Bright

Yep.

Like I said, zombie lumberjacks.
*shakes head*
Those guys are vicious.

FCM and I duo a lot, and have a couple of pretty effective Tank+Something pairs... My two WP/DB tanks spend a lot of time running around with his Fire/En blaster and Spines/Fire scrap. Our KM Tank/DP Blaster pair did pretty well in Praetoria, as did the Traps/DP defender and WP/Mace tank.

The really scary pair are his Shield/Energy tank and my DB/WP scrap, though. Median and Ash are just ludicrous together. They're our go-to pair for taking apart large groups.

Six stalkers in my crew currently, and not a single /Nin in the lot... I know that's heresy around here, but I really do prefer WP as a secondary for mine.

'Not sure if I'll like Ice or EA or not, but odds are good that I'll at least give them a try at some point.

I started doing the iTrials with my Sonic/Sonic defender, but stopped after the iXP awards got broken... I'll take them up again to finish opening and filling her slots once that gets fixed... She did fairly well on the trials I ran with her, though I suspect she won't be hugely useful on them until I get a couple of her level shifts in place.

I've already finished doing them with my Trick Arrow/Archery defender. Zhen has T3s across the board now, and was the easiest of my Incarnate defenders to run through them. She survived better than either my Rad/Rad or my Dark/Archery defenders did, and was more useful than my FF/Rad... Never got a VR drop, though. (My Dark and FF didn't, either... Though the Rad got 4. o_0)

I just need a single (preferably metallic-) horn, unicorn style.

Seriously.
I do.

Really.

I have this brute named Star Dasher, see. He's... He's sort-of inspired by a certain ridiculous little flash game. That rainbow path aura? Perfect for him... Likewise the up-coming Fire path for his second, "heavy metal" costume... But he's just not *right* without a sharp, pointy horn. Which we don't have amid our fairly large assortment of other horns.

So...sad, destructive unicorn-brute is sad.
It's rough being hornless.

Telling newbs who haven't figured out City geography yet that the entrance to the Hollows is in the sewers?

Seriously, though, I want my Dark blaster. Everything else is just cake.

I only do "re-rolls" if I want to switch up the power-sets or AT of a particular character...

If I just want to go through the game with a certain combination again, I tend to make a completely new character to do it with. (Which is how I ended up with two of each of my Dual Bladers-) Somehow deleting the existing one would just seem like a waste of all that time I spent leveling them the first time around.

But... to each their own, right? A lot of people do go for the re-roll thing.

As a mostly-melee player I hate the glue... I really, really do... But then, I hate pretty much anything that slows my movement or keeps me from being able to jump around in a fight like the perpetual-motion CJ-monkey I am.

That said, one-per-group Equalizers have never kept me from doing Mayhems. They're just the Sappers or Galaxies of their faction. The target I stomp the crap out of first. Like Sam said, though, it's when you're outside of Mayhems and start running into spawns with multiples that things go from just "annoying" to "where are those puppies >_<".

Just one example from my play-time yesterday... I was running Roy Coolings' arc solo with my lvl 24 Claws/WP Scrap. I got to the mission where you go in to find the hostage, and a regular group happened to have spawned right on top of Mr. Y, one of the bosses you have to defeat. The group included two Equalizers and a Ghost.

By the end of that fight, poor Summer Moon found himself with a double dose of Glue, he was Flashed *and* the building was on fire. With a short mission timer, just to make the glue situation even more hair-pullingly annoying.

THAT was a bit much.

I don't mind if we keep the Equalizers...
But can we please keep them down to one per spawn?

As long as they also remove the speed suppression on the PvE side while they're at it, I'm all for it.

I don't PvP and have no plans to, but it bugs the ever-living hell out of me to have my own flight speed stuck in "molasses in January"-mode while the Paragon Protector, Witch, Natterling, Eagle or what-ever-the-heck-it-is I'm chasing jets off in the middle of a fight without so much as a second's delay.

