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But yours doesn’t have wings to fly above the clouds. 🤔

Meaning you don’t like those pieces on a female character? Or you’re looking for something complementary to it but not identical?

According to my alt spreadsheet, Brutes are my main. I have 101 Brutes and 79 Blasters. 1 Warshade, 1 Widow.

That’s interesting. I rarely take Traps and I mostly don’t use my Masterminds like that. Rather I do the bum’s rush at mobs. I do have a Bots/Traps MM, though, so I’ll give this a go when he gets there.

I’ve always thought it would be cool to be granted a Tank Mage once you got a character to 50, as an unlock perk. I know, farmers, and all that, but I don’t care. Something with the best attacks and best defenses. Basically the CoH version of the Phoenix Force or Power Cosmic, that grants your character godlike status. Just being able to make something that can punch Rularuu in the nose or stop a crashing asteroid would be pretty awesome. But that would also require making new Super Epic Endgame stuff. Doable then but probably not now.

I go concept first. Heck, I barely even bother slotting enhancements in most of my characters until deep into their 30s. This way I am *constantly* surprised when I get killed. All my toons have roided-out insurance policies.

My favorites from back in the day: Hell Toupé - demon accountant with a combover Nor’easter Bunny - Playboy bunny with storm powers Kung-Pow Chicken - MA chicken scrapper Monkey Wench - all that and a bag full of chimps KittyKittyBangBang - dual pistols cat girl Cuke Nukem - guy who got radiation powers from an irradiated salad Ditzkrieg - https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Ditzkrieg-screenshot-55148284 Battlesnake Blastronaut - https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Blastronaut-bio-343590977 Slaughtermouse - https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Slaughtermouse-screenie-55147734 See them and others here: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Alt-Alphabet-114482941 I really should put all my old toons on DA.

Really good. Back on live I had an ex-football player turned into a bovine named Super Bull.

I saw you last night as I was popping around and admired the pun. My rabbit toon this go-round is Hare Tonic, an Empathy Defender. On live it was Nor’easter Bunny.

Here’s an idea I’ve been noodling with that you can use as-is or for inspiration. With and without auras.

These are all great name/design combos, but I especially dig The Martian. The contrasting color really pops on that outfit.

That’s how I’ve done it. How are you getting it to work with the costume change? Black magic? Jedi mind trick?

I highly recommend DaVinci Resolve. In my opinion it’s nearly the equal of Adobe Premiere and way better than Final Cut, both of which I use at work (I work at a TV station). Lots of great YouTube tutorials for DaVinci. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

This is terrific. I can never get costume change binds to work, so I’m jealous. Also, how did you get eye flames with the floating skull? I didn’t think that was possible without tricking the game into thinking the toon had a regular head.

Ok, now you’re just showing off. 😆 So great. 👍🏻

The outfit is cool but the backstory is killer. Absolute unit, as the kids say. Love it.

A combo I would’ve never thought of. Brilliantly simple. >chef’s kiss<

I saw you on Excelsior this week. I prefer the blue look.

No one ever says that impossible burgers come from veggie-bulls, and I think that's a shame.

Apparently I’m a Bard/Gardener… a Bardener. I expected to get Architect, though. Most of the recommendations are Sims 3 and Sims 4. Good thing Sims 4 is about to go free-to-play soon. All I want to do there is build houses, honestly. And if someone could make a game where all we do is build spaceships of every and any conceivable configuration, I’d be all over that. Considering how many alts I make in CoH, this is unsurprising.

That's a cool idea. It would be a fun story arc to play, I think.

It was the beard. The Nukem Girls really liked those hirsute brutes. Rawr.

We conversated during the costume contest the other night on Excelsior put on by the Girls of Nukem High (I brought Vaarluuk the Seeker, posted somewhere upthread), which had some of the best costumes I’ve seen at one time. The theme was “Gods and Monsters”. Vaarluuk placed in the top 10, which was better than I expected, and Vengeance of Ra was one of the final 3. Well deserved. During CCs I pass the time by reading bios, and there were surprisingly few given the large turn-out. Only Mopery and I had bios which hooked into CoH lore. I asked Mopery if Ziad meant anything in Egyptian and he (I’m assuming) replied it was a cool name found among Egyptian names. I said that I do the same thing for my characters by browsing through baby name websites, to the point where Google thinks I’m going to have a baby. 😆 Edit — I see I put Vaarluuk (“far look”) in the costume request thread instead of here. So here he is (I think he’s level 32 or something now):

I was there, too. I didn't win because my costume was TOO good, but I took many screenshots. Cool base Flying under the red carpet you can see through it, which was weird but cool This was my personal favorite costume; very clever