City Of Heroes: Statesman on Skills, Arenas and Design

Statesman dropped into the forums to answer some player concerns. While the concerns seem to be growing, so do the number of Statesman responses.

Skills and arenas have been talked about for a while now. States had this little niblet to drop:

Skills is in Issue 5...

Issue 4 revolves around the Arenas (now under construction)....

Not much, but it's to the point. He was also asked about the 50+ content and gave out what his design priorities have been:

I'm right now contemplating "end game" things...

There's going to be some more "tough" critters, like Hamidon (though not as big as Hamidon), coming soon.

More importantly, however, is that we come up with something that is ALWAYS fun - that's not a grind - for 50's.

My priorities have been this...

Exploration - check (badges)
Definitive goals - check (capes and ongoing f/x)
Out of combat activities - check (skills)
player housing - check (bases in CoV)
PvP - check (the Arena and CoV)
End Game...

Anyway, that's what is on my personal design schedule next week.

Tankers taunted the star-spangled titan with comments about Rage. The power recently had some changes made that disagreed with many Tanks. Instead of being stunned at the end of the Rage duration, the power dropped endurance to zero which, in turn, dropped all toggles leaving the Tank defenseless.

When asked to take a look, States says:

Done! We agreed after some analysis that 100% Endurance drain was too much. Geko is going to be checking in some new stuff soonish.