Crystalline

Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thank you very much.

I've looked through the preferences in the User CP but have not found a way to do these things, so am hoping the forum community can help.

1. Is there a way to change my username on the forums? Not a big deal, but I'd prefer it to match my new in-game global.

2. Is there way to indicate that, by default, I do not want to be emailed about updates to threads that I post in?

Thanks, in advance, for any help or advice.

Fantastic idea.

That was hysterical. Nicely done, Arcanaville. And congrats, Laz. Gloating looks good on you. Well...you know, on your character. :-)

Well, as others have said, what's fun for me will not be necessarily fun for you. But since you ask, my favorite character for both solo and team play is my Ice/Dark corruptor. I love that she has so many tools at her disposal to keep a mob on the ropes while she cuts them down. And as Bill alluded to the scourge is glorious.

I love all my characters, so it's hard to limit myself to a short list, but I'll throw in an honorable mention for my Illusion/Storm controller. Also great on teams or solo, although on teams you'll need to try to control your chaos a little. Cons are his endurance drain, and the fact that he's pretty fragile if he does come under fire, but the fun he brings more than makes up for that.

What both these characters have in common is they have a lot of tricks up their sleeve, and they both require me to be a little bit on my toes. They allow me to play aggressively, so long as I'm making good use of positioning and picking the right targets. If you like that playstyle, you might give them a try.

Haven't done it blueside yet but did redside last night and quite enjoyed it. Like others in the thread, I half-expect that we'll be turned on in the end, but only half. I'm holding out hope that it won't happen. I absolutely loved the tie-in to a particular NPC that I remember fondly from lower-level arcs.

Fantastic. Thank you.

In terms of IC grudges, my RP main, Thomas Harper and his 'brother' Amairgin both have a deep-rooted loathing for Carnival of Shadows and Circle of Thorns, for story reasons that are too long to go into. I was pretty happy to be able to give Thomas Carnies as Lore pets though; that really messed him up, the first time those manifested.

My Praetorians feel pretty strongly about Devouring Earth (no surprise there), but now that one of them has been living on Striga, she's also developed a healthy disrespect for the Council.

As for just 'loving to fight,' Amairgin (Illusion/Storm) loves to fight the Pantheon in DA. Ravagers are his new favorite pet.

Oddly, on the rare occasions I do PUG, I'm the team leader more often than not. I say 'oddly' because I'm not in any way a social or outgoing person. I don't think I've ever typed 'lft' in this game, although I do occasionally join things when I see them forming, or more frequently, respond to somebody's request for help. But once in a while I want to get something done, like a TF, so I'll put out a call. So far I've been really lucky, on Virtue; most people have been pleasant and helpful, or at the very least, quiet.

I've definitely seen the behavior Forbin describes though, and pretty frequently. I do find leading, and sometimes even just grouping, draining, so I understand a reluctance to do it. And I really don't see anything wrong with somebody not wanting to be the leader. What I have a more diffcult time understanding, though, is why you'd then waste your time waiting around for somebody else to do it for you. If I weren't feeling up to leading the effort, I'd go do something else.

* Note that's a generic "you." Not directed at any particular poster in this thread.

I have an EM/SR brute and I do enjoy playing her, but I find her far, far more enjoyable solo or duo, than on a full team. On a team, the corpse blasting gets very old and I find myself more or less just using Barrage and Energy Punch and sometimes Whirling Hands.

Regarding Energy Transfer, I recently respec'd her out of it, and took the lower tier attack I'd skipped (can't remember which one it was). I find it much more beneficial to be spamming attacks; almost never found ET worth the long animation or the self-damage, even against a hard target.

While I wouldn't complain if its overall damage got boosted, these are the changes I'd really like to see:

* Cut the animation times way down, particularly on Total Focus
* Expand the radius of Whirling Hands.
* I'd like to see Energy Transfer become more relevant; it is the T9 after all. Currently the Extreme damage against a single target is not, IMO, sufficient to warrant the self-damage or the long animation. Perhaps, as somebody else in the thread suggested, it should become a cone or AoE, making it more of a "melee nuke." Combined with the changes to Whirling Hands and Total Focus, you'd then have a set with several decent ST attacks and two good AoE attacks.
* Either make Stun AoE or add an additional utility to it such as -DEF (Because it's hard to be dodgy when you're stunned) or life/end suck ala Life Siphon or Dark Consumption ( You drain some of your foe's energy and transfer it to yourself ).

Scroll of Tielekku

For some reason it's one of the few arc names I remember, even though I haven't done most of the blueside content since my first (maybe 2nd) time through. Maybe I'll do it again with my new hero, unless he too falls the dark side.