What to replace Fitness Pool with?

I'm not sure what I can do for most of my characters.

My main is a Dark Defender, and his build is kinda tight for slots to make sure his powers all work at their best. There's a couple slots I could move around so I could take some Leadership (Assault and Maneuvers are always great choices), but the third power? I already got Hasten, I really REALLY don't want to take Black Hole. Although there is the self rez in Dark Mastery, and that wouldn't really need slots, so I could go with that.

Kinda nice idea too, team wipe? Self rez - team rez - and we're back in action quick.

But due to my altitus, I have somewhere around 100 characters spread across the servers; that's a lot of builds that would need fine tuning. Especially for those who have tight builds slot-wise or those that wouldn't be able to take much of anything that would fit their character/concept.

I'm half elated about Fitness becoming inherent and half dreading the work it'd take to use it.

It's really a harder question than you think, or at least it is for me. Remember that you have to pick these powers as you level up. I am used to getting hurdle or swift at level 6 or 8, stamina at 20 and health somewhere in between. You really don't have many powers available to pick between 6 and 20.

People with the vet award -- early pick for travel power -- have it a little easier.

I'm just wondering, is there a concise rationale from any one of the Devs for why Stamina should be Inherent? What are they hoping to achieve by the change?

Not having to have the 'Stamina Gulch' from 16-20, its name also a tribute to the Old Grendles Gulch, pre-jetpacks and Ninja run. Just as painful

Now? I won't need to stint on travel powers or early blast/melee powers. I can take Build up and Aim earlier rather than having to try and squeeze them in. I can entertain Hasten a lot earlier and recal friend on other chars where it fits thematically. Hell, even more than one travel power if Im on a build that is tight on slots and if it fits.
The possabilities are endless.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Any character with a Rezz Other power will probably be getting Leadership, because Vengeance is fun. My Dominator will be getting the Stealth Pool, because 3 spots to drop LotGs in are a godsend. My main, MA/Regen Scrapper will boringly enough be getting more attacks sooner, since his attack chain ends up being pretty puny whenever I exemp down.

There's most definitely stuff I can do with this change, though I never asked for it or felt it was needed. Play dozens of alts, never felt the agonizing pain others claim they feel.

I doubt my builds will change that much, for a single simple reason:

The inherent status confers, at most, one slot. Most of my toons require both health and stamina multi-slotted. Sure, I'll have a few more picks possible, but I won't have the slots to go with them.

You get 3 free power picks.

While it's true that slotting powers makes them better, there are more than 3 powers available that can make characters better even without slots.

Probably be taking hasten on characters that don't have it, things that don't require much in the way of slotting that I passed on due to tight builds (grounded on my /elec scrapper)... and otherwise probably takin' low endurance cost toggles or powers I can slot global IO procs in.

On a lot of my characters, I skipped the travel power prerequisite using my veteran reward to make room for something else, and on those characters, I'll be taking the prerequisite again.

As for others, it mostly depends on the character. I might take more of the direct attacks on my Masterminds, or some of the powers that have always been fun-looking, but of questionable usefulness.

As for slots, that kinda worries me, but I think it's a small price to pay to have an acual choice of what powers to take instead of needing that specific pool in order to have a viable character.

Right now, my standard attack power slotting is 3 damage, 2 accuracy, and 1 end discount. But I usually run +0, x1, bosses, no AV's. I was never really into the whole min/maxing thing, and at even-level, the second accuracy is more of a luxury, so if worse comes to worse, I could take those slots and use them in the new powers.