Captain Fabulous

I think people forget the baseline for this game is even level SOs. Even a tank at level 50, with just SOs, is not going to be able to withstand that kind of assault. People forget just how squishy most characters really are without the IO sets and globals. I am a well-seasoned player, been playing since beta. I have characters of all levels, the vast majority with just common IOs, and even those in the 40-50 range can't easily solo higher than +1/3 or +2/2. And I'm highly-skilled. Imagine what it's like for a new player. The current power divide is HUGE.

I dunno man, I've always found lvl 40+ CoT to be a royal pain in the tuchus. Massive stacking of debuffs.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. There are a few jacket options that aren't available for the female body type, e.g. tuxedo, while the Victorian vest is completely different.

Katana is similar enough to Broad Sword that you can use his any of his BS builds as a reference.

You are correct. Any power not affected by damage mods won't be affected by the Rage crash. Taunt is another good power to use during the crash, especially if you're not attacking and generating threat. I'm pretty sure the Hybrid Incarnate abilities that do extra damage act like procs, and those aren't affected either. But honestly, it's time to get rid the Rage crash once and for all, along with all the other powers that have penalties (protection set T9s mostly).

Remove travel speed suppression. It was dumb then and it's still dumb now.

Because in the early days, prior to the various methods of powerleveling, it took quite a bit of time and effort to get there. It was a very different game back then.

Sands of Mu, Blackwand, and Nemesis Staff from the P2W vendor aren't affected by the Rage crash either and do pretty decent damage.

In general, yes, IOs are better than SOs. At level 30-up they have higher values than SOs and can't ever be out-leveled. So yeah, buy yourself some IOs.

Hallmarks of narcissistic personality disorder.

It's a great costume creator for sure, and the recent enhancements have made it that much better. I think the only major complaint I have is the inconsistency of parts across different subtypes and body types, e..g. there might be a texture or pattern available for a top piece but not the matching bottom (or boot, or glove), or a different subclass of piece within the same part (standard boot vs. flat or stiletto). There are pieces for male and huge that aren't available for female, and vice versa. And there are a few pieces with the same name on male/huge and female but look completely different. I also wouldn't mind seeing the removal of all gender restrictions. Let male/huge wear skirts and female wear suits. Let every body type have access to all the hair and head detail options. Oh, and animal parts are very inconsistent in the coloring options.

This is why I stopped replying. I got tired of the never-ending strawmen, logical fallacies, and false equivalencies. It was obvious (to me at least) that some people have a vested interest in protecting all their inactive characters and will freely engage in disingenuous discourse. If I were a bettin' man I'd say they're campers sitting on hundreds or even thousands of names they don't want to lose, which would explain why they continue to be blatantly obtuse.

Kids today. Back in my day we spammed Gale from level 1-50 uphill, both ways, and were happy for it.

You can't call a different model but I think you can replace the costume pieces. But it would replace them everywhere in-game where the original pieces exist, not just on your pets.

But not angry enough to make it a priority to at least log her in once a year. 👌

Help me out here: why do you care about a character you don't ever play? You care SO MUCH about these characters you never ever play them, and are willing to die on this hill over a policy that *might* one day take their names, but can't be half-assed to at least log them in once a year. And what makes you think name hoarders don't actively play at least one of their characters while sitting on hundreds of characters at level 1? Make it make sense. This horse has been beaten to death and I'm tired of repeating myself.

And on this we will forever disagree. Look, I get where you're coming from. But I simply do not agree with you, for all the reasons I've already outlined. I'm gonna leave it at that.

I did and you didn't. Neither did you explain how it would negatively affect your enjoyment of the game if the name of a character you never ever play was taken away from you.

Because as I stated previously, it's not about whether your account is in use. It's about the characters. Why do you think you should be able to indefinitely hold a name on a character you don't ever play? Asking you to log in a character at least once a year isn't much of an ask. If you can't spare under a minute that character clearly isn't that important to you.

And I'll counter this with: if you never ever play them why do you care what their name is? It won't change your global name, it won't change your SG status. And it won't rewrite the bio no one gets to see because they're never logged in. Are you somehow better off in any appreciable way by holding onto this name? Like, why would you want to deny someone else the pleasure of using a name you admittedly don't ever use? I don't get it.

I disagree. It's not about whether a player is active or not. It's about characters, as those are the things that hold names. If you're an active player you shouldn't have any issues taking the time to at least log in a character whose name is flagged for release. I mean, it's not complicated nor difficult. It literally takes under a minute per character. The only time it becomes complicated or difficult is if you're someone who's camping on hundreds (or even thousands) of names and have no any intention of ever actually playing any of them. If you have characters you haven't played in over a year they obviously aren't all that important to you. So why do you care that the name might be taken from characters you don't care about and never play? I really do not understand this mentality.

I'm kind on the fence on this. I mean, I don't see the devs ever going down the road of "we'll exempt played level 50 but not PLd level 50s", but I'm not sure I'm necessarily against the idea. I know play time data is logged, and I guess one could establish a threshold for what would be considered a PLd character (1-50 in under X number of hours) but I'm not sure play time data is easily accessible nor if it's a needed solution to what is really a narrow set of circumstances.

No one is advocating for immediate release. No one. I don't even know why you went there. And no, not by account. If you have a character you haven't played in over a year why do you think you should be able to keep the name simply because you asked for it first? If that character and their name is sooooo important to you you should be able to at least log them in once in awhile. I mean, the bar here is VERY low. Personally I think, like others here, that level 50s shouldn't be immune from name release. All it's gonna do is prompt name hoarders to PL all their characters to 50. There is nothing they can do that's going to please everyone.