Chad Gulzow-Man

Tennessee Toxin?
The Uranium/Plutonium Kid?

(Much later edit) Oooh... The Texan Toxin.

I do not think that means what you think it means.

While it's perfectly acceptable for a name, it means effectively "turtle earth," not "divine earth."

The root word you're looking for is "kami," as in "kamikaze -- divine wind."

This is the Natural booster.

Or at the very least, the first one. They might very well make a second pass at Super Boosters for all the origins, once they've done the Mutant pack which should be coming up in the next 3-5 months.

Did they finally reduce the PVP Rep timer as well, or is that still stuck at 10 min?

Per character. And it would be more like, "Kill target, alt, kill target, alt, kill target." Getting killed gets you two things: Jack and squat. And if Kurt Russell is to be believed, Jack just skipped town.

For starters, the Praetorian Ghost Widow is alive and well and is a prominent member of the Resistance, so no Soul Mastery powers from her.

Secondly, though I've never read the books or whatever other lore described the events for myself, I've seen people all over these boards say that Stephan Richter died after consuming the water from the Well of Furies in Praetoria (some people say he just didn't survive the transformation into a superhero, others say that Marcus Cole killed him). It's certainly possible that the man who became Lord Recluse on Paragon Earth is still alive and kicking in Praetoria, but if he is, I wouldn't bank on him being a figure of great power.

Finally, an admin can't really confirm or deny much about story arc, as an admin's job is just to maintain order on the messageboards. What you really want is a developer to come comment on the subject, but they're being pretty hush-hush about any details under the macro level; that is to say, they're allowed (by NCSoft's marketing department) to tell us some of what's going into the expansion, but not any exact details or how it's going to work.

And just as a final tidbit, they told us not to expect that everybody is going to be switching sides. Some characters are inherently good no matter what dimension they're from, and others are inherently evil. While it's feasible that Praetorian Scirroco could (and probably would) be a good guy, I don't see Cap'n Mako as being anything but a crazed, evil fish monster... or possibly an hors d'œuvre on the Tyrant's banquet table.

I believe the PVP recipe drop rate is equivalent to the chances of a minion dropping a rare (orange) recipe. I can't recall off the top of my head the chance of that, though... 1 in 500 sounds about right, but I'm sure someone will be along shortly to correct me.

Actually, in the latest patch notes, it was specifically mentioned that Walk was NOT the cause of the problem.

Of course not. Trolls troll, it's what they do.

Booster pack costume parts are available in the AE simply by purchasing said booster pack.

If you don't purchase the booster pack yourself, you can play arcs that use those costume pieces, but you can't create one using them.

It's only available for use with Half Helmets, and is a Detail 2 piece called "Oni Guard."

You forgot to add "-de gozaru" to the end of that.

(Sorry for the late reply, lost this thread for a while and Eric mentioned that you commented on my post.)

Nothing specifically says he's a villain. His background and the Wiki information states that he's worked all over the world with both heroes and villains and is currently operating out of the Rogue Isles. In my arc he talks briefly about how he left the Rogue Isles because Dr. Aeon was trying to steal his research (the first mission requires you to go back and steal a briefcase from his old lab), so he can continue his experiments in his new Paragon City lab (under the Phalanx's watchful eyes).

The arc has generally gotten good feedback for it being my first attempt, published the day Issue 14 went live. The most common complaint I've gotten was, "This is stupid, why would my hero be doing a job for Dr. Brainstorm, he's a freakin' villain!"

In a perfect world, the way I originally planned the arc (back in November 2007, it was intended to be a TF with 13 missions--aren't you glad you don't have to play that?) had him moved into Pocket D in exchange for revamping DJ Zero's sound system.

The bottom line is, I did my research on the character, and I don't have any qualms about him giving out heroically-themed missions, especially because the intent was to do things a little more shadily than the standard hero content.

I disagree that others should bug it in the game. Flooding the service center with bug reports about the same thing is only going to drown out other people's issues.

Besides, BABs has already said that Sexy Jay and his sidekick are working on the known costume issues. This bug you're bringing up has already been listed earlier in this very thread, so they probably know that it's an issue.

It does. So fun.

BABs stated in the official feedback thread for the booster that Sexy Jay and his sidekick are already working on these issues, just as he and his team are working on some of the animation issues for Ninja Run (when paired with claws & dual pistols, in particular).

Actually, yes there is. Auras have to be attached to a node, or what the devs refer to as "bones" on your character model. Each bone can only have one attached object. If you have a weapon, then it's already attached to the bone in your hand(s), and thus there is nowhere else to attach an Aura--and it would HAVE to be attached to the same node, otherwise it wouldn't animate properly when you attack.

This last part is just an educated guess, but weapons themselves probably can't have bones because not every character has a weapon. Plus, I recall someone involved in character design or animation (probably BABs, though I'm not trying to use him as a "catch-all" dev for quoting ) stating that there were a finite number of bones available per character, and increasing that number would present significant coding and possibly account storage challenges for the team.