UberGuy

I love how this forum is used as a dumping ground for gripes. At least some people bother to phrase the complaint as a question.

Since we're here, though, I'm kind of surprised at this. Somehow I got the impression that the WST was going to be TFs that qualified for Incarnate "progress", meaning level 45-50 ones. The increased XP still makes sense on those - you don't have to be level 50 to go on them.

Unlike some others who've posted, I'm not especially pleased to know that all the older TFs are up for grabs on this. I think the newer hero-side TFs tend to be better designed and more enjoyable than most of the legacy TFC ones. Synapse and Citadel are, IMO, obnoxiously repetitive. ("Ooh, defeat all of only the same type of foe on the same kind of map again? Neat!") Sister Psyche isn't that much better.

I'm also disappointed that the ITF was changed out. Most of my 50s need two or more Nictus Fragments to craft the Alphas I'm after, and I do enjoy that TF, so having it grant Notices was going to be very convenient for me. Sister Psyche? Not so much.

Honestly, I wouldn't like that. I am tired of this particular cutscene, but basing whether it appears on the badge means I would never see any cutscene more than once, ever, unless I went on the TF with someone who'd not already run it. I've seen most of them countless times now, but I'd like to be able to see them two or three times without being dependent on what characters I'm on a team with.

I still think a vote would be the best option.

The only thing relating to DE tip missions I recall Castle commenting on was their increased base toHit. I don't recall anything about the difficulty slider failing to affect the bosses.

I think you're wrong. I don't think we're going to get 10 level shifts. There's lots of evidence we're not going to get one with every slot.

We might be wrong, but I think it makes more sense to make the guesses suggested by the greater weight of evidence. Having the 10 incarnate slots literally translate into +10 effective levels has never been suggested by the devs except by the mere fact that there are 10 slots. Concluding that each slot is +1 level, no matter how simple a conclusion it may seem, is a leap of logic that players made on their own.

Edit: It should be pointed out that our future self in the Incarnate into arc is not mopping the floor with AVs because of level shifts. They're doing it because of unlocked slots that represent fundamental invincibility and massive destructive addition to their attacks. They're "only" +4 to the AVs (assuming you play it on +0 level setting).

Oh, I wasn't thinking they'd add level shifts in any sinister way. I figure it's just a natural outgrowth of us getting them. Remember, we're getting other powers, too. At some point, combining IO builds and the extra abilities of the other Incarnate slots, I think +4s are going to be pretty manageable, so giving us the option to fight effective +5s or even higher might be quite reasonable.

(Teams with IO builds and/or good buffs were already speeding through the Apex and Tin Mage TFs. Last night some folks I know who do that regularly ran Apex with all +1 shifted 50s and finished it in 18 minutes.)

I do wish CoH had something that I recall Going Rogue had. Everyone on a team had a vote to skip a cutscene. If everyone voted to skip it, it would be skipped. If even one person didn't vote, it would play out normally. Voting was anonymous. This was great for allowing someone who wanted to see the cutscene, but if everyone was tired of it, they could bypass it.

Apologies if someone else already mentioned this, as I didn't read the whole thread before posting. Edit: I see they did. And I think feeling pressured by an anonymous vote is ... interesting.

Fairly damn superhuman martial arts capabilities by otherwise "normal" humans are something of a staple of anime/manga and Japanese and Chinese (and probably some other cultural) martial arts movies.

Sure, the movie itself is an intentional farce, but think Kung Fu Hustle.

All of my characters have backstories that are specifically crafted to fit into the game world. I sometimes conveniently gloss over things that I don't like, and I don't always refer to canon, but I never knowingly contradict in with my descriptions.

That means all of my characters have descriptions that are compatible with the level of power we see in the late game. That includes the Natural origin ones. I long ago discarded the notion that "natural" means "baseline human". I now see Natural origin, human characters as an otherwise normal human who unlocked something truly superhuman, but did so through none of the other Origin methods. In theory, any Primal Earth human could do this, but clearly only a rare few do.

Many of my characters are of Magic origin, and some have origins rather in line with the canonical Incarnate examples of Statesmen and Lord Recluse. These are old backstories, predating any real knowledge of Incarnates. I based some of them off of the old (now rarely refernced) "Entities" we see referenced in Magic SOs and the Serafina store contact dialogs. Such characters fit very nicely in the Incarnate backstory - they're just tapping into a new source of "magical" power.

Some though, are hard to align with it. For example, one of my characters is a truly baseline human who is wearing high-tech power armor. I don't have a problem imagining the Well having an interest in him, in the sense that his success with his armor makes a figure of great destiny. I just have a hard time imagining how the Well's focus on him really fits in. Does it grant the guy in the armor new abilities? Does it somehow enhance the armor? All of the above would work, but I'm having a hard time deciding what would I like it to be.

I think the length of the padding is a bit extreme. I also am hopeful it's just a stop-gap until some better approach in I20. It does have an upside - it gives me a sense of breathing room to get my Notices on multiple characters, and to build out a second branch in characters who only had one Uncommon slot crafted (which was most of them).

So I'm not nuts about it, but I'm putting it to decent use for the time being, and I'm hoping/expecting it will change in I20.

You're setting yourself up for a mod smack. Bumping threads is actually against the rules.