Bookkeeper_Jay

Originally Posted by Lighting_Thron

its side switching, i'm talking about going to paragon as a villain and to rogue isles as a hero.

if EQ and warcraft didnt have this, i belive they would have not reach the million mark[or the 500k mark for eq]

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

I agree here. You havent played a "Real" mastermind until you play ninja/poison to 50. Everything else is just plain old easy mode.

Originally Posted by Dispari

Yup.



Also some other pics I took:







Dual Pistols and Claws seem to need some work with alignment. Katana, Broadsword, and DB look very good. <>

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That... Ninja Run is incredibly unfair, especially for a power we get at level one. It's twice the speed of Sprint, gives a massive jump height bonus (500% and over) and just gives owners of this pack a HUGE advantage. And I'm saying this as someone who has it. Why even use Sprint at all now?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

NO NO NO! Under NO circumstances would I ever want to be known as global name@player name. I've seen this in action, and it's fugly. This is one of the quickest ways to make me disregard names in general and overall stop reading chat. Absolutely, positively NO global-appended names. I don't care about name uniqueness, I just don't want the horrible ugliness that is this approach. It looks THAT BAD.

As for name purges, I'm not against running another one, but it won't give you any new names. They ran a purge of characters under 36 on accounts 90 days inactive, and the purge freed up almost nothing. I always say the same thing when people ask for this - the names you want ARE NOT taken by throwaway characters on the accounts of people who left years ago. They're taken up by the kind of characters who won't be de-named anyway. The first purge proved that to evidence, and so the subsequent purges have been level 6-and below. That's where all the freed names were, anyway.

And I've never felt names were sparse. OBVIOUS names are, like Something Man (both literally and as an example), but the solution to that is to have a name that is no some combination of your power source, colour, archetype or gender (honourable mention goes to Miss Blaster). It's never really guaranteed, but it's far from impossible.

For instance, a couple of days ago I got a name that a friend of mine described as generic. I snatched "Pandala" on Victory, which was taken on Pinnacle, and doing research on it, I see it's not very creative at all. Lots of people have used it in their fiction, and there's even an area that looks like a large plane in Zambia called that. It was also taken on other servers, so it obviously isn't so unique. But you know what? Any name I can get through character creation is unique just by default. It doesn't matter if it's unique because no-one thought of it, or because EVERYONE thought of it but everyone thought it would be taken so no-one bothered to try. As long as it goes through, it's unique enough.

In conclusion, I don't mind the occasional name purge as long as it follows the same parameters in the past, and I don't mind non-unique ways, as long as they're implemented in a way that's not ugly and yet makes it clear who the character belongs to (ain't that a catch 22). At the same time, however, I don't see making new names as problematic. It may require some lateral thinking, but good names are far from running out. They gave you a name check at character selection and they gave you the ability to start with the name and work backwards, exactly so you wouldn't end up with a costume and no name to put to it. So if you worry about your name, then start with it.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

Says the peep who thinks a certain post count (or lack thereof) means they get to make sweeping generalizations about the lives of people they know nothing about.

Not to mention your attempt to make the point about people posting insignificant one liners to pad their count when you, wait for it, resurrect a 3 month dead thread to post an insignificant one liner.

If you spent the last 3 months living up to your name sake and crying bitter tears, I'd suggest you go back to it, because you alleged "contributions" to the life of this forum aren't needed.

Originally Posted by starphoenix

There is always the option to wait for GR and do Gordon Stacy's mission that is packed with PPs when you become a Rogue or Hero. GR will make various badges too easy to get for the dedicated badge hunter. Weatherman farms will be a thing of the past for those that don't care about staying on one side.

Originally Posted by HomsikPanda

efficentcy expert pither? he's not thru ouroboros

Originally Posted by Zamuel

As a newer player I was wondering, "why do people say mercs is underperforming?" but I see the problems here and noticed a few quirks with my own use. My Medic actually used to use his heal a fair amount until he got Stimulant and the Commando runs out of EN way too fast. While not everything in this list is needed, a few key fixes would help them. One of the more interesting things mentioned was exotic damage. While the Spec Ops should get Stealth Strike, I think it would also be good if they got the Cryonic Rounds from the Council Marksmen. It would be a second snipe and would apply both a slow and -recharge to the enemy.

Originally Posted by HomsikPanda

i dislike the fab =/ there is to many bosses for a lvl 9 to handle =/

Originally Posted by Jharber

I really love controllers and I thought about it and I decided to try Ninja/Storm because it seems like a controller MM set/pairing. With the Oni and storm it should be nice and I was thinking if I got all the special pet enhancements then the ninjas would benefit greatly.

Originally Posted by Valheru_fury

how about ninja/poison now theres expendable pets for ya

Originally Posted by B_Witched

Once upon a time....there was a server called test and everyone who liked to do team arena pvp went there all the time...then fat people broke pvp.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I never played SWG - ddi they make it harder to be a Rebel in it?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

One thing they could do is to make the center of the city around Tyrant's tower into something like a hazard zone for Resistance players - like the Praetorian Police mobs would be bigger there, and there'd be no hospital or trainer to use, so you'd feel more like you really were in enemy territory.