Hey Mate! 
Nice to see another circus member on board. We still have a place as we will run two teams.
For ATs we have two tanks for now (Carnifax and our very own Herczeg (yeah, yeah he is into tanking again 
)). More tanks is better if you ask me so go for it.
For name/costume/background story i can offer you now not going tanker idea. A golem. Creating it is very easy. Pick whichever body type you desire. Pick Crittin as texture for all body parts. Color upper parts with a metallic color (gray/golden or even brass like color). If you color lower parts with that weird red (the one on the right corner) they look like human flesh without skin. It will go well with Dark/Dark tank as you can assume he is created by dark magic rituals.
:O i'm going to make another scrapper spines/dark or maybe 
or maybe fire/dark
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Hmm. Having a hard time coming up with something Medieval looking. Best so far been broadsword/shield but i already got that :|
Still faffing about on a concept.
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Well some medieval looking costume and themes for the ones looking for it.
Going with scrappers first:
- A Samurai (you know they were medieval heroes of far east)
- A ninja
- A monk (yeah just like D&D monks who are able to kill dragons with fists 
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- An Arabian Desert warrior (this one is easier to achieve with female characters as they have good combination of Veil/Vest/Chinese Pants). This can be done in some ways: Broadsword/* with Arabian Scimitar option, DB/* with Scimitar/dagger option and my favorite Fire/SR with SS: A character who runs faster than desert winds and have a sword hotter than desert sun. *sings Arabian Nights (opening theme from Alaaddin)*
- A pirate
- A rogue, a medieval setting is not complete without a rogue. Use hard leather for pants if you are going topless male or bikini top female. Pair it with hood and cape. If you want to go for more dressed idea you can use Jester outfit which looks like padded armor. Unluckily Patent leather has that zipper on it and not fitting medieval theme very well.
For other ATs
- Isen Drottning: Witch queen of the north. Cold/Ice, Storm/Ice, Dark/Ice, Rad/Ice, Cold/Rad, Cold/Dark defender, Ice/Storm or Ice/Rad troller, Ice/Ice, Ice/Electricity or Ice/Mental... even Electric Blast/Ice blaster who claims she is daughter of the God of Thunder, Thor.
- Elf type heroes: Empathy/Archery, Archery/Mental or any elemental secondary or simply anything feels like magic to you.
If you are having hard time with costume (which is fair as i am having that difficulty as well) here are some costume parts i think fitting best to Medieval setting:
Medieval set, Valkyrie set(also this set includes a nice skirt for females which you can match with leater top from tops with skin), Jester top and bottom, Armor Plate, Samurai armor, Oriental pants, Kilt, Rough Leather, Roman costume pieces which is not available on start up unluckily.
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I have just made my Fire/fire Blaster went with the name Minakawa Kasuki in the end.
Carnifax do you want to meet up in the week and set up a lvling pact so as not to miss out if we do start next monday?
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Sure, if I'm around. Might be gone tomorrow during the day, in which case I'll catch up when I return. Otherwise I could meet tomorrow evening in Atlas if you're about.
Guy De Flambe is the name.
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I am on-line in Atlas now as Minakawa Kasuki and can also make tomorrow night. If you can not make it good luck with the hospital.
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Sorry, got on around 9:30 after a "wipe and rebuild" of the toon by the time I finished messing about with the cossie. Had a quick search for you but you weren't online with the toon.
There's so much other interest I'd say you guys work away without me since I could miss the following Monday too if I'm still in hospital. Once I get out I can quickly catch up to whatever level you guys are at anyway using the MA if there's then a space for me.
Cossie is better now, I'm much happier with it.
Add me to your global, Carni and i can help your leveling if this pact thing not work. I wish i can offer pact with you but still my AT is unclear. Waiting for all to say what's on their mind. I hope it will be clear by tomorrow so i can finally say which one i will roll. I am staying with controllers with 3 choices (Mind/Emp, Mind/FF or Fire/Kin for Herczeg's stone tank)
So far we have 13 people with 2 not posted after their first posts. So we still have plenty of space.
Wish you all the best, take care.
