Lazarillo

Yup, that's the way it was explained back in beta.

I like the concept, but the presentation's a little too..."art-y" for me.

Demo video: 320 points in the Paragon Store.

You play black/blue, Z? A man after my own heart...

I was not at all aware of Mr. Robinson or his story, but what an amazing one it was! It's a strange feeling, yesterday, there was no "Jerry Robinson" that I knew of, and today, there is, and it's already a void. I'm very curious now about his body of work, but it's a shame that it took his passing for me to learn of it.

1. You start with no Momentum. Walk up to an enemy, attack it, and if your attack hits, you now have Momentum. For the next five seconds or so, all your attacks will be ultra fast. Momentum from attacks does not stack, so regardless of whatever other powers you use, after that five second period, you will have no Momentum again. Rinse. Repeat.

2. Using Build Momentum gives you ten seconds of Momentum in addition to a damage buff. This ten seconds replaces any existing Momentum you have, but again, does not stack, so ten seconds after using Build Momentum, you will have no Momentum.

3. Follow Through and Whirling Smash can only be used when you have Momentum, so you cannot use them to gain Momentum. However, there is no "cost" to using them once you have Momentum. They will not eliminate your ability to continue using fast attacks until your five/ten second period of Momentum expires normally.

4. Bear in mind that missing with your initial attack, as described in point 1, will result in no Momentum. You must hit.

5. Momentum is one of those words that sounds funny when you use it repeatedly.

Green seems to be the standard for buff text, so yeah, that'd be nice. Personally, I think Street Justice should get the same with its combo levels as well.

To my understanding, O2 Boost and Gale were originally flipped around, but because, as mentioned above, O2 Boost cannot be used without a teammate, and not all Controllers have pets, they were switched so that Controllers had a power that could always be potentially used.

I could, however, see it getting switched for Masterminds, since the pet-based nature of the set means a single-target heal will always be useful, similar to how Poison has one as it's tier-1 power. And for what it's worth, bringing things full circle, I recall that when the set was proliferated, people were citing Gale specifically as a reason that Corruptors and Controllers should have Alkaloid and Envenom switched.

I could at least see a Pistols APP hypothetically being added for melee types, but that's about it. Personally, I still think the old point-blank pistol Scrapper idea isn't a bad one, though I know the Devs don't really have that as part of their own vision.

Following up on the "Bane Spiders" idea, going a Huntsman path on an Arachnos Soldier, using the initial primary powers but the Bane Spider secondary powers would be very effective.

Things I'd like to see for Energy Melee. Not necessarily all of them, but I think even if it got 2/3, it'd make the set a bit more viable:

1. A speed up on the top tier hits. Not as fast as it used to be, necessarily, but not as slow as it is now. Speed up Total Focus and Energy Transfer (preferably changing Total Focus' animation in the process), and increase the self-damage on Energy Transfer to compensate.

2. Buff Stun. Make it much faster so that you could knock a target right out without having to wait, or increase the magnitude, or both.

3. Add small-area splash damage to Whirling Hands, keeping it fairly weak and close-ranged at its base but making it much more devastating if you had a group tightly bunched. Would probably need an increase to Endurance/Recharge to compensate, though.

As far as 1 and 2 go, I think the ideal would be to reorder the current animations, so we basically got:

• Energy Punch - Change it to the Smite animation.
• Barrage - No change.
• Bone Smasher - No change.
• Stun - Change to the current Energy Punch animation.
• Total Focus - Change to the current Energy Transfer animation.
• Energy Transfer - Change to the current Stun animation.

Based on the teaser from last week, I expected a little more in terms of powers updates than "...and Gravity Control, too." Granted, the change to Gravity Control does sound pretty nice. It doesn't really offer a big fix to the powers that are below the curve, but it makes it better at what it already does, so suppose that's good enough for me.

I haven't used it extensively, but I would imagine that large amount of AoEs would be good for attracting plenty of attention, and that the animations, with Momentum, being pretty fast, would allow for Fury to spike pretty easily. The slow recharge values might hurt it at low levels, but no moreso, I'd imagine, than, say, War Mace.

I don't ever use the help-related titles, but I'll generally do my best to be helpful and answer people's questions in-game anyway. Similarly, I don't particularly take the titles seriously, and most people I know who use them only do it to get the colored name, so I never bother going out of my way to give extra help to a "Help Me!" unless they ask.

That said, I think if someone is walking around with a big neon sign (okay, small neon sign) that says "Helper" over their head, they should consider the implications of such.

You're not supposed to add new stuff for Incarnates to do on the same day you add a new powerset. Now I don't know what to play with first.