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I prefer "altoholism."

That, my friend, is gloriously 80s. As my boyfriend put it, "He-Man meets Thundercats." Seriously, I'm getting nostalgic for shows that I never even watched because I was four years old in 1989. Bravo, good sir - bravo!

Not when SC stops them from gaining endurance back. Just now I was fighting some Paragon protectors, and watching them stand there doing nothing (except tossing the occasional Brawl at me) after I SC/BL/Transferenced them. The only attacks they're able to get off before I SC again are too weak to kill me - and what else would I slot my AOEs for if not endurance mod (and accuracy and recharge)? Slotting for damage is redundant when you cap yourself using Siphon Power and Fulcrum Shift.

If you don't like that build, fine, go play something else - but saying it's not "viable" is foolish.

When you three-slot SC and Ball Lightning for Endmod, that sliver of endurance is all a mob has left after two clicks, and they won't be regaining it anytime soon especially if you keep spamming SC every chance you get. I mentioned my Kin/Elec (who is, by the way, one of my favorite characters - loads of fun to play) is in his mid thirties - if "reality" is going to hit me, when can I expect that? SC->Ball Lightning->Fulcrum Shift means yeah, they are going to get in a volley or two, but with the damage debuff from Fulcrum Shift I can survive it and get the HP back via Transfusion (used on whatever enemy still has endurance left, to help drain him). Hasten means I have draining powers up almost any time I need them, and FS means I can slot all my electric attacks for Endmod instead of damage. Yeah, he doesn't take out a spawn solo as quickly as some ATs might, but that's par for the course with a Defender and doesn't bother me in the slightest. Seriously - he almost never dies.

Yes, SC has a three-second animation. This can be mitigated by taking Stealth to get yourself into the middle of the spawn before firing it, or if you're crazy like me, Teleporting in and firing it right away - and Ball Lightning doesn't take nearly as long. Seriously. It works.

Two tips for this build: Skip Voltaic Sentinel, and carry a lot of Break Frees.

As a costume-and-concept junkie, might I give a resounding NO. Say one of the Mutant-only costume parts is the Tentacle Arm. What if I have a Magic-origin character with a Lovecraftian theme? That's just not fair!

However, I do like the idea of giving a little bonus XP or other rewards based on completing arcs and running missions for contacts of the appropriate origin. Contacts are already listed as having origins associated with them, and apart from unlocking stores in which they sell overpriced DOs and SOs that nobody in their right mind would buy when they can just go to a regular store, that means nothing. Increased rewards based on origin is a fantastic idea and a great way to make these contacts' origin-associations relevant. It'd all be the same rewards regardless of what origin you play - you just do different things to get them, which is both equal and sensible. No combat buffs, no special weaknesses, no locking anyone out of anything, just a little incentive to have a robot, a wizard, and a ninja to have differing adventures.

Thanks. She's my favorite character ever to RP, kinda grew out of a costume I thought up when I was playing with using secondary colors on full tights to represent skin and thereby create clothing patterns that aren't actually available with skin, and found that light blue worked very well as a skin color. Few spikes, extra eyes, insect feet, and the rest is history.

Yes please.

Really? Funny, I never noticed that. In any case, I was just thinking something along the lines of what that glitch (if it is a glitch) does - why shouldn't there be random Child NPCs wandering around in peaceful neighborhoods? Since you can't attack the random for-flavor citizens that walk from place to place telling you what time it is, or if you've recently finished an arc, telling other people what you've been doing, I can't for the life of me figure a reason that they should all be adults.

Hence, "A faster animation would be nice," but don't take away my large heavy objects please. Just make them appear faster! For instance, perhaps instead of blasting a mini-singularity out of your hand, the animation could be a small mini-singularity forming around your hand and blasting the object out of it. An animation like that wouldn't have to take more than a second, since there'd be none of the stupid materializing/hanging in the air that slows the current animation down. Additionally, it'd be more sensical for many themed characters who shouldn't be able to create objects from thin air, since the appearance would be more like pulling the object through a wormhole from somewhere else.

Any power can be used badly. There's nothing wrong with Wormhole having all the different components it has (AOE foe teleport, stun, knockback) and if you and I can learn to use it properly then so can any other decent Gravity troller/dom. Not every power in every power set will be suited to every player, and the only change to Wormhole that I support is the application of the stun at the beginning, because not every map has corners I can hide behind while it activates. Yes, I agree that no other stun works this way, which is why I like Wormhole: it is a unique and highly utilitarian power to have and it's not THAT hard to use properly.

I saw no such copy.

Because why would you want to throw a ho-hum ball of kinetics when you could throw a FORKLIFT?

Agreed that a faster animation would be nice, but really, Propel is half the fun of the set. My first 50 is a grav/EA dom and one of the most fun characters I've ever played; she gave me a great love of the Gravity set.

Also, disagreed on Wormhole being too complicated, but applying the stun at the beginning rather than the end of the animation would be a huge improvement.

I think I may have a new defender!

If you think I, and many others, are "cheap" for being unwilling or unable to shell out $65 to a third-party seller for a cape and an alternate animation for Sprint, I'd like to know how I can get your job so I can have that kind of money to burn.