without upsetting the other player means that it's rarely an option unless you don't care what the person in question thinks. Which is kind of sad, since I've always wanted to play a really compulsive liar whose fibs are on a Baron Munchausen level. About the only thing keeping me from doing so is the knowledge that I'd quickly get run out of town by people who would take everything she said seriously.

I don't know the numbers offhand, but more than half of my 50s are Defenders, so I'm gonna take a wild guess...

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I would like this set:

1 - Seismic Smash (Standard Seismic Smash)
2 - Strong Seismic Smash (Seismic Smash x5 in power)
4 - Flurry of Seismic Smash (a chain of seismic smashes in a cone)
10 - Rock Rage (Like Rage and Granite Armor put together but no -damage debuff)
16 - Earth's Embrace
20 - Super Seismic Smash (Targeted Aoe of Seismic Smash)
28 - Rock Armor
35 - Earth Shattering Seismic Smash (1 hit kill to anything Seismic Smash, kinda like a non aoe boom)
38 - Animate Stone

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Needs more Seismic Smash.

Rad/Rad Defender and Cold/Ice Defender - Both good swiss army knives.
Earth/Fire Dominator - Plays like the offspring of a controller and a brute.

Pff, the game would be flooded with Lost characters within days. You may think that sounds interesting, but imagine the smell.

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No "Eventually" about it, I was play testing it after the first round of proliferation and have been waiting anxiously till I can build one on the live servers. Never played a more "tankish" feeling dominator, despite it having no armors.

Some very good guesses here on the powers, but Earth Assault will be a very melee heavy set. Also opted for the regular Hurl boulder Animation, since the Propel Boulder animation uses the full 3.5 second long propel animation. Now I may be a huge fan of propel for my grav doms/Trollers, but the thought of having 2 versions of it didn't seem too fun.


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"Tankish" ? It sounds like it has SOMETHING that makes it tougher than normal . . .

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Stone melee is already tank-y as is... it's basically an armor and attack set all in one, thanks to all the mezzes and knockdowns. If even some of those are kept around from the Brute version, I can see it having that feeling.

I personally would've liked a new primary more, but I quite love the idea of /stone for doms, so I'm not complaining.

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Pain Domination is entirely based on mental control. You don't actually 'heal' anyone, you just make them ignore any pain they might be feeling.

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"You didn't need that arm anyway."

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I do the mayhem side missions for the badges which lead to an accolade. That's a pretty big "real reason" to do the side missions.

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That's only villainside.

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Except not.

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Disagree with Draeth - invisible armors are precisely why I want this system in the first place. It would be nice to see a renaissance of sets with notoriously ugly armors. Cold Domination comes first to mind.

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Am I the single person in the game who likes ice armors?

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Experienced, good, inventive, or crazy players (take your pick) can go beyond these roles with impunity. The most important things any AT brings to the team is that they contribute towards the enemies' defeat, and that they do not contribute to the defeat of the team.

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..and even the second part can be ignored and still a team c an reap great success.

[/ QUOTE ] Agreed. On the rare occasion that I team and it's a steam roller, I will do my best to pull mobs on top of us until we wipe. Not to grief people, but to stress the team. Basically if I cannot pull enough mobs to make us teamwipe then either the team [censored] rocks or the map/spawn placement sucks.

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I now need to team with you and/or Smurphy at some point. It'd be nice to get a team that considers death a sign that you're actually fighting something interesting instead of something to be avoided at all costs.

Hopefully i16 will let the virtual team slider go above 8 for 16-man spawn suicide squads.

Beat me to it.

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If you're a defender, buff your teammates and then kill things.

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My dark/ and TA/ defenders take exception to this!

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Hola amigo!

Todos los ATs should do lo que necesitan para not die y have fun. Si los jugadores no estan having fun, ningun de los ATs estan doing their jobs.

Adios!

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Es un post muy bueno.

This is why I always list my Luck Charms for 1,999,999,999.

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The pyromaniac in me loves this idea.

Lets expand it to every zone, especially Atlas.

i17: Everything is on FIRE!!!1!!

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/signed!