OmnipotentMerlin

It is expensive to IO with sets for a toon. But if you were to replace your SO with generic IO, and is good for the time being stuff. It is cheap. way cheaper then SO. There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't craft generic IO on your toon till you can afford sets. It wouldn't be quite 5 million. And you do realize that if you were to buy all lvl 50 SO it would cost several million. But you have a advantage with IO you dont have to slot max lvl ones and still retain the benefits.

But with sets the way they are they are expensive but earning them is quite easy now. There is no reason you can't earn the sets for your toon, no reason at all. It is only expensive if you don't want to put in the effort and want it NOW. And that is the way it should be. You shouldn't be able to set your toon up without doing any effort either buy earning the money to pay for it or earning them.

Cause it isn't helpful. People are just confused. Your options are IR, CJ, SJ.
Ninja Jump isn't enough. I think the problem is the flip you do in mid air.

society likes us to think that. In some states you can't even legally prosecute a lady for #$%@ a guy. Cause men can't be @#$#. And I extremely against that idea. The problem is there isn't equality in the Sexs in the USA. It slants one way or another on each dang issue. And it irks me.

And yes I know there is a dark very dark subtext to some things in the game. If you pay attention this game is very MA before you include player characters. But I need to learn to keep my mouth shut it looks like.

You do realize that you don't have limitations on the names you can give your pets like you do with characters. Also you already can name your pet after someone. Also that is the point you can do alot of stuff as a player character and then your held responsible. It is hard really hard to prove someone is doing something wrong with there pets. Pets can be changed on a whim and the whole servitude issue that is already there can only be made worse with the addition of female pets. Blame it on the dang American culture. Ooh if it is a guy mistreated big deal but if it is a lady then things get ugly. Society is flawed and as such the Devs are being careful of what they allow in the game.

And I will say it again I cannot cite a source cause it is ingame. Many a time the Devs have been there for special events and this question has been asked and they say NO.
It was said once during the Anniversary even ingame with all the Devs. And yes it is hard to go this is what they have said. The devs are very good about giving vague answers or sticking there foot in there mouth. The Devs say alot of things out side of the dang forums dude.

I don't care about if my pets are male or female. I can see some ladies that would be annoyed by it but they just deal with it and don't complain. I have seen Devs say No and also not at this time enough times that the issue people wanting them I guess bugs me.

Oh and here is a very big problem I have noticed in the past the Devs delete old stuff. And finding stuff outside the dev digest in a forum can be a pain unless it is a new topic.

People have asked. It has been asked ingame to the devs many many many times. I have seen a few times where they said NO. The point is there is legal issues with having pets female. You can name them whatever you want at a whim, make them do whatever you want them to do. The fact that you have control over a female that isn't supposed to be you is a issue.

It is safe to say Devs know better then to open that can of worms and have stated many times NO. If they ever do it they will do it. Quit beating the zombified horse.

Um you might want to think of it like sprint or rest or brawl those are inherents. Most likely there won't be a change to what you can slot in them and how you can give them slots. Just details like what lvl we get them and stuff like that.

When did I say bruiser? I have said Tank many times but not bruiser. And yes I know bruiser is the tier 3 thug pet from MMs. I play MMs the most. If I remember right he is a SS/Inv Brute as a pet.

As far as Deathbadger. He is true mostly. The red side mobs tend to have more refinements and more stuff added to them. Be it patches of fire that gets thrown down alot redside. I have yet to see that happen that much blue side. There seems to be more groups of mobs that debuff you redside.

Okay here is a test. Point out what groups of enemies redside that are considered as easy for the blue side. All I can think of are Snakes.

Off the top of my head we got these villian groups redside CoT, Council, Arachnos, Longbow, DE, Vahzilok, snakes, Luddites, gold brickers, cockwork, skulls, very few hellions, 5th, crey, corlax, family, legacy, Wyvern, Mooks, Carnies, Freakshow, Tsoo, Wailers, Banished Pantheon, cage, raiders, Knives of Artemis, oh and the best of them all Nemesis.
Probably missed a few.

Oh and about longbow. You said the toons you play. The only AT, in general, I can think of blue side that doesn't find Longbow a pain is the tanker. From what I have seen very few builds can breeze through Longbow without investments into sets. And you do realize that you "Have to do Papers" to do story arcs. You don't have that blue side. For the most part blue side it is easy to forget about radios. Redside you can't forget about them. To get new contacts you have to do them.

Um dude redside is harder then blue. Period. There were lots of things done with the development of City of Villians that were improvements. Things like redside is streamlined. There was also the fact that MMs were made which made it so they needed to increase the difficulty to compensate for them. You don't have burn patches blue side. You don't have the amount of debuff that redside has. Also redside the ATs throw more damage out so everything needs to be more beefy to survive. Blue side it is quite easy to blow through lvls up to 30 without dieing that can't be said for redside. Also a lot of work has been done on hero's "Hazard zones" to make them not as hard. Hollows is a joke now. It wasn't every really hard just had to play smart. Now it is almost impossible to die.

Each side has fundamental differences just like Pretoria does to the old zones. Villians was designed around the fact that there are no set roles for there ATs, you want to know something Masterminds are supposed to be the tanks redside not bruisers. Heroes was designed around that each toon had a certain role to do. But you want to be honest Pretoria is the hardest. It was designed around the fact that both sides would be doing it. And that you would be soloing it. Each release to a game increases the challenge level because if you make the next addon to a game easier then people won't play it.