A free respec was issued with I16. Like all respecs, this does not allow you to change your primary or secondary powerset from what was chosen at character creation. You can choose different powers within your original primary or secondary powerset, or choose different pool powersets, but you can't switch to different primary or secondary powersets.
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It is not true, and therefore you cannot do it.|
Originally Posted by midnightwatchman
I was under the impression that when Issue 16 was released that the ability to re-choose Power sets would be available. Is this true and if so how do I do it?
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I have no idea from where you got that impression. Nothing like that has been even suggested by the Devs.
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Based on the thread's subject line, it looks like the OP misconstrued i16's "you can change the colors of your powers" feature as "you can pick new power sets".|
Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven
It is not true, and therefore you cannot do it.
I have no idea from where you got that impression. Nothing like that has been even suggested by the Devs. |
I have to admit, I've been against ever granting players the ability to do that, but since powerset proliferation I've had to reconsider, simply because there are now a number of my fairly-well-established characters who were created the way they are as compromises - because the power sets they really ought to have were not available for their ATs - and now they are and the characters are wrong but I couldn't possibly zero them out now and it's all just terribly annoying.
Maybe that's something there should be a trial for, like respecs used to be before they started just giving them out at random.
Eh, I still think that would be too gameable or exploitable.
You could level as a character that is strong in the early game, and then spec into one that gets stronger in the late game.
Like leveling a Willpower tank to level 35 and switching to Stone. Or a Regen scrapper switching to SR at level 40.
Not all switches would be that broken, but there are a lot of them that would be kind of unfair to the players that leveled the difficult powersets without such a benefit.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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Obviously the solution is to have a trial or task/arc that results in your character getting the option to start over at level 1 as a new AT, while keeping your badges and accomplishments. Yes, you'd have a tiny bit of a boost over others who, say, don't have the Atlas accolade or whatever, but that's your reward for doing it in the first place.|
Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Eh, I still think that would be too gameable or exploitable.
You could level as a character that is strong in the early game, and then spec into one that gets stronger in the late game. Like leveling a Willpower tank to level 35 and switching to Stone. Or a Regen scrapper switching to SR at level 40. Not all switches would be that broken, but there are a lot of them that would be kind of unfair to the players that leveled the difficult powersets without such a benefit. |
I would happily reroll some of my characters, including level 50s, back to level 1 if I knew I could keep all my badges and costumes, while choosing new power sets.
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Yes. This. I'd be up for that. It's not that I can't be bothered to start over, it's that I don't want to lose the characters' histories. Souvenirs, time-sensitive badges, and so forth.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
Obviously the solution is to have a trial or task/arc that results in your character getting the option to start over at level 1 as a new AT, while keeping your badges and accomplishments. Yes, you'd have a tiny bit of a boost over others who, say, don't have the Atlas accolade or whatever, but that's your reward for doing it in the first place.
I would happily reroll some of my characters, including level 50s, back to level 1 if I knew I could keep all my badges and costumes, while choosing new power sets. |
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I wish GR would include something like this - a faction switch and AT switch? That would be awesome.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Yes. This. I'd be up for that. It's not that I can't be bothered to start over, it's that I don't want to lose the characters' histories. Souvenirs, time-sensitive badges, and so forth.
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Sounds like a good idea to me, I have a few (very) old characters that I would reroll if I could keep the badges
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
Obviously the solution is to have a trial or task/arc that results in your character getting the option to start over at level 1 as a new AT, while keeping your badges and accomplishments. Yes, you'd have a tiny bit of a boost over others who, say, don't have the Atlas accolade or whatever, but that's your reward for doing it in the first place.
I would happily reroll some of my characters, including level 50s, back to level 1 if I knew I could keep all my badges and costumes, while choosing new power sets. |
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I would actually support this. However, the trial would have to be hard. Nintendo Hard. SNK Boss hard.|
Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Maybe that's something there should be a trial for, like respecs used to be before they started just giving them out at random. |
Of course, some people would then complain its too hard. Oh well, guess they don't have what it takes.
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On the other hand, you'd have newbies switching to a set they have no idea how to use. Imagine what it would have been like with AE babies.
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Again, the solution to this is to have the newly switched character start at level 1.
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Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
On the other hand, you'd have newbies switching to a set they have no idea how to use. Imagine what it would have been like with AE babies.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
Again, the solution to this is to have the newly switched character start at level 1.
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That's the same as rolling a new character...
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I think the devs aren't going to bother implementing it if the solution is 'might as well roll a new character'. We have a zillion character slots and the ability to buy more for that.
Besides, they've already said that this is never going to happen- not because they can't, but because they don't want to.
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No, it's not. Newly-rolled Level 1 characters don't have 5 years worth of badges and accolades. Newly-rolled Level 1 characters also take up yet another character slot. Also, if you want a character with the same name, you either need to delete or pay for a name change, neither of which are very appealing.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
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That's the same as rolling a new character... |
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Ah HA! I get it now. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
No, it's not. Newly-rolled Level 1 characters don't have 5 years worth of badges and accolades. Newly-rolled Level 1 characters also take up yet another character slot. Also, if you want a character with the same name, you either need to delete or pay for a name change, neither of which are very appealing.
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And story arc souvenirs.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
No, it's not. Newly-rolled Level 1 characters don't have 5 years worth of badges and accolades.
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I honestly can't say that I give a crap about this, but then, I don't team up with people I don't already know. I suppose it could be a problem for people who team with strangers, but given the vast multitude of other pitfalls of teaming with strangers, what's one more? |
Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
On the other hand, you'd have newbies switching to a set they have no idea how to use. Imagine what it would have been like with AE babies.
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Can we get the option to stack our toggles in the costume create screen so we know what all our new colord look like on top of eachother?
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This would be nice. |
Originally Posted by Shadow Wail
Can we get the option to stack our toggles in the costume create screen so we know what all our new colord look like on top of eachother?
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I burned a couple free costume changes and some influence with my DA scrapper before I was happy with his toggles. Would be cool to be able to see them all at once before clicking OK.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
I was under the impression that when Issue 16 was released that the ability to re-choose Power sets would be available. Is this true and if so how do I do it?