SkarmoryThePG

The beta fire shield was deliberately removed because it didn't look like it could block anything.

You'll notice the graphics were reused in the Dark shield.

Also? Female Reptillian face still gone.

A few of mine, with their origins.

Agent of Discord - Whoo boy. This one started life with a Son/Son defender I never really played, Bass Silence. He wore white Tech Crey armor with blue markings, and a helmet. On a whim, I created a evil twin/praetorian/whatever for him, mostly because I liked how his outfit looked with the colors changed to black with yellow and in the (then brand new) Thief hood. He was named Bass Discord, a Son/Son corruptor which I also never played.

Fast forward some time, I feel like trying out a Mercenaries/Dark Mastermind. Mostly wanted to see how Spec Ops look. Browsing through my saved costumes, I come across Bass Discord's outfit. I liked the Discord bit, so I wanted to work that in. The phrase Agent of Discord crossed my mind - I wasn't aware there was a badge by that name.

In the end, Agent of Discord stopped using that outfit, but he became my first 50.

The second character I want to talk about is Winterborn. I am not one to find theme songs for my characters. I didn't for Winterborn. For him, the song found the character.

The song? Cruxshadows - This Sacrifice, better known as Winterborn. The song, for me, was perfect for a hero, a normal man who has powers, and though he has doubts, he puts his life down to protect others, time and again, even when he knows it will eventually kill him. An imperfect man, his hands bloody, who fights to protect.

Only problem? The name was taken. Winter Born didn't satisfy me. On a whim, I sent a tell to the owner of the name on Virtue. It turned out, the character WinterBorn was a lvl 4 or so created years ago by the owner's child. He deleted it for me. There was more rejoicing.

The only question now was the archetype and powersets. I knew I wanted him to be defensive. That meant Defender or Tanker. I tried out Cold/Ice defender, and it was even kinda fun, but around lvl 20 I realized that... it's not what I had in mind. He doesn't help from the sidelines. He puts down his life. He takes the hits. A Tanker it was, then.

I knew I couldn't play an Ice/Ice tanker. Of the two powersets, Ice Armor was much more appealing. In the end, I settled on Ice Armor/Super Strength. And sweet lord, did I love the character. Winterborn is my fourth (of five) lvl 50 to date.

Huh. So is the case. Who wouldathought.

Oh yeah, because everybody is okay releasing all their details into the wild via facebook -.-

Hmm. It seems you don't need to unlock Vincent or Lorenz to work with them. Good to know. Still. Gonna have to roll a new character come Freedom, it seems.

One down, one to go.

Just so we're clear here, 10 Alignment = 1 Morality.

Whoever named those should be flogged.

And my problem is, Morality tips have no 'dismiss this cotnact' option.

1. Is there a way to drop a Morality tip? I want the other mission in my level band but I really don't want to grind the Alignment missions again.

2. Vincent Ross' arc lets you go to Lorenz Ansaldo, Vincent Dubrovski or Diviner Maros for extra objectives and a badge, but only if you worked with them before - how, if at all, does it work with Ouroboros?

Ever since I6, Archetypes were divided into the red and blue ones. There was never a need for another way to check a character's alignment. A Blaster was a hero, a Stalker was a villain. You logged on, you glanced at your friends list, you knew who was playing on which side. The arrival of GR upset this, with side-switching and characters created in Praetoria being allowed to pick sides freely. Still, there was a certain amount of inertia -a redside archetype was much more likely to be a redside character.

I21 promises to change that, doing away completely with the sides taken by non-epic archetypes. I think it's a good point to ask ourselves, would it be best if the archetypes were allowed to change names, depending on whether they're heroes or villains?

Personally, I think that yes, they should, but only if the devs (...and us, really) can come up with some names that eclipse the archetypes really well - and not the in-game archetypes, either. The comic book character archetypes is what I'm referring to here, the ones that the original devs in one of their blogs talked about when explaining their choices.

Another good question to rise is, what about those characters who start in Praetoria? A third set of name, one that is only used for 20 levels, and only adds to the confusion? Somehow I doubt it. I for one would vouch that they use the heroic names, since they are members of the Powers Division, so at least in theory, at least as a cover story, the good guys. But then, having Loyalists use Hero names and Resistance use Villain ones would be just delectably ironic.

But let me start this discussion off with a few choice suggestions.

Destroyer, Destructor and Devastator show a clear villainous meaning and a simplicity of purpose - untamed damage. A fitting name for a villainous Blaster.

Bruiser shows a certain amount of brutality but also puts some emphasis on offense. Good for a villainous Scrapper or a heroic Brute, with the latter having the added bonus of the added alliterative appeal.

Nictus is really a no-brainer name for a villainside Warshade. Their Peacebringer counterparts are tricker however. Perhaps something to the tune of Fallen Peacebringer, which while not too handy, is to the point.

Commander, Leader, Officer and similar all work well to describe the commanding type of Nick Fury type that a heroic Mastermind would be.

Juggernaut, while a very good descriptor of a villainside Tanker, is in fact too good, infringing on, well. You know who.

I'm sure others can be found, but, well. Nothing of sufficient quality comes to me now. Thoughts, people?

Bruiser

Faster shifting - yes please.

Build Up, Conserve Power, Dull Pain in forms - yes please.

KB to KD: Only on Solar Flare. Absolutely yes on Solar Flare. Definitely not on Radiant Strike. Hell, make it 100% on Radiant Strike.

Some manner of buff to the shields: Sounds good.

Light Form getting the SoW treatment: Sounds good.

Light Form getting the Shadow Meld treatment: Sounds great.

My suggestion: Punch-voke on Dwarf Strike, Smite.

I'd rather it wasn't self-stackable, but that's personal preference. I don't want to have to spam it as often as it's up to maintain the full resistance, and it threatens to be too powerful with high -rech builds, or too worthless in normal ones.

My Warshade is Sorrowdancer, the Nictus' name being Harmony of Sorrow.

Other Kheldian names I've used in Harmony's backstory are Scourge of Eternity, Harbinger of Twilight, Black Hole Sun and the Peacebringer general, Wrath of a Newborn Sun.

Agreed. It'd be more than nice.

If you want to keep the 0.7, give it to Focused Burst.

Dwarf Mire does not have Dwarf Flare's soft control of knockdown. Also, it used to be a clone of human form Mire, meaning Black Dwarf had virtually no AoE damage potential.

A polearm pack.

Adds the Staff (smashing), Polearm (smashing + lethal) and Ghost Scythe (negative/lethal) powersets and power customization for various blast and control sets that let them use a staff.

Oh, also some staff fiddling emotes.

I'm pretty sure I made a suggestion how this could be made to work. And it came with badges, too!