Lady Arete

My chars usually just have Fly... But not used in the slopes.
But if you do a build 2 with sj and ss you should be able to do the slopes too, I guess (not slotted).
But if you have ss and thus do not need the sb from the kin, then you only need IR. It will be a bit weird in the beginning and thus take some time to get use to, but you will have CONTROL, sharper turns etc. Get it and LOVE it.

To get the gold badge, this was what I did last year (no need for me to do it on any of my chars now as I did it for 12 chars last year).

I personally love SB, yes your fast and you loose control. But Get the IR or use the temp jump pack from safeguard if no kin around.
Practice a few times on the courses then go for the proper try. I went with two sb's (atleast) and the IR.
Went like a charm So.. I love the ski slopes... yea.

Oh yes, ski slopes. In Pocket D near the red side bar, you will see a little cave with ice and christmas thingies. click the door and now you are in the Ski chalet. There are several slopes, (but only 2 that are properly for badges). If you have collected candy canes, you can give some to the little green elf in the hut. And he will give you (you choose) some costume items or badges... or even recipes.

When I first heard/read about it, I must admit... I did become a bit cynical (like Scarlet Shocker).
As we on Europe will not have "that" much use for it, or thoughts of doom etc.. (gah.. don't want to go there!)
But, it is a nice feature (free server transfer).. so good for you on the NA servers.
Although what I'd really like... was merge server lists. Then we'd be talking (not to mention alot of new character slots for everyone... ok mostly for europe, but for Everyone).
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Although I do wonder what would happen to the servers community (different social rules etc)...

Hmm... move a few less used alts to Defiant... hmm *ponder*

Oh yes.. and since GG began rolling the ball.
Welcome all Defiant players to Union, We got your Free cookies here, nice and dark, filled with chocolate goodness and best of all; many of them.

Hmm...
Azuria. Then I'd written down several things for me to remember AND made a memory charm (so I'd never forget where I placed things) AND made alot of wards. The way enemies manage to enter and steal from M.A.G.I is just... terrible.

Then hopefully when the NPC would take charge over herself, she would remember...


But... I'm very partial to play Dominatrix. Whip, outfit and D.

My level 50's... hmmm, well I can share a little about them. More are on the way, but not... quite there yet:

Lady Arete (Fire/fire/fire Blaster)
First made her on US on trial, took a break then got back (she was a fire/ice then). But the backstory I made to her made me come back to the EU server(s).
There she was created again and after hitting the lvl 50 I was able to do more roleplay with her.
She is my primary badgehunter so... I try not letting her collect too much dust (damn those dayjobs). She has been slotted with plenty of goodness and well through her I did find out that im a Blapper at heart. Love big groups and plenty of them.

Cyrene (Emp/Sonic/mental Defender)
I did want to have an emp, this because I like being ranged either as one that can heal or blast the enemy to smitherines in any online game.
She is also my main RP char (LA is used too, but not as much as Cyrene). At some point my friend in the rp group I wanted to join was asking me, what char do you want to have in there. I had to think upon it, for I had two too chose from. A stormy defender and Cyrene. I chose Cyrene and I do not regret that. This character did get to grow in a group, as she progressed in levels. I even made her speak with a certain accent. And strangely I've become very attached to her so... story wise she has gotten more powers. She is also to be found as a Sonic/plant Troller and a spoof char I made after a big forum rp with Gun/mental Blaster. When Pain domination come... I did create her as a preatorean/alternate/clone -insert the proper word on the Red side. Albeit with a new name. In short I love my chars concept.

Amardin (Bots/Shield/Scirocco as patron Mastermind)
I did want to try having a villain, so I decided to make a robot. Her concept has become something like in the Wizard of oz. The tinman that wanted a heart. This Robot wants to become more human and she'll steal and do what is neccessary to get it. As her moral compass is sorta gone. What will happen in GR I do not know.
I like her concept, but not as much as my above mentioned chars. This is most likely due to the fact that I chose shield as secondary. I might have gotten more fun with the gadgets (or what it was called), and that thought/belief came laaate gamewise. The result have been that playing her sometimes leaves a bitter taste. I did however want a level 50 villain, she is it... and my badgecollector on the Red side so.. oh well.
I might just make another char and play her more as Amardin, who knows?

