Solarstar

I don't post much, but I've been around since beta. I have also sent my email. Probably a useless gesture, but meaningful to me.

It's funny, you really don't understand what you have until you're about to lose it.

-Solarstar

I'd like a ranged character with armor. I built a PB exactly for this back in the day. It fell short because of the penalties Khelds had to work with.

Now with the changes, my first character, Solarstar, has his PB counterpart. But my other blasters don't have their PB counterpart. (I only have 3 complaints. The crash on Lightform, the IO/power investment to get it perma, and melee attacks blow the ranged ones away. I can deal with all of it. There's a reason my PB is my first 50 since Freedom launched.)

But if Paragon gives me a PB with dark, fire, ice, rad, dual pistols, AR, earth, electric, psychic, or sonic powers, I be a very happy camper indeed. My SoA is a nice replacement for AR, and my Widow does a decent psychic replacement. But my dislike of redside makes leveling them painful.

Then, when I want to play a melee character, I'd play my tankers or scrappers.

So in relation to the OP, I'd support a new AT. Essentially, make it PB without shapeshifting and flavor the powers appropriately. That seems to me to strike a happy medium. And it has the advantage of a good work to result ratio.

1: Not really, since Afterburner just increases the fly cap. From what I understand, it is impossible to reach the fly cap with Hover. Hover + Afterburner is only good for the def it may provide.

2: Afterburner just raises the fly cap, so it's pretty much unrelated to fly poses. The effect is certainly compatible. But it's based on the underlying fly/hover power, rather than afterburner itself.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Flight_Powers

That handy link will explain more than you might have wanted to know about flight.

Zwillinger addressed this in one of the chats sometime around the release of Freedom. IIRC from what he said it's a known bug from the company who makes the forum software. Since they haven't released a fix, Paragon doesn't have one either.

They could try to hack it and fix it, but there's no guarantee it won't break something else. They don't replace it because the man-hours involved, and the potential for lost posts. (And there are some good posts worth keeping around. Guides and such.)

So, with everything involved, they are waiting for an official fix.

With all the nifty effects changes on powers, I suspect there is going to be more downtime.

Strangely, I had a friend preorder something for me. Turns out that with that preorder, and $5, you could get a preorder for City of Heroes, and a free beta key for the CoH open beta.

Funny thing is, the CoH beta account is still on my NCSoft Master account. I never did pick up that physical preorder, and got a new key when I purchased the digital download, if I recall correctly.

I couldn't tell you what the original game that I preordered was. But City of Heroes is still one I play.

Edit: Heh, I forgot that old sig. Never did change it. And Solarstar is still my only 50. Stupid altitis.