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Power Customization - This is cool and I'd never say it was a bad thing, but I've never been so conceptually hamstrung that I couldn't make it work within the current limits. Of course, I usually work within those limits to begin with, rather than creating something divorced from the game and porting it in.
Powerset Proliferation - There are some neat things being moved around, but also some lame ones. I could see myself giving Brutes another go with Claws (for the extra end efficiency) and making a Plant/Cold Controller (both sets look interesting, but I could never find a paring with them I was satisfied with).
Difficulty Changes - This is a huge win for me. My IOed characters have grown out of the default difficulty ages ago. Now I'll be able to customize the difficulty to something more suitable to each character. My /Fire Melee Tanker is going love making large spawns to saturate his AoEs. 
Now, they did say more features to be revealed later, so who knows what else is still left. New content perhaps? (Though that may all be going into GR... hmm...)
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I pretty much agree with Sarrate..
Same here, I'm sorta waiting for Champions Online. So, I'm droning.
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Power Customization - This is cool and I'd never say it was a bad thing, but I've never been so conceptually hamstrung that I couldn't make it work within the current limits. Of course, I usually work within those limits to begin with, rather than creating something divorced from the game and porting it in.
Powerset Proliferation - There are some neat things being moved around, but also some lame ones. I could see myself giving Brutes another go with Claws (for the extra end efficiency) and making a Plant/Cold Controller (both sets look interesting, but I could never find a paring with them I was satisfied with).
Difficulty Changes - This is a huge win for me. My IOed characters have grown out of the default difficulty ages ago. Now I'll be able to customize the difficulty to something more suitable to each character. My /Fire Melee Tanker is going love making large spawns to saturate his AoEs.
Now, they did say more features to be revealed later, so who knows what else is still left. New content perhaps? (Though that may all be going into GR... hmm...)
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I pretty much agree with Sarrate..
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SHAAAAAAAAYLAAAA! *hug*
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No "content" so far, if you want to be a negative nelly... 
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Where's mah content? I want moar content! 
Joking, of course, but more missions and map types would make this game have much longer legs than just porting around powers. I think the announcement has a lot of nifty stuff, but I am keen on having this game keep going. Not really interested in Champions, which is far too much of the "look what we can do that CoX can't!" And meh, my style would feel cramped by having Superman and others around... I think this new comic world leaves a lot more interesting creativity options. So I'm not keen on DCU, either.
Proliferation has been asked about for a long while, so that's a good thing, should make people happy. I would have been really excited about Elec/Elec going to Tanks, but I'm thinking I want to try that with a Brute that side switches. Weaker resists, I know, but I have plenty of tanks.
What I'm really intrigued by is the alternate animations... I would guess that Martial Arts and Super Strength are only the beginning, which is great. I've been a bit annoyed by how many animations are shared between the powersets for years. No guarantee that the new ones won't be shared as well, but at least these are more options. Anyway, I'm more excited about the alternate animations than I am power coloring... colors mostly work as they are in game.
I wonder how they're going to work about people not liking color changes... will they only be viewable by you? Will buffs revert to standard color when on another players, so we all know what buff is on us? Or will they just be forced on us, and negative nellies be darned?
Guide: Tanking, Wall of Fire Style (Updated for I19!), and the Four Rules of Tanking
Story Arc: Belated Justice, #88003
Synopsis: Explore the fine line between justice and vengeance as you help a hero of Talos Island bring his friend's murderer to justice.
Grey Pilgrim: Fire/Fire Tanker (50), Victory
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I'm really curious about this revamped custom difficulty bit. It's going to help the farmers out a ton, I think.
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Also, I was actually thinking they were gonna give Thermal to defenders. Sigh.
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On second thought, this interests me. Earth assault for doms? It'd have to be a hodge-podge of existing powers in order to count as proliferation and not a whole new set, but are there any earthy powers outside of stone melee and earth control? I mean, maybe Hurl Boulder, but I can't think of anything this could contain other than a port of stone melee in some shape or form. I'm really curious about how this could turn out.
Therm for MMs makes me
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Colors, sweet.
Earth Assault, WAT YES!?
Proliferation... Now another AT can NOT pick Arch and AR. And where are my Psy Corrs?
Difficulty... a draw from the AE I hope, refill the market, lower the prices, sounds choice.
Issue as a whole.... another disappointment. 100% fluff. I hope they add some SFs, TFs SOMETHING! I don't even like PvE but there is a gaping hole where the content should be. Cathedral of Pain plz, ty. I cry for the future.
shouldn't the players themselves add content? A player inspired TF.
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Yeah, if only there was some sort of tool to create missions in this game...
