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[quote]I think the confusion stems from the tier list being too general, and poorly worded. I took advantage of that, mostly.[/quote]
I have few other ways to interpret that phrase when no less presented with a character who has many powerful abilities that host a multitude of options within the context of a setting that does have a strong leaning toward player versus player activity. You are free to be offended as you like, but I have an objective here of screening characters to the best of my ability; we had to collectively increase the standard [i]because[/i] people were using the looseness of the rules to the fullest extent rather than their intent. The reason we are even here, approving characters at all, is to show the public what our general meaning was behind those words; to enforce what we wrote.

If you have criticisms of the system as is, then I suggest you offer resolutions as well, because otherwise the only way to really perceive them is as complaint given the word choice you opted for. There's no other context I, or the rest of us Staff, are privy to beyond that.

I digress, if you have had to adjust your character down that significantly, the character's concept [i]might[/i] be too powerful at this beginning stage. Our suggestion previously in such circumstances was to make the character as you intended and remove core abilities that you could add later on through progression and development. Again, several strong Tier (3) abilities have the power to make a character as a whole a Tier (4), especially in conjunction with (1)s and (2)s. We are attempting to rate them as a whole, using those individual abilities or powers as points of reference.

Until then, your character is still under review.