Abe_Froman

I've always assumed that it was a bone being thrown to the idea of villains doing something for personal gain, as opposed to being a lackey of someone else or being forced to 'do the right thing to save that place where you keep all your stuff'.

It wasn't a 'sucker' suggestion, but an incomplete one.

You posted this under the "Player Questions" forum. The one where players ask other players for guidance. In your particular case, from the outside it seems reasonable that the tone is "I can't get meet the metrics used for getting this badge" so players let you know what you needed to do to get the badge - namely your build.

My understanding (and I will admit I'm not enough of a forum poster to be 100% positive, others will probably correct me if I'm wrong) is that the devs don't spend a lot of time in this section of the forums.

If you would like to suggest to the devs to fix what is used for the metrics or to remove the metrics all together aside from running the event to get the badge, then another forum (probably the Suggestions forum) would be more appropriate for having their eyes catch it.

As stated up-thread, the problem you're having is that while you are participating, you aren't breaking the 'threshold' of participation for the next reward table because you aren't attacking enough. Everything above talks about you helping others - which is fine and DOES ADD to the level of participation you've received. But the fact of the matter is that the system in place to measure your participation is going to count the added damage the people you buff/heal/rez for their participation ranking, you get your 'points' for the buffing and heals. More damage output from you on top of your buffbotting will enable you to the next tier of reward tree.

This isn't a "my build is right, yours is wrong" opinion by other players, this is the underlying reward mechanics at work.

Straw-man. That's not what he said at all. There's a difference between "Any AT can heal" and "all characters must have heals".

What is being pointed out is that, even for Emp Defenders, healing/buffing is not the end-all, be-all for team functionality and having that as the sole focus with little-to-no regard towards attacks is commonly frowned upon by a sizable number of players to the point to where it has become a bit of a joke.

As Aurora Girl said, QFT:

Given the proliferation of participation gates of rewards for more recent content, I get the impression that the devs don't want it to be like that either.

If Healbot Extraordinaire is the concept you're married to and you're enjoying it, rock on with your bad self. However, don't expect others to be as married to it as well and certainly don't expect the underlying system to be.

Best wishes on earning the badge.

I was on an ITF a couple of weeks ago and we sat around for an extra half-hour because the leader insisted on a Healer.

Majority of Team: "All right, we filled to 8! Let's get this started!"
Team Leader: "We need a healer. Does someone have a healer they can alt to?"
Pain Dom Corrupter: "I can heal."
Majority of Team: "Yea, we have a Pain Dom - time to roll!"
Team Leader: "We need a healer."
Pain Dom Corrupter: "I have heals - start it up!"
Team Leader: "We need a healer - who has an Empathy Defender?"
Majority of Team: "Most of us are Incarnates, and we have a Pain Dom...."
Team Leader: "Someone has to have an Empathy Defender! Alt to it and we'll get started."
Pain Dom Corrupter: "I CAN HEAL!!!"
Majority of Team: "...."

Statesman is going to be beaten to death by a clown with a tire iron?

Or maybe like this?

Mission Architect - aka A(rchitect) E(ntertainment).

I think I was with you on that run, Kheldarn - was my first time as well on the trial, and I was surprised to see at the end of it that we hit 3 out of 4 badges needed for the Mo badge.

Well played.

But...but...they're the ebil marketeers! If they are colluding, it *has* to be to screw everybody else in the system so they can make their coffee with the freshest tears!

Argh - you're right and I confused Angry Protestors w/ PPD based off the name (For some reason, I parsed the No Authority badge as being for killing protestors - should probably not read these things at 5 am).



It seems like you're supposed to by the curtain - am I parsing this wrong as well?

I feel your pain on learning the ins-and-outs of the IO system (in general) with a DM/WP brute (specifically).

The thing that jumped out at me was the above - HPT is an automatic effect, no endurance usage, no recharge. If you're slotting for a bonus from Numina's, why the Endurance/Recharge IO? You can get more bang for your buck on bonus hit points using a Heal/Recharge and still make the set bonus you're going for.

Also - instead of putting extra slots in Brawl, maybe use them on some of the defense/resist powers and get some more defensive bang for your buck from both the individual IOs and from the set bonuses.

I have a date set for quitting smoking coming up soon - what is this Vitamin C trick you speak of?

Fantastic! I look forward to attending...thanks, Ariel!

I slotted a Perfect Zinger proc in SM pretty early on my DM/WP build and my experience was that the proc fires in the first set of numbers.