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Because it's the season: here are some HALLOWEEN themed names that are currently available: Albert FrankEinstein All Saints Eve Burial Rites Cabal Champion Cursed Longbow Cursed Mender Cursed Soul Crypt Creep Damned Hero Damned Soldier Damned Spirit Damned Villain Deadly Vengeance Deathly Hollow Demented Doctor Demonic Conqueror Demonic Freedom Demonic Pact Demonic Patriot Demonic Servant Doom and Gloom Doomed Soul Empty Soul Eve Halloween Evil Saint Evil Spirit Flesh-Eater Flesheater Fleshy Golem Forsaken Phantom FrankEinstein Freshly Dead Ghoul's Best Friend Ghoulie Go-Go The Good Vampire Grave Interest The Halloween Kid The Hallow-Weener Halloween Teen Harvester of Souls Haunted Soul Haunting Soul Infinite Suffering Jack O' Landscaper Jack O' Lamprey Jerk O' Lantern Jerk in Irons Killer of Demons Killer Demon Lil Demon Lonely Spirit Longbow Ghost Longbow Ghoul Longbow Vampire Longbow Werewolf Longbow Witch Longbow Zombie Mash of Monsters Mashed Monster Mender Maven Mender Monster Midnighter Maven Monster Mender Mr. Mausoleum Mummy Madam Mummy Midnighter Mummy Raider Mystery Murderer Nameless Soul One Last Death Pain in the Neck Pumpkin Pilot Princess Pumpkin Pumpkin Warrior Pumpkin Wizard Questing Goblin Ravenous Revenant Restless Corpse Rock Collector Rotting Carcass Sacred Evil Shady Goblin Six Feet Undertaker Spirit Harvester Spooky Noochies Spooky Knight Thriller Party Tomb Looter Unrestful Vampire Hero Vampire Soul Veganstein Void Vampire Weather Wolf Witch Mender Xenomorphic Demon Young Dracula Young Werewolf Zombie Healer Zombie Hero Zombie Warrior I think I hit all the letters at least once.

It's Halloween, so... The Furry Pumpkin Savage Melee / Bio Armor Scrapper

I found some more currently available names for you all. Feel free to claim any of them. Agent of Longbow Antiseptic Basic Brute Better Blaster Big Blockade Cagey Corruptor Captain Coroner Cautionary Tail Crappy Controller Cureall Decent Defender Dented Disappearing Act Detail Devil Doctor Demonic Dominant Dominator Effortless Exorcizer Feeder of the Pack Fortifier Grabby Headcracker Holden McHolding Holding Immediate Information Tech Instant Death Instant Transmission Insurrectionist Joiner Khan Kong Lesson One Medicator Miss T. Mister Mastermind Mister Medic Natural Fertilizer Offworlder Ordinary Hero Outcast Freak Peace Talks Peaceful Prof. Pain Richard Revolver Secretary of Offense Shady Stalker Sinning Saint Slick Scrapper Sweet 'n Salty Teeny-Tiny Terrible Tanker Urban Assault Urban Delay Urban Elements Vahzilok Survivor Waking World X L Your Undoing Zero Time

A few other ideas I've had... Pure Leaf Plant / Nature Controller The Exploiter Poison / Sonic Defender Bump and Grind Street Justice / Willpower Brute Invulnerability / Super Strength Tanker

I love Doc Echo.

The blank screen with power names as sounds play doesn't do much for me. I think it would be more impactful to see the powers as we hear them.

Mentor T1: Training: Ranged Target Ally +ToHit +DMG (Minor) - Basically Aim but an ally gets the bonus to hit and damage effects. Instead of normal animation for Aim, use the pointing emote animation. T1: First Aid: Close Ally Heal - Copy of Aid Other from the Medicine pool, but without the tricorder animation. T2: Brutal Example: Melee Moderate DMG(Smashing), Team +DMG - Throw in a couple different melee animation options to suit character preference, like a punch or kick as you lead by example and your teammates gets the benefit of your experience in a brief boost to their damage as if affected by a smaller Build Up effect. T3: Bolster: PBAoE Team +Absorb - use something dramatic like the Super Strength -> Foot Stomp animations as you get your team to brace for an incoming attack. T4: Shield Ally: Toggle Ally Special - Targeted Ally is linked to your Health as long as toggle remains active; any damage they take is split in half with you taking the other half.

I thought the shield buffs for those sets, as well as some buffs in others sets (like Speed Boost and Increase Density in Kinetics) have been turned into targeted ally AoE buffs.

While those are pretty cool ideas, I would love a pool that let's you assign a bonus 7th slot to another power you possess and have fully slotted already. The pool could be called "Specialization" and lets you 7-slot up to 5 powers. While I'm sure some people would suggest going all the way to letting you add all five pool "powers" to a single power to get 5 extra slots on one power, I think 7 slots on any given power is more than enough.

