Coyotedancer

Dooooooooo IIiiiiiiiiiitttttt! 😁

*chuckles* I had a friend back on Liberty whose favorite tank (and global name-) was Lord Almighty. That name always made me grin. XD

Yep. 'Another "my tanks always have Taunt"-person here. (My Brutes typically have it, too, since I often find myself playing the tanky role with them.) It's useful to be able to pull things' attention away from your squishier team-mates, and Taunt's a better way to do that than relying on an aura or just punching the goon in the nose. 'Tough to use either of those for the purpose when you're not standing right next to them and all....

Now, if you want rather dramatic, poetic names... Names of the sort you'd find in wuxia fiction, or... well... attached to Exalted characters... Many, many moons ago my friend Voidstate came up with this: http://www.voidstate.com/name_generator/ And then there's this: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/hero_names.php And this... https://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=superheronameorg And somewhere out there, there's one that does "Adjective Animal" style names... Which is how I ended up with Don Gallo, my swashbuckling "Ruthless Rooster". XD (ETA: I'll post that one's URL if I can find it again.)

'Depends on what exactly is meant by "temporary costume parts"... If it's an entire look like the Halloween costumes? Sure. If you're saying "Oh, look. It's been a month, I better go spend X-number of hours grinding out Thing A or my favorite cape is going to vanish", hell no.

Yeah... It's another "Aion thing" that would just be annoying here... and I'm saying that as someone whose 'Other MMO' *is* Aion. (Or was, anyway. I haven't played in about a year-) City of Heroes really doesn't need forts.

Flashtoo beat you to it. She's had The Saurus since some time last year. XD

I absolutely use capes... Sort of. A lot of my Ornabagan characters are using that one, very scarf-like, "tattered" option as part of their armored outfits, just because it adds some visual interest and marks them as something other than "just another (ie: NPC) Circle Mage/Thorn Caster/Thorn Wielder". I'm also a fan of the Arcane cloak with some of the crew. I like the weight it seems to have and the way it moves. The classic scarf option, likewise. That said... My characters tend to dress like this... ...rather than going for anything like the traditional Superman/Flash/XMen-style outfits. I think Narada may be the only character I have who uses spandex-proper. And even then, her "Avatar of the Goddess" costume isn't exactly a 'classic comic book' affair... Although Semnai totally does the "black leather cat-suit" thing, which may as well be skin-tight spandex. And a few (Like Ajda, the girl in black and gold, bashing the clockworks up above-) use the Imperial Dynasty bits, which are also similar. So, maybe spandex and capes are a matter of degree? Is a tattered scarf really a cape? Is a vintage Emma Peel style cat-suit on par with one of those spandex-a-paloozas from the 70's?

Don't forget semi-obscure, public domain media references... Once upon a time I took to naming some of my gang after opera characters, for instance. There are some fun names to be had there, even if you aren't a particular fan of the music. (I am, so that just added an extra bit of fun for me. And it always made me grin when someone else recognized where Sarastro or Coppelius or Amneris' name came from. XD) Find an opera character who reminds you somehow of the character you're making, and have at it. "Figaro" was great for a flashy Sonic blaster with a high opinion of their own opinion. "Falstaff" was perfect for a big guy all about the Wine, Women and Song when busting bad guys was done. My "Rosenkavalier" was a handsome, young and slightly daft Broadsword/Shield scrap in formal dress and a domino mask... There's a lot of inspiration to be had if you go looking for it.

For every player who jut LOVES an endless grind, there's another who says "Dude. I have a life outside the game." Having to murder ten thousand Flumphs just to unlock the Wowzers Aura costume piece just isn't going to appeal to a lot of us. That's particularly true when half the point of the game is character customization.

She's a custom doll... who was absolutely modeled after Wednesday Addams. XD

The Crossroads map... I want that one in AE, too.

Kai's clones were just ANNOYING... both for Kai-prime on the red side and the White Thorn version blue-side. The clone system doesn't know what to do with Stalkers, see, so if you're running it on a Stalker character your clones (either in Dean's missions or in Keith and Jenni's-) will spawn as Scrappers instead. Bio Armor Scraps are a total pain in the rump. Knocking them down took for-freakin'-EVER. 🤣

Semnai has been slacking... And just for fun, Harry's Architect stats. XD

My farmer leveled outside of AE, either running with PI smash teams, or dual-boxed with my "other Brute", Semnai, on her scanner and arc missions... so Harry would actually have pretty average-looking numbers for a level 50 character, I suspect. Nothing he's done SINCE THEN has counted, but... at least at a casual glance he'd seem like Joe Average. XD I have to go see Sem's own numbers, though. Hers should be... entertaining.

