Dechs Kaison

You're missing out.

Again, don't get me wrong. I'm here for the fun too.

When someone tells me "I can bring a scrapper or an X, which do you want?" my reply is always "Whichever you'll enjoy more."

If the reply to that is "I don't care which I play," then, depending on my team makeup already, I'll either ask for the X or say "flip a coin."

Meh. My teams move faster with defenders in the place of scrappers. Scrappers are awesome, no doubt about it. There just seems to be waaaaay too many of 'em.

What I said was still a joke. Call it hyperbole if you like. Someone says "You can solve any problem by throwing more scappers at it" and I immediately think "but it'd be better to throw more defenders." It was a slightly snarky response. A witty retort. An attempt to be funny. Apparently I just failed.

Maybe I should be more clear. I never turn any AT, any powerset, or any concept build down when I'm running a TF. Bring me your tired, your poor, your petless MMs, your pure empaths... Hell, I've taken a level 36 regen scrapper along for an MoITF. I'm never going to say "I don't want that on my team."

But I still prefer almost anything over a scrapper.

I do think a team of all scrappers would have difficulty finishing a +4/x8 ITF in 45 minutes. But that's not what I'm saying. All I'm saying we'd all be better off with less scrappers.

I don't care what you think a team of all scrappers can do. A team of all defenders or all corruptors can do it faster.

Now this is something I cannot argue with.

I'll admit, I really can't comment too accurately when it comes to DA brutes until I've made one, especially considering that I don't have any brutes at all. I'm working on that though, I'm doing a "tour de force" of Dark Armor right now. I've got a stalker I'm building up and a brute in the costume creator.

Not even close. Inv has 25% end drain resist compared to DA's 86.5% (Disclaimer: I'm going by tanker numbers).

DA can basically ignore end drain and recovery debuffs. In a sea of Mu or even sappers, my blue bar doesn't flinch. A friend of mine and I ran through a heavy end drain group in AE, him on his WP tank. Even with Quick Recovery and Stamina boosting his recovery, the lower cost of his toggles, he bottomed out fast, even through Strength of Will's recovery boost.

Elec is even better on this front. Elec armor is completely immune to end drain and recovery debuffs. That's not even mentioning Power Sink.

Agreed. At the very least, there will be less scrappers.

That's something we could all benefit from.

You cannot be sure that there won't be a negative effect. I am one of those people that probably could solo all of those TFs you'd want this enabled for, but I run them often with teams. If I could solo them, there would be plenty of times that, rather than form a team, I just solo a Sister Psyche.

What I'm saying is there is a high likelihood of a negative effect on the entire community, in that TFs will be harder to find, as the people who organize them will be less inclined to do so.

Until psi damage or end drain comes along. Being invulnerable is overrated. Roll Dark Armor and be immortal.

By the way, OP, great song.

I don't understand this mentality. When you've got RttC providing upwards of 75 HP/sec regen, what good is another 2 HP/sec from slotting health?

Seen another way: Character A has regen 100 HP/sec. Character B has 5 HP/sec. Increase both by 5 HP/sec, and A has an increased survivability of 5%, while C has doubled his survivability.

You'd be much better served by adding to your defenses.

Wait, what is multi-teaming?

Multiplayer means "more than one player." Expect some interaction. If you don't like it, you can solo, and have access to most of the rewards I do. You'll have all but a few badges, but our characters' performance will be no different.

Soloing is your choice. A task force is a group activity. Despite your ability to solo it or not, by design it is a team activity. If you so strongly oppose teaming, then you have chosen to give up these activities unless you work around it (by methods already mentioned in this thread).

I make judgment based on what I see. Your later posts include many more spelling errors than your early ones, indicating a rising anger and an inability to cope with it. No one has been insulting, they just disagree. I can see how that attitude makes it hard to find people who want to team with you.

The people who replied to you put just as much thought into their posts as you did your first. They have valid arguments. Your dismissal of them and implications of trolling are uncalled for. In a public forum, expect to be disagreed with. If you can't handle people who don't agree with you, keep your fingers off the keyboard.

Multiplayer does NOT mean that the game cannot include some aspects which require teaming.

How about you take the time to PM the guy who wrote it and ask if the guide is still current?

It's not like guide are a simple thing. You're asking for a ton of fine details, minor subtleties, performance bands, and think it's only going to take 30 minutes? The warshade guide I have took me days to write, and it's still not done.

I don't know about you, but if I'm going to write a guide, I'm going to make sure I know my stuff inside and out. Many people don't feel they know enough for a full guide. The number one human fear is public speaking, which is likely because people don't want to look like a fool. Many knowledgeable players aren't comfortable putting out a guide for fear that someone may disagree, or worse, they're just wrong.

Answering questions in ones and twos is easy. You can say "Hey, in my experience, X helps." It looks a lot better, and safer, than "I know everything there is about the combo, so I'm going to tell you how to make it work."

You can't make people volunteer to write guides.