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Have one-off things ever been released before? No.

There you go. This is a one-off thing. Stop reading so much into every single thing, it's pathetic.

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The first ever Super Speed Dating night didn't get off to the best of starts.

ST Hold >>>>>>>> Poop >>>>>>>>>> ST Immob. Seriously.

I'd personally prefer Dual Pistols and Martial Arts, but a gun/sword thing could be interesting if they get around the huge amounts of redraw.

There's no such thing as originality because everything is just a collage of existing ideas put into an unlimited number of ways. Indeed, there may be existing ideas that have not been put together before which makes it seem original but ultimately they are all within our own experiences and are thus coherent with what we understand. It may be possible to break those boundaries with original pieces of art, music or poetry but for the purposes of City of Heroes our hands have been dealt for us and that hand is full of what coheres to our expectations of the genre.

EDIT: Just wish to add that I've been cramming my head full of Surrealist and Dadaist related stuff, so keeping this in mind here is how you do something original:

1) Dadaism

Hit the Random button.

2) Surrealism

a) Don't think about what you're doing. Just let the choices be automatic.
b) Get lots of people and allow each person to pick one aspect whilst covering the character image.
c) Get into a paranoid state and create something.

With the current trend for unique animations and spectacular, new FX this "Autumnal" combination is an anomaly and would be insulting if it went on the market without anything special about it other than Fire, Ice and a misnomer.

As for power descriptions. Synaptic Strike doesn't mention Synapse in its description, some of Statesman's generic powers such as Jab and Hand Clap mention Statesman instead of 'you'. Can't check icons because CoHTitan is down (for me at least) yet again and the cached pages don't load pictures.

The way I see it is that signature characters have their own special powers, just like they have their own special costume pieces. Valkyrie gets her own powers, Synapse gets his own powers, Neuron, Battle Maiden, Anti-Matter, Fusion, Jane Temblor. It's nothing new. Signature character stuff will stay signature.

I doubt these powers even have any new animations; the fire and ice swords are taken from elsewhere, there's a Dual Blades set to take animations from, there are already ice and fire holds.

Also, Autumn is all about weather, temperature, ageing and death... Not swords made of fire and ice. I think it's yet another stupid, pointless, unneeded idea. To be honest, if this is what's in store for Dominators then I'd rather get nothing. More Fire and Ice is not needed, there's enough elemental stuff that making more is pointless unless it's something completely unique like Wind, Water or Dark. Apart from Dark, the sets that Dominators need the most are Natural or Tech-based Control and Assault sets.

I'd prefer Autumnal to be some sort of temperature, wind and plant based combination rather than fire and ice. If it's just generic fire and ice then "meh".

I always thought it was common sense to do something like this. I've found that you need to slot Lift for knockback otherwise the long animation will mean you may not be able to use a melee attack before they plummet back down to earth.

"Surprise! Dominators aren't getting anything!"

It'd be an expected surprise but it's still a surprise.

I personally think that locking Controller and MM doesn't have anything to do with lag or difficulty, it's to do with making the game more of a standard MMO for all the Freems who are familiar with the traditional tank/range/heal style. Ignoring Dominators, the last niche AT, is an extension of that. After all, the remaining sets are all Melee-, Blast- or Support-centric. Even the Tanker primary is being ignored in favour of the secondary.

Thorny Assault could work well with a Shapeshifting theme. I'd personally go for Mind Control for a primary because you could explain the powers as some sort of intimidating presence or something.

The Vampire Collar clips with nearly every single piece of head detail, including hats, hair and helmets. So can we have all the other Circle of Thorns stuff considering you're willing to ignore your own arbitrary rules?

I want these. My first thought when I saw them, before deciding that I want them, was that we'll never get them because the devs don't want us to look cooler than the stuff they make.

A few minutes ago actually.

I got to the first EB of the latest part of the signature story arc, used all my purple inspirations, hit Domination, got him down to 3/4 health, hit Mutation and got turned into a Rikti Monkey.

Then I died.

I got back and because of the long loads and lag he was back at full HP again.

I'd like to think he'd be exactly the same as Primal Phipps.

I meant as in Plant Control has Carrion Creepers and Fly Trap.

Whilst that may be true for the belt (though isn't the gem always purple in all the CoT that wear it?), the big gloves are actually partly a chest detail. You can see this if you go into AE and edit one of them.