PAX 2010: City of Heroes moves Fitness over to inherent powers

Yikes. That pic makes it look like she's crucified.

I'm curious about the details: will they be slottable? Not everything that's inherent is. Will they be available from the get-go? Or will they gradual unlock like various boost-pack powers such as the Pocket D VIP Pass or Ninja Run? How will this affect powersets like Willpower which already have health and stamina like powers?

It's kind of sad how happy this change makes me. Stamina is pretty much required by almost all builds of most archetypes, so making Stamina inherent just makes sense. There's no decision making going on by players there, it's pretty much "take it or your gameplay will suck".

@Sam, I imagine they will unlock gradually, probably around the levels you could select them as powers (so Stamina unlocks for free at level 20). Since these are inherent powers like Sprint or Brawl, they certainly could be slottable, but I suspect instead they'll provide a flat bonus or a level scaled bonus to avoid forcing players to spread their enhancement slots even thinner.

Since since characters with Willpower can already take Stamina as well if they want, I imagine the bonuses will stack just like they do now. Under Cryptic I don't doubt they'd nerf the bonuses in order to avoid free buffs for Willpower players who didn't previously have Stamina, but I suspect Paragon Studio's more player friendly approach will result in them preferring to buff those who didn't have Stamina over nerfing those that had both.

This is awesome. As long as I can still slot them I'll be very happy!

And Carnies.

Of course, those enemies were made because of pre-ED characters running around with 6-slotted Stamina.

About fucking time.

I would like to see them add the option of skipping a power in favor of more slots. Allow a player to do it once per build, maybe twice.

I hope PeterD is right about the bonus because the extra powers would just mean getting throwaway powers like Recall Friend, Stealth, etc, powers where only one slot is 'good enough'. Depending on the powerset selections I already run into decisions where I don't have as many slots as I would like.

Tankers Brutes and Scrappers will be thankful to be sure. :P Not sure I would completely enjoy non-toggle superspeed and jump ALL the time esp with the level-based scaling for travel powers. It'd mean they'd get even more boosted when you used to get em compared to getting em and hardly having any boost...

I take it I19 is in QA testing? Wonder when it'll hit the taining room.

Also did he give a date or time-frame? >.> .>

Great news - this actually re-enlivens my interest in CoH more than GR did. Such possibilities!

Should make the newbie experience a lot more fun for new players too - nobody likes running out of endurance and the only time it really happens (unless your build is ridiculously end-hungry) is before L20..