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It the way game design works, so the Ire has to be weathered.

You add a new top-tier of content, and a new top-tier of rewards. You need to do it that way or no one will play the new content and the devs are wasting their time making it. When you add the next level of top-tier content you can open up the old top tier of rewards to be earned in different ways. Hopefully people have learned the last lot of new content by now, so the will continue to play it, as it is no longer perceived to be difficult.

So, every time a new Incarnate slot is added to the game, you will have to do the new content to earn it. This state will last until the next new incarnate slot is added.

Eh, no. It would never be allowed to go live in that state.

You CANNOT advertise a power as "buffs healing" and then have a whole bunch of healing powers which are completely unaffected.

Issue 24 has been described by the devs as "fix everything". So if it doesn't get fixed in issue 24, it will never get fixed at all.

If they can't fix that, they will simply change Field Medic, either the way it functions, or into a completely different power. The cottage rule doesn't apply until a power goes live. We have seen MASSIVE changes to powers on the beta server, there is no reason to assume the pool changes are anything like set in stone.

Neither can I. Much easier to change the new power.

If it had a very short duration, it could be useful as a toggle on a ranged attacker. Makes mobs move away, but only a short distance.

The rumoured Sorcery is rumoured to have a fairly random selection of different types of power.

Nothing at the moment. I do just fine thanks. I was just putting in the proviso in the event of power creep.

One of the nice things about Energy Melee is it DOESN'T have any gimmicky mechanics that force you to just use the powers from the set, or weapons with redraw. This makes it every flexible, good for mix-and-matching with Pool/APP/PPP attacks, and well placed to take advantage of the upcoming power pool additions.


(if you must mess with something, mess with Total Focus AND LEAVE ET ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

It really doesn't matter. Concept wise, Kinetic Melee and Electric Melee cover pretty much the same ground, so no one "needs" it. It can be allowed to fall into semi-retirement, just kept-up-to-date enough for the people like me who have been playing it for many years remain competitive. And those of us who have been playing it for a long time - we are used to it and don't want to be tinkered with.


Ice melee is the important one, because that is an important concept that doesn't have an appropriate substitute.

There will be something in issue 24, but it looks like that is still some way off. It won't be a "solo path" though. That won't come until after the next incarnate slots are unlocked.

You are entitled to your opinion. But a burly oaf in a wrestler costume with a stupid accent and a Xantos gambit was never what I would consider a good villain.

"Knightfall" was a very long way from the best written Batman stories.

Taunt (and similar abilities) exist in MMOs because the technology cannot cope with "I hurl myself into the path of the rocket to save the president" which is the sort of thing that happens in PnP RPGs. It is an abstraction designed to represent the act of interposing your body between an attacker and it's original target, and is no more "real" than the yellow targets circling your body when you have a to-hit buff, or the numbers that float up into the air. As an abstract representation of a game mechanic, what it actually looks like is irrelevant, and potentially intrusive.

Funny you should mention that. There have been some hints that Spines is being proliferated to Brutes and Tankers in issue 24. Given that the devs like to spread stuff fairly evenly across the AT, Ice Melee would seem like a probable option for Stalkers and Scrappers. The only reason Stalkers didn't get it with Ice Armor was they had no time allocated to create an Assassin Strike animation for it. If that happens, it's likely to get "looked at" at the same time.

Which begs the question: what are the other ATs getting?

How would you do Wind Blast that wouldn't be hated by every other player because of the vast amounts of knockback that would go with it?

Or maybe it's just Alfred's imagination.

He either expected to die, or to stage his own death. Either way, Batman likes to be prepared.

Bale will do anything if you give him enough money.

Bane as originally depicted in "Knightfall" also qualifies as a "worse option".

Nope, they all still have their cost.

The second law of thermodynamics: There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I am.

And I can think of several situations that might cause a fusion reactor to detonate it's remaining fuel.

The idea that fusion offers a "safe and clean" alternative to fission is this: propaganda and wishful thinking. Everything has a cost. The only safe and clean alternative is to use less energy.

But this is a movie. Narrative is all powerful. If the plot says it explodes, it explodes (just like car petrol tanks).

Part of developing new content is creating new tactical challenges to continually test players and develop their skills.

Or, to put it another way, the masterminds are learning - why aren't you?

Indeed. Self damage is trivial. ET is a good power, not only because of high damage, but also low endurance cost. Really, there are power sets that are much more in need of looking at (like Ice melee).

Given how horrible some of the suggestions are in this thread, I would much, much rather the devs left Energy Melee alone.

When nothing critical is affected, it goes to the bottom of the priority heap. But when it prevents a new power working, it jumps to the top.

It may be it's already fixed in issue 24, and a developer does actually know what he is talking about!

Otherwise, if fixing isn't possible, then you simply have to change the new power to work in a different way.

One way or another, by the time issue 24 hits live, this power will either buff all self heals, buff NO self heals (included in the description), or be changed for a different power.

It's a bug when the description of the power says it does something that it doesn't do. So, if it's description says it buffs healing, without giving a list or explanation for the powers it doesn't work on, it's bugged.

Power Boost is a bit vague about exactly which powers it buffs, and therefore it doesn't really matter that it's a bit hit and miss. If it was called "Defence Boost" and didn't buff cold domination powers, it would be bugged.

You have to assume that players don't read the forums, just the power descriptions, and will take it specifically to buff a self heal with a res component. They will, quite correctly, report a bug if it fails to work.

This is not beyond the wit of man to fix. If they really can't separate out buffing heal and resistance, then they will just have to change the way the power works all together. For example they could have it work as a heal enhancement like an Alpha.