Leo_G

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What I'd expect:
-Either a new-ish type power similar to Energize but instead of a heal/+regen, it gets +res vs all/+res vs status.
-A Fiery Embrace type power that boosts dmg for 10sec and end discount for 30.

What I'd think is cool, thematic and want:
-Energy barrier that gives an endurance discount + reverts all damage received into -% Endurance for 15sec. So an attack that you don't deflect that would do 50dmg for 2% of your total HP is reverted to -2% END, an attack that would do 750dmg for 30% of your HP is reverted to -30% END.

Squinting worriedly at the flashing cake, Jase stayed seated and brought up one of his arms in a ninjutsu hand sign.

Keeping his distance, a young man in his last couple of teen years, peered down at the battle from behind one of the huge cables that suspended the bridge. At first he had been perched high up on one of the horizontal cables until the car convoy was ‘delayed’, then he quickly moved closer as the others came to the rescue, first running across the cables then sliding down one to get nearer to the bridge.

As he moved closer, the shadows around him began to reach for his body, embracing the milky skin of his slender frame, writhing around his hips and tracing up his torso and finally his entire body. His shape distorted and finally melted away into a 2D figure then folded into the ground and disappeared. He reappeared in the shadow of a downed car a little to the west of the commotion on the bridge, still merged with the darkness to continue to observe the situation.

It was only until after the whole force field and the pendant of the congressman began to react did the shadow dweller reveal himself. An odd pulse of power followed by some sort of magical pressure disrupted the effect of his shadow ninjutsu. His short spikey black hair with yellow highlights bound by a silver banded cloth headband was first visible followed by his face which had dark eye shadow makeup with a yellow assassin’s mask hiding his face. His shadow veil finally dissipated to reveal the rest of his body.

“Oh, well this is embarrassing,” he said aloud and grinning under his mask. “A visible ninja is like getting caught with your pants down,” he said to no one in particular. For a ninja, he seemingly talked to himself a little too much not to mention he didn’t seem to dress like one. For one, his fingerless leather bound gloves were bright yellow which would be very visible despite the thick black leather straps that bound them up to his forearm and his boots were similarly yellow with black buckle straps bound to his calves. Although he had a dark tactical belt with various ninja tools and a ninja-to strapped to his back, he was showing a lot of skin for someone who hides in the shadows. His black leather shirt left his midriff exposed and over that a yellow cloth half shirt tank that covered even less. The black leather shorts resembled bike shorts with yellow hot pants over that.

With bullets and bodies flying, Jase tried to weave out of the fray only to stumble upon a half conscious driver and a stealth suit wearing female. As if oblivious to the two, he ducked behind the same cover. “Whew! Crazy people,” he sighed aloud, shaking his head, “This whole city is crazy”. Sitting Indian style, Jase finally turned a head toward the woman, “Need a hand?” he said with a wry smile, “This situation might have just hit a crescendo. Who knows what’ll go down next.” Even though what he said was vague, most likely Balgair felt the same.

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Through the darkened hallways, a boy wondered silently. He didn’t seem frightened by the blackout but he did seem lost and curious. Before the lights went out, he just wondered around talking with the hospital staff, visiting with patients in their rooms if their doors were open and overall just acting like a curious kid. When asked where his parents were, he lied saying they were watching TV in their room and he was bored. If anyone decided to take him back to his mom, he’d inconspicuously disappear on the way.

But after the lights when out, it wasn’t hard to move about the dark corners of hallways to investigate the situation. It wasn’t long before the 7 year old found his way onto the roof through a stair case behind a pair of double doors. He strolled across the roof, taking note of the demon who sat on the roof edge. The kid seemed more curious then surprised and walked toward the roof edge too. Getting on his hands and knees, the kid peeked his head over and took a long look down. “Whatcha waitin for, Mister?” he asked without looking over at Caemgen. The boy just kept looking out at the traffic below with wide-eyed curiosity.

From the guy with no pants...

I really couldn't tell you what makes one or even what I want from an MMO. It's hard to nail properly.

But one prime example I can name is FFXI. I actually really loved that game. With its flaws and all, I truly did like the game. But I hate that damned game and wish it burn in the bowels of hades for eternity! It wasn't particularly the game that made me hate it, but how the players changed the game. The issues with the game weren't that you couldn't find teams or you couldn't solo crap or that everything needed a team to accomplish, it was that the players wanted specially sculpted teams so would wait hours making one and wanted to go after the foes that gave the very most xp per kill even if they were retardedly higher level than you. They farked up *my* teaming.

There are lots of things to do in the game too. Crafting, exploring, mining/loging/etc, questing, so on and so forth. Doing them with friends is even more fun. But when the entire community is burning for cash, it's time to go farm the old NM camp spots for hours on end. It's probably what made me drift apart from my in-game friends enough to finally just stop playing.

The reason I stay here is because the game is just fun, I can make characters look as cool or bizarre as I want and the forums are fun. If I couldn't get on the forums, I might not play the game for much longer after that...until they put in a new power set for me to come back and try.

((Wow, seems those circle guys are out numbered and out matched >_>; ))

The aerial flip thing is what takes the gold for me. Great work, animation team!

*Crosses fingers for 2-handed/polearm weapon animations "Soon" for new powerset, specifically BFS and Scythe*

Probably about as many as will be dropped by lvl 4

Just random ideas:

-Bio organic style with like...tubes or something attached through your arm. So you're shooting, like, bodily created ammo or its powered by some kind of material in the body. Would probably not work with the whole pistol spinny animation if there is one.

-Mystic flintlock with like...a glowie spiny circle rune symbol thingy like this

or this


on the end of the barrel or in front of the cylinder(if it has one which would make the rune be within the gun). Color tintable of course.

-Junkyard pistol. Oversized, impractical looking, built of visually distinctive components like Jurassik's mace. Like a muffler with a butane tank shove into one side and some kind of trigger mechanism made out of...um, something....you get the idea.