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I agree. Damage proc? Even superior chances to proc don't impress me much. Maybe I'll toss it in Time's Distortion Field and use the rest of the set elsewhere.

Also referred to as "Wish I slotted defense when I reached sufficient levels of recharge with Hasten".

From the get-go they're slightly stronger than most set bonuses, and I believe (I'm not certain) they should exempt down to level 10. Once upgraded the Superior version offers bonuses competitive with purples (10% recharge, 5% range def).

Aside from superior numbers is the versatility in slotting them.

Seconding this recommendation, but whatever you do AVOID SPOILERS.

You're free to do so. I, however, don't and generally dislike it for many reasons.

The first and most obvious is that your background becomes bloated with a lot of extraneous information: past adventures, absent abilities, missing contacts, etc. For someone else approaching you to RP it's akin to approaching a longer running television series. You may want to hop in and enjoy, but there's so much to catch up on. So in a way it's a bit alienating. We all have the CoH lore in common, but not so with some other work where a character may have been created.

Secondly, I feel it often comes with a lot of shoe-horning if the person wants to portray it as the same character (rather than simply an alternate version of the same). Despite all the options we have in our character creator, the mechanics to the game are pretty limited. There are a lot of concepts we can't pull off terribly well (shape changers as we're stuck to a humanoid frame with few exceptions, growth-shrinking, skills of all kinds). At least when moving from PnP to the game, I can't help that it would feel like a downgrade for most characters.

The third, and probably most personal reason, is that I like to see people stretch their creativity a bit. I've gamed with people that always want to RP the same character and same persona. On one hand they know the character well and can play the role, but on the other hand so does everyone else in the group. Admittedly, that's not so much a problem in an MMO where there's plenty of people with whom to interact. It's a personal annoyance though. I'm not a person to watch the same movie twice, nor see someone act out the same character again and again.

Nope. My elec/time is softcapped to all positions and all types. Powerboosted Farsight is ridiculously strong.

I don't think it would adversely affect playing at range. Unless you're use Ice Slick alone at range and not utilizing Frostbite. Even then I'd be more wary of overpowering Ice by allowing it to immobilize foes at range, debuff their range attacks, and then stay far out of their range to retaliate.

You've actually hit on something I can agree with. It is, in my eyes, some bad RP to lift a character from another setting and expect it to work seamlessly into the CoH world, usually with the contrivance of being from another dimension. I've seen it done as well with characters that people created in other MMOs and wish to carry over. They're free to do it though, but I don't particularly like it.

That is my suspicion as well.

At any rate, I've never found the geyers overly accurate. Mini-Horta Vines would certainly solve the problem and protect against future alterations to the physics.

That's exactly the character I thought of myself. So many people make derivatives of him...

There's a lot of different takes on canon. Some GMs use it extensively and let their players work along established NPCs. Some use it loosely; utilizing the setting more than the characters. Some create their own setting and characters so there's no canon except what they and their players create. I would say rarely (as in I've never seen it) would a GM let someone step into the role of an established character. Personally, the worlds I've enjoyed the most are ones that aren't saddled with the baggage of canonical settings and NPCs, but that's just me. Some do like the familiarity.

Let's not insult PnP roleplayers either. This sort of thing wouldn't fly with any group with whom I've RPed.

A good opportunity to change streams in what has become a rather negative thread... so here goes.

There's more to her story, of course, most of which resides only in my head. The Skulls that abducted her, under the influence of Superadine that granted them some multidimensional perception, were being instructed by a being from the Shadow dimension. This being hoped to escape its fate of enslavement by Black Swan by utilizing Miriam's arcane abilities and inherent connection to the Shadow dimension. It has scoured many dimensions seeking a foothold to make its escape and so has connected her Praetorian self as well.

Praetorian Miriam, having her mind occupied by another, was resistant to the psyche stripping that would render her another of Mother's Seers. She narrowly escaped elimination when a Resistance plot, directed against Mother's Hospital, disrupted the Seer network and openrf the door to her freedom. However, neither Primal or Praetorian Miriam, or the many other versions that may exist for that matter, are truly free of the shadow being just yet. Eventually, they will confront this being and take control of their destinies completely.

So anyway... there's my story. What I like about it is that it is tied to the lore in a variety of ways (the Hellion/Skull connection, the Superadine fed extra-dimensional visions that led to Portal Corps technology, Black Swan and the Shadow Dimension, and, of course, Mother Mayhem), but it doesn't make her the key player in any story that has been told.

I do feel it's a bit more difficult and a good test of ones creativity to create within the constraints of a setting. Not that I dismiss characters that eschew the lore, but when I read a bio that ties suits the game I'm sure to give that player a tell with my appreciation and praise.

I agree with a lot of your suggestion except this. Knockback slotting would cause the knockdown to become knockback and scatter enemies off of the slick. Also, with -90% runspeed and a debuff to the max runspeed there isn't much need to slot slows at all. It would allow for some set muling or proc'ing but I think it opens the door for a lot of misslotting.