Calling the next Travel Power

Absolutely. That would be a whole lot better for those characters based off of magic immulating a witch or warlock.

The reason I suspect?

Wings, boots, and Backpacks are part of the character model. The Rocket Board is instead, a power animation effect. It's not a persistent object.

They can get away with this on the power slide animation because, well, for one, it's -wide-. If the character stops moving and attacks, their feet simply go to the normal "standing" option for the attack. Since it's an "energy-ish" effect, and it's not defined well enough to cause an issue.

With the Rocket Board, this would most likely result in your character stepping "off" of the board in a best case scenario, worst case scenario, it'd spin and twitch to try and keep the same feet position. And to my knowledge, no power in the game currently does that. And it'd look fairly horrible.

There's also the fact the Rocket Board -flies- which means the character would attempt to use "flying" animations for it attacks. This would result in the character looking like it's either jumping off the board and floating to attack, or the board tilting at unnatural angles to stay locked to the feet.

I suspect this also applies to the Carpet, as you would be jumping and playing a flying animation while on the flying object, which would result in "why is the character using the carpet if it can fly?"

Coyote is even simpler. Your entire character model is overlapped and changed, if you could attack with the coyote, you'd see melee characters with floating swords, or invisible weaponry, and attack animations impacting nowhere near where the coyote is standing.

Hagrid disagrees.

Sold!

That is what I came to say.
If I had to bet, I'd go with broomsticks being the next in line... Although another animal transformation option (or more) could certainly slip in beforehand.

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Prestige Power Slide needs to be made available to the Market as it is already, first, but I'm totally with you for ice sliding.

Don't hold your breathe on Power Slide. Posi has said that certain people at NCSoft would have to stop working for the company before we'll ever see Power Slide get re-released.

So if it ever does show up again that means "someone" got fired or quit their job.

THIS I would buy!

Git en da Choppa!!

Too bad it was actually an owl. I should know, because Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies.

Which is sad, because I'd like to see it hit the market.

Don't get me wrong. I have it on my main and, now premium, account (which I let slip when they allowed for additional slots on servers, so it's seeing use that it wouldn't have before Freedom). My wife and son have it (because I bought them an old copy of the DVD edition on discount forever ago) so I have no real stake in it either way.

I just hate the idea of something really cool in game that someone could have to complete just that 'one' concept they have is totally denied them for just not being in the right place at the right time. Maybe I'm sensitve to that from stuff outside the game, but it doesn't make any sense to deny someone something for the sake of 'exclusivity'. I've had it all this time prior, and if someone wants to pay for it now, who am I to argue? More importantly, how does that keep me from enjoying having it now?

Put it all up for sale, I say. It already exists and if it makes Paragon more money by putting out there for those who want to pay it- goodie for them I say!

Especially since they used to sell a pack that had the collectors edition goodies at cons and stuff for a while after the DvD had stopped being made.


I sincerely hope that this policy gets changed.

I have power slide on my accounts, but rarely use it because you cannot alter the color and purple just doesn't fit with the majority of my costume color schemes.

I have no problem with things being exclusive in MMOs as long as they don't become -permanently- exclusive. Most people (Devs and players alike) mistakenly assume exclusivity implies permanence right or wrong.

So letting things like the Power Slide be exclusive for a year or two was plenty of time for it to be "exclusive". The reasonable time period for that has long since passed.