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I know that this following might cause strong reactions in people, so please take a moment and consider your words before posting a reply to this. The TP Foe is Unfair thread got heated enough, let's keep civilized.
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What about, "Hi I'm general Gamma, I camp by my hero base and use a full tray of insps when fighting then run away when they run out"
far more apt I think.
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Ah yes, you guys, you were floating in the water outside the hero base when we went looking for evil villains who are trying to harness the powers of the Shivans or disrupt Longbow operations in Bloody Bay. I know you might have not been looking for trouble, but it's a war out there, so trouble tends to find you.
But yeah. The estimate on how I work is quite close.
I had then and usually have a full tray of whooping 10 insps (Gamma is lv 24, so only 10) when I leave the hero base in Bloody Bay, because I have basically have to: Gamma is fully reliant on Insights on spotting Stalkers (so a good half of my insps are usually these), Lucks to keep him alive when more than 2 people attack him (even if they don't offer their proper benefit against a built-up Stalker or a Mastermind with tactics, they're generally better than Sturdys when surrounded by too many enemies) and Break Frees to free himself from random holds. Without inspirations, he's Held, Assassin's Striked and bashed into million bits before he has had a chance to react.
And yes, I have Teleport to get away when people start ganging up on me or things look otherwise really bad (if I get struck by an AS, I run, but it's usually too late at that point). I use it to move around when immobed or slowed. It's a good power that way - it can be used to move yourself to a beneficial position. Sometimes that means being "not here".
A huge, big "Yup" to the fact I go and get more inspirations when I run out. As said before, Gamma is blind without insights, and running around without them in Bloody Bay is just asking for trouble. I go and renew my stocks at every pause that happens, be it from getting defeated, defeating a group of Villains or just generally running out of Insights because nothing has happened in a while. Also, buying 3 Respites is a faster way to get back into action than Resting.
But you are wrong in one aspect: I do not "camp outside the Hero base". I usually am found near the Villain base because that's where the action in Bloody Bay tends to happen. There, where the Villains can go and buy inspirations to boost themselves for battle if needed, where the drones protect them if they need a safe place and where they have a ton of automated defenses pointed at us. But if there isn't a battle going on there, I'm usually checking out recent hot-spots of activity to see if a battle continues or couting the area for people who are going in or coming out of the door missions in the Boardwalk.
Also one thing you forgot to mention in your accurate characterization is that I also have the dreaded Teleport Foe. The power that has been deemed unfair by everyone. Sometimes people try to run away and all that, they and need to be brought back into the battle. I haven't used it to teleport people into mobs or drones. Only to myself or my teammates. Once I accidently teleported a person from a combat with a hero, but I blame it on the fact the hero was behind a rock so I couldn't see the blue name-tag until it was too late, but that was an isolated incident I think.
What I'm trying to say is that I am in Bloody Bay with Gamma for one reason: the PvP (+ of course occational leveling / resistance buffing at the indoor missions as well). Gamma isn't my main character, he was built for the S4 tournament and PvP probably is what he'll be doing for as long as he is in the game.
Why on earth?
Because it's fun outmanouvering the stalkers, out-blasting the corruptors, bringing down the shielded masterminds, holding the dominators and toggle-dropping the brutes. And sometimes getting the taste of your own bitter medicine from someone manages to outwit you, using their own bag of tricks. That's the essence of PvP for me in Bloody Bay with Gamma.
Since I've bared things about how evil a PvP-player I am, I might as well tell you how there is one more reason to hate me: I do PvP with the PvP rating in mind. While that makes me quite callous in ways when it comes to PvP (it, in the end, is the defeat that matters), it in itself sets some boundaries for my actions - I try not to attack the same person repeatedly. Unless they of course specifically come asking for trouble (attacking me again or Stalkering next to me). Even then I might just leave, not engaging in another round of combat. This Rating-centric vie might also cause me to target one person from a group I fought earlier to get that one sweet point of reputation out of him/her before leaving the of the group alone by getting out of the place. With no actual rewards from PvP, the rating is really the only thing I can evaluate how I'm doing on a given night. Did the rating go up, or down? If it did, how much compared to the previous night.
As a sad note, I must admit that I sometimes get carried away by the moment - a long, huge fight at the Villain Base will make me charge in, fully Lucked, combat as long as possible and then try to escape (failing 90% of the time, and getting debt from the base defenses), rinsing and repeating as needed. When this happens, it's usually a more primitive instinct than intellect at work, so sorry about it.
As a parting gift for my post, here is a piece of advice: The next time you see a significantly smaller (say, two Heroes) group of "physically weak" Heroes (squishies) charging your big (say, 6 Villains) group of Villains, you should assume they have evened out the odds somehow and you really should reconsider your basic strategies. (It might be also that they are not playing with a full deck... if they're really just charging out at you in all their squishyness). I have met many people who can deal with this sort of challenge, so I know it's not impossible.
As I said in the beginning, I know this sort of a post will rouse negative feelings in many people, but I consider a post where I explain things better thank blurting out something really wise like "omgwtflol, headshot, headshot".
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Well done Gamma... it's nice to see a well thought out response showing his thoughts/tactics/conduct as opposed to some people's responses who just say "don't be here then" and "tough... deal with it".
