I16 Dos n Don'ts

Well the title maybe misleading but the true point of this thread would be the things you do like bout i16 (From what we know as of now) and the things your not so crazy about. Let's pass around the mic and hear what the crowd has to say. I'll start the sharing on what I know and what I'll be exploiting.... XD I'll be using the difficulty slider alot and farming 8 mans solo with my BS/ELA Scrapper, funny I started as a controller lover, moved to PB, and finally to a scrapper lover... ^^" I just like to be in the heat of the battle, being in the face of my enemy... and the more I think bout it the more I like the, I hit you hard and you fall over concept. But one thing I will not be messing with is anything villain side... just not that crazy with anything on villains... my highest toon after three years is 29.... Dr. Robotic. :/

Temp Dev Digest

( Seeing as how Paragon Wiki, is already making an update of the features of it that'll be the first thing I'll add, along with some of the articles I can find from the devs. Thanks for the update Sarden. )

Link 1: Paragon Wiki

Link 2: Issue 16 overview page

Link 3: The unofficial twitter update page

Link 4:Floyd Grubbs' Article

Link 5:Positrons' dev diary

Link 5: Positrons' Break down of SS

Link 6: More i16 info (Fat lie)

Link 7: The **** storm around the possibility of another Epic pool for all of CoX alike.

( Nothing to do with i16, but I found it a great way to remember the old wacked out days, of no aggro cap, and when the fire tank was l33t. )
I4 Fire tanks Power

Brutes > Scrappers

I'll be smashing the heck out of 8 man spawns on my SS/ Brutes.

Here's what I'm hoping people don't do... set as many of their powers as possible to as many different colors as possible.

Although... now that I say that, it would be rather amusing to have a blaster cycle through all of his powers on a ROYGBIV color scheme.

Side note: Anyone know if we're going to be able to change the color scheme of travel powers? I rather like the idea of leaving a trail of blue flame behind my speedster...

Nope, PC 1.0 does not include power pools.

Looking forward to:

Changing a lot of my powers. Particularly my Nrg Blast, Dark Melee & Kinetics. Also hoping that I can change my Dark Miasma into Light Miasma... so that when my MM goes rogue in GR she can be truly heroic.

Increased spawn sizes, not sure how it'll work but for my kins I like nice big mobs with a low difficulty. I can do all Boss spawns in MA, but I'd much rather do real content than have to look for non-farming farms that have sensible enemies.

Claws Brute - Wanted one for a long time, though I may well level my SS/SD first. And making foot-stomp the hit ground animation...

Interested in some of the proliferation too, but less so than the above. Traps for defenders does interest me a lot. Plus Arch/TA corrupter... what corrupters should have had from the word go IMO.

I must admit the lack of customisation on the Speed Pool is IMO surprising. Its perhaps one of the most used Pools in the game either SS or Hasten or both for an awful lot of characters. The devs would have got more praise for their work (bang for buck) for allowing recolouring of Hasten and SS than pretty much anything else. Though I think baked in flight pose changes would come close second.

I think I'll be trying an Ice/Earth Domi actually. Was thinking of another Brute but there'll be tonnes of Claws / Elec running around and I'm loving Stone Melee at the mo so thinking of one of these.

Probably on the US servers though. Soloing a Domi 95% of the time Euro side doesn't sound like much fun.

The first thing I'm going to do is recolor all my Aim/Build Up to match my characters' powersets.

I'm also turning all my Empathy powers silver/gold.

I'm going to take JUST A MINUTE and try wearing the yellow snow on my ice/axe tanker.

... then I'm going to fix my psi blasts to match my rad coloring on my rad/psi defender.

I will go directly to options and turn off other peoples powers so I can ignore the rainbow.

Then it's all about teh klawz4brootz!

With the alternative animations, I'll make a more punchy version of MA for my second costume slot - I'd like to remove that awful chest-beating animation for Integration too, but I don't think that'll be possible
And, like everyone else, I'll be using the new sk system, even if I don't know it

Im looking forward to power customisation - I think a lot of my changes will be subtle bar one character. Along with the customisation of Spikes, I will finally be able to play one without getting annoyed at the graphics!

New difficulty settings and Super Sidekicking will make teaming easier and a lot more fun (combined with dropping level entry requirements for hazard zones).

Power proliferation of Electric Melee and Electric Armour. Can't wait to try my Shield/Electric Tank

Also a FLAMING ZOMBIE mastermind

I guess the only don't is the lack of new story content

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Quote: 16. Has Paragon Studios redefined "player" to require your mouse to subscribe separately from your keyboard? If your mouse has greater processing power than your gfx card, the answer is yes.

So far I haven't really seen anything I dislike. Some of the powerset proliferation is irrelevant to me, but the rest of it seems pure win. Certainly my favorite issue since I started back in I3. Content is great, but for me QoL comes first. Additional content I can't enjoy for some simple QoL issue is just more annoyance. This issue will kill off a sh'ton of QoL wishes I've had for a very long time. Between the "Not excepting invites" (whenever that was) and this issue's refuse emails, I finally get my peace and quite! YAY!

And the idea of having Rad be colored a dark red/black so it looks like an ectoplasmic pool of pain is giving me naughty shivers. I can finally have a /Rad 'troller that looks magical! And a spines scrapper that doesn't look completely ridiculous! I'm so excited I just won't know where to start. Well, probably with recoloring my Ill/rad phantasm and rad powers... ooohhhh.....

Robin

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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha ...I have the patience of a coffee-fueled flea...

Don't: make your Dark Servant look like pink cotton candy.

I like all it from what i have heard...

no once i get to see it... i may change my mind...

Splashing the rainbow:

The more simultaneous colors in use will either mean it gets washed out to a bright white if the particles are additive or to black if they're subtractive. The intersection of many colors will not be a psychedelic trip, but a big blob of white or black with multi-colored tendrils.