Powers that bug you

Kinetic Melee - Animations feel far too long. It's like having a set with 9 shadow mauls in it, if they miss you spend all that time wiffing at the air.

In fact any power that has a long animation but no better accuracy/damage than a short animation power. And by animation I mean the length of time you are performing one power that prevents you from doing anything else. Kinetic Melee is IMO particularly bad for this.

Dark Regeneration - It's fine leave it alone best heal pretty much of any self heal in the game, fires fast, can be slotted with useful procs (+end for example). And if you have issues with the fear aura drop that. On my Dark/Dark brute my regen and Siphon Life (or whatever) more than make up for the damage done by the stun aura.

I should have mentioned earlier that barrier also bugs me. I would rather have it apply a steady defense buff for its' entire duration than the ridiculous, unnecessary buff that declines to next-to-nothing rapidly.

When I find myself in situations where I need extra defense, I'm usually playing pretty proactively and it's difficult to stare at my frickin' combat attributes, trying to time when I have to click a couple of purples just right.

It would just be more logical in my opinion for it to provide the same exact bonus the whole time the power is on... Edit: Obviously not the massive buff, but a modest and practical one. Anyways, that's my tangent.

Hasten. Hasten. Hasten. Has ANYONE managed to make a costume that actually looks better with the little yellow pom poms? For me, its always, "yay! I made a dark and brooding badass of a villain and now im ready to kick--oh yea, forgot to activate hasten. Now my badass of a villain looks like a cheerleader." And its not like i can refuse to take it. Its just too useful on the vast majority of builds.

Hasten bugs me for the same reason the ice shields do. I've had a lot of interesting character and costume concepts, but none of them have ever included glowy bubbly yellow hands. I use Hasten only grudgingly on characters that desperately need recharge (Ill/Emp Controller, Warshade). Those power sets with long animation times (Kinetic Melee, Crab Spiders) work great without Hasten, BTW.

I would like to go on record as the only person in City of Heroes that likes Sonic Repulsion. When soloing against melee types, I can cast it on my Power Drone Pet and then stand behind it. On a team I can use it as a brief emergency power to take the heat off a teammate that's in trouble. It's a situational power but it requires little or no slotting, and enhancement slots are a more precious commodity than powers in most of my builds. Disclaimer: I also like Repel and Repulsion Field.

Offensive phase shift powers, on the other hand, are in a whole different class of badness. Even during an earlier era when City of Heroes was more challenging and tactical, powers like Black Hole and Dimension Shift were pretty questionable. Ordinary crowd control was always a better option. In today's fast steam-roller style of play, using these powers in PvE is basically griefing.

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The entire Storm Summoning set. There's always that stupid hurricane that doesn't let you see anything. Then again Storm from the Xmen bugs me.

My Bots/Traps - because I have TOO MANY PETS. The window engulfs the entire right edge of the screen. And I don't even have a lore pet yet.

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

Demon summoning has quite a few pets too. Then I do have a lore pet so I have 9 pets plus the hell on earth power but those lil buggers are small though unlike the thug mms thar can be hecktic too. I've yet to try thug/something.