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Except in the cases of temp power weapons which, I guess, canon completely ignores. It's dumb canon and should be de-canonized. If not de-canonized, then Peacebringers and Warshades should be excluded from all temp powers that have weapons attached to them.

Energy melee looks different than Umbral Melee. Changing the color isn't quite the same thing. Fire attacks appropriate to whatever AT and fire set fine... There's no Light Blast to go with Fire Manipulation, though... no Light Melee to go with Fiery Aura... no Light Aura to combine with Fire Melee (or Fire Blast for sentinels). You're not convincing me by saying just accept substitutions. Traps and Devices aren't Arachnos Soldier Gadgets & Training. Widow Teamwork secondary is different from all the other powersets. Yes, you could also take the Leadership pool to build into that... but hey, Widows can take Leadership pool for double effect Leadership powers. You're saying an awful lot to make the point of accept imitations instead of asking for additional options. But I say no to your suggestions just like the devs will probably say no to this. Did we need Sentinels? Just build a traditional blapper. Or make a scrapper with some temp powers and ranged powers from the pools. But they went ahead and gave us sentinels anyhow. How about you take your negativity and apply it to how you enjoy playing the game and keep it away from my ideas?

Let's open up the Kheldian and Arachnos powersets to the other ATs. I know, I know... "Just play one of those ATs if you want those powers; They're very flexible." Hear me out. What if I want to make a shield-bearing Warshade? Or a fire-using Peacebringer? Or an Arachnos Soldier that uses a beam rifle? How about a widow that fights with something other than claws? Or what if I want to play a non-kheldian with light attacks? Obviously I'm not suggesting the full powersets with the multiple choices available all be included, but the existing ones pared down to 9 tiers appropriate to the AT they get proliferated to. Multiple choice would still be an exclusive feature of the kheldians and VEATs. But we could have Light Melee, Light Blast, Light Armor, Umbral Blast, Umbral Melee, Umbral Aura, as well as support sets of Teamwork and Training & Gadgets for Defenders, Corruptors, Controllers, and Masterminds.

I only ever contacted one person about a name, during the first few months after things expanded beyond Torchbearer with additional shards, and we traded shards rather than either of us giving up the name. When I want names that are currently unavailable, I post an open request here in the forum letting people know what I'm trying to acquire. I never hunt down and badger people. Three times people have contacted me in response to my open inquiries, and I am very pleased with the interaction. I have contacted a few people in game when I saw them with a misspelled name or featuring symbols to get what they wanted to offer up the correct spelling of the name. Two took me up on it, and the other preferred the weird spelling. I have always been in favor of the name release policy that Homecoming announced early on, and I'm genuinely surprised that they took as long as they did before they started to implement it. Of course, more preferable would be a system where character names were not unique and everyone could play as what they want. But, alas, I've been told that the code is too much spaghetti to untangle to tie everything to global names that way.

I know. And, I just released another 31 names on Torchbearer. Worth a look... I cut some good ones loose. 😎

More housecleaning = more names released. Prices slashed to absolute zero! Get 'em while supplies last. Ace Archer Alien Emissary Arc Archangel Big Bad Baby Eater Burnado Corpseblaster Cuddlebunny Double-Up Ethereal Girl Fable For Hire Firearms Joe Gemma Stone Honorless Illusion Girl Infinity Pain Justicehawk Long Cool Woman Math Meow Mynx National Guardsman Pragmatic Procure Public Enemy Soulslasher Squealer Stone Cold Killer Surgestorm Tough Break Virtue Girl Wintersoul Wonderland Warrior

Definitely that Player2. I'll admit, I keep a lot. Anything I play into at least the high 20s or low 30s had my interest for fun, so I keep them. But yes, lower level concepts that I've created and never put more than a couple dozen levels on eventually find their way back to the public along with an announcement in shard-specific name release thread. For the record, I also have some names up for trade. These names are for characters that I would be renaming if I can get the ones I'm looking for. Recently someone contacted me about giving me one (for my beloved main, Big Girl) and asked for none in return, so when Big Girl got her name on Excelsior, I let everyone know that her alt name of Large Lass was available for whomever wanted it. Not a name hoarder, but I do use a lot of them. 🙂

Speaking of embedding images... new hero is especially new: Teen Hero War Mace / Ninjitsu Scrapper

Right click on the image and copy the image address. Then paste the link to it in the text editor here and it should automatically display the image.

