Chad Gulzow-Man

You get more XP from taking out more low level mobs than fewer high level mobs, simply because they can be defeated faster.

And NuclearToast is correct; the amount of XP to level is not linear in this game, and each level is supposed to take longer than the last to achieve. It's been said that it takes as long to get from 40 to 50 as it does to get from 1 to 40 (though my perception is that it's not quite that long).

Not great. There's not a lot to choose from at 11:00 PM on a Sunday night, so we couldn't be terribly picky with team builds.

Anyway, sorry Rox, I have a weekly obligation on Monday that keeps me out of the game... but if for some reason you need to try again tomorrow, I can bring my Grav/Kin again.

(He's not a badge character, so I'm not really looking for the rewards; I'm just offering my services.)

As Halfflat mentioned, it actually translates to "Rikimaru of the Dark Winds," which is still pretty awesome.

One of the characters in Bleach has a Zanpakutou named "Kazeshini," the wind of death/killing wind/reaping wind, however you want to translate it. If you name a character Shinikaze, some people are already going to think you're ripping off the name.

(And despite what Mack said, there is no hard and fast rule for swapping a K for a G in a compound word; Ks and Gs are actually the same base "letter" in Japanese, with Gs being denoted by an accent mark to the top right of the character that looks like a quotation mark: " ).

Benikaze is another excellent suggestion. It sounds pretty bad-@$$ to me!

I thought that's where babies came from?

It depends on what you want to mean by "ghost." Reikaze means "spirit wind," which isn't wrong, but "rei" has a "good" connotation to it.

If you want to sound evil, then you'd probably be more interested in using the more sinister "obake" ghost as a root, for "Bakekaze," the Monstrous Wind. Alternately, he could be a "kazebake," a wind ghost, but that comes across as more of him being a type of ghost rather than a proper name.

Of course, then his goofy teenage hero nemesis would "accidentally" call him "Bakakaze" instead, causing him to lose his cool and make a stupid mistake. ... God I watch too many cartoons... >: /

... Okay, that's all the Japanese my brain can handle tonight... @_x

Bleach, of course, has the character/zanpakuto named "Shinikaze," or "the wind of death." I think it's intended to mean "the reaping wind" or "the wind that reaps," given the weapon design.

Edit: Actually, I thought about it some more and realized I had that name backwards. The dude/weapon's name is "Kazeshini," but I believe the intent is still to mean "the wind that reaps."

If I heard that used as a name, I'd immediately think "black wind" and think nothing was weird or wrong with it. (Granted, that's just my 3½ years of Japanese, taken in college 8 years ago talking...) I'm rusty, but it makes sense.

I would NOT use "guro" as the first segment; K's make G sounds only when they follow a vowel sound. If you start a word with it, it's just going to sound weird to someone who speaks Japanese. (Not that you'll run into many of them, but...) Anyway, have you ever watched Bleach or Death Note? There are characters known as "shinigami" in them--death gods. The individual words are "shinu" (the verb "to die") and "kami" (god). When combined, the K in "kami" becomes a G, so it can flow off the tongue better.

You could use "Kokukaze" instead, as pointed out by Righter. "Kokufuu" is a little weak as a name. "Fuu" is more like air or a light breeze (or the sound of someone blowing out of their mouth), whereas "kaze" is a force of nature. It's up to your personal preference on that, though.

As Atheism already stated, "chi no kaze" is how you would say "bloody wind." Shortened into a name, it'd be "Chikaze." It's not something a Japanese person is likely to name their kid, but I can see it working for an anime superhero/villain.

"Saiminjutsu" means hypnotism. That'd probably work. "Saimin o kakeru" means to hypnotize.

Alternatively, "shihai (suru)" means to control via domination. "Kokoro" means "the center of thoughts and emotions" (though it's used in anime a lot to refer to a love-stricken girl's heart) and "chisei" means intellect. "Kokoro/chisei no shihaisuru?"

There's a word for female hero: "joketsu."

"Saimin o kaketa joketsu no kutsujoku" would translate back to "humiliation of the hypnotized heroine."

Edit: Not that there was anything particularly wrong with Rachel's version. I'm just giving alternatives.

My priorities generally go: Family, Friends, Job, Video Games (not just CoH), Health. In that order. Yeah, I should probably put my health above video games, but working out is boring and it huuuuurts. ;_;

(I do it anyway a minimum of twice a week.)

I'm sure you've already seen this by now, but:
As I said in the post just above this one, I believe we might see 2-3 more Incarnate slots in i20, but I agree with you that we're only getting the Alpha slot in i19.

I think it's very likely that they'll be releasing multiple Incarnate slots in Issue 20, probably 2-3 more, but it's pretty well established that only the Alpha slot will be in i19.

That actually looks really nice. I think I'll give it a try.