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If anyone can't spot and dodge a patch at 10 feet elevation they're doing it wrong.

See what I did there?

Either method works fine. It's the middling distances that tend to get things very muddled. Another thing to be weary of is your distance from the target vs distance from the ground. Forty feet directly above the target is fine, but if you're firing at an angle you're no longer a clear distance from the ground. If you're using the shortest range attacks (Blaze, Power Burst, etc.) make sure you're directly above the target.

Flying for the first time was very cool. In fact, as soon as I could get Hover I started chasing down the Atlas blimp.

I'd like both of those ideas, the swords and the IDF orbs, as they can be viewed much more generally.

There has been one usage of the term hate in this thread prior to your post. While a strong statement of one's opinion, it is far from the "tantrum" that you imply. The statement "Oh, I hate chocolate" is a strong statement of taste, but hardly uncivil. Asking someone why they're throwing a tantrum after making the statement does seem a bit that way.

As for the particular tangent taken in regards to the Lore slot, part of the homogeneity that we would like to avoid is the visual aspect of our powers. Power customization was so highly demanded and worth the effort because many of us are concerned not only with how powers behave, but also how they appear. Unique game play is important, but as evidenced by both past player demand and developer efforts, so are appearances in this game.

You can summon a new set of PA while the previous set is active. However, when a new set is activated the old set is immediately dismissed and there is a slight delay before each Phantom appears so there will be a small gap between the previous set disappearing and the first new Phantom appearing. I'm not sure where Je_saist's impression that you cannot activate PA while PA is active is coming from.

I think this is being raised by far more people than the solo-ist issue, rather than just a few fervent posters. There aren't any staunch advocates of the anti-Lore sentiment. Of course, as things progress, I'm sure we'll see it arise as a sticking point for some people.

At any rate, I think it's worthwhile for the devs to note that people don't like being tied so directly to Praetorian lore. I'll throw my voice in as another dissenter. Even if powers are somewhat homogenized, how we present and view our characters has not been. That is one of CoX's strengths and something important to bear in mind with further development.

A face like that will get you shot in some places.

Sounds like we have a winner here. Three breath attacks and you can keep the shield charge/jump combo. On top of fitting the theme, it doesn't sound too shabby from a gaming perspective.

Just an aside before I make any recommendations, but alignments have really made acquiring the nicest trinkets much easier. I've pretty much given up radios as filler and replaced it with hero merits. After a while you'll accumulate enough merits for all the LotG's, Miracles, etc. and you can do it at your own pace.

When I play FF, I focus on either capping out my own defense or capping the teams. An Ill/FF can cap allies easily on just regular IO's with the right selection of powers. Power Boost is vital in this as it will let you provide 30% defense from your ally shields. Maneuvers, Group Invisibility, and Dispersion Bubble will provide another 17% defense for your team. Because FF needs so few powers to achieve this you can even pick up Aid Other and Aid Self for some spot healing for the damage that slips through. After that, I'd focus on recharge bonuses to improve PA's uptime.

After that, it's a matter of who you play with. Start a team, grab a bunch of squishies, and make them untouchable. If you wait for a team and end up with a bunch of softcapped tanks, brutes, scrappers or VEATs then you may not feel as worthwhile. It doesn't hurt to build a team to suit your play style.

I believe it was stated that MLP didn't fit into the context of Comics and Hero Culture (even though it's filled with fun fantasy stuff like basilisks, hydras, and dragons). It wasn't an outright ban. Besides, this is a discussion of Mod05's desktop, posted via the CoH facebook profile, and gives us insight into daily life of the Paragon offices.

So relax... this isn't a pony thread. There's talk of burger joints, Kamen rider, and just getting a feel for the people behind the game.

Mind or Plant dom will do it in one shot since they only have boss level protection. A mind troller can get most of them fairly quickly alone.

Sorry chum, it's Arctic. A common spelling error though.

No thanks. This task force is so terrible I won't do it anymore than once per character for the accolade. Who thought socking a bunch of gray-conning enemies in the face was a good idea?

Then make it like Repel from Kinetics, for each target it affects it'll knock of a tick of endurance that can't be reduced, making it difficult to maintain throughout a fight. Inconvenience of activating powers, a heavy endurance cost, and low ceilings all stand in the way of it being meaningful mitigation.

It shall be dubbed the "Walking on Sunshine Challenge".

I absolutely love this suggestion. I've read many suggestion on how to fix Dimension Shift, but I think this is by far the best.

Last year I leveled a grav controller and my interest was peaked in Dimension Shift. After a lot of testing to understand how it works (and why it sometimes doesn't appear to), I realized that the phase tech introduced to PVP had also been quietly ported to PVE. Unfortunately, a great deal of the player base hasn't noticed the change yet. Fortunately, we don't need to go into rule-breaking territory like Hami for this suggestion to work.

I can't recall (and I'll have to dedicate some serious search-fu to find it), but when Hami was made to affect phased and Untouchable powers was it something baked into the power or entity. For some, reason I'm thinking it was the latter.

Also, intangible enhancements now do nothing. They only affect the Intangible portion of Dimension Shift which only removes hit box detection and applies a translucent effect; the real work of the power is done by applying the phase status. You can, for example, Dimension Shift the Kraken and it will be phased though there will be no visual indicator of its changed status.

Anyway, for the power to work as Oathbound suggested there's a very simple solution: spawn two pseudo-pets, one phased and one unphased. The unphased pet will do the work of phasing players and enemies that enter the area while the phased pet will maintain their phase status after the initial phasing.