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Not necessarily. If it would be a secondary, it could be melee focused. Look at Energy Assault. It'd probably have Build Up or whatever, some solid melee maybe attacks that might do stuns to help control, and then one of them could be an AoE spinning-kick-thing.

I still don't understand the hate on magic. In the Justice League cartoon series, a beyond excellent show, there was a story that focused on Dr. Fate, Aquaman, Solomon Grundy, Hawkgirl, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Pretty diverse and ragtag group of heroes. And they battled Cthulu or whatever it was called, a horrible and powerful magical beast that terrorized Atlantis and was responsible for it sinking. They battled it's spawn and minions, grew as a team, had a very touching moment with Grundy, and killed Cthulu itself from the inside out.

Replace Dr. Fate with Dream Doctor, Solomon Grundy with Scirocco, and the rest of the league with our characters. Now replace Cthulu with Mot, and Atlantis with Dark Astoria, and you have I22's DA story line. And that's just one big story that focuses on magic and the arcane in the world of DC. Marvel also has heavy focus on magic with enemies like Mandarin and heroes like Dr. Strange, just to name a couple examples.

So do you just personally hate magic as a source for stories?

Maybe you just weren't as clear as you thought you were when you said that?

I won't. I hated sitting there clicking the same few buttons over and over again for ten/fifteen minutes, just waiting for his health to slowly drop. I felt like I should have just put one of my best powers on auto-fire and left to make some food or play minesweeper. Once you reach a certain point, more HP stops making a fight challenging and starts making it drawn out and stale.

Also, old school content had gimmicks every now and again. STF requires you destroy Recluse's towers that empower him while he's beating your team to a pulp with his near-infinite power. And those towers had engineers that could heal it back to full health if just one slips by you. ITF had us fight Rommy and his Nictus buds. And if we beat Rommy he'd sacrifice a Nictus to rez, your entire team is stunned, and we fight him again. Not to mention each Nictus was OP'd back in the day. Redside's Reichsman fight at least gave us something to do while we waited for Reichs to die and sent us never ending ambushes to keep us on our toes. And these are just a few examples of what could be considered gimmicks. So it's not like these things are entirely new concepts.

Calm down.

We have Grief, Frustrated, Pushups, Growl, Collapse, Swoon, Catchbreath, and Assumetheposition to take advantage of already. A forward lean wouldn't be so bad.

Like how? If you can shoot out some examples of what you mean specifically that'd be cool, because "superhero" is a very vague, large genre that encompasses a wide variety of different types of characters.

'Cause the undead aren't a legitimate threat to folks with super powers, and are never featured in comics?

We had a solid year or so of Technology when GR launched. Magic's getting it's turn to hog the spotlight.

To be honest, I wasn't expecting it either. Just hoping. Telling a story through Trials just feels real awkward. :\

That's true for most MMOs, but this game has always given us epic Taskforces to cover those awesome, huge events. STF/LRSF, LGTF, ITF, even the Apex and Tin Mage, which started the whole war. League-worthy raids were reserved for either a humongous monster or taking your army of supers to face down an army of Rikti in the middle of their home base. Trials are nice for those events that actually warrant nothing but combat, but a Taskforce is far more efficient at telling a story. I just, personally, feel the big ending to this conflict deserves at least that.

Yeah, a smaller, more personal elite team where your more held accountable for your actions, the team depends on you far more, and what you do is much easier to notice. With Leagues, everything you do is unnoticable. You're just kind of there.

I just want it to be more personal. In my opinion, a truly epic and memorable battle would be one where you're not just one soldier of 24 or 32 being thrown at the end boss in a massive light show where you can't even tell what's really going on because of all the powers going off everywhere. It just doesn't feel climactic at all. I mean, the LGTF or LRSF/STF felt epic, had appropriate build up, and still had you fighting incredibly powerful bosses at the end.

This. Hopefully there'll either be a bit more, or it won't take all Spring and Summer.

Also a bit bummed out the final, climactic battle that wraps up this story line will be yet another Incarnate Trial. Just kind of takes away from the impact of finally beating the big bad leader of the Praetorians and saving the dimension from tyranny, along with 20-something others. I hoped the big confrontation with the man behind it all would be a bit more personal, like a special Incarnate Taskforce or something. Then that would lead into something more suitable for a Trial, the battle against Hamidon as the people of Praetoria evacuate from the Devouring Earth.

Oh well :\

So, it's Monday. Has Z found the pics and post'd 'em anywhere?