Update:
1- False Fiction: Plant/* Controller
2- Knightly: TBA*
3- Xemulas: Earth/Sonic Controller
4- Kindeller: Scrapper
5- Cynic: Dark/Sonic Defender
6- Carnifax: Shield/Fire Tanker
7- Uther Dracus: Blaster
8- Sapphic Neko: TBA
9- Heyman: TBA
10- TRT: TBA
11- Herczeg: Stone/Something Tanker
12- Steel Dancer: Scrapper
13- Butik: Tanker
* Fire/Kin or Kin/Archery defender is one of the options for buffing stone tank and pulling AVs on STF (yeah i should really think that ahead ). If Herczeg change his idea i will fall back to Mind/Rad for healing/debuffing other team (team which Cynic ain't in).
Lol I changed to another alt at about 9-9:10. I had a fun hour with xp turned off fire balling hellions.
I was then playing Genevieve Dracus. Most of my hero have the surname Dracus as they are members of the Knights Dracus or have some tie to them.
Which reminds me I should get round to writing up Minakawa Kasuki background.
Minakawa Kasuki should be in Samurai armour but as I do not have the vet reword yet she is going to have to what for it. I had the name on places hold while I whatÂ’d but this group just fits her background. hehe
knightly, pls dont pick kin just to provide me sb, as i said earlier, i want to make this tank enjoyable regardless to what support a teammate can give. means even if you start a kin, but i dont like playing the tank wihtout sb i'll delete him. so pl only start a kin if you really want to.
also in 5-6 man teams having two tanks seems a bit of waste, so if you want your tank butik i'll go back playing 'fender or blaster
(my tanks secondary is currently dark, but i might change it, when i'm gonna reroll him, cause i wanna change his name. my favorite is so far The Tank That Rocked)
Right Shado-Neko is born.
Dual Blade/Super Reflex rogue assassin!
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knightly, pls dont pick kin just to provide me sb, as i said earlier, i want to make this tank enjoyable regardless to what support a teammate can give. means even if you start a kin, but i dont like playing the tank wihtout sb i'll delete him. so pl only start a kin if you really want to.
also in 5-6 man teams having two tanks seems a bit of waste, so if you want your tank butik i'll go back playing 'fender or blaster
(my tanks secondary is currently dark, but i might change it, when i'm gonna reroll him, cause i wanna change his name. my favorite is so far The Tank That Rocked)
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I'd say in terms of Tanks if people want to play em go for it, I can always roll something else when I'm released back into the wild to fill in any spots. I can easily reroll him as a Fire/Shield or Broadsword/Shield scrapper.
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Right Shado-Neko is born.
Dual Blade/Super Reflex rogue assassin!
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Neat pick, Neko.
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Right Shado-Neko is born.
Dual Blade/Super Reflex rogue assassin!
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Neat pick, Neko.
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Yep, that sounds like a fun combo and good concept.
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knightly, pls dont pick kin just to provide me sb, as i said earlier, i want to make this tank enjoyable regardless to what support a teammate can give. means even if you start a kin, but i dont like playing the tank wihtout sb i'll delete him. so pl only start a kin if you really want to.
also in 5-6 man teams having two tanks seems a bit of waste, so if you want your tank butik i'll go back playing 'fender or blaster
(my tanks secondary is currently dark, but i might change it, when i'm gonna reroll him, cause i wanna change his name. my favorite is so far The Tank That Rocked)
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I'd say in terms of Tanks if people want to play em go for it, I can always roll something else when I'm released back into the wild to fill in any spots. I can easily reroll him as a Fire/Shield or Broadsword/Shield scrapper.
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Answering both:
Play whichever you like. Two tanks is better than not having one if you ask me. As Shield tanks a bit weak about holding aggro but have a nice damage output i see them near a Scranker. So having one as secondary tank and with Fire Melee is a good pick i say.
For Kinetics, i love kinetics since i am loving playing with Araf. Yeah Psy-knight was a good starting point as a Mind/Rad for me to learn Mind Controlling but even with too busy playing style of Araf, i prefer him over Psy anyday.
Two sets i said the ones i wanted to try, Kin/Arch will be sweet when he hits level 38. I wonder how much Rain of Arrows i can spam in one mission. For Fire/Kin everybody seems like loving them and Fire is my secondary choice on controller primaries. I deleted my Fire/Rad around level 20 as he couldn't fit into Defiant Boys also had that elven look on him.
