UserShadow7989

Getting a character to 50. I got in on the game really late, so I never 50'd any of my characters. I probably could if I jumped into game right now with my highest level toon and grinded like crazy, but I don't want my last memory of the game being a grindfest.

A more prominent regret is not doing more taskforces/etc. I was mostly a solo guy, and only in the last month or so found out I could do taskforces as a free player. Not being able to send tells also hindered my efforts to get into groups being formed for them at times.

Ah, I was close.

I thought it was "No more art threads, so you can go back to ignoring orange text." Thought the blank spots on the pass were meant to indicate a 'your name here' thing.

I figured out the ignoring thing by luck- came up with the 'ig' part, and 'ignoring' was the only word that fit there with those letters at its start. That and I didn't know who the lady was, so I just took the fact she was looking away from you and deep in thought as a hint towards that.

Still, congrats to toadliquor on this puzzle and all the other winners, and thanks to Christopher Robin and Darth Delicious for hosting this event and the artists for providing so many awesome prizes!

Wow, that's a whopper of a puzzle.

Regardless, thanks Llydia and DarthDelicious for the congrats, and good luck to everyone working on solving this puzzle!

I crafted a Santa hat with the candycane salvage from the winter special events a couple of days ago, and it never showed up in my costume editor.

It isn't really important since it didn't really cost me anything other than time, but I really wanted to mess around with it or at least see how it looked on the character I'd gotten it with, and since the winter area has apparently closed, I have no way of just trying to make it again.

...and apparently I have played my Dominator so little I thought she was a Corrupter. Whoops. Edited my post to be more accurate, but yeah. I think my issue with the Dominator requires a lot more thought and focus for less returns- my Blaster hits harder and crowd controls better, as does my Defender, and my Stalker can one-shot stuff that is several levels above her.

Hm. Maybe I should try deleting/remaking them as another Archetype? They're only level 12, so no big loss.

Edit: And immediately after I say that I give them another shot, and do fairly well. Hm.

I went with 'Lion Crest' for my own google search since it looks kind of like something you would see out of a movie with a knights and wizardry setting (though I did learn what medieval lion crests look like and some actual meanings behind them so hey, educational!). My brain's always been wired a bit weird, and I tend to over-think puzzles most of the time.

The best puzzles are the ones whose answers are hidden right in plain sight. I pretty much had a 'Eureka!' moment for the second after I saw there were five columns and noticed it wasn't a 'where is this' puzzle.

The first I only guessed because I remember the last puzzle I did had a forum member as one of the answers (I thought it was War Witch, since I saw Warshade - Shady guy + Lion (never seen that bank before and google showed nothing) - Needle (couldn't figure out if the type had something to do with it, so assumed this and the lion was a Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe reference).

So I recognized the character at the front as 'The Shadow' (a series I want to get into), thought 'hey with the wolf and the crow, this sounds like a username on a forum', and looked on the member list. Sure enough, there was someone with a large post count named Shadow Ravenwolf.

...I really wish I had gotten into this community sooner. So many cool people I never met.

Man, I can barely contain my excitement!

How many guesses do we get, or how often can we make guesses?

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1. Stalkers. I haven't been around long and thusly have only had the time to try a few archetypes, but this AT stands head and shoulders above the others. Being guaranteed first strike, able to pick and choose my fights, and almost always starting the fight by one-shotting the biggest guy in a group all bring a smile to my face. I'm also a fan of Blasters and Defenders.

2. I'd say it's a tie between River Chance, my Nin/Nin Stalker, and Sunny Skies, my Weather/Ice Defender. The former for the reasons outlined above, but also for her ability to dodge nearly every attack thrown at her pretty consistently and her design. Ironically, I think she's one of my favorite designs, despite having the least effort put into it (at first).

Character-wise, it's a person who got into the hero business for all the wrong reasons (simply put, she loves gambling and risks and danger) but is still a good person despite that. Her magic origin comes both from several trinkets she's won in a few less than legal games, and a jade cat token that brought her back to life when she won one too many hands of poker against the wrong crook.

Sunny Skies, contrastingly, I put some elbow grease into making. I wanted a concept that was simple, like what I started with for River, but had room to expand, like with my other characters. Unlikely heroes have always been something I enjoyed, and a temp at a news outlet who was given a costume leftover from a 70s rating boost gimmick as a sort of hazing ritual is as unlikely as you can get.

I even made her costume with this in mind- something that looked good, but at the same time was something you could tell someone threw together on a budget. Raincoat and boot, a simple t-shirt with a sun, domino mask, a pair of thigh-high striped socks, a skirt, and a belt right out of the 70s.

My only regret, in retrospect, is not making her Weather/Electric instead of Weather/Ice, but even that ended up being the most fitting option by coincidence- the backstory had her accidentally shock herself and the mad scientist responsible for strange weather patterns she was sent out to look into, so it was as simple as saying she hadn't gotten the hang of using electrical powers without hurting herself.

Mechanically, it's a fantastic pair of powers. My first character was an Ice/Ice Blaster named Blue Memento that I still love dearly, and the Ice secondary on Sunny is nearly as good as it was on Blue as a primary. Weather is an awesome power set with plenty of variety in its effects, and it really makes you FEEL powerful, too- enemies being blown away by gusts on wind, sudden downpours causing them to slip over themselves, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderclaps...

Combined with hailstorms, freezing people solid, and pitching giant balls of ice, you have someone who has much more power than you'd ever expect from them. Her mutation origin was as much a shock to her as it was to everybody, especially being such a late bloomer powers-wise, but she refuses to let anything get her down.

3. Like I said, I haven't been around very long. I've played with a total of 4 ATs: Blaster, Stalker (Twice), Corrupter, and Defender.

Of the four, I'd have to say Dominator was my least favorite. I like being able to hit hard and fast, and I never got that feeling with the Corrupter like I did my other characters. From what I've heard, the power sets I picked for the character are fairly weak, and that's likely the cause, but it's still disappointing.

Crush Knight, a former delinquent who became obsessed with the concept of chivalry after being rescued by a knightly hero. She entered an experimental program to create new heroes, and came out of the deal with shockingly no issues and powers over gravity. Guess with as many people who have done it SOMEONE was going to get off without trauma or accidents eventually.

Using her powers, she set out to fight crime, suspending one thug helplessly in the air while she ripped stone from the ground and shaped it into a hammer to chase his partner with. A violent, but ultimately noble person. She started off one of my more developed characters (being my second to last creation, Sunny being my newest), but had comparatively little development, probably because of my dislike of the power selection.

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