Shadowblaze

Crud, was hoping the Pocket D costume pieces would come first. Oh well, Roman pieces aren't my thing, but I'm sure a lot of people will be glad to have them early. I'll probably buy the bow at least though. Still, I hope the Pocket D stuff is next week, though I doubt they'd do 2 costume sets 2 weeks in a row.

I22 will go live mid February most likely. We haven't got any level bumps yet, so we still need high end Darkness Control testing, and think Dark Assault still had some changes to be pushed through and tested. This publish is probably putting the next few weeks' worth of stuff onto the Paragon Market so it can easily be 'activated' each Tuesday. Pocket D costume pack, roman costume pack, SSA #1 part 6, etc.

Jeesh, how did my topic about last week's market release turn into such a flame war? Now everyone hug and make up, dang it! *glares*

I always hear about people wanting FX-based powersets that are showing their age redone, like Ice Armor, fire based sets, old dark effects to match the new ones, etc. I'm just curious if there is anyone else that thinks some animation centric sets (probably mostly melee, honestly) could use some fresh new alternate animations.

For me, I really think Claws looks terrible. I keep wanting to make a Claws character, but the animations just really turn me away from the set. Does anyone else think they look...I dunno, halfhearted and lazy? Like the character really isn't putting too much effort into their swipes. I always thought a set like Claws would be great for a 'berserker' type concept, someone who just goes into a fury and is spinning and swiping at anything that moves. But what we have now, it feels more like "OK, stay still, going to give you a light scratch in a few seconds here." There's no OOMPH in any of the attacks. I would love some different animations for this set.

Anyways, any other sets you think could benefit from alternate animations?

Some thoughts:

1). I wonder if Penelope will get a code/hero name. Think that'd be better than just using her normal name.

2). I was thinking of why Sister Psyche might not be there and thought about stuff from SSA #1, and a thought occurred: Maybe she's pregnant and unable to do the heroing stuff for a while. We did see when we were in her head that she really wanted to have children. Maybe with the maturation of Penelope, she saw that she could leave the mental/psychic stuff to her for now and start a family with Justin. Just a thought.

Yeah, but the thing is, you can't even use Sprint with the coyote power, so the speed difference becomes much more noticeable. I can understand not letting it be used with most powers, but it'd be nice if they could do a 'disable all powers besides sprint (and the prestige sprints too maybe) or somehow make the coyote power be able to at least come with 1 slot to put a run speed enhancement in there. Otherwise, you're trading speed for style.

EDIT: Anyone have the stats for what Sprint gives you? That's the key here. Not to mention, you can add slots to sprint to increase that run speed.

Tempted to get it, but I don't think they ever increased the speed to make it match ninja/beast run + sprint, making it inferior to those 2 powers since you can't use sprint with the coyote power. Which probably means I won't bother. Bummer. Cool concept, at least. (If I'm wrong on this, please let me know.)

I also liked how... *spoilers*




















...when you check Statesman's body, you're given the choice to try to revive Statesman, but find that none of your reviving powers work on his corpse. Kind of a nice touch, to acknowledge people going 'Uh, why can't I just use (insert rez power here)?' Guess whatever that ritual was, it made the death permanent.













*end spoilers*

Yeah, they didn't do all this work on 4 legged rigs to give us this set for free. You're kidding yourself if you think it'll be free lol.

Just a bundling of Who Will Die SSA episodes 1-4, the titan weapons weapon pack (which you have to pay for now), and the Barbarian costume bundle is on sale. Nothing else new that I can find. Was kinda hoping for the CoL costume bundle, but oh well. Kinda surprised there's not a single new item, even if it was something minor.

Also, if they could make the bow not transparent, that'd be great too. :P

So it looks like Antimatter/Positron is part of the DD trial? Sure looks like his silhouette in one of the pictures there.

Solid energy wings that took on various shapes would be pretty cool, IMO.