If you really think that way and want to try your stone tank without SB i will roll Mind/Rad again as i want to have a debuffing hero on Defiant. Too bad that Rad defender is no go again. I wonder how people play defenders, I easily got bored while playing one (Maybe kinetics will be an exception as your primary will really keep you busy and with that much damage boost your primary can mean something).
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Two tanks is better than not having one if you ask me.
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While currently perfecting my Domi for some very successful Bruteless MoRSFs, I ask you. What the hell is a tank? 
I'd say, play whatever you like. Reason I play villains pretty much exclusively is because of the 'JESUSBUDDAHANDSHIVA! Where is the TNAK!?' mentality of a lot of Hero players I've PuG'd with over the years
Food for thought.
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Two tanks is better than not having one if you ask me.
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While currently perfecting my Domi for some very successful Bruteless MoRSFs, I ask you. What the hell is a tank?
I'd say, play whatever you like. Reason I play villains pretty much exclusively is because of the 'JESUSBUDDAHANDSHIVA! Where is the TNAK!?' mentality of a lot of Hero players I've PuG'd with over the years
Food for thought.
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Indeed. My main reason for Shield/Fire is to make as untanky a tank as I can really, something more like a hate generating Scranker. I've been mainly playing a Dark/WP Brute and I fancy something tough but with lots of AOEs. Shield/Fire gets them all by the 20s and coupled with 2 +damage powers he can leverage them nicely too. Taunt is in mostly for "Oi, get over here and buff my Damage Aura for me so I can kill you". So I will be controlling aggro, mostly for my own selfish reasons
He's a nice fit for a regular team too since buffs will help him greatly and Teamies will be familiar with the playstyle and won't have the same expectations about what a Tank should be doing as they do on a PuG.
my main problem with rain of arrows is, that if you have a blaster or two in team, by the time you fire it the minions are already down, and you end up hitting just a couple lts and bosses with it, so (and this is just my opinion) archery has no decent aoe attack. the cone thingie has short range and moderate dmg, exploding arrow's KB is more annoying than useful, and rain of arrows is just too long to fire
as for a rad defender, i played a rad/rad till mid 40s back in i11 when i started, and it was pretty blaster like. just kick in the debuffs and go do dmg. you can stay back healing of course but rad/rad is a so perfect offender set... the def debuff is uber, even negates paragon protector's elude, has decent aoe dmg and cosmic burst can disorient even bosses.
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my main problem with rain of arrows is, that if you have a blaster or two in team, by the time you fire it the minions are already down, and you end up hitting just a couple lts and bosses with it, so (and this is just my opinion) archery has no decent aoe attack. the cone thingie has short range and moderate dmg, exploding arrow's KB is more annoying than useful, and rain of arrows is just too long to fire
as for a rad defender, i played a rad/rad till mid 40s back in i11 when i started, and it was pretty blaster like. just kick in the debuffs and go do dmg. you can stay back healing of course but rad/rad is a so perfect offender set... the def debuff is uber, even negates paragon protector's elude, has decent aoe dmg and cosmic burst can disorient even bosses.
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For Archery blaster i can say cone attack is better than blazing arrow. It took ages to fire that attack with little in return. Even a low damage team like Defiant circus kill my target before firing that blasted thing off. As i am not a fan of AoE powers i think i can change (Gah! I forgot that toon's name again so will go with the name you give him) Hawkeye with Battle Sorcerer from Defiant boys. He is a nice Nrg/Mental blaster with single target attacks. I am also didn't like Mental only nice power is Mind Probe, which has a fitting animation for a sorcerer.
About having tank or not matter. Everyone has their preferences. I think same thing about empaths, which some people doesn't start their TFs without one.
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About having tank or not matter. Everyone has their preferences. I think same thing about empaths, which some people doesn't start their TFs without one.
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I'm just saying that perhaps we should let people turn up with whatever they like, before we start min-maxing the teams.
Player Competence & Teamwork > Cookie Cutter Team Make-up, Afterall
I've came up with this little idea so we could all get busy while we wait 'til Monday. Following Knightly's line of thought, Sir Evenhand found this ability/way to time travel and recruit heroes in order to fight for the greater good.
