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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord

Would it be possible for NCSoft to release some no longer used character names? Say characters under level 25 on accounts that have been expired for a year or more? Or, better yet, find a way to tie character names to the global name, so everyone can be Captain Bob?

I became inspired to create a new Radiation Blast / Energy Manipulation Blaster tonight. It took me about 45 minutes or so to get the costume right, mostly black with a splash of bright red. When it came time to choose a name, I tried "Celestial Striker," figuring it would be taken. It was. Darn. Okay. How about.... "Atomic Striker?" Taken. Hrm. Okay, let's try... "Celestial Fusion." Taken. Grr. "Atomic Fusion." Taken. "Scarlet Fusion." Taken. Tried a few others. All taken.

So, that character I spent 45 minutes putting together a costume for was never created, as I spent a good hour trying to come up with a good available name, only to come up empty handed.

Really, it's gotten pretty difficult to come up with a character name that doesn't use leetspeak like C3lesti@l, or throw random letters and / or numbers in like Celestial A 3, or use a foreign language like Latin. Perhaps I'm uncreative.

Originally Posted by je_saist

nope.

Set bonus's are limited per name.

I tried this on a stone tank. Once you hit 5 7.5 boosts, that's it. no more count.

You can still get other recharge boosts, like 5%, or 6.5%, or 10% (purple), but you can only have 5 of any single named IO bonus effect.

Originally Posted by NuclearToast

Even though I'm sure they "tweaked" out the comments to ease their workload, I'm bummed that I won't get the anonymous kudos and karate chops any more. Oh well.

--NT

Originally Posted by Debt_Magnet

What kinda build would be most viable for farming now since the /psy nerf?

Originally Posted by brophog02

Put the top down and enjoy the ride!

Originally Posted by Fulmens

Few points:

1) I believe any blaster that HAS both Build Up and Aim available, and doesn't take them both, is a broken build. (AR and Dev are an entirely different flamewar.) Earlier you get them, the happier you'll be. (+100% damage when you've got 95% slotted is a lot different from +100% damage when you have 16% slotted.)

Originally Posted by JohnnyKilowatt

I'd go with Shocking Bolt.

Even if it's hard to stack on a boss, it's still one of the better holds available to blasters. There's almost no delay when you activate it to when it goes into effect. No long animation, no windup, you hit the button and your target is held NAO.

Originally Posted by joshz

FF/Therm/Cold buff bots,its time for a simple change to our powersmake that 4m buff timer a hour long on all our bubblesthe devs can in 1 single act of kindness give us so much relief of frustrating work we do in large teamswhen we are on a full team, as we are made more for teaming then Solo powersetswe are buffing 7 diff people with 2 shields each, 14 buffs ever 4m,but MM have it the worst, i have a FF/bots,and this drives ME crazyi live for full teams , on my ff mm i have 7 team mates and 6 pets to buffbut their often a 2nd mm on my 8 man teams, so i have over 19 targets to buff ever 4m or 38 shields ever 4m, i am a official slave buff bot on teamsnot a fun job, but at lest your team HAS GOD MODE, worth itbut something happened, i snapedon a team of me, a other MM WHO happens to be a ninja, and my god do i feel for him, ninja pets die a lot,goes with having melee pets, so am putting over 38 shields on my team ever 4m, xtreme end of my buff boting charthen someone left,and guest who joined,a Necro MM, now having 25 targets to buff ever 4m with total Of 50 shields! ,ever 4m, i just said **** it, told them after the next mission i was done for the day, Frustrating is a understatement for being a mm buff bot who enjoys to omfg team with others. why must you make my life a pain devs as a therm or ffMMdevs,its time you make all this go away,give us 1 hour buff timers and get rid of these damn 4m recast buff bot powerset powersyou would make us all so much happy to play our chars again on large teamsif you think 4m fine as ishow about all the devs in charge of powers, make a 8 man team full of FF/therm MMs ,AND MAKE them buff each other and ever single pet on that team, and see how they feel thenthat would be 55 things to buff with 2 diff buffs, or 110 total buffs ever 4it cant be done, its the xtreme point i can think of,could a 1 hour long buff timer do it, Sure, hell 110 buffs ever hour, would be SO much better then the hell am already going thro Now, that's saying a lot!to all my buff bots brother and sistersplz lets send a msg to the devs nowmake this insane 4m buff timer game design go away,and let us force on our other powers more often then being a FULL time buff bot for our team mates

Originally Posted by StormVyxen

They were Very Special Brownies made of noms. As to the contents, you needed to be there to know what was in em.

Originally Posted by Ideon

Almost every powerset has a poo power or two to balance it out and allow some power pool choices.

Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man

However, I find it amusing.

Originally Posted by Silas

IT IS OKAY. TAKE DEEP BREATHS. I will help you. Unlike your emotionally distant father who would just disdainfully gaze over a corner of his newspaper, slowly shake his head and sigh, Silas is here for you. Unless you read this entire guide, take it all in and then continue to suck and be awful at therming. In which case your father and I will both sigh, then go have a beer, watch the game and talk about how we wished things had turned out differently. SOMETIMES THAT IS JUST HOW IT GOES.