Got 4 more to go, but i've gotten some progress on them.
Was unable to use the info from the beta (so one less there), but did get a few from x2 places.
And been playing my char aswell (As with you, I love my char and just could not leave her idle for all the DJ time).
So.. Mortician, Dualist, Chronologist and Clubber... those are my targets.

"I look forward to the role-playing that players will do incorporating their "Day Job" into their crime fighting (or crime committing) regime."

Umm not that i've seen.

Was able to log in on union and defiant.
Just being able to be able to log in (away from that next or quit option was great).
If it does not work, I recommend just restarting the pc. Hopefully that helps.
That was what I did... well that an a restore savepoint (have had an irritating thing happening while i play so wanted to test if simply restoring would fix it). Even though after such a restore though it took some time to be able to play.
So no.. i do NOT recommend you doing a Restore savepoint. Again Unless you've planned it, do NOT do that. Just do a Restart of your computer.

Edit:
That was.. scary, just after i posted this... I did get a mapserver.

Had the same problem as you. Was in a mission, then got dc'ed and was unable to even get back to the log in screen.
Took some time, but now im back in game.

No idea, was in.. then suddenly mapserver and cannot get in.
Cant even get into log-in.
Oh well.

Since I make more mutants then other origins, I felt I had to take a look at various mutants in game. Another poster did mention a few chars in game.

Sister Psyche (which is not quite a mutant, but is put into this origin. Revealed in the origin story).
Cap Mako - Horrid mutant that really liked what he does.

The Trolls - These people have mutated via the superadine drug. Thus not neccessary to be born a mutant, but can be mutated.
The Lost - Speaking of mutating...

Giovanni Scaldi - Born a mutant, now just a soul eater... (eww)

More of a curiosity though:
The Infected - Since I did mention the Trolls getting mutated by Superadine, the Infected do sort of change. Should we call that mutation I wonder.
Arachnoids - Very broadly here. I might say a combination of Mutation... through Science. Although then what defines science?

I was surprised of the low amounts (as it seems) of mutants, considering it is a "umbrella" label to all those that do not adhere into the other 4 labels.

As of what I hope to see in the mutant pack... oboy thats a toughy. The change body/shape we did get in the science pack. And then comes the question, what would define the mutants? I would guess physical and animalistic bits? Certain features like teeth, tail, claws, fur...
I do assume that we will get more animalistic costume pieces, even though I seem to remember that Jay did not want to give us more animal stuff.

But having say... the possibility of having A tail and A belt at the same time, would be good.
But what we can expect as a power... No Idea.
My hope for contents: Much much diversion (Jay and his sidekick must be busy and give us plenty of costumes or single items we can use) rawr.

(Related and yet not: I want more of the Detail 1 and Detail 2 found in the Full masks, helmet, half helmet etc available for Standard with or without masks. Like Diablo, Fleet... I can just imagine them with hair... yum)

Gratulations on joining the 500 club
Well done. Which badge was the most memorable to get of them?
And which badges are you set on getting now?

Trouble in the Music Buisness
Arcid: 63175
Morality: Hero
Any level
Enemies: Custom, Crey
Description: Detectives gone missing as they stake out a club, and when you enter, well something is not quite right. Its up to you find out who is behind this and stop this, before things gets out of hand.

Hmm.
I do not doubt that it happens to you (for that I'm sorry), but I cannot understand why.
(ponders and scratches the back of my head)
Went through it again on the 1.6.2 version, checked the cells and no problem for me. Do you have this problem also in that version?
If you do not get any problem then, then is (hopefully ) fixed

edit: 53? Current is far more.
I would recommend you download the newest version. Hopefully it will not be there any longer. I look forward to hear if the newest version works out for you.