That said, I'd suggest each player creates his own Mission Arc explaining how did Sir Evenhand got to your character. You could make your character the captive, and then work the environment and foes according to your background. The MA contact would be Sir Evenhand (we would have to create his costume so every arcs have the same conctac) who would send some hero across time to bring you back to him and join his cause.
It wouldn't have to be too elaborated. One mission should do the trick.
Bare in mind this is not a requirement to join the SG/team. It's just a little extra something to keep you busy and entertained.
@False Fiction - Virtue / Defiant
Current projects - [Glaciologist - Ill/Cold Troller] [Cloudshaper - Storm/Dark Def] [Harald Wartooth - Elec/Psi Domi]
Oh-kay, then i am sorry for sticking my nose to other's business. Let me know what you will roll/rolled by the weekend so we can know who will have which toon and name of the character.
Also if you want to start a global channel for this teams/SG go for it.
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I've came up with this little idea so we could all get busy while we wait 'til Monday. Following Knightly's line of thought, Sir Evenhand found this ability/way to time travel and recruit heroes in order to fight for the greater good.
That said, I'd suggest each player creates his own Mission Arc explaining how did Sir Evenhand got to your character. You could make your character the captive, and then work the environment and foes according to your background. The MA contact would be Sir Evenhand (we would have to create his costume so every arcs have the same conctac) who would send some hero across time to bring you back to him and join his cause.
It wouldn't have to be too elaborated. One mission should do the trick.
Bare in mind this is not a requirement to join the SG/team. It's just a little extra something to keep you busy and entertained.
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Ooh, that's a good idea FF!
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I've came up with this little idea so we could all get busy while we wait 'til Monday. Following Knightly's line of thought, Sir Evenhand found this ability/way to time travel and recruit heroes in order to fight for the greater good.
That said, I'd suggest each player creates his own Mission Arc explaining how did Sir Evenhand got to your character. You could make your character the captive, and then work the environment and foes according to your background. The MA contact would be Sir Evenhand (we would have to create his costume so every arcs have the same conctac) who would send some hero across time to bring you back to him and join his cause.
It wouldn't have to be too elaborated. One mission should do the trick.
Bare in mind this is not a requirement to join the SG/team. It's just a little extra something to keep you busy and entertained.
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Heh i am happy to hear that this MA thing is not neccessary for me as i am not going near the MA buildings nowadays.
Edit: If you want to use his original name, go for Sir Everhard
Quick check as it's not really been established yet: what level and zone are we meeting at?
Outbreak at 1st level?
Galaxy/Atlas at 1st level?
After Outbreak in Galaxy or Atlas at 2nd level?
Get to 3rd for an initial sewer run as Knightly suggested earlier? And, again, Galaxy or Atlas?
Defiant 50: Blonde Justice inv/ss; Lady Aminta emp/elec; Sierra Colt merc/traps; Tess LaCoyle elec/elec (blaster); Powerstorm elec/elec (brute);
Union 50: @Steel Dancer WP/DB; Blast Pulse Fire/Rad (corr); Bitter Twilight Earth/Psi (dom); Compassionate Emp/Psi;
Freedom 50: Incandescent Blaze ElecAm/Fire;
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Quick check as it's not really been established yet: what level and zone are we meeting at?
Outbreak at 1st level?
Galaxy/Atlas at 1st level?
After Outbreak in Galaxy or Atlas at 2nd level?
Get to 3rd for an initial sewer run as Knightly suggested earlier? And, again, Galaxy or Atlas?
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Wish i can answer that questions, Steel. Still i don't know who brings what and who will be there (except Carni who won't be joining Monday). So while posting your AT/Character Name also post where you want to start and which level.
Wow. So much interest and so many post in just 3 days.
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I would also be interested in this. Mondays are fine also. From quick look at all posts (99) I see that there is most interest in medieval theme. As i see lack of tankers I can make something classical medieval like ice(or dark)/fire (or dark) tank.
Now comes the hard part. The name, costume and background story. (I am not much of a storytelling and creative kind of mind).
Sigh me up if there is still place.