Questions about future Incarnate content...

Will we ever be completely immune to damage, whilst simultaneously dealing at least one thousand damage per hit at no endurance loss? Yeah, I'm not seeing it.

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.

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

The next character you do it on, right-click on the three Incarnate boosts in your buff row for a laugh -- particularly "Limitless Radial Freeeem"...

Let's just say the deck is grossly stacked. And as you go through the arc, it's implied that what you experience is what your power is like if you get it directly from the Well, the way Statesman and Recluse did, not if you get it the way we will in game.

That's the whole concept any MMORPG, or cRPG for that matter, is based on you know.

"When you get right down to it, isn't the point of real life to amass a fortune without getting killed?|
-The Spoony One

Power creep is a genuine concern, but I find it isn't relevant here. To me, City of Heroes has always been a game of scale, not a game of size. While functional difficulty may not vary by much and everything may scale up to you, it is the scope of the system that gives you the illusion of size, while your character remains to scale with the actual game mechanics. At level 1, you're fighting thugs with baseball bats and stolen pistols. At level 50, you're fighting all-powerful space aliens, giant robots, supermutants and GODS. The actual fights may not have become too much harder mechanically - they are still to scale - but the story has become much, much larger.

I, personally, don't need Incarnate content to be any harder, numerically, than regular content. More complex, more intricate and more intelligent, yes. More out of scale... Not necessarily. What I need Incarnate content to make clear is the comparison between itself and old content. I was, for instance, fighting the Rikti way back when. Now that I'm an incarnate, they're too weak to threaten me. NOW I'm fighting, say, the Batallion, or the Rikti super elite super soldiers from the homeworld who are vastly more powerful than the Chiefs we see on Earth. Their science would not have stood still for eight years, after all.

I have a very serious problem with what I like to describe as anti-power-creep, or the "Diablo 2 effect." It's a game system designed such that enemy strength increases faster than your own powers do, so as you level up and progress through the game, you actually get WEAKER in comparison to your environment. This is a very real danger with overbalancing Incarnate content, in that the game could suddenly become so hard that once might heroes would, even with the proper Incarnate boosts, find themselves weak and helpless, only ever able to do anything by ganging up.

Personally, I want whatever new challenges we get to keep within the scale of the power we receive from our boosts. I have no problem with Incarnate content MURDERING non-Incarnate heroes and villains, but when I DO become an Incarnate, I hope I'm not still too underpowered to do anything by myself.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

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