In case you missed - let rampant speculation begin!

Fitness becomes inherent in I19.

The possibilities are swirling in my head. Assuming Stamina doesn't get nerfed to compensate, this could allow for some crazy slotting possibilities. Even if I don't have any extra slots(cuz I still use them in Health and Stamina) I'm not opposed to essentially three free slots for IO mules.

Ever since I heard about this, I've been thinking about how this will change my current and future builds for my characters. Hopefully the inherent will be slottable to the equivalent of Stamina as it is now, or at least in some way gives equivalent +Recovery.

Even if I spend slots if it does end up being a slottable inherent, that's still another open pool and opens up the possibilities of one-slot-wonders.

Not to mention I can pick up powers earlier where I'd normally be paying my dues in the teens to getting Stam at 20. It'll be interesting when this rolls around.

Oh, good grief. I didn't need a buff, and I LIKED having to make serious trade offs in an uber build. And yeah, it's going to suck if they're unslottable.

But I suppose it panders to the unwashed masses.

(OK, I WILL appreciate it leveling up to 20. But that's such a small portion of the game.)

This was on my Top Ten of 'never gonna happen'. (Granted, so was market merge, but this was higher on the list.)

What's next? ED and GDN get repealed?(the top two on the list)

Hmmm.. too many possibilities.. but lets hope we can still slot stamina. Couple that with the Alpha slots.. NICE!

The most interesting part about this (to me) is what is going to happen to all the characters with fitness already? Will they be replaced by a new fitness pool with different nifty powers? Or a respec would fix the issue, of course.

My guess is they unlock anywhere from level 1-4 and scale up as you level(possibly becoming full strength level at 20), much like travel powers and and mez protection.

If Stamina doesn't unlock until 20 then that does nothing for the low level game, and I'm assuming those complaints at least played a factor.

You know all of these awesome power changes have me worried. There is always a trade off for increased power effectiveness. What are the enemies going to be like in the future? Are we going to be fighting hero class enemies every spawn, are they going to have insane debuffs? There is always bad that has to come with good. The piper must be payed some how!

It's pretty good news, and will bring many more possibilities for characters with really tight builds (/SR, /WP, /Elec scrappers... when you have to take almost every secondary picks are good examples).

I'm pretty sure Fitness as inherents will be slottable, that would not make sense otherwise and it would be a massive nerf for max level toons, very unlikely to happen. The question is rather : what will happen to your already built toons with slotted hurdle/health/stamina when the patch goes live ? Probably the build would not change until a respec, and then once you respec they go inherent ...

Anyway, it confirms the recent very animated threads we had about "endurance issues", and it seems the devs have read, made their choice and decided to add some QoL to that matter. I can only applaud.

My guess, you won't be able to slot Stamina, and it will be as effective as it is now with no slots. Physical perfection popped up in the epic pools.....hmmm....me thinks they gonna say that due to IO sets end discount and more end available in the epic pools, that a free Stamina power with no slots is fair, considering we can now pick 3 new powers. Tho for me, that will only free up 2 more slots tho...since I only ever slot stamina with 2 extra slots, and nothing for anything else in fitness. If you ask me, we will have 3 new picks to take, but no slots hardly for them! unless we get to pick 3 slots instead of 2 earlier than the 30's.

Overall, I don't like the idea at all! I think something is up and we will not like what they do with it. Like someone else said, there will be a trade off for such a nice perk! lol

Based on tweets from folks at the event, it sounds like existing characters will be unchanged until they respec. From that I infer that after a respec you automatically get the inherent powers (presuming you meet any hypothetical requirements, like level).