Fiery-Enforcer

Originally Posted by The Katalyst

Due to undeniable proof brought to my attention by Silit, I am regretfully required to disqualify Shenanigans for all 3 rounds against FAP, due to late lineup subs and an initial late showing. This would put FAP effectively at 2nd place for the final count, since CN forfeit their last 3 matches against FAP by default in the finals for 3rd place. Thank you Silit for bringing this to my attention, and thanks to everyone who participated in the league. Good games everyone!

Originally Posted by AresSupreme

Well that's pretty silly to buff stalker survivability but as someone said earlier PVP was obviously ignored.

Originally Posted by Xanatos

I thought DR didn't affect +HP?

Originally Posted by Phillygirl

So should we just not bother showing up since our practices don't "count"?

Originally Posted by Daknah

BREAKING NEWS: Shenanigans loses to the unpracticed Ware.gov in a non league match. Not even 3 weeks of playing other games can save them.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

You're right, I hate the very concept of aggro and how it's used to feed the Trinity concept.

One character standing in the middle of the fight, insulting everyone into attacking them while your teammates stand back and pick them off. And brother, do they ever line up to get picked off.

That's not how a fight works.

Not in comics. Not in a movie. Not in reality.

It's a stupid mechanic that centers around AI being non-existent and from what I can tell, was championed 40 years ago by someone who made a PnP game who likely never threw a punch in their life.

It's artificial, phoney and we can and have done better in modeling combat, superhero or otherwise, in realtime games.

Does it hold no similarities to anything found in something approaching a comic book, cinematic or 'realistic' battle? Of course not. There are plenty of moments of someone taking the heat for a teammate, and I only have to look at the Justice League Unlimited episode 'Question Authority' to find an instance of Superman 'tanking' for Huntress and the Question.

But as a core mechanic, the overused backbone of 99% of the combat in this game and the sole focus of Tankers? It's grossly simplified, idiotic and fake in my opinion.

[insert tongue into cheek]
Specifically, in Keyes, how ****ing stupid must Anti-Matter be to chase me for going "Unhh!" at him while people are messing with his reactors? Or follow anyone to the console when he knows that is exactly what we need to do to stop him?
And why WOULD Siege or Nightstar run to the tennis courts when they can stay under the protection of the guard towers and run out the clock to victory by refusing to move?

Do I hate helping my teammates by being a distraction? No. I hate that Tankers get screwed for doing that well, at the expense of better reflecting the Tankers in comics. And I hate that some ATs get more than they give back, take pride in running off on their own and being a-hats, solo better and don't hit a low ceiling when becoming an Incarnate.



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Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

Supposedly claws/fire brutes are really good in the aoe department, though I have never played one since I have my ss/fire brute. As mentioned scrappers will benefit more from follow up, musculature, and +dmg set bonuses and/or buffs. Personally I can't stand playing scrappers that aren't /SD and claws can't be paired with shields.

Originally Posted by False_Fiction

I doubt I'd have fun with it, honestly. So, I'll give some sort of debuffer with damage potential a try instead.

Again, thanks for the input.

Originally Posted by Xanatos

/fire scrappers would be viable cause of earth/fire dom teams.

Originally Posted by New Dawn

I'm making no bones about it, no concessions, when I log into a Tanker I expect to use the flexibilities I am accustomed too or simply be just as well logging into a scrapper as far as all things are concerned. On the one hand you have people preferring Brutes instead of a Tank because of what their 6 corrupters can make them into and on the other hand Tankers like me who if, can't see to it that their role is done will prefer to play another role in the team. Its a waste of space having a Tanker who doesn't get to fulfil their roles. All tankers should be able to tank on their terms, terms that would be there had the brute not got everybody else killed.

Originally Posted by macskull

Battlefield 3 yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa

Originally Posted by Tokyo

You can easily compare the competitiveness of a games pvp based on the relative size of the community. That was my point. EvE has a much larger pvp community therefore Corpss have a much larger pool of players with varying skills and abilities to draw from. CoH PvP community is so small, competition is laughable.

I'm not comparing EVE's style of PvP to CoH, matter of fact I've gone out of my way to point out how different they are in several of my posts. Thor and I simply have a difference of opinion about what we consider to be competitive PvP. It's an argument neither of us can win.

Originally Posted by Tokyo

as for lag, you probably need a better rig. Don't blame the game for your legacy hardware problems.

Originally Posted by Tokyo

I think even Arcana would agree with me that interpreting and exploiting spreadsheet data is a higher form of PvP.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I have and I don't care. I know that whatever your reasons are for not listening to instructions, your reasoning isn't sound. Not listening to instructions is the number one reason why I see so many trials fail.