MajorDecoy

Okay, switching to Window Mode allowed me to take a screen shot.

Apparently I do. I'll give that a try.

Edit: Okay, trying to use the snipping tool turns the the entire screen grey if I'm in the costume creator.
Edit 2: And turning off the screen overlay option when snip is active turns the entire screen black.

I'd like to, but whenever I try to take screen shots in the costume creator, the image I paste into the paint program just ends up being pure black for no reason I can divine.

Is the ice texture for the gloves and boots titled "Ice Baby" for everyone, or just the German client?

I've found that if I want to play a good character in Praetoria, I have to ignore the symbols and just pick the best moral option as I see it.

I'd say it depends upon your primary power set. I've got an Electric Armour/Energy Melee character, and he takes more damage from Energy Transfer than he takes from most enemies.

I have some characters which are characters first, then I pick powers to suit the character's personality. That's the reason Major Decoy (my Invulnerability/Super Strength Tanker) doesn't have Rage.

Some characters are metagame concepts. I've got Tanks that don't have toggles, one Invulnerability/Ice Melee, one Super Reflexes/Martial Arts.

But I'd say most of my characters start as picking power sets I'd like to play, and they develop personalities as I play them.

I turn on bosses as soon as I get status protection.

A "functionally-identical-and-cosmetically-almost-identical version" sounds good. have it leave an Ice slick or an oil slick instead of the purple smoke.

Why not Vigor? The heal portion is good for both Willpower and Dark Melee, if she's having trouble with Endurance Drain, the Endurance Portion is helpful there, and Accuracy isn't bad to have.

Sam, out of curiousity, how does it compare to Battle Axe?

My biggest problem is that I'll often click Energy Transfer or Total Focus and get locked in the animation, take tons of damage, and die.

I think the easiest solution is to make a character immune to damage for about 2/3rds of the duration of the casting time of those two powers, maybe throw Stun in too.

For the most part, I'm happy with the way tanks perform.

However, I do understand complaints about how heavily buffed Brutes compare against heavily buffed Tanks.

I don't think the solution is to give tanks more damage.

I believe the solution is to change the primary sets.

Adapting Defense sets for tankers should be more like adapting Defense sets for Stalkers.

Take Ice Armour, combine Glacial Armour with Frozen Armour, just add all the values. Then add add a new power, Ice Motes. Ice Motes spawns 10 pets, each one identical to a veteran combat pet but with a massive taunt aura. They die exceedingly quickly, but each Ice Mote is one attack that isn't made against the tanker (or her allies).

Take Super Reflexes, combine Agile and Lucky. Give it a new power "Bullet Time" a click PBAoE foe -recharge and self +regen per target hit. Or give it something like Ice Motes.

Powers that give a defensive set a unique flavour on Tanks.

They don't need to send Heroes to the alternate universes that aren't having troubles.

I mean, it's like being a marriage counselor; There are good, fully functional marriages out there, you just don't interact with people in them as much.