SkarmoryThePG

Originally Posted by Shatterghost

The Skyway, Steel Canyon (I like the current name), and Siren's Landing.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

umm.... when does it do that? My broadsword scrapper punches with his free hand for Brawl. My katana scrapper and stalker strike the enemy in the face with the sword pommel for Brawl.

Now, my dark/archery defender DOES kick for Brawl.

Originally Posted by Pyro_Master_NA

Dang, I was going to suggest fire/cold as well until I read those. Fire/cold just has a lot more synergy than ice/therm. Haha but Jack frost with fire shields will look cool.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Actually, we also have a Monstrous skeleton in the game that's used for quite a few things, Kheldian Dwarf form being one of them, along with things like Werewolves, Shivans, Clockwork Princes and so forth. It's basically a model with a large chest and wide shoulders, short legs and long arms.

It's not player-usable because it doesn't have animations defined for almost any existing powers, and making new ones would not be feasible, or at least so BABs used to say. It does have basic animations, such as running and jumping ones, as well as several but not all emotes (which is why they disabled a whole swath of emotes for Bright/Dark Dwarves way back when), so it's usable as an NPC with few stock powers, but not something that's applicable to players. I don't think that rig has any costume items defined for it, either.

No real point to this, just thought it was interesting.

Originally Posted by Megajoule

I'm going to stop you right there, and say that the problem is not with the writing of either the original arc or the newer content, but that you're doing the latter before the former - out of order, as it were - AND that Cryptic and Paragon never put in the time and money to rewrite the former as it was overtaken by later events. On their own, both are IMO decent stories; they just don't fit together in the current setting.

Originally Posted by Oathbound

Here's what I would like them to do with Dimension Shift (and Black Hole too), change it from a Target AoE to a Location targeted 'pet' (like Quicksand or Volcanic Gasses) that pulses a short duration PBAoE Enemy phase, AND a PBAoE ALLY phase, and allow for the PvP mechanics for phaseing to work in PvE as well if they don't already (phased targets can attack other phased targets). The pulses would have to be set to ignore phase in order to keep mobs from phasing in and out as the power ticks, which we know they can do already cause Hamidon ignores phase.

This keeps from breaking the Cottage rule (the primary purpose of the power is unchanged ( it's still an AoE phase power)) but it removes one of the biggest annoyances of phase powers (having to wait till they expire to kill the phased mobs) by allowing you to enter/exit the phase shift field and then attack the phased mobs.

You could change the name to Dimensional Rift to match the new functionality of the power. (Dimension Shift is more of an action, where Dimensional Rift is more of a Thing.) The name Black Hole still works great though.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

And then of course, why would villains get the same perk? (It'd be a stretch, but Arachnos could provide it to its minions, while freelancers have gotten hold of Malta's hijacking signal and allow them to actually USE it to port to hospitals... Meh.)

Originally Posted by Vanden

I think you just want an excuse to mess with a certain icon creating tool.

Originally Posted by McBoo

A thought for Roulette.

Keep the 15% Defense buff and allow one of the other random buffs listed to be applied based on random number generation. That way your ally always gets two buffs but their combat strategy has to be flexible enough to change mid stream. Not as all or nothing as the original suggestion but more like a Tier 2 power.


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Originally Posted by Dispari

The power for DS is pretty good too. It's a big damage boost to the pet you give it to. And you get random imps that, while not that powerful, can take hits and do a little damage.

Besides which, the necro, thug, and demon powers can all slot RIP IO sets, giving ALL of your pets an extra 5% DEF and 10% RES.

Originally Posted by Jazra

Make almost exclusively Magic-oriented characters. That has only changed with Praetoria, as there are no magic-based enemies, and therefore no magic enhancements being dropped.

Originally Posted by warden_de_dios

I'm pointing at Skarmony. ^^^Now I'm pointing at you^^^

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Building on what others have said, I kinda find the forced dialogue between Fusionette, Faultline and some of the Rikti very, very grating. In fact, a LOT of the forced Rikti dialogue actually just...it hacks me off on a creative level. The Rikti are meant to be badass, they are meant to be scary, even a little creepy. They comunicate via a giant hivemind psi network. They shouldnt speak. They shouldnt ever make lame joke comments.

The Freakshow...hmn. Some are ok. Some are, as others pointed out, lame. I kinda like the theme behind Miss Francines Freaks, in that some might actually realise that, y'know, beating other people up is ok...but beating up criminals to save people is actually kinda nicer. I even added them into a bit of Xmas fiction I did, which I was quite happy with.

Joke Nemesis creatively infuriates me. They have this Michaevellian Archvillain who can, at any moment, step out of the shadows and haul on some strings, endangering countless lives on a whim... and then turn him into a joke. I'm not talking about 'Everything is a Nemesis Plot', because people do that about governements and organisations in real life. Its believable. But he should be cold, calculating, the sort of villain who irrevocably believes he is right and you, you silly little child, are wrong. Like when he's talking to Lady Grey in the RWZ diplomacy mission. THAT is spot on. Some other stuff? Less so. Like the automatons....dear god, this guy is a genius, at least credit him with automatons that actually do their damn job. I know it could all be part of a 'He WANTS you to see them!' sorta plot, but even so...it's meh. Very meh.

/rant

Originally Posted by Twilight_Snow

The effect that you described sound pretty similar to repel. I think it is an interesting idea.

Originally Posted by stoneheart

For me, it's the little things. The first time I ever truly felt like a villain was two simple words, uttered by a Luddite as my brute sauntered out from behind some crates in Cap au Diable:

"Oh crap."

Originally Posted by Tinkerbel

It's a nice suggestion, looks like you put alot of thought into it.....1 major problem...the DE are on their own side, both the resistance & the loyalists agree....the DE MUST die. They wrecked the world, they nearly killed off humanity...who'd trust them now? Like it or not the DE fit in nowhere with either camp, except maybe as a trained pet. Sorry to rain on your parade (really), but as a PEAT it just doesn't work.