MentalMaden

Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum

Incarnate system full-blown--- I could see adding 2-3 "levels" at once, but since posi said their ultimate goal is to add something incarnate to all future issues, I wouldn't expect more.

The coming storm won't be an invasion from Praetoria. That wouldn't fit with the broad allusions we've heard since. The "Coming Storm" that is alluded to seems to be affecting the whole multiverse... seems to be akin to things like the "infinite earths" DC crisis. My guess is we're already seeing some of the initial effects of the storm ever since dark mirror introduced our dopplegangers.


Since this is a thread for baseless conjecture, here's mine for the "coming storm":

Whoever sets things in motion (a nemesis plot?) he may be inspired by Recluse's Victory and/or Project Destiny. In those, Recluse isn't satisfied with knowing that he wins on some other dimension, he want to bind that dimension to this one, bringing his victory here... colliding those dimensions and all their occupants together.

The difference here, though, is this is a "storm" of dimensions colliding into themselves... coalescing with primal earth. It will set off wars and struggles of epic proportion as reality itself twists and cracks to make room for conflicting histories and the myriad possibilities whittling down to one true reality. Some of our doppleganger encounters are from the earliest incidences... the worlds closet to our own starting to merge over... we're not "merged" with them due to our experineces in sidestepping outside the timestream / dimension hopping. Things will only grow more dangerous as the storm proceeds. Incarnates... spread across all these issues... will deal with these cosmic metaspace collisions. We're talking Issues 20, 21, 22+

After the multiverse crashes, one world will emerge. Mender Silos is trying to set things in motion to guarantee his desired outcome. Our mystery letter-writer (Tyrant?) has his own objectives. Their goal is to influence what this world will be- perhaps to be the gods that make the next world, whether benevolent or in malice. We fight for or against these parties to save what we hold dear or grasp at the power we want for ourselves... battling to the very last moment of existence... when all goes white.

At that point, a new city will emerge. Its past and present will be crafted from the remnants of the once-divided universes, and people will remember it as if it had always been that way... because it has. Parts will resemble Praetoria, Paragon, and even the Rogue Isles (all ultramoded) and its inhabitants will be us... and not. This begins CoH's equivalent of DC's "One Year Later" and Marvel's "Heroes Reborn"-- a reimagining of our world and the heroes within it. A universe that's not quite like the one we see as afterimages as we dream of battles that we don't really remember participating in.

It'll be a new city... and world... that's in desperate need of heroes, again. The City of Heroes will be over. Welcome to City of Heroes 2.0.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Cept for that part where all of the characters were ripoffs of existing characters.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

Like Biospark and MM, I use Mass Hypnosis far more often as a set-up Containment for Terrify power than as a general control power. But you have to be fast or the team will mess it up.

One way to do it is to communicate to the team what you are doing. An easy way to do that is set up a series of macros that explain your strategy . . . but remember, just because you want to play a particular way, that doesn't mean the rest of the team wants to play that way. Be polite and explain your strategy as a suggestion, not as a "Do it this way!"

Originally Posted by firespray

I believe I'm detecting trace amounts of sarcasm here.

Originally Posted by beyeajus

I think he'd like one too, I have a guide for one in my sig if you care to take a gander, STFSGT.

Originally Posted by Maxwell

Why are you so obsessed with small amounts of single target damage attacks? Ill/therm powers are AOEcentric - why waste the time on doing at most 200hp STattacks?

Originally Posted by timetwister

Also, it creates a fair amount of aggro, how can i mitigate it?

Triple slot health? Manuevers? Combat jump? Should i take acrobatics also?