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I find the in-game censor to be highly entertaining. It censors very strange things, some of which aren't even close to offensive to anyone I can think of, while totally ignoring even more common synonyms.

The only type of travel power I can think of we don't have would be swinging of some sort. But that would probably be too similar to Spiderman.

Interesting note, the difference is even more than you think. The powers are balanced individually based on the sets they're in, but also the AT they're on. Scrapper melee scale is 1.125 and Blaster is 1.00. If a Scrapper had Total Focus, it would do an additional 12.5% damage, doing over 220 total. Energy Transfer would do over 280.

But Blasters are all about damage and they have a ton of attacks that do high damage. So it's normal for attacks to outdamage Scrappers. Even if individual attacks don't, they have more AoEs, more attacks in general, the ability to attack at range, and nukes and other special powers. Blasters are supposed to do more damage, since that's all they do.

I'm not too keen on the reputation idea. Doesn't do anything, and if it did I'd be pretty vocal about it. Since it doesn't do anything, I just play with it. That and the tags. Going to see how long I can go adding ridiculous tags to everything before I get scolded by a mod.

Anyway, I don't give negative reputation. I just give positive reputation to posts that make me laugh. I think everyone needs a good sense of humor.

How do I never run into these people? I play on Virtue, always play female characters, do a lot of PUGs, and have never gotten people asking for HAWT PIX or Facebook or screaming that I must be a guy.

I feel like I'm behind a cloudy pane of glass trying to do stuff I'm used to on these forums.

How do I pull up a list of smilies? I'm a cold, emotionless person without them. I also can't be a jerk and still add a winky face to the end of a sentence to make it seem like I was kidding. Wink.

How do I easily get to a list of my posts? Before I could hit Member List, and I'd be at the very top, and I could just click myself and then view my posts. Here, I can't figure out how to get there at all. Do I have to subscribe to every thread I post in?

For that matter, how do I easily get to my own userpage to view things like messages left there? I can't seem to get there through the User CP and the easiest way I've found to get there is to click on my name in one of my posts. Which is harder to do when I can't view a listing of my posts.

How do I quote someone who quoted someone? Anytime I try to quote someone it just throws in their post without any previous quotes. If I click multiquote it just lights up waiting for something. Do I have to click every post and manually embed the quotes into eachother?

Aaah, help!

Sorry for all the cancellations lately. Just have had too many events to do it each weekend. We'll be back on this Sunday unless there's some other sort of event.

In general I would say if the name is already taken, it's time to look for a more unique name. "Dark Beast" may sound cool, but it's not very original. You wouldn't be breaking any rules or get kicked from teams or anything, but I usually find the people with symbols in their names to be kind of uncreative.

Well with GR around the corner possibly sometime in November (for beta, based on the Loyalty rewards), I figured we need a thread to speculate on what the new sets might entail.

The trend for the recent additions has been toward new ideas. Thugs gave us pets with stacking buffs that benefit other pets of the same type. Dual Blades gave us the combo system. And Shields gave us Scrappers/Brutes who can buff teammates. I expect both Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning to offer something new to the game. As such, here are my thoughts on each set.

Demon Summoning will probably be a fire-based set. BABs said something about a fire whip, possibly jokingly, but if they intend to avoid the predictable/obvious Flares/Fire Blast/Fireball setup, a whip would be really incredibly cool. I believe the tech exists, or could be based on the Circle demons that flick tongues. As for what the pets could possibly do, I can't say I know what role they might fill. We already have roles for high damage dealing, high tanking, and mezzing. Damage would be the obvious choice, but they could still be a RES/heal based group who could be good at taking damage as well. Would be nice to have a buffing-style pet who throws around things like Forge.

Dual Pistols I think is their best chance to do something different. Some people speculate that it may be a ranged combo set. Personally I'm hoping that due to all the cries for Pistol Melee, they design it like a Scrapper set. By which I mean instead of the usual formula of 2 full range attacks, 1 half range attack, some AoEs and a nuke, they give it 4-5 single target attacks. Including possibly extreme or superior damage single target attacks. That way, while not actually a Scrapper set, it'd still play like a Scrapper in some ways. I'm also hoping for something new for Aim. I'd like to see a Follow-up style attack rather than just Aim, meaning a lower damage buff that can be used for a steady damage boost.

Begin baseless assumptions and wild ideas below:

I only have one purple piece on one character. I've really only built up one character to the point where they can only improve with purples, and even on that character I'd rather build for +DMG. The one purple she has is a proc.