Kyriani

Apparently the lower cape portion of the magic bolero has had its interior and exterior color scheme reversed making it look unsightly and mismatched.

My illusionist indeed went with Phantoms for thematic consistency, my tanker (inspired by wonder woman and super man) has longbow for hers, my demon summoning MM will be going for the storm elementals (unless we get demons) when he unlocks lore, and my mind/psi dom has Seers for his. I try to pick what feels the most thematically appropriate.

If it were up to me I'd personally make the first three powers of EVERY pool selectable as the first choice and add a 5th power... a pretty tempting one in some cases, to the pools that don't have a 5th.

In medicine's case I'd probably add a self stim power that works like a break free with a recharge time. I think something like that would be very popular among the non status protection having crowd and to get that cherry still necessitates picking up a second power in the set

In Fighting's case I'd probably add a passive with minor +end discount +defense debuff resistance +status resistance. Not a huge boon at the top of the tree but it's already such a great pool that it doesn't need something uber at the end. With that said even a minor passive like I suggest would be tempting since it allows those without any debuff resistance to get a little, an end discount can be welcome by many especially those running many toggles, and status resistance, while often shrugged at, is still something that increases survivability. As I said MINOR passive so not big numbers but I bet it would still be a popular choice.

In Presence's case (besides making the fears less expensive and have a bit longer base duration and shorter recharge times) I'd add a 5th tier passive that improves the mag on the fear powers to 3 and grants minor (say 2 to 3) taunt and fear protection.

For Concealment, probably a passive that give minor value boosts to perception, stealth radius, to-hit buffs and to-hit debuff resistance. Not an overly huge power but so much of concealment is useful and having a method to improve the stealth radius can be useful against specific mob types like snipers so it has some temptation value. It also adds another debuff resistance method for those without to acquire. From a thematic point of view its more of an "opposite of concealment" power but I look at it from the point of "if you're already this invested in concealment you should logically be good at countering it".

But that's just me.

The name I probably used up all my good fortune to get was Celeste on the Guardian server. She's my empathy/archery defender inspired by rosa and celes from the final fantasy games

Well it's as I feared... the community has been wrangled into accepting a change to the system instead of simply asking for crafted procs to be made to work identically to store bought procs.

It's really interesting to see the community get railroaded as Synapse cherry picks things to reply to and continues throwing out little adjustments till he strikes the right chord to get enough voices to jump on board. I thought this sort maneuvering and trickery only happened in politics.

The store bought procs were fine as they were. Crafted IO procs could have simply been made to work the same. If there was a need for anything it would have been a floor so quick recharging powers weren't screwed.

Instead people who paid for store bought enhancements because they worked a certain way are having their purchased products "remotely firmwared" into something they would never have paid for with no mention at all of any sort of recourse for return/reimbursement.

At least I'll have the satisfaction of knowing, without a doubt, that sales for SBE's will go down because of the change.

Here's why I believe SI is as expensive as it is:

1) It is CHEAPER than pool power invisibility and BETTER.

2) SI hides you from virtually every mob in the game including snipers. The only things it can't hide you from are things that ignore stealth entirely... which consists of 3 types of mobs: Rularru Watchers, Rikti Drones and Knives of Artemis (who are going extinct it seems thanks to the talons of vengeance).

3) SI let's you get close enough without aggro to any of the mobs who ignore stealth to Deceive them and walk right past them. Deceived mobs do not alert those who cannot see you.

4) You can turn it off. In fact the prohibitive cost indicates you are likely intended to do so. It's not intended to be a "turn on and leave on forever" toggle. If there happens to be a nearby mob tough it out and pop a blue for that one and leave on SI if you have to or simply adjust your position so as not to aggro them.

There's really nothing wrong with the cost. What is wrong is how you seem to want to use it. SI + Deceive when dealing with those 3 mob types lets you bypass ANYTHING. There is NOTHING you can't bypass through use of those two powers. Stealth won't hide you in cramped quarters where you can't help but get close to mobs. At least not without stacking either an IO or super speed. Stacking those two powers would cost you .79 end per sec unenhanced and won't hide you from snipers.

Ultimately you're acting like a monkey crying that his hand is stuck in a jar by a fistful of cookies. The answer to any end issues you may be having is to simply turn off SI once you engage your foes. It's what I did before IO's were a twinkle in the devs eyes.

If all else fails you can still either spring for VIP or an invention license to use IO's and build for recovery. Unlike you my ill/rad can run SI all the time without endurance issues even when running ALL her other toggles (enervating field, radiation infection, hover, temporary invulnerability, combat jumping) Though to be fair I DO turn off SI when I hit EM Pulse because my recovery stops for a lil bit and I am still running my debuff toggles.

I've said it before, I don't mind them making changes. What I do mind is that there is no method to return these SBE's for a refund if we aren't happy with the changes. Give me that method and I will stop complaining about any changes made to the SBE procs.

I'm just curious if its just simply out of the question to leave the SBE procs alone and simply change crafted procs to be the same? If anything add a floor to the proc chance so quick recharging powers never go below the original proc chance? I'd find that to be acceptable.

As the title says, I'd love to see a simple set of tights options identical to our existing tights options (and maybe a version for the "face paint" that is supposed to be tights or masks) but as a "liquid metal" texture. Think terminator movies or for an in game simple reference, the metallic costume bits without the lines/grooves

It's a simple concept but can be used in so many creative ways with the additional patterns we can overlay with it or with other costume pieces! The best part is that most of it can be made by modifying an existing costume option and shouldn't require too much developer time/effort to make!

Welcome back to the "gold fold" goat

And yea that topic about the legacy content was an interesting read.

As a reminder, now that you're a VIP you can play with the signature story arcs so check'em out

But be sure you reinforce your alignment on the character before you do to make sure you are eligible for the alignment merit reward. Basically each SSA gives you the reward table the first time you do it regardless of any timer. So your first time through you'll have seven rewards to claim (if you do all 7 arcs). The reward table consists of:

Alignment Merit (requires level 20+ and having affirmed hero or villain morality)
4x the typical Reward Merits (the typical is 5 but this reward is 20)
1 Astral Merit (requires VIP subscription, level 50, and unlocked Alpha Slot)
10 Incarnate Threads (requires VIP subscription, level 50, and unlocked Alpha Slot)

Each separate reward can be chosen once every 162 hours (6 days, 18 hours[1]), regardless of which episode is being played – all episodes use the same reward timer per reward choice, meaning four reward timers. (It's not exactly seven days to make it easier to obtain the same reward at the same time every week.)

However, each episode also grants one reward choice for free the first time it is ever played, which is outside the reward timer. Please note that the freebie choice is once ever, not once per reward type.

After a character selects their free and weekly reward, that option cannot be selected again until the weekly timer resets.

Basically your first time through could net you 8 alignment merits (assuming lvl 50- 7 one time rewards plus 1 weekly reward). You could of course take the one time rewards as whatever you choose though. I just emphasize the alignment merits because they are useful even at low levels. If you're doing them for the first time with a fresh 50 who has alpha unlocked its a great way to get a head start on incarnate advancement.

I tend to move when necessary depending on the character. If I have cone or knockback attacks I move a fair bit to leverage them to their fullest. Not all of my characters need to move that much though. In fact too much movement can be detrimental. For example my invuln tanker wants to keep her Invincibility saturated. If I move around too much I might reduce the number of mobs within its influence.