Dechs Kaison

This is a very intolerant attitude, and quite ignorant if I do say so myself. I'd say more, but that much would get modded for sure.

An empathy defender can be a great addition to a team without having any heals. They are not needed, especially if the buffs and debuffs of his secondary are used to good effect. Not every kin needs SB.

Suffice to say I am quite pleased I've never been on one of your teams. In fact, teams run by people like you are the reason I stopped joining teams at all.

I only run teams now, and they're run by my rules:

Any build, any budget, no exclusions.

The analogy is starting to break down.

So it's the only sushi restaurant in town, but the owner of the place likes to smoke and is a bit eccentric. He's got a rule that if you come to his restaurant, you have to be ok with getting smoke blown in your face. Not everyone in the restaurant is going to blow smoke in your face, but most of the people there smoke. He won't have a lot of customers, but there will be plenty of people who put up with the risk to get their sushi. I don't care how good the food is, I'll live without sushi because I don't like getting smoke blown in my face.

If you want the rewards of a PvP zone, you have to be prepared to get beat up. Repeatedly. We can debate whether the inclusion of rewards in that zone was a good design decision or not. What is not up for debate is that people using the zone for its intended purpose are not griefing you should you decide to go there. I don't even want to call it being a d-bag.

This is what PvP is about. You want your rewards and the PvPer wants his. Let's face it, PvP isn't the largest crowd of this game. To get his badges and his rewards, the PvPer has to fight anyone who comes to that zone. If you come to that zone, he has little choice but to beat you up. Repeatedly.

No it's not.

You might not like getting PvP'd in a PvP zone (I know there's times I don't), but it's still not griefing by any definition. In Atlas Park, I receive no rewards for stealthing your character in a costume contest. In Atlas Park, the purpose of the zone is not to disrupt costume contests.

I've got a better analogy than yours.

Go to a restaurant and voluntarily in the smoking section. Now turn to the smoker in the booth next to you and ask him to stop smoking because it's going to ruin your meal. The smoker has every right to tell you to go to hell.

Technically, x0 and x1 are the same thing. For some reason, x0 is what your difficulty defaults to when you make a character. You actually can't set it at x0 after you've set it for anything else, as that should be 0 enemies.

... for now.

The converse to this: I used to stay logged in to the forums pretty much all the time, even if I wasn't at my computer.

I've since begun to browse invisibly. I know I can't be the only one.

You can't execute that many powers with a single keybind.

To do that, however, I would press the following keys.

E > E > Alt+E > Q

The first E puts me in dwarf, the second queues up Dwarf Mire. Alt+E drops out of dwarf and executes Human Mire, and Q puts me in nova.

If you decide to go through with this: sign me up. I've got a character perfect for it, and he's one I really enjoy playing.

Introduction: You've seen my Sand tank; I know you have. Real good and righteous sort of guy, protects everyone around him. It's his nature, see, he was one of the Pharaoh's bodyguards, chosen for his very protective instincts and other virtues. So, how's he still alive? Simple. He's protected and preserved by the sands of Egypt. How the hell did that happen? Little more complicated. Long story short: Pharaoh made a bargain with Set, Egyptian god of sand and "some other stuff" to bless his best bodyguard with that protection, so that he would be around to protect the Pharaoh's lineage.

So what's any of this got to do with the character I intend for your group? Let's talk about Set for a minute. You remember Set? Well, "some other stuff" includes chaos. Now, to Set, letting the Pharaoh have an immortal guardian didn't sound very chaotic. Part of the bargain was that Set would create an equal and opposite force that would pose no threat "so long as the Pharaoh and his children sat upon the throne." Pharaoh agreed, content that with an immortal bodyguard no harm could ever come to his family, and this force would never come into being.

Pharaoh soon learned that there are things a man cannot protect against.

The equal and opposite force to my tank is the character I think would be a right fit for your "new" group.

Hey guess what. Illusion and Radiation are very slanted towards damage, too. Imagine that. A task that requires an absurd amount of damage being done by people capable of doing... a lot of damage!

When the Grav/FF controller can solo GMs, then you can complain that your Willpower/Ice can't.

I think I see what you're saying, which was pretty much what Avatea was saying but with more words. It's also like I was saying but more information and less confusing. So now what I'm saying is:

Old lag was only bad lag for low bandwidth users. To fix old lag, they made the server work hard, which created new lag that was server lag and not bandwidth lag, so rather than some people having bad lag it was everyone having very bad lag. The new very bad lag for everyone is much worse than old not so bad lag for some people, so the fix that turned old lag into new lag is being unfixed so that new lag will go back to old lag. There's a new fix in the pipeline to remove bad lag and hopefully not introduce new new lag worse than old lag. When the new fix goes into effect, the first fix will have to be called old fix to prevent confusion between new fix and old fix.

Ok, now I think I got it.

I tried it, but that concept got deleted before level 20. I know I didn't give it a chance to shine, but I really couldn't see much good coming from it. You'd get some very impressive single target damage and super reliable single target stuns. Shield Charge is not enough AoE to fill in the gaps of Energy, though.

I mean, I've seen one in action at level 50 and it was played very well. The player didn't use ET, though, and he said the reason was at high difficulty you can't afford to counter your own regeneration with it. As an energy/shield, the only heal you have is your own regen.

That's because he showed you that his tanker used its GODLIKE POWER to destroy a GM.

Like it or not, these are our powers now. When an ill/rad solos a GM, it's his pets doing the work.

Without the tank being able to do his job of holding the aggro, the pets are worthless anyway.

Those are dumb leaders. Try sneaking off every time you need to eclipse, just before the current group of enemies dwindles. You should be clearing groups more than once every ninety seconds so you'll only do this once every few groups. If the leader is still a pain in the hindtentacles, just say you're taking the alpha strike like a good tank. If anyone argues you're not a tank, send them my way.

Oh, there are still minions to be found. Every time a new shipment of weapons arrives, there's two fresh spawns with it. Run to one of the spawns and load up an eclipse and mire. Now, turn your tentacles around and go feed Marauder his teeth. That group of enemies will soon catch up to you and be smashed to tiny bits by you and your team. Now you have corpses to explode and reanimate.

Repeat as needed.

Double click it.