Obscure Blade

Praetorians: "First one to make a crack about goatees gets it."

Hellions: "Even the forces of evil need wannabes."

Hellions & Skulls: "Yeah, the other villains make fun of us. But WE have girlfriends."

Arachnos: "Alright, whose bright idea were helmets without eyeholes?"

Crey: "All your base are belong to us! Literally; we bought a controlling interest."

Hapless Citizen: "Maybe if we had some haps we wouldn't get kidnapped all the time."

So far I've just been customizing one slot per character; then skipping to the next to see what I can do.

My Earth/Storm Nerys, who is supposed to be a Sidhe now has powers that are all purple and red and blue, with crystal themed Earth powers. Her purple and blue crystal golem looks quite cool.

My Earth/Sonic Voice of the Earth got dark yellow crystal Earth powers mostly.

My Fire/Storm Hound of Souls got red Steamy Mists, yellow-orange Hurricane, and Dark Fire themed blood red imps with black fire.

Crystalflame my new Fire/Cold has white/pale blue fire effects, for a "white hot" look.

MM pets also tend to need some micromanagement in Mayhems, unless you want them killing crates when they should be killing PPD.

I understand that they were going to fix the bug that made much of the landscape look faceted, and it seems fixed most places unless my memory is deceiving me. But in the Mercy Snake caves all that rock and debris still has the faceted look.

So far, I've mostly been playing with my new lowbies; another round of Power Proliferation was a big thing for me. Rad/MM, Necro/Therm, Fire/Cold, Claws/Elec...so far. Customizing power colors really adds a lot of flavor to the game.

Males NPC citizens in missions "run around in panic" without using their legs. They just sort of glide. BaB in-game ( on VU2009 ) when hearing this took about 30 seconds to figure what was wrong and said it would be fixed in the next build.

Sometimes when zoning MM pets will vanish from the pet window and you will be unable to control them. Hitting them with a targeted heal or buff seems to fix it however.

From Poison Pill's Thugs/Poison guide ( I haven't heard of any changes ):

Obscure Blade is the name of my first CoX character, and my in-game global. A Broadsword/Regen scrapper on Guardian; the blade part refers to Broadsword, and Obscure because I was brand new to the game. When I signed up to the boards I made it Obscure Guy; but about the time the forum move was announced decided that Obscure Blade just sounded better.

Plant/Earth would also work well for a renegade DE creature. Or you could tint the Plant powers weird, and choose the Lava skin for /Earth with a color like green or blue for a pollution/radioactive waste empowered baddie.

My Ill/Rad/Fire controller tore right through them. /Rad debuffs mean that I didn't even realize that they had resistance and defense against Psi damage until I read about it elsewhere. And like Bill Z Bubba says, their drains ( and other nastiness ) are only a danger if they hit, and they spent all their time attacking the Army, feared, confused, held or with debuffed accuracy.