Terrawen

I think a brown mask instead of the blue would look better, but I like the overall flow of that costume much better than your earlier one, though your earlier one was great as well. I assume you chose blue for the mask to give the costume another focal point, but I think the hair takes care of that pretty nicely and you've got lots of colors going on anyway, so I don't think it's necessary.

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I disagree - pulling is very frequently the most efficient method of initiating attack. There is another reason for "pulling" which has not been directly discussed here - to place the mobs in a compact group, near a wall for other obstacle. There are many, many very good AOE based powers which either function much better if enemies are tightly grouped, or don't function at all if they are spread out. For example - soft controls or AOE debuffs (ice slick, earthquake, tar patch), defender debuff toggles (radiation infection, darkest night), tank taunt auras, and blaster AOE damage. All of these can have a huge effect on the speed with which enemies are dispatched, and the safety of doing so.

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Which is exactly why I like to initiate combat with Ice Slick. I can do so from around a corner, entirely negating the alpha strike. And the enemies are sufficiently bunched together for AE and offensive toggle convenience.

I'm probably the worst player to invite into your party if you intend on pulling enemies one at a time. Partly because of my area-oriented powerset combination, but because I'm very likely to fall asleep on the job. It's boring. I've been in groups where the blaster insisted on slowly initiating with a sniper attack, essentially soloing. I've been in groups where the /devices blaster simply had to lay down numerous mines before pulling. Worse, I've been in groups where the blaster in the above scenarios was the group leader.

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What is pulling? I've come to understand it simply as a means for initiating combat. Be it from a Blaster with a sniper attack, or through my highly successful 'around-the-corner' Ice Slick manuever.

I've been in all kinds of groups successfully using all kinds of pulling techniques. I've seen other groups attempting the same, only to fail and die. It really depends on who's in your group, what you're fighting and how experienced you and your teammates are.

I really don't believe there's any one superior method for pulling. And as long as it works and nobody dies, what's wrong with doing something a little different?

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Here's the info on the shield set as best as I can remember.

Tankers and Scrappers will get them.
They are, literally, shields. Like Captain America's shield.
They will have two seperate sets - one for shield offense, one for shield defense.

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Cool. When were we supposed to get this? First quarter? Or was there a more specific date?

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Well I would think Shields are gonna be part of their Defense. We're not really sure if these shields are even actual shields, or if they are actual shields, if we're going to be able to use them offensively.

Overall, it's just a Defense set IMO.

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I'm going to assume that since the idea to have a powerset focused on using a shield most likely came from Marvel's Captain America, that it'll be both defensive and offensive. Because that's how the Captain used his shield.