StratoNexus

And the Stealth proc too!

I am suggesting something new, not something we can already do. Do you get the difference?

Oh, yeah. How could I not think of that as a gray area thing. I mean he kept drugged out psychopaths on the streets to help instill fear and control the populace while maintaining power over his "buddies" as their supplier.

Hell, he was redeemed with that act alone!

Are you still level 6 in Praetoria? I mean, I don't want to spoil stuff, but a lot of what you may have read about the Praetors (especially on that GR website) were lies. You could call them significant stretches of the truth as well. Massive embellishment. Excellent spin.

He later stated that it does have a top end limit (maybe mag 10), so you won't be able to use to to break free from things like GW's hold or AM's Timestop.

The radius was plenty large, but the damage is low, primarily because you can hit it three times in a row. Hawk mentioned cutting it by a third from what the formula would give, but then adding some back. Since it is primarily a utility power, I would almost prefer it to have no damage (instead possibly confusing enemies for 5ish seconds), but I do like the idea of letting things like double hit or interface work with it.

Since /MC has Burst of Speed, it seems like it could work well with most primaries, even getting more use out of cones than other sets with a PBAoE focus. That said, sets with spherical AoEs still have the advanatge: Arch, Fire, Rad, Pist, Water, and Elec. I believe Hawk said the duration of Reach was longer than Build Up, so that could better synergize with Rain of Fire (actually lasting the entire duration), but if there is no clear indication of when it procs, that could be hard to control.

Slows are handy with Electric's end drain, because drained enemies tend to flee. If Reach can be made to transfer to VS, that would be a great combo.

Edit: Added water, duh on me.

Now that you mention it I seem to remember when inventions were introduced people asking for the devs to use something like the team bonus XP formula to increase recipe drops when teamed.

No, he might be saying just to port SS as is as an additional blaster secondary set. Actually, he seems to be saying they could have just done that from the beginning. It is likely he acknowledges it shouldn't be done that way now, but it could have been done that way in 2003.

Since it is likely that is what they did back then, it is probable testing discovered that didn't work so well, which is why they changed it up to add some utility powers to the secondaries. Interestingly, they didn't add enough utility, which is why we are where we are.

So why do my inspire drops plummet when teamed?

I don't know what all drops are affected by teaming, but inspire drops are demonstrably, clearly, exceptionally reduced on a team.

Animations that already exist, of course. The key is the animations need to be the same length. New animations require more effort. But if the new Storm Kick animation is 52 frames and the one MA has is 36 frames, they are not interchangeable.

FX work would need to be done as well, other wise you would lean forward to shoot stuff out of your eyes, but the flares would come out where your hands would normally be for the other animation.

Animations are costly and I think in general they want us to pay for them. I am not sure if it is feasible for them to release Animation packs.

Spend 200 PP, get 8 alternate animations for Super Strength sounds good to me, but there may be technical and UI issues with that.

So if that is not feasible, making the new animations and tying them to new powersets allows them to reap the benefit of selling them.

Hey now! He is also proposing SS and Rage for blasters. He is welcome here!

I don't think it is literal, but I am worried that Marauder is standing in a central location with two others whom I would consider of opposing beliefs.

I would be thrilled for Marauder to be featured more in game, I love his look, his dialogue and his attitude (like I love Alan Rickman's villains or Jafar or Maleficent). I could even see him as a Rogue, not a pure Villain. I just don't want to stomach him as redeemed (or at least not yet, I could enjoy a story line that redeems him).

We missed that boat already and I am not going to shed tears anymore. I'll figure it out. While I appreciate many people wish the devs had done it, it is too late to right it without making other areas problematic. After all, for years, I could have been fighting Praetorians at level 1 (and sometimes I did, all hail sidekicking). Ever been Master of Olympus at level 4? I have.

I am going to wait to see what I24 has in store. Up to this point, I have very strongly argued that blasters were a hybrid, both melee and range. They will still be that, but the emphasis on the range part has amped up in recent years and the future seems to be emphasizing range as well (but always in motion is the future, difficult to see).

I am glad to see they are not abandoning the hybrid nature (both /dark and /martial are strongly melee based, and I am happy that /martial has more options for a ranger than /dark), but I am also unsure if they are properly supporting that nature in other ways.

Perception is reality.

What non-combat (mini) games would you like to boost instead? It is not like CoH has a lot of stuff outside of combat.

Incarnate Marketing?
Incarnate Crafting?
Incarnate Ski slopes (and other games of balance and twitchyness)?
Incarnate Gladiators?

People suggest tankers are a ranged AT and you have to try to prove they are not?

I think the devs have made it pretty clear that the world will be moving forward in ways that affect even level 1 characters. Personal timelines are becoming less relevant than the world timeline. We will need to pretend things ourselves about how the older stories fit in.

His own personal tendencies slide towards selfishness and self-glorification. He could certainly change and conveniently for him most, if not all, of those that truly knew of his atrocities are dead. But he was not just a victim of circumstance. While he is indeed like a wild animal, he still has a human mind that comprehended his actions, and just didn't care (and even relished the violence and carnage).

And he very much does strike me as someone who occasionally needs to unleash a little aggression for fun; he takes delight in hurting others.

Is he still like that today? Has all the suffering he has seen as well as age caught up with him? It is possible. But it worked out well giving Wade and Malaise the benefit of the doubt.

Hmmm. I thought that might be viewed as a feature. Many other games seem to specifically add stuff to their real money market that can be sold to other players for in game for in-game currency (it may also be an incidental side-effect, but one they are well aware of). That seems to fall under the type of convenience item CoH has been willing to sell.

Selling something on the market that can be bought by other players for in-game money doesn't seem out of line with how the ATOs exist.

Does Double-Hit work with those? Although even if Assault: Radial does wok, that doesn't necessarily mean this new power will.

It is possible they will simply allow you to buy them with real money and sell them on the market.

Does that count as earnable in game?

Hawk specifically mentioned Envenomed Blades used the base formula and that it would synergize well with longer recharging powers.

Yes.