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Arc # 316340 -- "Husk" -- Azuria loses something, a young woman harbors a dark secret, and the fate of the world is in your hands.
1. Most player content, IMO, sucks.
2. I'm looking for the storyline of the game to advance. The Coming Storm, the return of the 5th, the continuing battle against the Rikti... so many story threads left wide open.
I'm still pretty stoked for I16, but I hope they can squeeze in a little more of this story content in the near future.
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Brimstone Bruce (lvl50 Stone/Fire Tanker) Broadside Bruce (lvl50 Shield/WM Tanker)
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Patronox (lvl50 Kat/Dark Scrapper) Harbinger Mk.7 (lvl50 Bots/FF MM)
NightShift for Life.
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SHAAAAAAAAYLAAAA! *hug*
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hehe... Hiya back..
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Forgive me for channeling Horatus for a moment, but... doom!
Also, I'm looking forward to Earth Assault for Dominators, too. The idea is growing on me... now I just need to see the power list.
Issue 16 is a waste. Why do they bother?
...because Power Customization is something the community has been asking for since the beginning of the game?
...because they're afraid they'll lose a major portion of their players to CO so they now are finding ways to do the things they said for 4 years couldn't be done?
edited to add a ? like the 2 posters before me, even though I think a . suffices
Eh, I've been saying for a long while that they need to be coming out with varied types of stuff for each issue for awhile now. Some people want more powers, some people want more missions, etc. It would make the most sense to try to satisfy both crowds, but for some reason, all their mission creator people are holed up doing something else while the Castle and BAB crowd are making everything we're seeing lately.
Probably means they're hard at work for Going Rogue content, but that means some of us are SoL until then if that's the case. Not sure that's the best planning, but whatever. I'll have fun playing with the MA and Super Strength animations.
Guide: Tanking, Wall of Fire Style (Updated for I19!), and the Four Rules of Tanking
Story Arc: Belated Justice, #88003
Synopsis: Explore the fine line between justice and vengeance as you help a hero of Talos Island bring his friend's murderer to justice.
Grey Pilgrim: Fire/Fire Tanker (50), Victory
GR will contain a City's worth of content, so that's obviously what the "content people" are focusing on. The real question is whether we'll be able to get back to the "Zone per Issue" heyday post-GR. Or, if not a new zone, at least a new zone's worth of missions scattered among established zones.
My hope is that we will, since I13 - I16 have focused on ramping up the game's featurews.
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"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
It seems like they're just knocking out all the stuff that's been asked for for years. I think after Going Rogue, we'll start seeing more dev content in issues.
Personally, I'm a happy camper at the moment. For me, i16 is something I've wanted since I've started playing.
Actions speak louder than Vets.
Power customization is exciting for someone like me who - while I don't roleplay - I like to make my character's conceptually complete. I'll finally be able to match Bubble Linda's FF bubs to match her costumes, Ellen Akres's healing powers can be the right shades of green or blue that I want to be - pee yellow radiation beams? AWESOME!
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The luddites have some beautiful earth-based powers. Maybe we'll steal some of them.
BABs has been thinking about Fiery Melee Stalkers...
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Where there's fire, there's smoke...and smoke hides just as well as being invisible. I could easily see a Fiery Melee or Fiery Aura Stalker work. Especially if Placate and Hide involved vanishing into a swirling mass of smoke and embers, and then reappearing in a sudden blazing flash when you strike, like a backdraft.
That could be pretty darn cool.
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As for Martial Arts, the alternate animations we have right now are mainly punches. The idea was to provide you guys with a way to make the classic, fights with their fists and feet, super-hero that many have been asking for. That includes a new animation for assassin's strike (Assassin's Blow?).
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Where there's fire, there's smoke...and smoke hides just as well as being invisible. I could easily see a Fiery Melee or Fiery Aura Stalker work. Especially if Placate and Hide involved vanishing into a swirling mass of smoke and embers, and then reappearing in a sudden blazing flash when you strike, like a backdraft.
That could be pretty darn cool.
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I've never understood why smoke in this game can cause stealth. Yes smoke can obscure, but it has to be on a grand scale. A moving smoke cloud on a city street isn't very stealthy...
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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Meh. I'd play around with the colors on a couple of character's powers but that's about it. The new powers being proliferated don't tempt me. The enhanced difficulty options won't be used by me. Not sure what else they could be saving to announce but all in all not very exciting to me.
Maybe I'm just tired of the same missions and contacts and story arcs, and GR if it's done right could renew my interest in the game, but as of now, I'm looking forward to trying the competition.
I need to have an affair.