Tormentoso

One of my alts got PLed one level in his late forties. The feeling was very hollowing. I felt I had been dishonest and disrespectful to him somehow.

Since I wanted him to hit fifty and be proud, I decided to have him solo the Preatorian arcs with EB level foes. Not an easy task for a SO'ed out defender who is not ofthe AV killing powerset. Many purples and greens were bought.

Still, once he hit 50 I was proud and felt he was cleansed of his/my sin.

But then again, if you like it, go for it. Me, I get an icky feeling.

This has come a few times and I always get the impression a few of us like helping and teaming with Trials.

If I could offer an idea, besides being able to respond to tells, would be to add an icon in the search engine marking the Trial players. This way those of us forming teams can see they are trials and invite them without having to /tell, and show them around.

Was bored, stole a few of the ones I liked, and put to use my lame photoshop skills:

Hellions


Carnival of Shadows


Nemesis


And a classic:


Still bored. . .

You need support ATs to complete Task Forces.

You can't kill AVs without -Regen.

Tanks are not support AT.

I slot IOs at 15. I Frankenslot around 24, and start getting sets at 30. So please, more stuff!

I saw a angelic themed Gravity/something that recolored his primary white. Singularity looked very much like a Divine being, and his white powers fit the holy themed well. If heroes could make dominators a Grav/Eng would be sexy stuff.

When I joined this game ages ago, one of the first alts I made was an Elec/elec blaster. Being new I've never seen it in action, so I made him thinking electricity was yellowish as in the movies. I was very sad when it turned out purple. I tried to play him, even tried to change his color scheme, but nothing ever clicked. Now I'm playing him again.

On the other hand, I'm so used to building concepts with what I had available, very few of my current alts will need many changes. Their concept and color schemes match the default colors. I think the most drastic ones are adding a few punches to the Martial artists, making energy/energy actually match, and standardizing all the flame swords.

On the other hand, it does open a lot of doors for new alts.

Also: a lot of the debuff/buff IO Sets come with +damage bonuses really early.

Sad thing is, I WAS going to make my Emp/Rad with light blue powers, but only because his color scheme had always been white/sky blue for the years I've been here.

Now I'll need to think of something else or people will think "I'm one of those..."

Did you Build Up and Aimed it?

Worse comes to worse, we'll keep Granite as it is, and customizable Granite will be "in the works" for a long while until BaBs finds a way to make it work and make everyone happy.

Of course, every four days someone will come with a whine rant demanding for custom Granite, and asking why are the Devs so lazy, and why do they hate stone armor, and that they never give players what they want, and 'wah' and 'wah' and 'wah.'

We'll just have to educate then one by one each time they start a thread.

It would definitely be a much sexier alternative to "Electric Melee."

It's bound to muster a lot of 'class' points once you hit 30 and get auras.

Great now all that radiation will surely cause the virus to mutate into a 30 ft tall monster.

DOOOM!!!!!

I mean, yes, get better.

A side scrolling Beat-Em-Up retro arcade game featuring signature characters, with graphics that would made the Atari 2600 proud.

Something like this (stolen from Mr. Playskool's awesome thread):

So my interpretation of the question is this:

1. Granite right now replaces you with a stock NPC model.
2. Because of this, power customization is not easy (read: BABs has been having nightmares for months trying to find a way how).
3. In order to make Granite customizable, one option is to have it stop replacing the character, and instead have it be like the other armors, rock all over you.
4. This, however, would stop the growing big effect, which is what might make people sad.

Although I like the huge transformation, I made it work for me because it's what we had available. But I can also see how others might not be fond of it. I could part with it if it gives more options into what we turn into.

If I do get a vote on how, though, I would much prefer to have it cover us entirely, like Ice Armor does.

So feel free to kill it.

Not sure if it's related, but my defense capped Ice Tank uses Energy Absorption as an opening move for Tauntiness. Not sure if I really need it with two Taunt Auras, but I like to play it safe.

Can someone correct my history memory then.

I remember when epics were first introduced, Blasters were going to get Unstoppable. Tanks and Scrappers complained and they got Foce of Nature, which was a watered down version. Probably this is why I always thought it was only S/L. So what is the difference then? Just the lack of +End?

I can't believe I did not think of this until I read this thread. I was so busy coloring my alts and having my scrappers fight high level foes that forgot all about my Fire/Fire (l.44) and his addiction to huge spawns.

Foes +1, me as good as 8 heroes, versus Councils. For the first time I actually got to the agro cap in action. It was fun. It felt like I was PLing myself. Though I must admit I am grateful for the positional defense and Tough/Weave he has. Not sure how he'd fare against them with just SOs.

Real shame he still does not have Fireball.

Is defender's Force of Nature really +res to all? I thought blaster's was just S/L.

My super speeder if Fire/SR scrapper. He goes so fast stuff burns on him through friction.

You can also slot Kin Combat's chance for KD on Brawl to keep up with the theme.

How's this for a Ninja Tank?

My suggestions:
As said:
HIDE: Move around powers and replace Hide with a Stealth power (think cloaking device).

CALTROPS: Ninjas are fast. Give us a combat teleport power that has a very short animation before and after teleporting. Think every character in Anime and how they move around. Blink, I'm in your face! Give it a long enough recharge and short enough range for it to not be used as a travel. I would suggest making it target based instead of drop power. This way click a foe -> TP in -> Murderize. If the power didn't cause me to redraw, I would love to open with a Soaring Dragon after this.

Mi dilemma with my DM/FA was I was either going to use too many slots to make the two +end reliable, or sacrifice power picks for Stamina. At the end, I went with Stamina and one of the +End powers.

On a related note: I find the only scrappers I get Confront is on my Katana since the animation is as bad-arsh as it can be: point your sword and say "you, me, now."

Any other primary has one that compares (sans Dual Blades which I believe has the same one)?