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Won't work, you have to be by the Transporter for the TP effect to trigger.

Same 'reason' as walk not being at level 1, I think; they don't want to over-clutter the power trays. I personally find that a lame reason, but whatever.

Only use Human form for Seekers, which KO a mob in one shot anyway. Swap to Dwarf Form for melee which is all KD, and then fly over the mob with Nova so that KB becomes KD anyway.

Blame players who are incompetent, not the powers

Yeah, but the WS has been 'better' at 20, when he got double Mire, and then 22 when he got Stygian Circle, and then 32 with Fluffies and then 38 was 'Ok, I'm awesome' with Eclipse. My PB will be getting Light form at 38 and...that's it, really. That's all the cool stuff done. The rest of the powers are gap-fillers while slots go in other stuff.

Personally I love both Kheldians, now that I'm used to them a bit more and the Devs added some fixes to them.

Ha. Well played, sir. Well played.

Yes, because a subscription based analogy is perfectly suitable for one-off purchases like these.

Oh. Wait. No it's not.

Castle, before he left, said that Stone, or rather Granite, was the biggest problem of an old set that he had on his plate at the time. Primarily because there were lots of changes he wanted to make...but couldn't. Because everything revolved around changing Granite and making the set not, and I paraphrase here; "31 levels of suck for 18 levels of overpoweredness."

Castle did not consider Stone balanced. But there would have to be Dev authorised breaking of the cottage rule to 'fix' the set. Which left them with a dilemma that never got solved, because Castle then left.

Hey! I object to not making that list! I have a Villain rep to keep up here!

Uh....wait, what? Are you saying WS's are bad because you can't get into them?
WS's are, arguably, more numerically badass than PBs. I know that I can solo on x8 with my WS while my PB certainly cannot. Admittedly the WS is 50 while the PB is 30-something, but still.

Uh...hello? You're talking about VENTURE. Did it take you this long to clue into that? >_>

This. If I'm putting down real cash for something, it damn well better we certain I get what I'm aiming for. There's a REASON I don't buy 'lucky-dip' style *anything* in real life. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Yup. Changes to models in the Base-edit interface and the base itself.
What does that require?

You guessed it;
Code changes.

Ding ding, we have a winner...

S'wuh?

Eh, I just personally don't agree with the call-outs made on Kheldians, especially with the recent buffs (lord knows they were needed, mind), especially when some I0 powersets are still languishing where they got left...like Stone armour with it's 'all defences, except one Res armour and a completely out of place tier 9' or Ice armour.

I mean, when was the last time you saw a Stone or Ice tank? They used to be relatively common, until a slew of powersets that were 1)Up to date with mechanics and activation/end costs etc and, 2) simply bloomin' better.

I think you missed the part where we already argued about that

You'll have to, since the stuff is only available in the bleedin' Super Packs....
Seriously, I sometimes think Paragon borrowed some suits from EA or something

Ice and Stone armours say hi

Picking apart the pick-apart;

-Essence Boost (Dull Pain clone) and Reform Essence (Self Heal). That's two solid heals and a +HP power. The ally heal is just a bonus.

-Dwarf form has melee too. You can chain the Dwarf and human attacks easily now that transformation is instant.

-Dwarf form disagrees. Coupled with Essence Boost? Really disagrees.

-Nova form. Human form ranged attacks are just gap fillers.

-AoEs, see above. Nova AoE is fast and powerful.

-Inherent still saves power picks and don't need slotting. Which, admittedly, is good given the tightness of Kheld builds.

-Light Form should, admittedly, go without saying now.


Only if you have a really shoddy build, sure. And, y'know, don't maximise full and righteous abuse of Nova and Dwarf form. I personally only really use Human form for heals, ally heals and Photon Seekers (not quite got LF yet), the majority of my damage and survivability coming from swapping often between Nova and Dwarf form.

Pretty good....Oh child...

Oh gods, please, PLEASE, I will PAY to have female hats with more hair options. I honestly don't care about the work load, to still have those out-dated abominations in the CC is....just, ugh. And the old, SD hairs that look like blocks of polygons because that is what they are. No texture or anything...ugh.