That's the advantage of playing characters that aren't human, I guess. I've always been more concerned about their height in comparison to each other than how they stacked up against the NPCs or civilians.

Somehow most of the crew have ended up being on the average-to-a-little-tall side compared to the goons and non-Huge model Praetorian contacts (Well, except for Eddie. He's not much taller than Rose; the 16 year-old baby of the family. )... but they really do make some of the older Primal models look like shrimp. o_0

I just turned the difficulty up on the regular missions (tips, arcs, papers, scanners, bank jobs/safeguards, Oros and all that) that I've been running with my 50s all along.

It's one thing to be able to steamroll a mission at +2/xWhatever with your spiffy Barrier and Judgement and such... Running at +4/xMore, though? Unless you started with one of those over-engineered, over-equipped uber-toon nightmares who was soloing GMs and going at max difficulty even before incarnation, it'll be a bit more of a challenge.

If you *did* start with one of those guys... Go for TF/SF/soloed-AV speed records? Go hunt down and solo one of every single GM in the game? Become a badge-collector? Try out some of the "challenge missions" in AE?

There are all sorts of things to do with high-powered characters when you think about it...

Having done them all now , Scir's is the best one I think, story-wise. There are EBs and Mu everywhere, as has already been mentioned, and if you end up being fond of the guy at all (Like my Stalker did- ) it can be a little sad, but it's still a good run.

I've always seen my stalkers as hunters and scouts more than assassins. Accurate, careful, clever, quiet... always aware, always looking for the most efficient way to get the job done.

My tanks and defenders are protectors and guardians; the kind of people who'll always stand between the threat and the world and say "If you want to hurt this, you've got to get through me. Bring it."

My scraps and blasters are the ferocious ones. They hit fast, they hit hard and then they move on. They're a little like forces of nature. You don't stop them. You just get out of the way.

My one and only Mastermind is a bit of a shepherd and a bit of a mother bear. She's another one of those protective types but it's directed towards her ninja, not the world at large.

Poor Sefu.
That would be the mission that made my tank wibble...

I was soloing Pally through those arcs, and like a lot of people, he ended up being very fond of Sefu. There was a bit of a twinge when the mission came up that required us to defeat him... It's not something Palrah would have wanted to do, even if Longbow WAS trying to arrest him. You just don't beat the snot out of your friends in his opinion. (My tank, it should probably be noted, is a bit of an innocent. He's about as good-natured and kind-hearted a soul as you're likely to find in Paragon City. The guy's a total boy-scout) But the mission was what the mission was. He finished it, and felt like complete heel afterwards. I doubt he would ever have finished apologizing to his friend for what he'd done if the rest of the story had gone differently.

After the arcs were over, I ended up taking him out to the Shard, sitting him on a rock and leaving him there for a couple of days.

As for Aaron Walker... One of my Praetorian characters actually has a bit of a tribute to him. Rose, my little sixteen year-old DP blaster, thought Aaron was a pretty cool guy. She liked that smart-***, geek-boy thing he did. At the end of that last arc, the ambush would have eaten her alive if it hadn't been for his robots... He saved her butt.

When Rose hit 50 and became an Incarnate, I sat down to think about what I wanted as Lore pets for her. The answer seemed obvious. If she was going to call something out of the mists to defend her, it had to be something that she already knew she could count on... Something like those reprogramed clockworks. So, she always calls a Dismantler.

She named him Aaron.

I've already got costumes and named place-holders for both my planned Oh-So-Dark Blaster and my Time Defender.

I know what I want to do for the Titan Weapons set, too... But I think I'm going to try to build that one as my single "token character" on the new server. Someone on Liberty already has the name I wanted to give him.

Gorgeous, as always... and I really do love the whole sound of 'The Kind One'. It suits him well. ^_^

Yay!

*Does the Dark Blaster Happy Dance*

*... Which looks a lot like the Snoopy Dance.*

*... Just with more fuzzy black stuff.*

*... And a skull.*