Scarlet Shocker

A couple of others that maybe need a bit of context: A reckless Peacebringer: Suicide Squid A magic healer: Traumaturgist A seasonal toon for winter: Slay Belle My Disco toon: Earth Wind and Fire My poison earth troller: Stool A warshade inspired by a comment made on the Live forums: Purple Doubt Another Warshade who's got a latin rhythm: Bossa Nova Boomtown Brat (Guess where she lives) and finally: Crimea River

Given the number of NPCs who suffer from excess wind... Ice Mistral Scirocco Borea Levantera and probably a few more. It would be very surprising if there wasn't some more windiness on the way

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It seems likely that many students would study at Paragon University, or the Rogue Isles - given that they cater to meta humans and it would be a great starting place as someone with nascent or newly discovered powers. Research institutes would provide technologies to meta humans too. That in itself brings in tourists - look at any major university town. Meta-tourism would almost certainly be a thing - in the same way that people like to get off the beaten track and go look at other stuff. Remember there was a bit of a fad of poverty tourism too so it seems likely that there'd be cruises around the Rogue Isles (and a few related hijackings of cruise liners and similar piracy.) There's a story arc right there - it seems that Arachnos would enjoy the revenue tourists bring so might take a dim view of cruise ships being frightened off by ne'er do wells.

in other words, "the bigger the bottom the more wobbly it gets"

Thanks. In its day it was perhaps as popular as the Orson Welles version of War of the Worlds - people genuinely believed in the Angel in a kind of Arthurian resurrectionist way. I had thought of Illusion but... I'm gonna say it... I'm not so fond of Illusion as a set. I have a Mercs/TA which in the mid-30s is distinctly underwhelming - which does give the whole "army thing" and I must admit I'd not taken into account the fact you can make your pets appear different in Illusion these days. That might make it different. Flight is definitely one of the pools. Her costume is winged - it kind of had to be I guess - and winged creatures running on the ground seems to be a bit silly.

If you're familiar with the legend of the Angel of Mons, you might already know where I'm going with this. If you're not and are interested, there's some further reading is available at the links below. As a brief historical context, the retreat from Mons was a humiliation for the BEF, but it also prevented Germany from conquering France very quickly and thus ending WWI before it had started. Chances are the world order would have been very different had that occurred. But I'm not here to talk counter-factual history. I'm here to talk about the concept of the Angel of Mons in the context of our beloved game. I've rolled her on live, on Score and here but I've never quite gotten down something that truly satisfies so she's languished in various iterations - including a Mercs MM/TA Obviously some form of arrow is essential and I see her more as a support character than an aggressive front line toon - her legend is one of helping the troops of the BEF survive, and get out of there rather than taking the fight to the enemy. And of course the longbow as a weapon of war is central to the English British mythos - Crecy and Agincourt (no not that camp in the Rogue Isles) Henry V and all that - the Longbow is an icon of British history. There's been some chat about TA defenders that persuaded me to revive her - and I'm wanting your input and suggestions to see what you come up with. I'm pretty sure TA is the main part of her armoury, the real question is what is the rest? I already have a Plant/TA troller and I'm working on a Sonic/TA Defender so those are out and on live I had a cool Fire/TA troller so I probably don't want to revisit any of those, applying the rule of "been there, done that" to this scenario. Over to you, good people. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bowm849.shtml

I read elsewhere that with the right combination of powers & procs Flash Arrow gives you near stalker levels of invis. I think (working from memory) that Flash Arrow, Stealth (PP) and a Stealth proc make you all but undetectable in the right situation. I don't fully comprehend how stealth works but I do think it offers some amazing mitigation

I have a Defender, Voice of Scythia - TA/Sonic that I just rolled. Got on a high level team at level 8 and felt like I was still pulling my weight when exemped down and only a couple of powers. Was a lot of fun and quite survivable if I don't aggro mobs

WTF is he doing to that poor duck?!?!?!

hair and hat options. All hats have shite hair. I wish we could change that

just don't be original instead

This game is fundamentally 16+ (I got that from War Witch verbatim in 2008) I appreciate there is a lot in this that appeals to younger people but there is some young adult stuff present in the game. The community reflect that, as you might expect. Personally I would be very unhappy to see this game moderated to accommodate younger participants. I know it has always happened but I think it's down to individual parents to be in charge of safeguarding for their own offspring until they are of age.

I knew you'd be the one to follow through

Then my work here is done /em twirl cape, leap into the air, shoots off into the sunset, forgets about closed patio doors, faceplants on crazy paving in a pile of shattered glass

I don't often do this but I think this adds nothing to gameplay, fails to achieve the OP's goals and takes up unwarranted and precious development time /jranger

I also want a head that looks like a lettuce that I can put a blonde wig and googly eyes on. Brits will understand. The rest of you possibly not so much

Interesting. That should be easy to test to confirm or deny shouldn't it?

Is there not a better way to do this, or at least partially? I seem to recall that if you open a 2nd build you start at level one and have to effectively respec that build to whatever your max build is (I'm presuming 50 in this case) Would it not be better to just level to one or two levels above the content you're running and slot appropriately, rather than building the entire build then exemping down? I don't know if it's actually possible but I wonder if it would be more fun to restart and visit level 1 Goldside contacts and run the content as if you were actually gold. I do appreciate that there's more gold content that a single pass can achieve but that might give you some partial mitigation.

That should be an option - a costume option with the eyes as a stand alone and then the nose and the moustache combined

This is probably a wish too far but I'd love to be able to have furnishings and tech stuff that resembles 50s style and TV series, the funky shapes, the stick drawings, the line patterns, legs splayed wide apart with cute brass feet (and that's just the coffee table, not an arch villain) I do love the new Praetorian designs but I'd love something a bit more unique for base styles

Sometimes it can take a team almost 30 seconds to take him down. That's far too long. Surely it would be better to be able to destroy him in under 7. Clearly something needs to be done. He's making incarnates look incompetent.

The title says it pretty well. I just want googly eyes as an eyeware option.

you mispelled "basting"