AlienOne

I actually saw 3 of my WS videos pop up on the sidebar when I pulled up that video... XD

"Alien"

I bet you that how they are when they're teamed with you will be more dependent upon their experience playing that character than it will how many purple sets they have slotted...


Are you on Freedom? If so, then, yeah, that's cool. If not, would a timed copy of my combat log from one run help in any way?

"Alien"

This is pretty much my sentiment. It isn't the enhancements that suddenly make a character good, although it helps. It is the PLAYER. I've always said that if I let some other inexperienced City of Heroes player jump on my Warshade (my fiance, for example) and try to play it, I guarantee you she wouldn't be able to be nearly as effective with it as I am.

Why? Because I'm an elitist and I think I'm better than everyone else? Well...maybe, but that's beside the point. No, it's because I've put over 2,000 hours on that single character alone (not including time spent on the other Kheldians I've created). Nothing beats experience. Nothing. That's what I want THB to realize. Sure, it may "cheapen" your experience if someone else buys all the same enhancements that you have and make the same "carbon copy" of a toon that you've made, but....so what? All of those enhancements are available to everyone in the playerbase anyway. They'll get it via illegal means if they don't get it via NCSoft. Believe me, someone who is that set on copying you and trying to "act" like their toon is just as good as yours will do it. What they can't "automatically acquire" is the experience you have playing that AT. They can't automatically acquire the ability to solo lvl 54 AVs like THB has done. That takes experience, which is the result of time and practice.

I totally get where THB's are coming from, believe it or not... Technically, I could have been just as upset as him about the incarnate system when they released it... Why? Because it "cheapened" a lot of the accomplishments I had made with my human-only WS build up to that point. Taking on Malta, Arachnos, and Carnies with a human-only build used to be a pretty big accomplishment before Clarion, Lore pets, Reactive, and other iPowers, and I used to enjoy posting videos about being able to handle them before most people could. Now everyone can do that. Easily.

But...then I realized that the important thing wasn't that "only I" could do those things. It was the experienced gained from doing them before it became easy. No one else gets that--except for the people who purposefully challenge themselves to do it without "I win" powers... And those are the kind of people I want on my team.

My 20+ billion influence Warshade would probably play like crap in the hands of someone who didn't know what they were doing. And, I can take comfort in the fact that NCSoft will never be able to put "AlienOne's 2000+ hours experience on his Warshade" up for sale in the market.

However, if they do, then I better get a cut.

"Alien"

You may have to just use your own footage, man... I'm looking at my FTP uploader program right now, and it only has 272 MB uploaded.... Out of 33 GBs.

Yeah, don't think this is going to work.

"Alien"

No one says you "have" to join in... It's just that some of us prefer the opportunity to literally be able to converse with others via voice and fellowship that way because, you know, playing with others is kinda the whole point of an MMO.

If I were adverse to playing with other people, I would never have begun playing this game in the first place. I'd probably still be playing something like Myst. XD

"Alien"

Heresy.

"Alien"

Ah, ok... That explains why the enemies weren't lvl 54+2.

"Alien"

"Alien"