gameboy1234

Thanks for the corrections. I had totally forgotten about the Atlas Park Skulls. And suppose I head to Steal Canyon and the Faultline pretty quickly, so I personally am not used to seeing them past level 10 or so.

Well, that's true. Although I guess I don't have a problem with how they look, including the hair. And 1-20 goes by pretty quickly, so I'm still kinda saying don't spend *a lot* of time on it.

Hmm, just for the heck of it (and because it requires no dev resources), let's just say that the Hellions have a more rigid hierarchy that happens to (often) have a female demon summoner on top. Relationships of *any* sort outside of the gang are discouraged. She's in charge and she doesn't allow any competition, of any sort.

And the skulls have more of an attitude that says "we'll take anyone as long as they're angry and willing to cut someone." So gay, straight, or plastic blow-up dolls, it's all good as long as you want to *stab*.

You know, Lawful Evil vs. Chaotic Evil.

This. While it's possible to use Fly or Hover, it's much easier not to. I have Ninja Run and turn that on when No Fly zones are called for. It retains speed and maneuverability while making it much easier to see any patches forming.

Even shorter: DFB. Yes, you want to play this exactly the same way you deal with the bubbles in the last room of the DFB: Shoot and scoot.

Use a power, then move. Do NOT queue up a new power right away. It's hard to do because we're all used to doing it, but if you can avoid doing it you'll almost eliminate any chance of getting caught in a patch. Try to eyeball it and move about the same distance as the diameter of a patch. That way you're close to the edge of a patch, usually, if one does start to form.

But these high level patches play exactly like the bubbles in a DFB, and we should all be able to do that, right?

Shoot and scoot.

Right, this is what the player is asking. (Or appears to be asking; I get the feeling he's already made up his mind.) It *is* gimp by design. There's no way you could do this and make it viable. You'd always be carried by your teammates.

Sure you can physically do it, but expect to be booted a lot. I've actually had a petless mastermind on my team. If I didn't already have a full and awesome team, I would have told him no. (He actually told me before hand.) As it was, I kinda tolerated it, but I don't think I'd repeat it. Worse, actually, than a "pure healer," though I find those pretty darn gimp too.

No. Petless masterminds are just a bad idea. We can't prevent you from making one, but we're telling you it's dumb. Expect to solo a lot. You asked if the concept was "worthy." No it's not. You asked if it would be a total waste. Yes it would be.

Right up there with "pure healers." You give up too much in exchange for whatever character idea you have.

Generally I think that's a Draw Distance and Level of Detail setting. At some distance, the engine starts removing polygons so that objects are simpler and easier to draw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail

What setting controls that in CoH, I don't know. Character Detail is as good as any to try, Father Xmas is pretty knowledgeable and often exactly correct about these sorts of things.

Oh burn!!

Which to me argues for making Boxing and Kick better. It's "Fighting," not "Fighting Weakly."

The powers should be better, have better damage, and damge/endurance, and therefore be "worth it" for those taking the powers. They should actually make the player better at fighting, not rather sucky at it.

This is a good idea, actually. I've heard Air Superiority called "the best attack in the game." Why not make a prerequisite that was also a good, desirable power? I think it's a fallacy to think that a prerequisite has to be "bad."

So right now Kick and Boxing seem to do about Tier 1 or 2 smashing damage. I'd like to see that upped to about Tier 4 or so, some really decent attack; yes about as much as a primary or secondary.

Boxing to me looks a bit like brawl, I'd like to see the "one-two" punch animation used. Kick can be a bit of an End hog and also cause knockdown in addition to more damage. Also, kick should not cause weapon redrawn, for all of us blade and gun bunnies out there.

I don't think this will over-power the pool, and will make folks happier with their prerequisite pick.

True, but most of the I24 content is available to everyone. So by coincidence this seems be a good time to lay low and just muck about, as I mentioned.

I'll be around leveling my Water Blast toon and hopefully a new Nature Affinity toon also.

Actually it's a bit of planned downtime for me. I've iTrial'd all I can stand, so I'm going to go premium for a while and just muck about. I'm planning to resub once some of the newer content comes out (prob i25).