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I want to pay for an AT respec. And I'm talking $50.00 to be able to overhaul an old character with all of its badges and such into something different. The pricepoint would be steep enough that it won't cut into regular leveling.

The Living Tribunal (Before Bendis thought it was too inconvenient and did away with him)

When I exemplar, I'm "guest starring" in their comic book and therefore have lowered effectiveness, like when the X-Men turn into idiots whenever The Avengers are a few page turns away; or Galactus gets beaten by some schmuck because the schmuck's creator wants to prove how awesome their pet character is.

I stumbled upon a neat name/concept and played him for a bit in Praetoria

Waxwork: (traps/water defender) a ghost who manipulates wax-like psychokineticly active ectoplasm for a variety of effects, from brute force, to refined constructs.

Blut Sturm (German for Blood Storm) Water/Storm. Although my powers are colored to be as natural as possible. So, no red water.

I nave a Traps/Water defender named Amberwaves (Amber waves of grain....)

And I have a tasteless anger themed character for which I have a name, but not the guts to actually make: Pissstorm. He'll probably be a blaster.

Mother Mayhem followed by Nemesis, and then Hamidon.

I wish to add to the love. I am on a players high and have to throttle myself back, thinking, "you have plenty of time."

Then my id pops up to say, "No you don't *new powersets are coming.*"

The improvements are quite glorious.

I wanted to add that I'm getting a lot of mileage out of a water/storm corrupter right now. I'm blazing through Praetoria at a decent clip.

I've been running at +0/X2 and it was kind of leisurely until I hit 12 and the mob placement generator decided that X2 MUST be X3. Still, I splurged on insps and I'm maybe an hour from knocking on Paragon City's door.

Dehydrate saves my bacon...alot.

My character would be an actor genetically re-engineered kid focused mascot that failed horribly and relegated to Powers Division where he would hopefully die swiftly in the line of duty. And it was all that healthy, skinny girl's fault.

I love Praetoria.

Soon as water blasting goes live, I will have another Praetorian.

HAIL COLE! DRINK ENRICHE! It makes your bones strong!

Marvel doesn't have to worry about starting a new continuity, every book for the last 12 years has ignored continuity and did its own thing often to the detriment of properties that didn't have a superstar writer (or have a movie license owned by Disney/Marvel).

I hate Reese from the moment I meet him in the tutorial. He even steals credit. But he's like a roach that won't die.

Most of my favorite characters are from Praetoria. On two occassions, I rerolled the same archetype powerset combinations and too them to 50 again, because I preferred them as Praetorians.

I am looking forward to Bio Armor so I can make yet another Praetorian.

I love regen. If an archetype has regen, I have a character with it: Scrapper *1, Brute *3, and Stalker *2 .

My ultimate wish: Regen Tank! I WANTS IT!!!

I'm actually kind of surging along. The Summer event helps a lot. I went ahead and used my second build to spec out my "dream" Bane build. It's hard to consider actually slotting it out though since I'm currently willing to only fully IO out one build. Who knows, maybe this will be the first character to have both builds fully actualized.

I just don't want to lose serum. I likes it! I likes it so much!

Dammit Ultimus...you just pushed me over the edge.

My SoA WILL make 50 this weekend. *Goes to buy some Amplifiers and a hoe (the farm implement)*

I was hoping for a Power Pack movie.

No really, it's not a shiny happy story and I really like the Power siblings.

I will make the switch for brutes, tanks because I absolutely love Leviathan Mastery's "breath" powers.

I prefer APPs for my Corruptor and stalker.

So...I liked it...liked it enough to run it four time before bed time on several different characters to switch up the feel for the arena matches.

I really wouldn't mind if some of the Heist mechanics migrated into regular missions.

If we can sell the stuff on the market, that would be pretty cool. I don't actually have room for the IO set in most the builds I'm playing.

I've been slowly leveling a Soldier of Arachnos for a few months, going Bane at 24 because I liked the Elemental and Celestial weapon options for the mace (Yes, "Hammertime" was a battlecry for a short bit). I was fixated on Bane because...in my opinion...Crabs are ugly. I HATE the arms.

With that in mind, I was tired of languishing so much on my Bane build, I decided to burn a vetspec and see what life as a Crab was like...and I liked it. I liked it so much I immediately felt dirty.

ME: "I made a crab and I liked it!! There was so much AoE blasting!"

Inner Character Concept Fanboy: "STOP! What about the hammer? There is supposed be a hammer not cybernetic ARMS!!!! Remember, Thor? Celestial Mace smash?"

ME: "What if they're not 'cybernetic' arms?" I tried to cajole myself. "What if they're something else?"

Inner Character Concept Fanboy: "That's stupid, and you're a sellout for willing to violate my precious concept because it 'fits your playstyle.' Stretch loser."

(Yes, I have an odd inner dialogue.)

ME: "What about, Green Lantern, Gwen Tennyson, Quasar, Blue Jean, Cerise, and Bunker?"

Inner Character Concept Fanboy:"... I am interested and willing to subscribe to your newsletter."

So, about a day, a completely re-written character story, re-edited bio, and a name change later, I had a crab that was right in the "sweet spot" story wise and play wise. One of my controllers had to be shipped off to another server to free up a name, but the internal decisions for the blue-side character the SoA became took over from where the controller's story ended and was in sync with one of those powerset alterations that happen in comics.

The only downside is that the arms bounce around when I'm flying the same way they bounce if I'm running, it's annoying, especially since the bouncing stops when I go up, which makes the arms animate as if I'm jumping. Maybe there aren't that many flying Crabs so it hasn't been an issue? Traveling is slightly less fun. But, there could be worse trade offs.

Outside of wanting to share a case of alt-craziness gone too far, I was wondering if anyone else wanted to share stories of where you really wanted something and the mental hoops you jumped through to realize the concept AND play it.

Thanks!

Red or Blue:

Longbow and Malta.

My first Villain made it from 40 to 50, just killing Longbow in repeatable in Warburg. (This was before the change to Warburg repeatable missions many years ago.) I think that is my only character with the "Villain" badge.