No issue 23 posts?

My feeling on why the overview there felt on the light side is because, well... we wern't supposed to see it yet. My guess is that it's an incomplete overview not ready for us to see yet. Didn't talk about new powers or proliferation, even for the market, any other changes or additions, etc.

It's short enough to make me think this isn't everything we'll see in i23.

Okay that link doesn't work


Did anyone copy-paste all the info.? (haven't read all posts yet...will skim now!)

The devs: *sigh* Well now it's ruined. Throw this issue in the trash so we can start over >_>

When I saw the "Mecha Armor" at first glance I thought it was a defensive power set and not a costume set.

It still sounds cool, but a Titan Weapon / Mecha Armor Brute sounds more awesome

My initial thought was that it would be something similar to Stone Armor for Tanks and Brutes.

The various t1 - t8s would be different armors overlays or gadgets that circled around you with the t9 being something similar to Granite Armor making you a Techno Bad-pancake!

One can dream I suppose...

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It's very vague on how Hybrid actually works to increase your effectiveness. Does taking Control on my scrapper give me new control powers, or just an across the board +Mez(All)? Is it a passive power or an active one? Etc.

We'll have to wait and see.

Hybrid grants people "New powers based on the core archetypes of City of Heroes".

Which has got me thinking, does that mean we're getting to pick inherents?

Assault is a choice of either Fury, Crits, Defiance or Scourge with the tier 4 giving a choice of two (Crits and Fury or Defiance and Scourge?).

Control Tree a choice of Containment or Domination.

Support Tree is the only one I'm not sure on.

It's doubtful but got me thinking.

You know, I just realized something...

The devs are making praetorian maps for us to ride all the way to level 50! That is... pretty cool.

So Hybrid slot...think it might be a sort of 'slot' or 'slots' granted to put into your other powers that adds a granted power to the selected powers? Like the buff hybrid tree may give 1 slots that you can put in your power. Put it in a melee attack and any ally around the target gets [insert buff], put it in a toggle or aura and anyone near you gets [insert buff] as long as they stick by you. Put it in a buff or heal and it adds [insert buff] to that buff or heal to all allies the power targets.

Assault tree could have 3 slots, put it in your powers and you get to do damage with it. Put it in a buff/heal or debuff and foes around the target take damage. Put it in an aura buff and it turns the power into a pseudo-dmg aura. Put the slots in actual attacks and you do more damage with said attack.

Use the new implemented PPM feature so the effect is more evenly balanced between fast ST powers vs slow or AoEs.

Meh, just a thought. Would be kind of cool if, for the melee tree, there were ways to buff your mez resistance/protection by blasting stuff or adding to debuff resists or maybe even self heals by hitting. Or perhaps it supercharges inherent abilities or grants you special versions of inherents of the ATs.

Wow- pretty cool upcoming stuff. Loving the idea of a new Praetorian ward (though I hope there is still more to be done with First Ward, since there is so much expansion that could yet be done there). Nice to see them working Shadow Hunter into things, too.

Also liking what I'm hearing about Pandora's Box - I'm guessing that this "mysterious new group" is also the one that broke Marshall Blitz out of prison at the end of SSA1, which is cool, since I really like Blitz (and am glad to see them doing something with him). Could they be taking over Warburg as their new base of operations?

I wonder, too, if this might not be some kind of splinter group of Malta, one that utilizes Battle Maiden and her nanotechnology. BM and Blitz seem like they would make for a good team - or the centerpiece of a new organization.

Might just have to finally get on the Beta once it becomes open, so I don't have to wait for the full launch!

Safe to assume Celestial is going by the wayside by the time 23 arrives?

I really wish we had a definite time line when it'd be available again, other than vague statements like "we're going to Disney vault it" (which is, following the real vault rules, absurd).

Yearly? Every two years? Leave it up with the other two? Put it on the market?

It'd cost $120 to get the missus' account the costume set, $225 to finish off my second account, and $210 to finish off her second account...

Decisions, decisions.

Also, keeping Praetorian themed characters in Praetoria pays off for me again.