How do you get that much empty screen space to the side? When I try to screenshot characters in the creation screens for power customization, the UI is awkwardly in the way --especially once you customize with colors and you can't make the color select go away and have the power animating at the same time.

Incarnate Judgement attack: Sonic Boom! No, it doesn't have the character say the words and send a boomerang like energy wave at a foe. More just a targeted AoE that drops a loud boom sound on the targets and the expected Extreme damage and a sonic -Res effect.

Additional thought: New MM powerset called Banshees It's a ghost summoning set, but the ghosts utilize sonic attacks as they scream at your foes.

With Sonic Blast, Sonic Resonance, Sonic Manipulation, and now Sonic Assault and Symphony Control coming... I think melees need some sonic love too. How about something with a mix of martial arts and sonic blast animations and we call it the Way of the Screaming Fist? Well, I guess Sonic Melee would fit better, but Way of the Screaming Fist could be a power name. Maybe some Sonic Armor, too. The character just runs around screaming to deflect or lessen damage. Would be nice to have some sonic Ancillary pools for upper level characters, too, because it sucks to get that far and then find out there's no complementary Ancillary pool for the powersets you've chosen. Just a thought.

Maybe the HC team needs to go in and just drop a bunch of rocks (and/or other objects, as appropriate to the map) into the problem areas so that things can't be blasted into those areas.

If the name you want is taken, try adding a title, rank, or honorifics in front of it: Capt. or Captain Col. or Colonel Dr. or Doctor Gen. or General Lady or Lord Lt. or Lieutenant Maj. or Major Master Mr. or Mister Ms. or Mrs. or Miss Prof. or Prof. Pvt. or Private Sgt. or Sergeant

And I've got a name locked in for her: Melody Monsoon, a cousin of my storm defender, Windy Skye.

New weapon customization options means that Kid Nemesis can now fight with the staff he deserves.

In anticipation of my upcoming Symphony/Storm controller...

I've got a few myself. My favorite is Legacy Warrior, who has a tech "time travel belt" and temporal blade... for her primary costume, but it lets her trade places with her ancestors (and a couple future descendants) so they can fight in her place in the here and now. Broadsword/Willpower... she can trade places with a Chinese sword wielding woman, an Egyptian warrior with a Khopesh sword, a Roman gladiator, a ninja, an armored knight, a cyberpunk with a hook sword and a few others. Another I made was an android (Beam Rifle/Invul) that's given various different appearances and weapons for missions of infiltration, protection, diplomacy, and front line assault. And I have a Rad/Rad scrapper with cloudy auras, crazy colored animal heads + features, and just randomly colored power effects... The name is My Imaginary Friend, so when people talk about her saving the day it's like, "My Imaginary Friend stopped that Arachnos attack."

World Boss Mercenaries / Nature Affinity Mastermind "To save the world, I must control it."

Big Girl has been granted to me. 😎 Large Lass is now available for whomever wants it!

Interesting... I was just uploading some of my costumes to the Icon Catalogue and just included my own Tank Mage (Torchbearer). You can see him here: https://costumes.cityofheroes.dev/costumeView?id=190 Several of my other costumes are also on display, but if anyone has any requests from all the stuff I've screenshotted and posted here, I can upload the costume file there for you.

Legally speaking, that name cannot be trademarked. As long as no one uses it in conjunction with an appearance similar to the Daredevil foe, it would be fine. Unique made up names can be trademarked, as can legally distinct images. Public domain words (anything found in the dictionary) cannot be trademarked. Also... damn, someone beat me to Menace and Payback.

I have an Ice/Ice dominator with the Polar Lights lore pets. They're fine.