I love the post, Mighty Scourge. Coming from Everquest 2 myself, I can attest to there being a learning curve when you switch to City of X. I played a tanker there past level 50, but the changes to tanking here blew my mind. I posted here, though, to relate a funny 'RuHelar' related story.
I'm on a task force team the other day, with a level 20-ish group. My character is a level 20 radiation/radiation defender with one radius heal and a whole pack of toggle debuffs. We also had a level 20 illusion/force field controller who is an sg-mate of mine and another of our sg-mates, a blaster.
So of course, we wait around for a half-hour while the ringleader of the other half of our group looks for a 'healer'. I try to explain to him that between my debuffs, the controller's force fields, and confusion and phantom army we're just not going to take a lot of damage. After thirty minutes or so he picks up one more player and, presumably having absorbed my advice, decides to get started.
We go through the first three missions without a hitch. Zero complications. Seven characters in the team, and we're mowing through it. I'm not sure anyone ever dropped out of the green, health-wise.
So... As we emerge from the third mission, our tanker notices we don't have a 'healer'. We realize this because he says, "ur a <bleep!>, [leader]" and quits the team. After some puzzlement on my part, [leader] explains that he just realized we don't have a healer, and his guys won't do it without a healer. So I tell him that this is where his four and my three part ways.
Long story short, we pick up two more controllers and the five of us mow through the Task Force. I send a tell to the other team's blaster, who was a good guy, anticipating their being close to the end too. Come to find out they've wiped twice, lost one of their group in frustration, and are now sort of stalled out slogging through it.
They did finish, and good on 'em. I'm not sure I would've had the patience to finish it their way.
