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It only glows noticeably in dim/dark lit conditions, but it's still working for me, anyway.

Thanks TopDoc! This is awesome!

I've got 3 ticket farming toons - one at 50, one at 25, and one at 35. This is because 50 is good cash, 25 is where I frankenslot my "baby" toons (instead of SOs, my toons get a full set of random IOs) and 35 is where I start slotting their "grownup" build sets. So mostly, I farm for myself and my own use, with the excess sellable recipes in sets I don't use going on the AH for cash.

I've now converted the 25 and 35 to CEBRs I'm quite pleased with the whole process, and with double xp weekend now, I've got a good supply of nice, solid sets like Red Fortune, Reactive Armor, -KB IOs and the like to throw into my characters as they level! Woo hoo!

I'd like to join the chorus asking for in-game acknowledgement of the costume changes. A little 3-4 mission arc would be super, but even the minions chatting about their new threads before they get aggro'd, or civilians talking about it, would be appreciated.

Thanks for listening, David! <3

Can we please fix the "disappearing health bar" bug? It's fairly new, but it's REALLY bothersome.

How are steampunk shirts broken now?

So do we get these pieces then???

TAKE MY MONEY!

MUCH better! Hooray!!!

While I can't help thinking it's tacky, part of me would totally take part in both of the examples in the OP, so I guess I wouldn't mind all that much.

>.>

I hate to say it, but this is a really good example of a small bit of information being given out and blown into a certainty about an erroneous assumption. All the declarative "it WILL work like this!" statements in the OP are really sort of jarring.

I didn't see the wishlist and assume it would be useable by others - and not JUST because it's been discussed in at least three threads now - but because my bn.com digital book wishlist only works for me. It's the place I throw titles I hear about on NPR or read in a review that I want to remember to pick up later. I wish to own them, eventually. It has nothing to do with anyone else being able to buy them for me.

Really LOVE that take on Serafina, Dragorian! Once again you hit it out of the park, for me.

I wish we could get some damn sandals or slipper that DON'T have the stupid socks though. Really? Who wears socks with their sandals???

Ooh, I like Dragorian's Valkyrie best so far!!

I really hope that Noble's browsing this thread and seeing just how much the community cares about even the little NPCs in this game! And I hope they use some of these designs!

Can I just say I love this thread and this community? This is exactly the reason I can never quit you, COX!

I've gotta say the most appealing looking of the signature characters for me are:

Mirror Spirit. Costume, face, everything - she has it ALL. And I want it.

Scirroco - I love this guy. Love the way he looks, love his powers, love his backstory. Seriously.

Back Alley Brawler and Marauder/Praetor White - Dear BAB (who is my official level 2/level 50 trainer and has been since 2004) and the affectionately-known-in-my-circle-of-friends "Praetor Scaryface" are totally awesome. They look like what they do, and they ooze personality. Even BAB, who's the much simpler of the two, just looked like a guy who can totally take care of business, then go out to a bar and have a blast.

To me, challenging is doing something that was hard but pulling it off. Whatever that hard thing happens to be - a boss that I'm not strong against, overpulling a whole room, some TF events.

Where it gets into "artificially difficult and frustrating" is when I feel I'm trying to win against the mechanics of the game engine, not the NPCs necessarily.

I'll give an example from another game, because that game had more "I'm fighting the engine" moments than any other game I've played. There was a certain boss which you had to fight in a small, locked room divided into 9 grates. Periodically, one of those grates would start to spark up little flames - and a few seconds later the whole grate would be engulfed in a massive fireball that would one-shot most characters who hadn't moved their butts off it. The problem was that any spellcasting (especially healing) rooted you. So if you started getting sparks as you were healing - you were dead. Nothing you could do. You couldn't interrupt the induction and you couldn't move. Also, any amount of connection lag could have you assuming you were safely away, while the game still read you on the wrong grate - boom, dead. And of course, if you were the only rezzer in the group, you had to run all the way back to the dungeon to "punish" you for daring to be doing your job when the flames hit you.

THAT was not fun. There was no amount of skill that could compensate for the ENGINE'S ability to just one-shot you without you being able to do a single thing about it.

CoX only has a few things that come close - the fact that "squishy" ATs have absolutely no inherent mez protection is one of them. You can play a scrapper/brute/tanker, and do good/high DPS and totally ignore things like Carnie Illusionists and CoT mages, but you can be on a defender with nothing close to that amount of DPS and get held-hit-dead without being able to do anything about it if you've already used up your breakfrees on previous mezzers. End drain can be another one of those, though it's much more eglitarian - both scrappers and defenders fear the toggle-drop!

So in other words - challenging is something hard, but that you can live through with determination, teamwork, the right insps, what-have-you. Frustrating is when you just get zorched without recourse.