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*spews soda* You owe me a new keyboard lol

I could deal with Psi Damage decently even prior to this change (purples and your heal powers). The real problem is having to deal with lackluster soloability and KB irritating my teammates.

So, losing that 'wasted' resistance to get a bit of damage increase and/or knockdown; that's a tradeoff I could get behind.

For some reason, many Kheldian Players *love* the fact that the PB is weak compared to other ATs.

I remember Lord Xenite (I think) relishing that the PB was always an 'Underdog'. I suggest that if you want to play an underdog, just purposefully screw your slotting and power picks up. But no, some want under-performance 'Built In' to the AT.

*Boggles*

I've suggested this a few times. This is how it should have been done from the beginning. Powers that a clear analogies of each other should simply be the same power. Luminous Blast becomes Bright Nova Blast when you switch to Nova, with same slotting, etc.

Now, purist won't like it because they'll say that the forms should give 4/6 automatic extra powers when you pick them, so you don't have to pick the same powers in Human Form, thus potentially making all the forms very different in play. They have a point, but your suggestion would've been the better way to go, imo.

But...we're too for along now - this is never going to happen.

Yep, he said it's because PBs have so much other AoE potential that, combined with Solar Flare, makes them too Potent. Good point I guess, since my SS Brute can't use Electrifying Fences and Ball Lightning right after doing a Footstomp...oh wait...

We're talking about Solar Flare right? Question: since it can now be used in the Air, can you do it high enough above a group that you KB them to the ground instead of scattering them? If so, that's something, I guess...

Many scientists do believe this. Some scientists also believe in God. However, when it comes to "Science", it doesn't matter what a scientist (or anyone) believes; it's what they can prove.

A good scientific theory must be falsifiable. That means that has to be at least the possibility of finding evidence that proves it is not true. To say something is 'falsifiable' doesn't mean it is false; instead, it means that if it is false, the evidence or observation to prove it is false has to be accesable to us (at least in principle).

This is why creationism isn't a good theory. Invoking God as evidence isn't sound because I can never provide proof that God does (or does not) exist. In other words, God isn't falsifiable, and such is beyond the realm of scientific enquiery.

IMO, the many universes (or planes, whatever) theory, where all possibilities happen, is a theory that's in much the same boat. Outside of conjecture, is there any real evidence that any universe outside our own exist? Will I ever be able to peek into these other universes in any way? Will I ever observe their effects? If there isn't even the possibility of doing so, then such a 'theory' needs to be seriously questioned

This right here! I sure want to use that Rocket Board. I'm fine with it disabling my attacks, but if it cuts off all my toggles every time I summon it I'll probably just stick to Ninja Run (interpretation: my money won't be spent on it)

I need to do as I damn well please. I'm not sure why you give a flying flip how I want to play the game, incidently, I'm more interested in how powersets themselves play in the late game (you know, fully IOd out, with Accolades and such) than leveling one Alt after another from 1 to 50. I've done plenty of that already. So, yes, I'd take full avantage of a system that let me do otherwise.

For the record, though, just so we can be totally clear. I'm fine that CoH doesn't have Total Respecs (get that thru your cranium) and that we (likely) never will. The game, as is, is still quite enjoyable to me. I simple would be equally fine if we also had something similiar to what the OP is suggesting.

What an utterly asinine thing to say. What are you even thinking when you type something like this? Since you know I really do play, this is really just to get reactions I guess. There's a word for that and it start with a 'T'.

No one is seriously suggesting changing ATs so that last sentence was totally unneeded.

Wow, you claim I missed some of your post, but obviously you didn't read mine either. I've said NO CHANGING OF ATs!

As for within at AT, well, Powersets within an AT *should* be close to the same in effectiveness. They don't have to be exactly equal, but they should be close. Are you really okay with them not being so?

I'm well aware that some are not(*ahem* Robots/Thugs MMs vs Ninjas), but unlike you, I say that AT powerset balance should be a striving goal of the Devs, not something that we all should just accept as unchanging.

And I'm not alone - we have new threads almost every day discussing how a Powerset needs adjusting, and by far most of these are posted because people are comparing that powersets effectiveness to other powersets in the same AT and *gasp* see disparities.

je_saist, using powerset disparities within at AT as an argument against Powerset Respecs instead of seeing that maybe the disparities themselves should be fixed just isn't sound thinking. There are other arguments (I provided one myself in my last post)- use those instead

I hated this argument in old D&D. It's okay to be puny Wizard at low levels because it's balanced when you get to high levels; cuz then you'll be so powerful you'll be 5 times more powerful than all the other classes combined!!! Bleh... That's not balance - that's a problem that needs fixing.

And in DnD that problem did exist, but does it really exist in CoH?

Why is, say, switching to Stone from Willpower at lvl 35 so so HIGHLY exploitable? Is Willpower 10 times easier to get to lvl 35 than Stone? Is a lvl 45 Stoner that much more awesome than an equal level Willpower? I don't see it.

Even were the above true, when you can get *any* AT to lvl 35 in a few weeks (days for some hardcorers) I just don't see the how comparing early level glaring powerset disparities (if they even exist) as a good argument to not allow this idea. If anything, it's a big ol' red flag telling us the powerset disparities need addressing.

Now, not allowing total respecs so as to encourage Alting is a decent argument. I will be rolling a Titans Weapon AT when that set comes out, but if this idea was implemented by then I'd probably just switch my IOd and Badged-out SS/WP Brute to the new set. Is that good or bad; I dunno, but I can at least see it as an argument.

I agree that it's pretty iconic of Iceman, but there are some instances of other supers using it...sorta. Steve Jackson Games, GURPS Supers, had an NPC female super called Icepick who used an ice slide to fly. Maybe she's to obscure to count, but I certainly noticed

Comparing game stats to the real world never works. If I run 30mph real world I'll be getting gold medals and maybe earning millions. If I'm running 30mph in the game it feels slow.

*Edit: I still think Fly is fast enough, but the above still stands