Thirty-Seven

And I was supposed to just know that... how?

That is a truly horrible idea. The Devs already regretted making EATs unlock at 50 (and have since changed it) because too few people were able to play them, so their development time was basically squandered. I don't think giving a new AT to ONLY the people that have played for (what will be) more than 8 years is a wise decision.

And as for backpacks? I don't think those should be a Vet Reward. I think they should be freely available to everyone... yesterday.

/Edit: Oddd, I agree with Sharker on something. /

True about Power. Wasn't Brewha and City_Life the same person??

The difference is in the NUMBER of them that were available to any one player. You would have had to pre-order at 4 different stores to get all of the Helms, so they included them as a reward so that the average sane player could get the other 3 he may be missing. I believe the Sprints were a similar case (not sure on that one).

As for the cape, it was available through the purchase of a single product, and so is still linked to that product. Also, you can no longer pre-order a game that has been released for years... but you can still (somewhere) find copies of the other products.

I am not saying I disagree with ya necessarily, but there IS a sort of logic to it.

Nope.

Each account earns Vet Status seperately.

I... I don't know if I have any idea what that says or not. Are you saying that after looking at some of ZX's work you think that HE inspired the design for the Mutant Pack?

You spoke directly about what a mob can supposedly do in Praetoria... I would say that if that were supposition, it should have been phrased as such and far less (for lack of a better word) authoritatively.

Either way, it is pro'ly best that you edited it. After all, I only mentioned it to keep you from getting in any kind of trouble.

While I certainly agree... it is also a bit amusing at times just how much reverence people pay her. She has kinda become, at this point, some sort of infallible gospel. That isn't meant to be a knock to Arcana because, frankly, she is pretty much ALWAYS right. In fact, I almost left off the qualifier there... but I feared that if I had, she would reply with a specific example of a time she was wrong!

I told you that, didn't I? ('Cept I think I said it was A criterion.)

Actually, you put it in the perfect spot. That area of the forums is being defenstrated soon. The forum rules, they are a-changing!

I find that playing a set for the first time can help a lot when it comes to a build. I play through a good way on a new character, figure out what I like and don't like powerwise and whether or not I actually like the character at all before I sit down and try to decide what powers/enhancements I want/need to do what I want to do.

Oh, that brings up another point: a good build for a given player depends a lot on what that player wants to do with the character. Is he going to PvP? Only do PvE? Lots of Task Forces, Strike Forces and Trials? RP? A little of everything? All kinds of things impact what you want to do with your build.

That's all well and good... but a sword is not an axe. An axe is intended for a given purpose, and so is a sword. It makes no sense to me to use a sword to do an axe's job.

Let us pretend that you have a magical mace. It is enchanted so that it causes slashing wounds when it impacts a person. If you were to create that character in CoH, it would have to be either a mace weilder (and do smashing damage) or a sword weilder (and have the wrong weapon). That's how it works. If you allow a maces to work like a sword, then you would have to change the damage type too. And the Devs have made it quite clear that a given weapon set will NOT change damage types based on appearance (hence no flaming swords).

I guess what bothers me most about this whole thing is the insistance that the Devs should make EVERY idea a player has a feasible one within the cofines of the game. To me, it is far more fun, and imaginitive, to work with the limited options that we have, and to make them work in the best ways one can. If you create some ridiculous concept like a bunny wielding panther and then get mad because you can't make it in the game... well, the problem does NOT lie with the Devs.

Wrong. Weapons do certain things. Period. Just because we have superpowers in the CoH/V/GR Universe does NOT mean that the purpose of an item changes.

Okay. In fact, I have already begun, in a way. *looks at costume re-design thread in sig*

Ditto.

Hmmmm.
A female Ice/Axe tanker.


Element 37

What?! He's kinda sexy.