i would have to agree with Breck. City of Heroes has the most advanced character customization ive ever seen in an MMO.

Every little detail of your character has around 50 options to choose from, legs, fee,thands,chest,belt,eyes,headgear,mothguards,ears,hair,tall,skinny,large
female,male,leg type, skin color, glasses. And all of those have around 60 different colors to choose from, not to mention you can put patterns to overlay each.

Then at lvl 13 you can get a cape. More complexity. Every 10 levels you also get a custom title that is displayed under your name. At lvl 30 you get an Aura. And this is also customizable by color etc. You can change your costume and such in game by spending points earned while fighting or doing missions. Each character can have, last i played, 5 different costumes that are interchangeable on the fly.

And if you have palyed the game for a certain amount of time, you can get wings which also can be customized, and each weapon for your powerset can also be customized.

And almost every expansion adds more options to each of the above categories.

So yeah, blizzard could learn alot from City of Heroes.

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