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I will grant that I have no idea how much QA testing has to go into new items released to the store, but in my estimation, bundling already-existing items into a new pack and putting them to market wouldn't take much of QA's time. I could be totally wrong, but if updating the market took as much QA testing as, say, creating the new power set that they want to put on the market, that seems a huge investment of time for very little return. After all, I'm sure they sold very few undead survival kits, especially compared to Street Justice.

If you're referring to bugs within the interface, no I do think that would be the same group of people, or at least, a related group of people. But bundling items and putting them on the market, yes I do think that is handled by a totally different person (or group of people) than the people who take care of actually creating the content, testing it, and fixing bugs. And testing is done by both developers and also the actual QA team, neither of which has anything to do with getting things into the market. That wouldn't make sense. It's like having the guys who stocks groceries on the shelves in the store be part of the same group that grows, picks, packs, and ships the food. It's just not the same guy.

This may help: There's a command called /wdwsave which will save your current UI settings to a default file. You can then use /wdwload to recall those settings. I've used this several times when zoning causes my windows to reset.

I assure you, it's not. I'm not going to go digging through the archives to find all the posts where Backalley Brawler had to insist he couldn't animate away powers bugs, but the work at Paragon Studios is certainly compartmentalized, as it is in most major companies. It just doesn't make sense to have your developers work on non-development items, any more than it makes sense for non-developers to work on development items. I realize you may not believe me unless a redname comes and confirms, but I am 100% confident that the person responsible for updating the market is not responsible for fixing bugs, or anything related.

Hello Vinceq1980 and welcome to the City of Heroes official forums! I'd like to take some time to hopefully put your mind at east regarding an apparent misunderstanding you have of how Paragon Studios does business.

The person responsible for putting together the items in the Paragon Market is not in the same group of people whose responsibility it is to fix bugs. That is to say, adding new (and perhaps "trivial") content to the market does not in any way diminish the effort to produce, test, and publish new content. (As in, actual content.)

There's therefore no reason to be upset that some other things within the game continue to go as scheduled while bugs show up in the game. For example, there's no use in yelling at your mailman if your power goes out - the mail service can keep functioning in your neighborhood even if your lights don't work.

I hope this helps, thanks!

Ditto, I just /bugged it.

Edit: This must be the extra "backup" Manticore summoned, haha!

Outstanding, thank you Ghost Falcon!

True, more often is more fun. My favorite combo is so far overkill though, that there's just no need to pull it out very often.

Yes, exactly. I had spent very little time worrying about Set IOs before this build, simply because I don't have time to deal with the market, nor do I have the inf to create a purpled-out or max-recharge build. The only reason this build got done is because Walleye offered to buy and craft everything for me. :] Totally awesome of him!

Regarding Ice/Ice Blasters, there are a couple different aspects you can choose to focus on. You can't dedicate yourself fully to all of these concepts, but if one suits your play-style you can do pretty well. For instance I chose to focus on holds, but I could have just as easily focused on slow instead.

Damage: Mostly single target, but two location AoEs (including Blizzard) and one cone. Can be supplemented with Epic Power Pool.
Mez: holds, slows, knockdown, can also be supplemented from Epic Power Pool

Part of playing Ice/Ice effectively is making sure that when you use Ice Storm and Blizzard, your foes stay under the AoE long enough to take full damage. In fact, Blizzard does more damage than any of the other Blaster Tier 9s - IF you can keep the enemies underneath it. This is where Ice Slick and the holds come in very handy. Ice Storm and Blizzard both have knockdown and slow components, which can be enhanced (but I usually slot both powers for maximum damage and recharge). You can also use Shiver and/or Frost Breath to pile on more slow.

The reason I didn't focus on slow with this toon is because it *appears* to be less effective than the holds. "Appears" is the operative word here - I'm not saying slows _are_ less effective than holds, they just don't _seem_ to be as effective. Because after all, even if you floor someone's run and recharge, they can still move (slowly), and they can still attack you. I am not familiar with AV slow resist versus hold resist, so I don't know if AVs specifically or mobs in general are weaker against one or the other.

Either way, I'm not really a min/maxer and it all boils down to how much fun I have playing the toon. :]

Ditto.

I'm really disappointed that Paragon Studios insists on doing give-aways exclusively off the main site. THIS is the CoH community, FB and Twitter should be supplements only.

Oh well. :[

Yep, I guess I knew that already but had kinda forgotten, though the color blindness simulator I linked to reminded me.

So far the colors I've picked seem to be different enough that they're distinguishable for all of the color blindness types except pure monochrome - which at that point there's very little likely I can do.

Still, if anyone is having issues I can add patterns to distinguish between close colors. Which I may do in any case.

If I had Mod Powers and this were my personal message board, I'd sticky this statement in its original size with a link to Arcanaville's post at the top of every forum. Since it's not my personal message board and I don't have Mod Powers, I'll have to settle for a link in my signature :P

Awesome! Have there been discussions of leather and chain armors too? (I've recreated a few of my D&D character in City..)

I think any and all of these suggestions are fantastic, and it's clear that you have a firm grasp on how important many of us feel keeping Hamidon's overall "theme" in-tact is. I think this is why the new CoT costumes came as such a shock- not because of any inherent property of the new look, but because it's such a departure from their iconic look. It's as if you completely redesigned Ghost Widow.. Even if the new look was totally cool, it just wouldn't be Ghost Widow.

As for signature characters, I can't really think of anyone off the top of my head that gave me pause, but I can tell you what did: the first time I fought my doppelgängers in the final villain morality mish. I was positively gleeful and took several screen shots. The demonic and angelic versions of my toon were a surprise and just totally cool, and turned what otherwise would have been a routine mission into something I really enjoy taking my time with. Definitely one of my favorite missions in the game, and specifically so because of that tech.