Eiko-chan

Legally speaking, if you link to an outside server not owned by NCSoft, their "we own all content" clause does not apply. Information on Virtueverse is not owned by NCSoft, even if you link to it in game.

Practically speaking, their "we own all content" clause is very, very, very unlikely to ever be enforced, even if you get a job at Marvel/DC and turn your City of Heroes character into a character in their universe (now, if you took that character and the game world it was originally created in, you'd have a problem.)

They're the new shiny. Everyone wants to get some of the new shiny.

My confusion stems from the fact that I think he's talking about the LRSF, but Infernal isn't in the LRSF.

The LRSF is arguably the hardest content currently in the game. It's certainly in the top three, with Barracuda and the Statesman Task Force being its prime competitors. It isn't easy, especially if you don't have debuffs. Generally, when fighting AVs, -regen is going to be the most important debuff to make sure you have, followed by -resist and -to hit. AV regen is set to "cheating damn computer" levels, and -regen is really the only way to combat it, especially through a crashless Unstoppable.

I'm not feeling egotistical enough to post any of my own origins here, but of all the people I've played with, I think the favourite origin/background I saw was that of an ex-member of my Villain Group, Black Mercy (played by @RPAngel1). She's a Pain Corruptor whose power manifests by amplifying her own attributes the more pain she was in.

I won't repost it all here, because it was several posts long, but the story essentially boiled down to the discovery of her powers, a "doctor" who wished to "study" them, and the twisted, horrible asylum she spent the next several years of her life in as the doctor tortured her more and more to see how far her powers could go (eventually, she was tortured to such an extent that she was able to wreak bloody revenge, obviously). It was such a perfect villain power and such a perfect villain origin; I haven't seen its match.

Making me still have to use power choices on Fitness makes me very very sad, and if that is the case, I will no longer be buying the Party Pack to reward the devs for the awesome of i19.

Real people can't be trademarked.

Uh, I tanked Statesman with a Thugs/Dark MM.

Before City of Heroes, it was also Freedom without the do, because he did it all for us.