Oh, I know. That was pure RNG Weirdness... and even funny on some level, in an "Oh, for pete's sake!"-kind of way. If I hadn't kept a running tally at the time, no one would have believed it happened. 😆

Well, my bringing up the recipe-thing apparently annoyed people and made them think I was QQing about "muh proofits!" or something (For the record, I'm not. I just farm for fun at this point, so the INF isn't really the issue-), so I'll just shut up about it... Even though I'm still seeing it happen on the majority of runs, regardless of map or who/what level the tag-along character happens to be. Oh well. Maybe Harry is just cursed with inherently poor luck, like those characters who can grind iTrials and DA arcs a ridiculous number of times and never see a single VR salvage drop... (Yeah. I have a few that that's happened to. Don't get me started on how long it took to get Xhelethe's T4s. Because I had to buy every single one of her Rare and Very Rare iBits. Every. Single. One. I kid you not. 'Talking about "improbable and flat-out weird RNG behavior"... That was the poster child example. XD )

I never run the same map twice in a row, for whatever that's worth. I farm for fun and that's part of what makes things interesting... Anyway, like I said, it's just something both odd and oddly consistent that I'd noticed while doing the dual-box thing over the last six months or so. If it's purely the RNG being strange? So be it... But "consistent" isn't exactly a trait that I normally associate with this game's RNG, and seeing something like the recipe drop disparity happening so routinely made me raise an eyebrow. That said, it was back to the usual pattern over my last two runs.... On the first, I had Harry in with Sokari again (Who's a 50 himself now, thanks to a bunch of unhappy Romans and time-travelling Space Nazis-). On the second, I tossed Harry in with Amset, who's in her 40's. ======================= First run: (Cult's Outdoor) Harry 47 recipes dropped in total (35 common, 7 Uncommon, 3 Rare, 1 PvP, 1 Very Rare) Sokari 56 recipes dropped in total (38 Common, 11 Uncommon, 6 Rare, 1 PvP, 0 Very Rare) ======================= Second run: (Brigg's Cave) Harry 36 recipes dropped in total (27 Common, 5 Uncommon, 3 Rare, 1 PvP, 0 Very Rare) Amset 52 recipes dropped in total (38 Commons, 10 Uncommon, 4 Rare, 0 PvP, 0 Very Rare)

It's from the end of the last mission of Jenni Adair's arc, which is the follow-up to Keith Nance's.

My Elysion bird-things could be rationalized as Natural, too, I guess... They're a species of humanoid predatory avians, after all, so flight and all that is just "what they do". But they're also Shard natives, so Magic pretty much by default, regardless of that. They're Naturally UN-natural. XD

Maybe... That's one of the things I want to play around with. 'Just did a run with Harry (50+) and Sokari (47) on Cult's cave map and they were almost even on the recipe count (Sokari got a purple, but no PvPs... while Harry got a PvP, but no purples. They were equal on uncommons and rares, and Harry actually had a slight edge on Commons for once. That's unusual.) I'm going to keep notes for awhile, just to see. It may just turn out to be a pure RNG weirdness thing... But I think having some actual numbers will be interesting in its own right.

Well, there's still the "Why does the mission owner get fewer drops than their tag-along?" question, but that's been going on for awhile now. If it is, indeed, A Thing... it may or may not ever get looked into. It can't be all that high a priority for anyone.

Just look at that adorable little face. ^_^ She sounds like a most excellent pup.

So... Bloody Rainbow, solo with Harry at +4/x8/with bosses: Common Salavge-118Uncommon Salvage- 15Rare Salvage- 10Common Recipes- 42Uncommon Recipes- 10Rare Recipes- 4PVP Recipes- 2VR Recipes- 0Enhancements- 25 XP- Harry is XP-locked at vet level 100, so (NA)Raw Inf- 27,528, 245

Spiffy! I really am curious about that, and if it's related somehow... I'll see if I can dig up that Bug forum thread, too. ETA: Here's the Bug forum thread on the "less drops for the leader" issue...