CriticalKat

He isn't joking either. Last week we did a tf with the kin from hell who didn't SB, seldom fulcrumed and after booming I was standing around next to a targetted baddie for 23423423423 years waiting on a transferance only to be left still empty.

Trevor was nice enough to kin the next tf we did right after that one and my blaster was having very verbal orgasmic sounds come from her on vent in appreciation. :-)

I have absolutely no enthusiasm for being able to color my powers, besides the point of making them all bright hawt pink to annoy everyone.

I think his point is that if moving fast enough and making fulcrum your number one priority as soon as jumping in the mob so you have maximum targets to hit.....SP becomes irrelevant and a second of time partially wasted that you could be doing other things being the entire team is always at damage cap.

The decision is simply is the second it takes you to hit SP worth the little bit of debuff you are doing to that single target baddie? If you have done every other thing a kin can do then yes. However very few kins can keep up with fast paced teams where they have just a second to spare. There will generally be something more useful you could do with that second, Ie. SB, fulcrum, Transferance, Id someone who is held or kill something that is still squirming.

Personally for me if I am on a large fast paced team I will seldom (probably never) hit SP, there simply isnt time to justify that second for what benefits it gives. On a smaller team, or one that is moving slower, then by all means SP is great. Of course the exception is an AV, GM or a stubborn boss that the team doesn't plow through quick enough.

I think the great things about these guides he is writing is that he is explaining chain of attacks/buffs/debuffs and explaining in what order their priority of use should be. Very FEW PVE players really know these things. That is why you see kins who fulcrum after most everyone is dead or emps giving fortitude to another emp or a blaster using their highest end sucking attack when a baddie only has 3 hitpoints left. etc. etc.

Yeah that was more so I could see what other peoples time played is. I already know mine....entirely too much for entirely too long. :-)

Squishiness and taking aggro has nothing to do with each other. But /agreed on both.

So if I am reading this right if an 8 man team wins this they take a 8 billion jackpot? So if the top 10 teams that finish fast all get prizes, what will the other 9 teams be getting being it seems the entire jackpot quite possibly would go to winning team?

This.

I think it go's back to the discussion a few weeks ago in another thread. When I look for a kin for a team or TF there are certain things I am looking for them to have at level 50. Speed boost, transferance and fulcrum shift. ID would be fabulous but I won't just be irritated if they don't have it. Kins with no SB get my panties in a bunch. Kins that don't SB but have SB...can we say grrrr?

I find that probably 75% of the kins in the game SB at the beginning of the mission and that is about it. Occassionally you get lucky and might get one in the middle. While we all know it will occassionally drop because people are busy or enjoying fighting instead of buffing....there is a point of just being ridiculous.

this.

fixt.

You really think 18 hours in your first term is going to leave you with time for a social life? Good luck with that...lol.

Seriously though, good luck in college!

So the question is did you take the time to explain it to them?

We need to understand the draw to new players to Powerlevel. It is sexy to level every 2 seconds. The only reason to get frustrated or mad at them is if you take the time to explain to them and they respond with a ******** attitude like most of them do.

That is too funny. LES used to have a member who refused to use push to talk and would do crap like that. The rest of us would be fighting the urge to vomit while trying to politely hint that they should use push to talk.

Not true at all. Defenders, specifically empaths do very well without stamina. Kins can do well without stamina too, though I personally wouldn't build one like that. The whole having to target to get some endurance and omg if it misses you are screwed thing doesn't turn me on.

I have seen some regen scrapper builds do well without stamina, and also an elec/elec blaster do well.

My problem with the "I don't need stamina" crap is that players without stamina cannot consisitantly fight, and keep fighting. At some point they will ALWAYS run out of end (exception possibly being only a regen scrapper or an defender Pure emp). While they run out of end they are constantly stopping to rest, or only half fighting trying to reserve their stamina or begging the team for blues. Personally I don't particularly like playing with people like that because they could just take stamina so they could keep up with the team rather than take some ******** other powers they don't have the endurance to maintain anyways.

I have noticed that the majority of players that do not take stamina are not aggressive players and are always hanging back ladedada as if their are not baddies to kill. :-)

Habachi’s Gauntlet/SS/Shield Tank
Smeede/Cold/rad Fender
0 deaths
3 mins 48 secs



Kami Omoikane/Ill/Rad Troller
Neo Buster/Tank/Shield?Ax
2 deaths
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Blaze of spine/spines/regen scrapper
St. Andrew/Katana/Wp Scrapper
0 deaths
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Warforce/DM/Shields Scrapper
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2 minutes 47 seconds adjusted solo time



Doomlord Slayerman/Kat/WP Scrapper
Susie Homemaker/Cold/Ice Fender
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Defendrio/Fire/Mental blaster
Radiant Raven/Ill/Rad
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Pyrokinesis/Fire mental blaster
Hell./Rad Psi Fender
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Blackened Bud/Dm Shields Scrapper
Rakiski/Ill/Rad troller
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Melaena Ill/Rad troller
Jonnie Rotten/ Shield/Mace Tank
0 deaths
2 minutes 14 seconds



Jim Reaper/Dm/Shields Scrapper
Cryoshield/Cold/Ice
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53 seconds


Llewthoros/Earth/storm Troller
Marat/Dm/Da Scrapper
0 deaths
2 minutes 44 seconds



3echo9/spines/regen scrapper
0 deaths
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Targets Eliminated/DM/Shields/Scrapper
0 deaths
1 minute 13 seconds adjusted solo time



Ariane’s Flame/Fire/WP Scrapper
Newsguys Wail/cold/Sonic Fender
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1 minute 7 seconds