War of Light-no offense-just red lantern=weak

Keep in mind that we can't be full fledged Red Lanterns any more than we can be full fledged Green Lanterns or Sinestro Corps members. They have membership limits. At best, we're just loosely affiliated with them, using cheap imitation rings with very limited capabilities. I think it can be safely assumed that we wouldn't suffer the full effects of the conversion into Red Lanterns.

That's not how the Lanterns work. They all have different capabilities to a point. Green and Yellow are almost carbon copies of each other, but every other colour in the spectrum doesn't work like Green and Yellow do.

Well I'm switching to #TeamRed and there's nothing you guys can do about it besides complain and expect me sound like a nice hero.

Maybe in the comic books, but this is a game, and for the purposes of a game, I think a bit of homogenization could be used without a major problem.

What I think is sad is that we can have 2, 3, (and likely) 4 variations of Lantern powersets in the game, but the one powerset most commonly attributed to major characters (Superman, Wonder Woman, Bane, etc.) - that being a physical set, hasn't made it in, and at least for the forseeable future, won't.

Explain how having 3 Lantern sets in the game is more of a benefit than having a diverse mixture, which allows players greater opportunities to create different characters, instead of just creating deputy-deputy Lanterns?

Someone agrees with me that we need a bane type powerset!

btw though i'm excited for red lanterns

Yea and next power is not blue lantern its indigo, clearly its not the blue lantern symbol if you watched the livestream. Plus the people at DC said its ok as long as players dont have green aura so who cares its done.

Clearly you didn't watch the livestream since they said that was the artist's mistake lol

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If you opened your ears during the live stream you would have heard Jens say that the artist put the wrong symbol on the blue suit. A lot of people watching commented on it as soon as the suits appeared and then Jens said that when he first got the sketches the inner nerd in him compelled him to tell the artist he/she/they had gotten the wrong symbol.

The people at DC said what is ok? Also if you kept up to date with information you would know that new auras are coming and Jens said he is going to revisit the green aura situation with DC because they have loosened up on the restrictions on Green Lantern stuff since last time.

Oh look, another person scared of change. Tell me how everything pre52 was perfect.



Oh and to the person who said this game was Pre-52. Its is it's own entity were the staff takes direction and inspiration from all source material as seen when Jens references Rankorr (New 52 only) several times in relation to upcoming content.

Did you ever stop and think that maybe the reason they are waiting for Part 2 to release the suit is because if they released it with part 1 there would be an imbalance in how many suits each faction had? If they released the blue suit with part 1 that would mean heroes get 3 suits while villains only get 2. I've said it before and I'll say it again, my theory is that they will release blue suits for heroes and orange suits for villains in part 2, with indigo and violet being cross factional suits, that way each side will have an equal number of suits.

Things have to pass by DC licensing, and they won't allow Lanterns to be represented as a powerset that has nothing to do with them except it has their colour and uses Light.

There is already a diverse mixture of powers. If anything, there are more Elemental powers than there are Lanterns. Does this mean that people are upset at having less choices to play something that doesn't directly use elements? Of course not. They work around it and only pick what fits them. There are ways to play a variety of different characters based on the weapons you choose and the power you pick. Having two different forms of Lanterns now doesn't mean that the other powers are suddenly not available, or that there'll be more powers coming that don't relate to Lanterns in any way. There's no confirmation that any future Lantern powers will happen. I HOPE they will do, and that Blue will be one of them, but the next few DLCs don't have anything to do with the War of Light DLC.

i think red lantern heros is just as much of a stretch as blue lantern tanks..... not like we dont have a tank class that doesnt heal itself... i still have no clue how fire is a "tank" class what about fire screams tank? its more like they wanted to put fire in there..they didnt know how it would fit..they were aleady making ice..so might as well put it with the other elemental type power....they could have easily made blue lantern a tank class they have shields they could have kicked small heals back out to the group while shielding them (small heals not healer role type heals..just small heals) but they chose not to make blue a tank class and chose to make red a hero and villain.....

and yes guy wields a red ring now and so does super girl...but...lets go back to guy..didnt he use a yellow lantern ring for what? a decade?... why is yellow villain only?... when clearly heroes have also used yellow power rings in the past... im sure there is some excuse...but ... most people are gonna see either arguments as flawed... heroes generally dont kill...

and ill be honest i didnt want any new lantern powers..i wanted a "physical strength" tank.. but if they insisted on making a lantern tank...i would have preferred it to be blue ...

now what are they gonna introduce for healers cause its obvious the next healer power will be blue lantern.... that can only be heroes though... what are they gonna choose violet?..no cause if i remember those areall female.... is it gonna be indigo ? how so ? there are hero indigo lanterns.... ...the easier thing to do based on "sense" not easier to program..... would have been to make blues hero tanks and red villains... there would be no need to make a lantern hero class at all..

thats just my $0.02

we get that you are happy with the choice and thats great for you..but as i explained above many of us would have rather the blue power be for hero tanks... we most of us understand the silly restrictions dc puts on the dev team... but to a lot of us...their reasoning is a bit of a stretch on why both heoes and villians can be a red lantern... again..why was yellow villain only..... witht he example of gardner wielding the fear ring for a decade..

yes this is what dcuo needs more heroes who walking a thin line of either being a hero or a villian ...

how can there be more then one orange lantern??? if we are going based on the comics...their cant be... i realize these arent real power rings.... but so what its not following the books... also how is orange evena healing class?

They didn't say there'd be a powerset. Jafin was explaining that if they put every suit they showed into DLC 9, then Heroes would get Green, Blue and Red armour while Villains would only get Yellow and Red so they're likely holding it back until they can put in iconic armours enough to keep it balanced numberwise. Armours, not powersets.

Guy used a yellow ring waaaaaaaaay before the Sinestro Corps was even a thought, so obviously back then it wasn't thought of as being exclusively evil. When Guy used it it was fueled by absorbing the energy of a green ring. That all changed when the Sinestro Corps came around, which then led to the rest of the corps and the idea of the emotional spectrum.

As for Reds and Blues being tanks released at the same time...what I'm trying to say is that they work completely differently. The way the tank mechanic for Rage works is exactly how I had thought it would, they basically just rage and power through any damage they're taking and instead take the damage later. Blue Lanterns would never be able to do this. In the Lockbox podcast with Odyssey Jens said that Blue would be too difficult to implement because of how it works. Blues can't do very much without being near a Green Lantern. Also, Blues power up Green Lanterns and also power down Sinestro Corps members. That would have a detrimental effect in all areas of the game.

I don't know why you think it's "obvious" that Blue Lanterns will be the next healer power, there are other corps that have greater healing abilities than them. Blue Lantern healing abilities are about the same as Green Lantern healing abilities.

As campor said, I was referring to the suits, not powers. I don't know why you're talking about healing classes, there is no guarantee that the other two parts of War of the Light will even have a power attached, let alone a healing one. If they ever release a healing Lantern powerset then my guess would be that it would be Indigo because they have the greatest capacity for healing out of the main 7 corps.

Yeah, it's serious stretch indeed!

That's not entirely true. Blue Lanterns can heal people physically to the point of regenerating entire limbs. Indigo Lanterns can copy the effects of any of the other Lanterns, but their base healing is more mental with superficial physical healing as I recall.

Hold on, my opinion is Blue comes to WoL 2. Because of: 1. There's blue pack on marketplace. 2. They said Blue suit will be in next part of DLC, but since current focused on Red & Blue lanterns, which point to not bring it in WoL 1, if not releasing next power. If they will quick, maybe we'll see it after approx. half of year.