Firemoth

Congratulations, the title of your post got me to spit my soda on my screen.

*goes to find paper towels*

Bad idea: Throwing your new pet in a lake.

Good idea: Utilizing the Wiki while playing

My husband, Joyrock, for getting me into this game and it's wonderful community.
My children (both biological and step)
Finally having a house instead of a tiny cramped apartment.
The support of my mother in law, husband, and his side of the family as I make the shift from working constantly, to going back to school
The fact that my ferret doesn't try to steal shiny things or gnaw on the electric cords. (He just has a thing for nerf weapons and has a large stash under my bed)

Bad Idea: Upgrading your computer with Commadore 64 parts

Good Idea: Buying the Devs a drink at a meet and greet.

Bad Idea: Using the Pet AI as your playstyle

Good Idea: Using the LFG tab to find trials

Bad Idea: Buying useful stuff for your rival's SG base


Good Idea: Thanking the Emp after they heal/rez you.

Personally I'd try a different aura/armour, but that's my opinion after seeing the MASSIVE end drain the dark aura brings to the table.

Now I never really went for the IO sets with Minerva, but I know that I had to have all my armours 6 slotted just so I could put end reduction on them, otherwise just having them all running at once would completely drain my endurance while standing in one place.

It's ok for a team build, since most of your attacks/armours are debuff. I would jump in, drop my attacks to debuff the groups, then leap back and try to attack from the edges while the other tank kept the aggro.

Aww, that's awesome! My brother actually learned how to read on "Monkey Island" so it's always nice to see that games are still helping kids learn.

My two girls have been working on their processing speeds with their reading since they started playing, which as made their teachers really happy.

I took a Dark/Dark to 50...and promptly retired her. It was sheer stubbornness that I got her to 50 at all.

Debuff tanks are just kind of squishy imo. They're good if you're not the main tank.

Are you looking for opinions on the build, or suggestions? Your post wasn't very in depth.

I think the director took a page from the big book of anime.

Rule #623 Human bodies have at least 8 litres of blood in them, that will gush when cut.

Aside from the over abundance of gore (which I was informed after that it was the director's style), it was pretty good. Served as a good example for my RPG group to show them what Exalted Solar fighting would look like.

I hate the ones where you have to rescue them and escape with them alive, and they go and aggro the whole room. *coughLadyJanecough*

Depends on how they're cooked and if I can dip it in something. More than likely eat.

Potted Meat and Century Egg.

(yeah...anything I'm putting up...I've had to eat at one point :-p)

Other things that could be used for the base forms for female pets:

Mercs: Crey agents (the suit and tie females)
Thugs: Skull's girlfriends (I know they're not actual mobs we fight, but it's an idea. Like they've decided to finally step up and fight along the rest of their bf's gang.)
Ninjas: The females from the Legacy Chain group

I've been playing MMs since I started (first toon was a blaster, but then I discovered the awesomeness that is MM), and one thing that always felt lacking was the lack of customization with the pets. There's not even an option to change the colours on the minions (except for demons...but that's only to a minor extent)

One thing that I've always wanted to see, especially since you only get the option for male or gender neutral (robot/zombie), is female minions.

I can understand the reservation because of the potential for people to scream "OMG SEXISM!", but at the same time, the same could be said for the fact that a MM can only control males. (ex complaint: What, are females not good enough to work together with a MM? We can fight against them and defeat them, but we can't work with them?)

I've brought this up at two occasions, the first being the 2010 SF M&G, and the second being the CoH Pummit earlier this month. Both times I was given the response that they would prefer to "err on the side of caution". Funny thing is, that the issues that were presented, like the misuse of emotes on the minions, (such as using swoon or collapse, and then doing pushups on top of them) is already being done, and it's with males as the minions....or with dead mobs (yes, my husband, Joyrock and I actually saw that happening in DA with the BP during our little excursion to Freedom server).

If the potential for "abuse and misuse" is so great, why not remove the ability to use certain emotes/commands all together?

My two cents on the subject would be to have set outfits/appearances like with the male versions, thus removing the potential for "fembots" or "bikini girls" running around. If sexism complaints are such a concern that the Devs prefer to err on the side of caution and just not bring out the option, then what about the latest items available such as the gunslinger set? Saloon girls were essentially viewed as "dancing girls" or "soiled doves" (which aren't T for Teen), yet they're still being put out there as an option. Shooting down an idea just because someone, somewhere, at sometime might do something wrong and then offend someone, would put it to the point that NOTHING could be in the game. Because there is at least SOMETHING that is going to offend SOMEONE.

Instead of going and not putting out something because of the chance someone might become offended, why not give us the chance to try out the option.

So here's my suggestions, please critique/add to them as you see fit.

-Give us a drop down option to switch between male/female with the powers.
-Have set skins for both genders, if able to, give some sort of colour tinting.
Examples of what could be used for the pets, or as base suggestions:
Thugs- Rocket Girls
Mercs- Knives of Artemis style?
Robots- either keep them gender neutral, or the Victorias from Praet
Zombies- um....do they even have a gender anymore?
Ninjas- Use the sliders to make them more feminine
Demons- Girlfriends from Hell, or just keep them the same/different colour?
-At least give us the option to see the product, instead of assuming that people will get up in arms and begin to form a mob to storm Paragon Studios.

Thanks for your time. This is something that I feel really strongly about.