Tormentoso

Starting point:

So how come no one is complaining about all the other nuisances in the other sustain powers?

Fire Manipulation's blazing aura means I'm going all around damaging and agroing everyone around me.

Ice Manipulation Chilling Embrace is becoming a 30 ft radius slow field. What if I don't want to slow stuff or want them to get closer?

Energy Manipulation has me clicking Energize over and over again if I want the bonus!

Electric's Sustain is in Lighting Clap!

EDIT: not that any of this bothers me, but I can see it ruining plenty of people's internet life.

Rad blast tainted black? Irradiate could do the job.

Without giving away any spoilers, how many episodes of Phantom should I watch before deciding if it's for me or not? Watched the first two and not too impressed.

It's been a while since we get new temp power recipes. That'd be one good place for it to make a comeback.

I would love this IF AND ONLY IF the other build had its own leveling xp system. So they would for all intents and purposes be different characters entirely attached to the same name.

So no matter how high the self-PL-ing Brute is, the controller who is uber at 50 but sucks till then is still level 1.

The RP potentials would be delicious. Same character with multiple kinds of battle armor: melee and range. A dual pistol who alternates between devices or traps depending on the need, etc.

Aye. I love his Batman, but I can't see him bringing anything productive into a Justice League movie.

I don't think powersets can read. Much less be aware of concepts such as friendships or relationships.

Unless you were trying to passive aggressively make a subtle statement about the direction the game is going in the shape of a personal letter.

These days, can't be sure what are the intents of someone in the internet. Lots of crazy people into lots of weird stuff hearing lots of weird voices.

But I don't judge. I heard someone married a fruit salad once. I'm cool with that. Ergo, I'm cool with you breaking up with a powerset.

Personally I think the new recharge values are too small and would probably be happy with an extra 30 seconds (15 after slotting) recharge if it meant more "Oomph."

But regardless, I'm happy and ok with this direction.

I got a Rad/Fire in the late 20s. Still no Combustion though. Biggest problem I've found so far is all the DoTs. Repulsion Bomb jumping in, Fire Sword Circle, Irradiate, tick tick tick, stuff dies, if it doesn't I got a Fire Sword for that, and then blast as needed.

I'm impatiently waiting to see if the devs follow up and make Blazing aura not drop on mezzes. I'll be happy camper then.

...how is a defender supposed to do any defending with so many fun pew pew options?

I'm looking hard at my build wondering how to fit two powers and the slots for them. Not easy, I say.

I will do it, because, hey, BOOM! and all. But not easy.

My First Storm defender was a Storm Brawler. All Storm, no secondary, all power pools. I wonder how doable it would be now.

For some reason confusion powers tend to have longer base duration than other forms of control. Probably because of the 'loss xp' or some other weird reason. Add to that that Seeds is meant to be Plant's every spawn control and you have 'weeeee.'

Though I agree Seeds might be too much, I also agree that Plant w/o it is meh, whereas Mind w/o Mass Confusion still has plenty of reliable lockdown toys.

Mind has two 'Control Nukes' which makes reliable control when alternated, as opposed to other control sets.

Bonefire on your feet or a little bit ahead can wreck anyone trying to get close.

Thanks. I know 2% per second doesn't sound like much and we'll still die in alphas, but I've been soloing my level 27 blaster that only has common IOs (and a Kismet) and I've found myself thinking that that noticeable regen would come in handy with downtime. The problem is not killing a spawn, its the bruises you're left with that makes the next one too much of a threat.

And conceptually, I like it better than def, res, and mezz protection.

Still not sure if it will be enough, but there's Beta for that.

EDIT: so 2% max HP/sec means a whole new health bar every 50 seconds. And the bonuses you mentioned adds up to 203% regen or 0.83% max Hp/Sec for a total of ~2.83% max HP / sec which translates into a whole new health bar every 35 seconds.

Not sure I like the idea of giving up Thunderstrikes for that, but I like the general direction.

For those of us that can't understand what 380% regen means, can we have a rough translation? HP/sec doesn't mean much either since I have no idea what a level 50's HP are and I never play there.

I remember Hawk saying that Sustain was going to be in the lines of 1% of the health bar per second, half of that slottable, so I'm thinking 1.5% of my health bar per second. I think this way of presenting things are easier for the math-illiterate.

I'd like to see someone with Bonfire slotted for damage and the proc put up a video of it in action.

Let's at least keep the event documented for future generations.

Funny thing about 4 people PuGs: some powers become useful. My blaster found the starting immob power the only thing keeping him alive on some teams.

I am reminded of :Sayre's law