CharybdisClan

I've got one at Level 35. Thugs/FF MM. She keeps me busy just on my pets!

Need to work on her endurance problems though.

I understand that it will be difficult if not improbable to keep Regen Aura up at all times even with Hasten, recharge cap and maybe the Spiritual Alpha slot (which I'll be getting due to the healing and slow movement or to hit buffs.) But as for the choice over Healing Aura or Heal Other, I thought that Heal Other would be better because then I can heal more hit points on a target that needs it at range rather than get in the middle of the fight and risk immediate aggro and death. Thoughts on that part?

I was on an STF where the tanker was a Level 47, had next to no defense, and was trying to tank LR. I was called all sorts of names (and these were people I knew) because I didn't heal fast enough. I decided to delete my first Emp due to that (probably overreacting, but I was really upset by it, and I was still young in my CoX career.) I no longer hang with that group for that and a few other reasons. I know player notes would be fantastic, but I'm afraid of one-starring too many people.

I'm not looking for issues. I'm trying it out and wondering what kind of resistance I'd get from people that don't know me. Most everybody on the server knows me (I lick everybody) but some people not so much. I think most of my core friends would be happy to team with me, and any resistance from others on the team would be dealt with in a civil manner by my friends and myself.

As a side-note, I did use a heal last night on a tank that was taking a beating, just twice. Extreme situations I guess. But I don't want to be recruited to teams for healing only, as I know that Empathy is a fantastic buffing set.

As it stands, I don't know for sure if I'd be UNwilling to use heals; just unlikely. As for why I chose "Heal Other," I planned to not use the healing aura on myself. Heal Other, while a single target, is a more powerful heal than the healing aura.

As for all the other comments, with the ice set I am eager to try it to see how well it slows the opponents down, and whether it will counter-act the lack of heals. The buffs I plan to trick out as much as possible so that I can get as many of the people on the team with Fortitude as often as possible and keep it rolling, and keep throwing off the Recovery and Regen auras. Also, my ice powers will be slotted with as many slows/holds as I can before ED kicks in.

Looking for constructive criticism on this build idea, not "you suck because you're not taking/using a heal." Would appreciate any thoughts. As it stands, I know that I will meet resistance outside of my core friends, but that won't diminish my fun of the character; but as many of you say, the heal will be less necessary in the higher levels.

Side note- I did use heal other on a tank taking a beating last night and my Fortitude hadn't recharged. So I will use it, but I don't want to be recruited to a team simply to be a heal-bot.

My goal with this character is to:

• Avoid the "you suck because I died and your heals suck" thing I fell into last time I had an emp.
• Keep my team buffed and therefore less likely to NEED healing rather than chase people around and heal them.
• Use my debuffs via my ice set to keep the enemies slowed and attack less.

Not ignoring part of my powerset any more than people who don't take Crystals or Minerals from the Stone Armor set are, or people who don't take Inertial Reduction from the Kin set do.

Last time I had an emp I was playing it as a healer and took next to nothing from my Dark secondary. Took everything emp except absorb pain. So I see no difference skipping 3 powers in one set when I skipped all but 3 from another powerset the other time.

Yeah, wasn't clear on it. I was saying it was either/or, as I wasn't sure which one it was (or even both.) I was betting it was the Emp merits because they're harder to get, but I haven't been on beta to check it out.

Though to the OP, I initially thought that those rolls included purples because of a description read error on my part, so it's possible the person who told you that was thinking like me. Which is scary. VERY scary.

Time to run from them.

I would say yes. I was thinking about putting one out yonks ago, but alas, my voice is embarrassing to me. Now, more than ever with the Incarnate stuff, I think a podcast might very well be helpful.

No, he/she just wanted to complain. As usual.

It's getting tired and old. The game needs to be updated from time to time. Complaining about it is winning you no friends, and it's gone to the point it's really trolling now. It's unnecessary.

We get you're upset about it. If you're THAT upset, stop paying your monthly fee and play one of the other MMOs that also have downtime and patches.

Did you do a Kahn on that toon earlier in the week? If so, you've been flagged as having gotten the bonus for the week and won't get the Notice until the next week's WTF.