Patient_V

With regard to [Revival].

[Revival] in its current incarnation is terrible: it's unoriginal, underwhelming, and overpriced. Three suggestions to make a market rez desirable for players.

1. Lower the market rez price to a point where players don’t flinch (or outright laugh) when they look at the power. Like inspirations, players shouldn’t think twice about popping a market rez. 10 points per rez, and lower if the rez is purchased in a quantity. If you can get to a price point where players start to prefer using a market rez over an Awaken inspiration, you’ve won a huge battle.

2. The market rez power should remove all debt from the character. Players at the cap and power levelers won’t care, but it will be a nice little bonus for those in the process of leveling.

3. Make self rezzes fun to use by making different kinds of rezzes. This is huge. CoH’s calling card has always been customization, and market powers should be designed around that fact. Maybe one self rez adds inspiration buffs to the player (Return to Battle), one rez does a PBAoE attack + limited invincibility (Rise of the Phoenix), one rez adds buffs to the player’s teammates (Nemesis Vengeance), one rez can also rez teammates (Howling Twilight), one gives the player a Speed Boost-type buff, one gives a small amount of patrol XP, and so on. Put your thinking caps on - none of these theoretical powers is wildly unbalanced or approaches the 'pay to win' category, and they all add a much-needed "Oh, cool!" effect to the game.

Suggestions for other consumables in the market? Make knockoff versions of key powers from regular power sets.

Instant Healing
Fortitude
Lingering Radiation
Sleet
Strength of Will
Tar Patch
Lightning Storm

Perishable items are fluff in a game that already has amazing quality of life for subscribers and free accounts alike. If you want people to spend money on perishables, price those items accordingly - in other words, a player should never think "Holy smokes, every Warwolf costs me $.16!"

If it's not Manticore I'm going to Brickstown and killing him myself.

Easy unrooting without resorting to a vet or temp power is very nice. If you're terrible at pushing buttons or opposed to working a little harder, though, then yes, it will have a negative impact on your character.

Alignment changes and the Alpha slot + Tin Mage/Apex were all-around terrific ideas, but Praetoria has always been lame and the trial-centric incarnate grind has sent me on a four-month hiatus that won't be ending anytime soon.

A topic asking for sweeping generalizations? Can do!

Masterminds
Second rate (de)buffers whose theoretically solid offense gets torpedoed by bad pets (namely, bad pet AI). Good players work around it for the most part, but 99% of the time those players would be better off playing something else.

Stalkers
Joke AT. Enjoy your middling single-target DPS in an AoE-focused game. Roll a scrapper the next time you want melee damage without aggro control.

Kheldians
Jacks-of-no-trades, masters-of-terribleness. Fun to play, but unfortunately I can't separate that fact from the abysmal performance (denial isn't a river, Warshades).

Defenders that aren't Sonic Blast
-20% res per blast is too good to pass up. I can tolerate an argument for Psy, Dark, or DP (maybe), but everything else is awful by comparison.

Assault Rifle
Unless it's your badger, you shouldn't be playing this. If it is your badger, you have my condolences.

Devices
I retired mine when I stopped PvPing in I8. Playing one at this point is pretty much indefensible.

Shield Defense
You made SR less enjoyable. I hate your True Grit, I hate your Shield Charge, I hate your One With the Shield, and good glory, I hate your Against All Odds. That you look absolutely ridiculous with your stupid little shield in a city of heroes is my only consolation.

For melee characters, a fellow playing a BS/Regen named Kariss. He helped me with my Regen and SR back in the I2 days, but ended up quitting the game over the HO nerf. We tanked a lot of Hami raids on our Regens back in the day.

For blasters, every terrible blaster on Victory. You all know who you are, and you should be ashamed.

For all things support, and especially Kinetics, a Fire/Kin named Demon Sorcerer. Knowledgeable, polite, kindhearted, and one of the best PvPers I had the pleasure of teaming with. It's just too bad HE'S A QUITTER. (j/k bud if you read this you should totally come back when we go F2P)

Dinged 66, nabbed a Solid Thor Leather Belt, pushed Blossom Blow to Rank 6, flipped a Jirkal Large Shield for a quick 400K, manned a ballista on a successful Titan run (and still pulled 4th in DPS), looted a Bloody Thorn (880K!), and crafted a Frostheart Hunter Cap.

Damage-centric characters taking a backseat to buffers and debuffers in CoH? Someone alert the presses. Re: endgame and trials, if anything incarnate powers have helped blasters and stalkers because no one cares what you are when everyone is rocking Barrier, Rebirth, Lore pets, and a level shift or three.

"When will you be removing travel power suppression from PvE?" and anything to do with fixing Kheldians.

I really don't want to reroll my Sonic/Therm to a Therm/Sonic. This cash shop better have an AT swap option.

Honest question: what's the appeal of Poison? Even if it gets defender mods (I didn't see Poison defenders announced, did I miss something?), that gives it two solid single-target debuffs, a nice ally rez, and nothing else worth mentioning. I'm all for promoting variety, and there is the new PBAoE toggle to consider, but seems like Poison could use a bit more help.

The updated Energy Aura for scrappers looks dynamite (SR should've gotten that new toggle, though). Can't wait to roll one and check out the updated lowbie content this fall.

Until the devs regularly inhibit our ability to trump mobs with numbers alone, a KB-heavy character is always going to run the risk of being less than helpful at times in high-end teaming. The escapee phase in the BAF is a step in the right direction, and I'd like to see that type of creative thinking applied more frequently to new content.

Re: getting the boot, I don' think KB is enough of a potential liability to warrant kicking someone, but I wouldn't begrudge a team leader the right to do it.

Take care, Penny. I hope I'll see you in-game again someday, you were always a blast to play with.

Assuming the amount of new content available to VIPs stays is consistent with what we've gotten accustomed to over the last seven years, this is pretty much an all-around great change for the game.

Congrats on the MO badge, Voodoo.