/signed.
Why that Entertainment building, is in a ..... warzone and not destroyed yet is beyond me.
I know I will probably curse myself for saying it, but place it in Pocket D.
Not been on a Rikti raid for a long time, so would not know if there was a lot of low lvl 5 etc getting xp, but...
The Rikti mothership..... is one of the most fun Raids we got in the game, I would not mind a minimum lvl to get in there...

Hot fix 1.6.2 is up.
Nothing major, just added the "Vigilant" and "Determined" badges. Also known as Loyalty.
Also since we await the arrival of the winter event, I do a pre-emptive adding of these two badges: "Festive" and "Lord/Lady of Winter".
Yes we cannot get them yet, but thought it was silly just to add 2 badges as a hotfix. Since I have not been on test (Im on EU), I believe they are only Event badges and not accolades. Will change it if it is wrong.

Enjoy the badge hunt.

Can only speak from Union.
Since the new hamidon I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times there has been a Hamidon raid.
One of the few successful ones where the first hamidon raid after issue 9 hit (took us 7 hours).
The reason I think... not enough people. Could be the timing set etc.. but most of the raids have also ended with fail. (Looking at a previous post in this thread and envies Virtue)
Each failed attempt have made it not worth it in many peoples eyes (Too much debt, too little reward etc).
Only been on one redside raid aswell, did not go very well.
The one we are planning to do now... well I hope it will work out or it might be the last nail in the coffin for us vs Hammi.

That is correct, as far as I see. (Wont only be hellfrost though, I have no doubt you will take down a few succubi aswell as they will be in your path )
The mission that is used is the "Defeat Terrigol" mission, just do NOT finish the mission. (Its mission 2 of the villains version, just adding that)
You have to repeat this from 10-20 (i think) and from 25+ (been a while so the level range is abit fuzzy).

The bigger the team, the more progress.
With the supersidekick -> Gone are the days with high lvl just running past and wacking the targets.

Happy hunting.

Longbow: Unless you have done missions with Longbow in them, head into a pvp zone like Bloody bay, Sirens Call or even Recluses Victory and beat them longbows there (or hunt them in Nerva).

PPD: Only one way... do plenty of Mayham missions. (Work your way to the bank and get more and more time, then do sidemissions) It should give you alot of PPD to fight while you streetswipe the Mayham map. (and you'll get a fair amount of longbows aswell)

Merging the server lists...
No problem with that.
One list of servers, US and EU combined... That would be grand. (Don't wake me.. zzz I'm having a good dream)

(But merging servers... no, no, no and did i mention "No!". That is never a good sign.)

But what have been vital to me is the community, chat channels. Be it event or badge channel and my sg.

Got one that classifies as disturbing
Lady Arachne
She is a beautiful woman with a weird love for spiders. She loved the look of the Man himself "Lord Recluse" and did get some spider legs for herself. And augmented her body with them.
Her fascination did not end there. She did came across a mad enough doctor that had created a small factory to produce robotic spiders, small enough to be inserted into a woman.
She underwent the transformation and got that "factory" inserted in her womb. Now...
You know? That's disturbing enough for me...

Yes... I cannot wait to log on to the Training room for the Event.
... (two seconds)
Ooo darnit, EU player here.

Do give us details of the event, since I cannot join you in the testing.

Thanks, well it DID take me abit more then 5 minutes. Try 6 min... (just joking ) Think it came close to a few days combined with tinkering and upgrading it.
It has after all seen some change from what the first version. When I did find out how I wanted it though it went smooth.

What you see is sort of my end result and homage to my little love for badges.
Thank you for the kind feedback. Hope it is of use and do bring comments, bugs or suggestions to me so I can improve it further

Just want to say Thank you BAB's.
Love the ability to finally Walk. And as said from a player before me "Welcome to the city of Heroes, where heroes learn to run before they walk"...
Ok that was random.

Again, love the ability to walk. Will be great for the RP community And the way we walk.. rawrrr.
And as others have said... I think we await the "other" types of walking animations now (more more more (poor BaB's))
*Offers a chocolate cookie*