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Off-topic of the fitness thing for a moment. Someone needs to ask the most important question:

ARE THERE ANY NEW COSTUMES IN i19?

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

I will be very interested to see how inherent Stamina will affect endurance costs for future power sets

I20 being a bit of a blockbuster was kind of a given - it's the first Issue after DCUO comes out

If that is Apex in the picture, and he's wearing Vanguard armor, maybe that means the new TF will involve Praetoria, as the Vanguard are leading the way to bring down the dictatorship?
That'd mean it'd be a co-op TF, and it'd also match up with Praetoria being opened up to Primal Earth people - and the alpha strike could refer either to what we're doing in Praetoria, or the first attack of Tyrant's invasion.

EDIT: Of course, it could also have nothing to do with Praetoria, and the alpha strike could refer to some possible first wave of the Coming Storm

If i20 is City 2.0 I'm betting it will be an in situ upgrade as opposed to a totally new product. Sequels to MMOs don't have good track records.

As for Fitness going inherent, I saw that or something like it coming. One of CO's advantages in gameplay is vastly reduced downtime. Giving everyone Fitness, which they can then choose to enhance by taking sets with their own heals and recovery boosts, is a big help there. Actually my #1 choice would have been giving Rest a zero recharge, but this is good too. As far as this dumbing down the game, please.

The more I think about the Fitness change, the more I'm starting to like it.

I like to min/max my builds and potentially having three extra powers will be nice. Even if I can't slot them, I'm sure I can find a use for them as IO mules at the least. For example, I could take the stealth pool on my new Spines/Fire Scrapper and stick three Luck of the Gambler Recharge IOs in there(not saying I will, just a possibility).

My buddy has a DM/Inv Scrapper extremely high end that has tanked Lord Recluse and soloed the ITF(master run), without Stamina. Now he won't have to rely on blue insp so much and may be able to drop Dark Consumption all together!

I guess I'll weigh in on the whole fitness thing, too.

I've got almost 5 years of paid time on my account. In that time I have almost never... ever... EVER seen a character that was being played by a knowledgeable person that wasn't using Stamina. Of the ones I did see, they were regens or willpower users or people with really good end recovery powers such as elec armor or kin.

I'll just make up a statistic here and say that 95% of every level 50 player in this game probably has stamina. It's reasonable for the devs to figure if practically every player in the game is gonna take this power pool, they might as well just give it to everyone. They either realized that their game design had practically mandated Stamina for the majority of builds you can make, or their game design led the vast majority of players into wanting it, because they had more fun playing at a faster and more consistent pace than would have been capable without it.

On a side note, I get the personal satisfaction of being on the right side of another long debated issue that forum snobs always shot down others for suggesting/vehemently denied would ever happen. (Things such as increasing the trade limit even before the markets necessitated it.)

I wonder how the Fitness pool will be added? Like will we still unlock them at the same levels the powers are available now, or will they all be there right at the start for someone making a new avatar?

I already use all 4 Fitness powers, so this is going to open up an extra pool for me - so i think I'll be doing my first respec since Sands of Mu was added as a vet reward, which meant I didn't need to have Flurry anymore to get that punching animation