Tormentoso

First, I'd like to make the disclaimer that I'm well aware the devs are working on a lot of cool stuff and I really look forward to everything, and that I know priorities must be set and all that. So this is not a "I WANT THIS NAO! Wah! Wah! Wah!"

Just curious if anyone else is in the same boat as I am.

Power customization/colorization brought a lot of life into this game, making us feel even more unique and make our character closer to how we envisioned them. It even made some alts more fun to play, and in my case even playable.

My third hero ever was an electric/electric blaster. Made more than 69 months ago. I made him without seeing electric blast in play, so I was thinking it was in the yellow/bright/orange range. I made a too hip for school blater with shades and all and went to town. To my dismay, the purple electricity didn't really jive with him. I even tried making a purple costume to see if it worked, but nothing. He made it to his late twenties before gathering dust.

When power colorization came around I changed his sparkles to orange/yellow and he became fun. I know its all in my head, he was really not all that different but before, but I suddenly enjoyed playing him.

He is now parked at 40 because he cannot face the reality that at 41 he'll be having purple electricity.

My Mind/Energy Dominator had a less dramatic story. I tailored him from the get go to the red blasts. Power colorization didn't do anything for the secondary, but added sexy red hues to Mind Control, which matched the story of a third tier mentalist who got way too empowered by the energy of the red chains. I always enjoyed playing him, but he became even more fun.

Now he in his mid 40s, not looking forward to blue Energy Torrent and Explosive blasts. At least Energy Transfer is pinkish enough to pass.

I have a few other alts like that, but those are the two most notable examples.

Funny thing is, this is not a recurring thing with me. The vast majority of my characters are maleable enough to fit in with what is available. Most of my character didn't even have to hit Icon to change their weapons or powers. There's just some of them that have some sort of theme they aspire to and currently cannot.

I'm wondering if anyone else has alts with similar stories and if you've chosen to play them slower or park them until they can fit your ideal.

Again, I'm not saying "devs! where are the colors!?!? GIMME!" Just musing publicly for conversation's sake.

Cowboys and Aliens. not vs....
Much better looking than you'd think.

I have experienced a F2P model. I've spent only $40 on it and that has given me enough to play for a good 3-4 months.

Yes, I'm missing out on a lot of quality of life things, but I paid to play what feels right to me.

After that time is up, I may get more things, I may be bored. Not sure. However, I do know that that game would not have gotten any money from me through subscription system.

I can accept the less than stellar animations. Budget is surely an issue for things like these. This is if and only if the writing is solid, which the previous didn't really give me hopes for.

I went with Ranged defense on my Grav/Ice to see how it works. If you are not going to slot recharge on your ranged attacks, Thunderstrike is a very good set with solid ranged and energy defense bonuses.

Haven't tried it since the change, but the damage against critter is very statisfying. One shotting most minions is fun. As a Mind dominator, most of the damage I was receiving came from Energy Transfer.

I've been with Hamidon since the time people we picking Resistance/Loyalist sides.

For those of us who are poor and lurkers, can you throw a breakdown of how much inf has been burned and if you'd be #1 on other servers by now?

Also, how about you become #1 on all servers next?

Trailer for awesomeness.

This seems appropriate:

Godzilla: History, Biology and Behavior of Hyper-Evolved Theropod Kaiju

Inherent Fitness and no recovery powers in the pools is the way to go.

End Recovery powers should be removed from pools entirely. A +recovery power pool will always become a "necesity" by most players. People will just 'up their game' till that becomes the new baseline. Everyone will be hurting for endurance and pick the power pool.

Another way to keep resistances bonuses under control is with the rule of 5. Keep the values really limited.

If the only available bonuses for S/L resistance is 2%, 3%, and 5% (to pull random numbers), the maximum anyone can put together is 50% resistance to Smash/Lethal. And in order to do that, he'd have to have 15 powers slotted for these bonuses, leaving little room for other elements.

Why Smashing Haymaker for a /SR? You are looking for Melee defenses, and SH is 1.88% S/L, 0.94% Melee. And they are not cheap. You have 4 sets, that's 3.76% Melee defenses. Might as well slot one single target with Touch of Death (granted, these aren't cheap either), and get some Crushing Impacts or Frankenslot the better attacks.

With inherent Stamina you can get tough/weave for at least some defense.

My Dark Melee/Firey Aura is going the path of Recharge, and yes, melts faces and gets pummeled fast if something goes wrong.

Getting 20% resistance to S/L through IOs should be as trivial as getting 10% defense to S/L.

Most AT cap at 75-85% resistance, whereas defense caps at 45% for all. So defense still wins.

Defense cracks under defense debuffs, Resistance gets hit by every debuff thrown at them. I'd call that even.

The problem with giving an inherent with some recovery to make Stamina "less needed" is that people will get used to burning through the new inherent, calling that base performance, running low on endurance a lot, and go to Stamina again. Which would defeat the purpose.

Once you hit higher levels you become a MASS control / SINGLE TARGET Damage combination. Mass Confusion, Total Domination, and Terrify can be nicely rotated for total lockdown.

Yes. Easy to get loads of cheap recharge as well.

ok, now I'm tempted to get the presence pool on a Dominator. It worked semi-wonders on my Invul Tank before I respec'ed it out. So might be worth giving it a spin.

Now to determine which primary can use it better (besides the FINE Gravity), my Mind/Energy dom would be the most thematically fitting, but he has plenty of Mass Lockdown already...

Having a similar issue with my Dark Melee/Fiery Aura. I have to follow anything that isn't dead after I drop Burn. . .

Seems every other AT board is doing this, so why not here?

Now that the fitness pool will become inherent, Dominators get to pick three more powers of their choosing. And the already slot hungry AT gets hungrier.

So, how will this affect you and how do you forsee things changing?

Common things I've seen some people thinking:

• Invisibility: for three slots for Luck of the Gambler.
• Leadership: assault, tactics, maybe Vengeance.
• More travel powers!
• Fighting just became easier to fit in.

My Mind/Energy/Power with high recharge is unsure what to do. He already took the entire fitness line just to have less powers to slot, and his slots are placed very strategically for max recharge, so this should be interesting.

My Gravity/Ice/Ice with a focus on defense is happy to be able to fit in fighting. This will make him easily cap on ranged and have very solid AoE defense. He might even be able to fit in some recharge and accuracy on top of it.

My Plant/Fire will get to pick more goofy powers for fun.

Still not sure what this will do to my main Ice/Ice/Ice, but then again, he still has not adjusted to issue 18. So. . .