Obscure Blade

Yes it would, since Dark Control is getting Fearsome Stare. If Dark Control and Dark Affinity both had Fearsome Stare the stacked fear and -tohit would have been ridiculous.

Ha, good one. Or some monkey/homunculus. Or have a fish swimming around inside the tank.

*Waves hand* That was me. I've also suggested a Shield that's a Hellion or Skull tied to your arm.

Hopefully Grav; people have been calling for it to be fixed for a very long time.

It wasn't nerfed, it was rebalanced. Damage was lowered for PSW, increased for everything else, and base damage for Dominators in general was increased. It isn't 38 levels of rotten damage anymore.

So to everyone using Hero Skin, you'll be "The Man With No Name"? You'll need to get an Eastwood avatar...

According to Von Krieger's write-up of today's talk, yes it keeps Dark Servant.

Um, Darkness Manipulation? Just this last Issue?

Barbarian Woman: "It is sorcery most foul!! As soon as I arrived in this world, my...chest got bigger and my boots grew these spiky...things!"

But if the other Titan weapons are an indication, there'll be someone tied to it and screaming as you beat your enemies down with it. So it's all good.

Well, for the NPCs I understand that the original reason was that CoH beta testers were asked if they wanted a greater variety of enemies, or male and female models for the same enemies; the former was chosen. I agree they should have added more females since then though.

You rescue a female cop in the first Loyalist: Power story arc. Her bio mentions that there are very few female cops in Praetoria.

Conserving resources I understand; male and female variations on the same critter take about as many resources and making two separate critters. So sometimes they add some gender variety while saving resources by doing both at once and making the different members of a faction different genders. Like Carnies with Strong Men; there's no Strong Women, nor any Ringmasters.

Really?

Unrealistic? Yes. But heels are all over comics. And with some characters they aren't even an especially bad idea; if she fights by flying around and blasting, it doesn't matter if a superheroine wears heels, or even if she has legs at all.

I can't stand solo tanks, their damage is way too low for my taste. And I disagree with you about those choices being team oriented, they are all good soloers.

The sooner the better. Not only is kb fun, but the bug has made a number of my characters noticeably flimsier.

Considering that they are the central power of the set that would ruin Illusion. The anger of the playerbase would be completely justified. And what is the point of proliferating a set to Dominators and making it unplayable in the process?

"Look! Snacks!"

While the rest of your arguments are sound, you apparently missed that they changed Vigilance a while back so it doesn't work that way anymore. Instead it boosts Defender damage in inverse relation to team size, with the largest boost solo.

Also, Brute Fury boosts damage auras, while Scrappers don't get Criticals for auras.

I don't think so (and certainly hope not), they've said that they intend to proliferate everything reasonable.

Possible; it would be nice if they actually said so.

I don't know but I'm rather tired of waiting; I expected it to be proliferated long ago. Especially since it's such an obvious and long desired target for proliferation.

The opposite is more likely true; "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and all that. Remaining silent is hardly likely to increase your chance of getting what you want after all.

Nah, they all work in Marketing.

PSW was as far as I know all that got "nerfed" when the set was rebalanced; and in fact "fixed" would be a better term since PSW was badly bugged. The devs knew it too; it's just that if they'd fixed PSW and left the rest of the set alone it would have been near unplayable. So they left it alone until Castle had the time to rebalance the whole set as part of the general Dominator makeover.

Most of the set was in fact buffed, and is far more playable pre-PSW than it was. I notice that DarkCurrent didn't mention Telekinetic Thrust as a melee attack; that was buffed from being a minimal damage knockback attack into a strong melee attack. It also adds some smashing damage; useful against all those psi-resistant bots you'll run into.

I find Umbral Torrent an excellent power that greatly enhances the survivability of my two Dark/ Blasters. And while there are plenty of knockback haters, there are also plenty of people who like it. Especially guaranteed knockback like Umbral Torrent has.