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Hail Eris!

+1 influence for that one, and please tell me he looks like Robert Smith with wings. Of Course! Stereotypical white toga, white wings, halo, black mesh club shirt underneath, black hipster hair and sunglasses. Heaven meets Hot Topic. XD

Apathiel- winged emo Fire/Empathy Controller. This disaffected angel first appeared in Paragon City in the early 1990s following a Wave of Mutilation, when the sky was made of amethyst and all the stars were just like little fish. Some say he was sent to prevent the opening of a Heart Shaped Box used in a ritual to summon a Black Hole Sun at the Sunny Day Real Estate company, but when asked he simply flipped his hair and took a drag from his clove cigarette, leaving curious onlookers to Enjoy the Silence.

I kind of feel bad for their national superhero, though. They couldn't afford a decent super-soldier program, so they just duct-taped a couple of hungry owls to Captain Hoot-Hoot's wristbands and called it a day.

Possibly an Archery (with a compound bow) / Time (because interest accumulates over time) Corruptor? Mine: Prom Queen ???

D'oh! Well, dip me in pumpkin spice and throw me to the soccer moms, you're right! You're very welcome. I wish the wayback machine's search functions worked a little better...there were a *lot* of gems like this on the old forums!

Is this the bio you were thinking of? Good stuff from the before-before times! Unfortunately, the image I found of the bio doesn't include the character's name, but I do wonder how things turned out between him and Fine Blaze.

This, so much this to the point where every character grabs the undead slaying axe on principle alone. I imagine the P2W person in the tutorial going, "By the way, keep this wedged in a convenient nook and/or cranny for later. Why, you ask? Oh, you'll see..."

I generally enjoy a mix of story arcs and the occasional radio group or TF, but after one character came to Paragon City from Praetoria I had the notion to clear out their Flashback story arcs through the base pillar. I sort of envisioned it as their orientation to the new dimension involving reviewing old cases in the group's holo-simulator. Plus, I liked being able to teleport to contacts, and of course racking up the merits and badges associated with the story arcs. :D

Paragon Wiki's Stealth and Perception page has a nice breakdown of how the mechanics of stealth and perception play out, including the different perception ranges of various enemy types and the varying effectiveness of stealth by source. https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Stealth_and_Perception

Click Powers above your combat abilities, then Combat Attributes to open a window with your stats. If you like, you can right-click some to Monitor, which will place them in a small window for constant viewing.

1. Delete Help and Looking for Group from the chat tab. 2. Create a new chat tab titled SPAM for those two. 3. ??? 4. Profit.

It's also worth noting that knockback protection can come from IO set bonuses. Three Gladiator's Javelin IOs in a single-target ranged attack will give you Mag 3 knockback resistance, as will three Fury of the Gladiator IOs in a Point Blank Area of Effect blast (such as Energy Blast's Nova, Fire Blast's Inferno, etc.). It's a bit less than the Mag 4 resistance granted by the IOs previously mentioned, but it's another source of KB protection to consider, and will stack with any other source of knockback protection. From Devices, Gladiator's Javelin can go into Gun Drone (and theoretically Taser, but you'll *probably* want to slot it for Stun rather than damage), and Fury of the Gladiator will go into Trip Mine as well as Time Bomb.

Confusion powers, whether I'm the one using them or if they're being used by a teammate. I never bought into the "confuse lowers xp" mindset, even before seeing research proving quite the opposite (https://web.archive.org/web/20120904083436/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=114280). On my characters who rock their confusion powers, I just know that a mob who isn't attacking me or my friends at the moment is one less threat to worry about! :D