UberRod

I agree about Port Oakes/Cap Au Diable split. I didn't realize it was part of the same island for the longest time.

I do think the walls should stay around Terra Volta though. That seems like it should be there.

Hey, that's my website!

I didn't create any of the images though. I just made a new page to put them on as the other was doing bad things.

I really like the asymmetrical designs and the energy body designs.

As long as the insta-team thing was voluntary and I could turn it off, I wouldn't mind. You earn XP faster in a team, but I wouldn't want to be forced to join a team if I didn't want to. Star Trek Online had that when I was in beta and it totally sucked.

The way City of Heroes handles teams, missions and the fact that most missions are instanced makes any mechanic that automatically matches you with other people looking for a team work really well. Even better if the team leader could set the maximum number of people they want on their team.

If someone leaves the team, someone is automatically chosen to fill in the missing slot.

But yeah it needs to be voluntary and you should be able to turn it off if you just want to run a 4 person Posi TF with your SG members.

Yeah, my Instant Healing is still a toggle.

I've noticed that my fly aura is a bluish color now. So I wouldn't discount just the color.

Amen to the water reflection thing. I have to turn the water effects off.

When you have to be in melee range for an attack to work on an opponent, then I consider that melee ranged attack.

Of course a blaster can use the ranged attack at melee range, but what if all of your ranged attacks had an effective range that was the same as melee range?

The Dark power that drains health and heals that I mentioned only works at a relatively short (melee) distance, but is not an actual melee attack. You just stand there and absorb their life. You don't punch them, you don't pound on them, you don't kick them. Thus the term "melee ranged attack." This power's range really is that short.

The chain lightning power has a really long range and can be considered a normal ranged attack. So I can agree with you that I can use that at melee range, but it's not really a melee attack.

However, Sparkstorm has a relatively short (ok, maybe a bit longer than normal melee, but not by much) range, even if it is a sphere. And if the bad guy moves out of the range, they stop taking damage. You really need to be in melee range to actually damage bad guys. Plus it does knock back, so you are constantly having to run after the bad guys so they are in range again. I don't see blasters having to do that with their ranged attacks.

Look at CoX's Lightning Field. It has a relatively short radius effectively only working on things within melee range. Not the same as being able to shoot someone 250 yards away.

To be fair, Electricity does have a PBAOE attack Sparkstorm that is similar to Lightning Field in effect, but does a lot of damage and is more of a click power. It is my character's primary attack. It is not a melee attack, but you have to be in melee range to be effective.

Darkness also has a melee ranged attack that does lots of damage and transfers health to you. Kind of like Siphon Life.

So while there are no elemental melee attacks, there are elemental melee ranged attacks.

My character started out (in open beta) as a copy of a pen & paper character that was really strong and could teleport and used a baton to beat people up. But you only have single sword, with no weapon customization. So already my concept was blown, and once I found out how good Sparkstorm was, I totally abandoned the original concept.

So while you do have a certain freedom of exploring different concepts, for me it was too much of a temptation to min/max.

No, you are forbidden about talking about issue 16 things for no less than 25 years.