Ok, so I made a Willpower/Titan Weapons Tank. I seem to be constantly chugging at 37. I plan on going with Energy Mastery and picking up the Physical Perfection power. So, with 3 +recovery powers (Stamina, Quick Recovery, and Physical Perfection), should I go with Agility or stick with Cardiac to help with end issues? And this is all before I've bothered getting IOed up. Thanks for any replies.

Don't forget the transparent bow problem. Think they accidentally applied the transparency of the veil to the bow. Though, I'd still love a 'no veil' option...

Tried messing with the pieces a bit last night, and the pretinted stripes on the female pieces just kinda killed any design I had going. I'd be happy if they just removed the stripes completely.

But, we're already at the 'this is what you get, we're too busy to change anything, get back to us in 6-8 months and maybe we'll take a look at it' point, complaining anymore hardly seems useful. 30 pages here, 27 pages in the feedback topic, and they're just gonna tell us to go take a hike.

REALLY great customer relations they have here lately. They've just got SO MUCH stuff they're working on, that they aren't allowed to stop for a few days to fix something that their customers are unhappy about. Great company policy there. Then in 6-8 months, you'll just say that you're too busy working on Issue 24 and 25 or whatever and STILL can't stop to fix the stuff we're unhappy about.

I don't envy you, Zwil. It seems to me they just tell you to placate the seething masses and tell them they'll fix it later when they have no intention to do so. If you can't change anything by the time we actually see it, maybe you guys should make the effort to give us a peek at what you're working on while it's still in a phase that things can be changed. That way you can avoid all this backlash and release stuff that people actually want to buy.

Lately, it seems like NCSoft/Marketing is in charge of everything lately and that their way of doing business is to just ignore us completely. Kind of a 'we'll release what we want and you'll like it or else!' way of thinking. But, I'm tired of complaining. It's obvious it's not getting us anywhere, you guys don't listen. You just feed us some lines and move on. *sigh*

I hope they at least fix the transparent bow and have a no veil option. Those should be easy fixes.

But, I will say, I REALLY don't like the 'this stuff is done so far in advance that by the time the players actually see it in beta, there is no time for our feedback to mean a damn and actually get something changed' comment. That's a HORRIBLE way of doing things.

Man, Paragon Studios is striking out left and right here. I'm starting to wonder if this is some kind of joke or something. Your market releases are just pathetically sad. You guys have been full of fail and lose lately. Week after week, you release crap, listen to none of our feedback and keep releasing crap. Then just for an exta laugh, you release a completely broken patch on top of that. You don't listen to our feedback, you don't read our bug reports, and you overprice the crap out of everything. Example: There's a SEVENTEEN page feedback topic on people VERY unhappy with your Gunslinger set, and there hasn't been a SINGLE dev or OCR response in that entire topic. It's obvious at this point that those feedback topics are just for show. That costume set will be released as is despite all our scathing criticism. This crap needs to stop. I've been here too dang long(since the beginning) to pack it up, but you guys are making it really hard to want to stick around with your boneheaded decisions and utter silence on matters lately.

Heh, Freedom was up when I checked so I went to check the market and the only thing I see is the dog pet. I'm past the point of being mad at these market releases. I just laughed my butt off at another abysmal week for the market. Maybe I'm wrong and they did release something else cool, but I highly doubt it. I think we can call this whole Paragon Market weekly release plan a complete and utter failure. It petered out after about a month. I think they should formally apologize for hyping this weekly release plan so much for it to be so bad and just start doing a monthly release or something. This whole thing has been a huge letdown. Add that to their horrible 'beta testing' they have going where nothing reported in beta is fixed and then put on live servers as is, and City of Heroes: Freedom is looking more like City of Heroes: Freedumb.

Whee, more thread necromancy!

Well, I hope it's not JUST the dog and hat. We really need a meaty market release and soon.

No, the REAL problem is Death Mages have those awesome back spikes and we don't. I just saw those the other day and I was like 'OMG WANT!' Seems we didn't get ANY of the cool stuff the CoT wear... Those back spikes would be an awesome backpack option.

EDIT: LOL, didn't even see this thread was already dead and in the ground. :P