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My new 'rad/rad' tank.

Tanks, of course, do not get rad powers in either their primary or their secondary, so a real rad tank is an impossibilty - Atomsmash uses Stone Armor and Energy Melee, colored the brightest, sickliest green they can be colored, and the result looks so nuclear that playing him really feels like playing an honest-to-god radiation tank, and by extension like I've made something that previously didn't exist in the game (yes, I know there are plenty more stone/energy tanks out there; I'm just talking about how I cobbled it together since the devs haven't given us "real" rad tanks). Really, it just looks awesome.

While I agree that phone booths are probably a no-go, clickable doors/objects that automatically pop up the costume change window, then when you choose your new costume have you go in and come back out in whichever costume you change to, would be pretty cool. Here's some plausible ideas for places a hero (or villain) could change:

-Public bathrooms, like we see in SG bases and Pocket D
-Parked cars and trucks
-Random outside doors, manholes, etc that don't currently have a mission on them
-Dumpsters
-Port-a-johns (do we have these? I can't remember)

Doubtless, there are even more options that I haven't thought of, but the point is that it doesn't have to be a phone booth at all.

I've gotten flack from having both the Flight and Teleportation pools on my grav/rad troller who is a sentient black hole - even if the only power he has from Flight is Hover (will probably take Air Superiority at some point too, since I hear it's good DPS). But even so, did these people not realize how useful Hover is on an all-range squishy? Nonetheless, having Hover on at all times (which it is) is a bit of a strain on the endurance, so I figure it still counts.

Also, on my Crab, I took all the available slicey-with-the-spider-legs melee attacks despite hearing they're kinda meh, since she's supposed to be a Freakshow Meat Doctor with stolen Arachnos tech, and the first thing I think of when it comes to that particular enemy is slicey melee attacks.

SOOOO signed! It's just silly that we have to have hair if we're wearing a hat, especially on a character wearing a full mask.

I lol'd, good sir.

Paragon Wiki has pretty good ones - female, male, and the unique Cortex. Chaos Leather top and bottom with Sinister gloves and boots (non-plated version) is a good start for a hero trying to replicate one - real Eidolons have unique masks and chest color patterns (the white V shape) but there's probably something similar that PCs can use.

Oh jeez, that's a tough call - I have about three "favorite" AT/power combos, for all different reasons.

1. Flying Broadsword/Shield scrapper, with Body mastery EPP. First, shield charge shield charge shield charge shield charge yeahhhhhh! Playing this character, I feel like a blender on legs. A favorite combo is build up+shield charge+whirling sword, often from above; I wipe out most of a +2 spawn with this.

2. Flying Gravity/Energy dominator with Ghost Widow PPP. Knockback everywhere! This is the character I wish my Blasters could be.

3. Teleporting Kinetics/Electric defender. In a word, Sapper. In more words than that, AOE Sapper. This is one of the most survivable characters I've ever played, and with Fulcrum Shift he does near-Blasterlike damage.

That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

My first 50 is a gravity/energy dominator - so that's lots of knockback with pretty much half her powers. It made her loads of fun to play even solo, which happened a lot because she's on Triumph, and I found myself using her tier-one powers (Lift especially) all the way up, because the knockback/knockup was such a good way to prevent her from being smacked by whatever wasn't currently being held in her Gravity Distortion or distracted by her Singularity. I've learned to think of Lift as a few-seconds-long hold, and more control is ALWAYS better, regardless of what class you're playing. However, most of her attacks are slotted for damage and accuracy (except the holds and Wormhole which were slotted for duration instead of damage), because technique aside, numbers do matter. If I'm not doing enough damage to kill things, the game stops being fun and starts being frustrating, regardless of how many minions I'm flinging all over the place.

Yep, and fabric rips. It's assumed that we polish, sew, repaint, and otherwise maintain our costumes, or that they're made of Magical Superhero Materials that never need maintenance or are self-healing.

Metal can also be enameled in those weird colors (hot pink, etc), which would let it keep a metallic shine rather than a plastic onem like this carabiner here. Just keepin' it out there that unnatural metal colors can be the same shine we see on the Metallic tights is all... not even sure what my point is, or if I have one. By the way, Sam, if you polished that stove to a finish that would reflect the surrounding environment, it wouldn't be black anymore.

See, this is something I see as even worse than trying something out because it IS popular - as I see it, if a lot of people like something, then there's got to be something appealing about it and that makes it worth looking into for me. If I can find no evidence that this new thing is bad and/or unfun, I'll do the sensible thing and try it out. Who cares if five hundred other people also like it? I don't play a broadsword/shield scrapper to try to be different, I play one because DAMN IS SHIELD CHARGE FUN.

I stopped doing things solely to be different in high school.

Is it possible for us to have a Minimal FX version of Shield Defense? I'd love to be able to have that, but given that the power set involves drawing an object similar to weapon power sets, I'm not sure it can be done... can it?

I doubt I'd take mine either on my new MM, except that it's Howling Twilight and therefore extremely useful even when soloing. Since MMs are, according to Castle, meant to fill a similar role to Tankers, you'd officially be doing a better job if you didn't let your teammates die in the first place, thus making ally-only rez powers a much lower priority. On my OTHER new MM (that hasn't been made yet) I don't think I'll take it, since he's fire secondary.

Ultra mode inspired a new character for me:



Silverwing Sentinel wouldn't have been nearly as awesome without the OOOHSHINY.

"Terminator" sounds like the sort of tankmage that people are clamoring for and nobody can figure out how to balance. My thoughts on such a tankmage would involve its primary not to be a Blast set (which is what most people think of for Ranged) but an Assault set, like the Dominators have - there are three ATs with Blast sets already and only one with Assault, so it would help the class to be unique, and since Assault sets include melee attacks as well as ranged ones it would work well with an AT that has a defensive set to help mitigate the melee damage they would be taking.

However, even with that in mind, it'd be a real pickle balancing this to not step on the toes of Blasters and Scrappers. Perhaps having the Defiance bar be pretty much necessary for you to start doing good damage would help - Scrappers have high damage all the time and are better off not being damaged, so their survivability would remain better. A Terminator missing a significant chunk of HP could start to do Blaster- and Scrapper-level damage, maybe, but definitely not right off the bat, and never to the level of a Brute with a full fury bar. This could be interesting in terms of play decisions, as well, since you would be switching your focus from defense to offense and back again in fights much more significantly than other classes - use your self-heal from your secondary, for isntance, and your damage drops... but you avoid dying. Could be interesting.

The one on the enter-your-name screen is broken, but the one on the select-your-character screen works fine. The problem is a little annoying, but you can work around it easily with a little forethought - or if playing in the creator is how you came up with your concept, you can jsut save the costume, go back to the select screen, check the name, and then actually make the character in seconds now that you have the costume already done.