Hellfire T1: Hellfire Aura: Ally +Mez protection or Enemy -Regen and -ToHit - uses animation and effects for Sorcery -> Enflame T1: Flaming Whip: Ranged Moderate DMG(Fire) + Minor DoT(Negative) - uses animation for Mastermind -> Demon Summoning -> Corruption T2: Infernal Bargain: A copy of Boost Power (Blaster secondary set, Energy Manipulation) which briefly boosts secondary effects of your powers. - same animation but instead of rainbow effect, use Sorcery pool's Rune of Protection effect. T3: Soul Strike: Close AoE Moderate DMG(Fire) + Disorient - uses animation for Mastermind -> Demon Summoning -> Crack Whip T4: Infernal Guardian: Summon Pet (special) Short duration indestructible pet that has a strong taunt aura similar to Illusion Control's Phantom Army, but the pet does not attack. - uses animation for Mastermind -> Demon Summoning -> Summon Demon Prince, pet is a larger version of the Demon vanity pet. Being indestructible, the Infernal Guardian pet would be a useful means to escape a tough situation by having it draw aggro for you while you go on the offensive or flee for your life. It's use should be limited, however, by both short duration and very long recharge times.

Perhaps even with an alternate skin on the wand with different color gems being selected as weapon choice, and using a different energy effect other than the darkness that the Blackwand shoots.

I'm thinking of playing a Martial Arts/Regen named Health Kick. Not sure if it'll be brute, scrapper, or stalker though.

We have a Winter event with presents and snow monsters, Winter Lord, and leading right into the new year with saving Baby New Year... a Spring event celebrating Valentines Day with a special tip mission, cooperative missions, delivering (or misdelivering) messages... a Halloween event with trick or treating, temp costumes, Halloween monsters, Eochai rampaging in various locations outside Croatoa, and a haunted house... Last winter, I recall getting some fireworks on New Year's Eve... and I wouldn't be surprised if they showed up again in July (but I missed it). It doesn't have to be just holidays, though. So what other kinds of events could we have using the resources we already have in the game (to minimize what the Homecoming team would have to do to make it happen)? I'll start it off with Hurricane Season... something for next year, possibly. A month-long event following a rough storm (that takes place just before the servers come back up after a reboot). The water level has risen and the city streets are flooded with ankle-deep water in both Paragon and the Rogue Isles. Maybe in some areas, this means sharks could be swimming around looking for a snack. Power shortages... day and night cycles normally, but at night time the buildings do not light up with lit windows or illuminated signs and street lights remain off. However, hospitals and a number of specific locations RWZ maintain power because they have emergency generators (and this would account for instanced missions having lights on inside). The lack of power triggers a crime wave, bringing enemies to locations they wouldn't otherwise be seen (mostly lower level gangs like Hellions, Skulls, Outcasts, and Trolls) as they try to take advantage of the confusion and downed security. In the Rogue Isles, this might be an increased Longbow presence (and maybe we could see Freedom Corps get off their butts and do something) as they try to use the situation to bring law and order to the Rogue Isles by making things difficult for Arachnos. But most prominently: Luddites everywhere. And the heroes are needed to help try to bring back power to the area with a series of missions where they have to defeat enemies and recover parts, leading up to the final mission where they are needed to help repair the reactor (Terra Volta on blue side, whatever on red side) as Luddites swarm to stop them. (Failed mission means the power outage continues. Success is... temporary, as the heroes are praised for restoring power only to have something else fail and the power outage will continue... but at least they tried.) Throw in a few badges... maybe something like Emergency Responder and/or Hurricane Survivor. Boom, non-holiday event.

You used "godmode" five times in six sentences.

Just released the name Super-Duper. Someone give it a good home.

I made his head smaller.

He's short, too. I call him Safe because he's short and stocky... like an armored box.

There is nothing more unheroic to me than "dying" because I'm not the right hero AT. I'm going to have to disagree with your opinion on this one.

Yeah, I can't deal with that unless it's something that fits the character concept, like how Freakshow use that 1337 spelling stuff in their names. It grates on my mind. Can't deal with adding a period or a dash at the end, either... or how some people use xX (name) Xx or o0 (name) 0o. For me, that's a failed character idea and I have to move on... but doing so leaves me frustrated until I find something new to focus on.

Some more costume ideas I've played around with:

I like 0 Degrees. I know the lack of creativity problem. I get stuck on names because the ones I want are already taken, so I try to squeeze a concept into a different name and I end up feeling frustrated and unhappy with my creative efforts.

Make some of the prestige powers slottable like inherent powers (Brawl, Sprint, the former Fitness pool). No extra slots given out, but if someone wants to make their Ghost Slaying Axe more useful, why not? If someone wants to rely on Beast Run as their travel power because it suits their character theme, why penalize them by not letting them be able to put Endurance reductions in it? The buff pets? How about letting us slot them to boost performance and/or give a defense buff to the pet itself so it can survive a little better?

It's Halloween... so who has candy-themed heroes or villains? Swedish Fish Candy Corn Psionic Melee / Bio Armor Brute Energy Blast / Atomic Manipulation Blaster Show me your sweet tooth.

You're welcome.

I can see lots of use for Tad... but Gravity Falls took the best one: