Redlynne

Speaking of the 7 year Loyalty emotes ... would it be possible to get Loyalist and Resistance versions of these emotes? Please?

I overuse:

• Female Face 14
• Biker Jacket (sleeved or sleeveless)
• Witch Lace or Witch Bare
• Pants (Tight)
• Sneakers
• Rocket Boots

SHOTS NOW KILL OTHER PLAYERS !!!

Greedy Little ******* seems to have eaten all the Treasure lately...

Welcome, Ghost Sponge!

Crusty Old Fart In The Bathrobe needs FOOD! BADLY!

Eat your FOOD! Don't SHOOT it!



Gauntlet, in 1987, was the most awesome game in the arcade! Absolutely nothing came close to it for either solo or group play.

I'd modify this to have a chime anytime the Team or League leadership is passed to ANY other player, so as to notify the entire Team/League of the change.

Good suggestion.

On the topic of Toggle Suppression ... and I'm assuming we're talking about the Three Bubbles here, not powers like Orbiting Death and Inky Aspect and Shadow Cloak (hmmm, I detect an attribution pattern here...) ... the KISS solution would be to make the Three Bubbles into Passive Powers which offer different +Resistance values based on which Form you're in.

Human Form (full value)
Dwarf Form (half value?)
Nova Form (minimal value?)

That way you don't have to "worry" about detoggle/retoggle issues with the Three Bubbles. Of course, doing that then begs the question of "what about the animations OF those Bubbles?" ... but that's an Art Department question, rather than a Powers Team question.

Achilles' Heel Proc works via a Grant Power effect. This means that the affected target(s) cast the effect ON THEMSELVES. You're not casting it on them, THEY are (involuntarily). Due to this logistical factor, it is not possible to "self-stack" the Achilles' Heel Proc onto ANY target more than x1 because the target is the caster of the effect ... not you, not your henchmen/pets, not your teammates.

It's hard to be a MFing Peacebringer when your powers are designed to be self-defeating rather than self-reinforcing.

• CLEAN UP Sharkhead Isle until it gleams at night. Watch Arachnos throw a conniption fit trying to figure out what the hell happened (and how to make the place "dirty" again!).

Quoting from the Bug Report forum:

I'm against Trainers also being Tailors. It's going to cause traffic jams at the Trainers and going to make all the actual Tailors obsolete. This is a dumb move.

Aid Self ... for the 5-10% of the time when stuff hits you despite your Defense.

I'll put it this way. You can't hold the aggro of 5 Rikti Magus on yourself for over 2 minutes without Aid Self. You'll faceplant, or run out of green skittles, long before then if you don't have Aid Self. And I know this from personal experience (and did it twice on one mothership raid one time).

I think the basic flaw of Arbiter Hawk's analysis of KB vs KD for Peacebringers is trying to compare the PB powerset to Super Strength. This is a badly matched comparison from the get-go, simply because Super Strength is a Melee powerset with very limited AoE designed into the set ... Hand Clap and Foot Stomp only. Compare and contrast that to a Peacebringer's AoE powers ...

• Proton Scatter (human)
• Luminous Detonation (human)
• Pulsar (human)
• Solar Flare (human)
• Photon Seekers (human)
• Dawn Strike (human)
• Bright Nova Scatter (nova)
• Bright Nova Detonation (nova)
• White Dwarf Flare (dwarf)

If all you're doing is looking at the NUMBER of AoE powers, then ON PAPER it looks like the Peacebringer is WAY OVERPOWERED on AoE capability ... in comparison to Super Strength. Nine AoE powers versus TWO? Break out the NERF GATLING GUN!

The problem with this "back of the napkin" analysis/comparison of Peacebringer AoE potential vs Super Strength is that there is a ... significant reaction speed penalty to Form Shifting, due to excessively long animation times ... which dramatically reduces the "effectiveness" of adding the Nova/Dwarf AoE powers to the spreadsheet analysis of Human form AoE potential. There's also the issue of Form Shifting dropping Toggles. In analyzing just the Human Only PB powers vs Super Strength, it has to be admitted that Photon Seekers is *still* on a punitively long Recharge when compared to comparable powers in other powersets (I'm looking at you, Rain of Arrows!) ... while Dawn Strike is a NUKE attack with a debilitating Crash, which has absolutely no counterpart in the Super Strength powerset (because Super Strength is a Melee powerset and not a Blaster Primary).

What does that leave then, for "regular attack chain" AoE in Human Form? Proton Scatter and Luminous Detonation ... which are essentially "Blaster" styled powers, with training wheel restrictions on them ... and Pulsar and Solar Flare ... which are direct counterparts to Hand Clap and Foot Stomp (but with differences).

The real problem is that Peacebringers in Human (and Light) Form bring both Melee (ala Super Strength) and Ranged (ala Blaster Energy Blast) powers into the same Primary powerset. This makes any sort of "comparison" of the Melee/PBAoE/Cone/AoE powers for Peacebringers feel skewed whenever contrasting them with their parent/origin powersets (such as Super Strength and Energy Blast). Essentially, Peacebringers get penalized in both directions for having "too much AoE" as well as "too much Melee" when compared and contrasted with the "donor" powersets that the Peacebringer powers are cobbled together from (and yes, I mean that in the "kludged together" sense of cobbled together). As a result, Peacebringer Human form powers are woefully underpowered and BADLY SYNERGIZED with each other, where the Whole winds up being Less Than the sum of its parts because the Peacebringer attack powers are deliberately designed to be SELF LIMITING and SELF DENYING ... rather than SELF REINFORCING.

This is why, when Arbiter Hawk says things like "Peacebringers have too much AoE Potential to get KnockDOWN (or KnockUP), rather than KnockBACK" ... people who actually *play* Peacebringers are left aghast and apoplectic. It's basically the equivalent of throwing a bucket of water at someone who's drowning and asking for help. It shows a fundamental disconnect between what the players perceive, and what the Devs perceive, to be at issue with an entire *EPIC* Archetype ... which people are going to have to "pay for" in CoH: Freedom.

Storm/Dual Pistols

I've started one, and I'm playing my Defender as if she were a Blaster (which is a lot of fun at low levels).

Because someone had to <s>sing</s>say it ...

It's a Small World after all ...
It's a Small World after all ...
It's a Small world after all ...
It's a Small ... SMALL ... World!

Asked Avatea about making a Feedback Thread for Kheldians in the Feedback Forum ... and she declined ... but offered the Feedback - City of Heroes - Updates to Powers thread in place of a dedicated thread since the Updates to Powers thread isn't really moving with other traffic at this time.