KianaZero

You consider the CoH Forums a 'hostile environment'? You've never been near WoW's forums then, have you?

That place can make 4Chan's /b look like an idyllic 1950's home.

That one's easy to get to. Just log out cause you're living in it.

Part winging it, part asking, part knowing what you know.

When most Master Of teams form, they actively say it's a MO-run forming, need (this), (this) and (more of this), and it usually pertains to what the team is lacking and will need to get the MO badge, like debuffing, tanking, etc.

And those outside that range of need will be told no, unless they can't find anything that fits the hole in the team. Then you may get in if the team lead is feeling generous and brave enough to take someone that doesn't fill a hole.

As for the response? It'd depend on the team lead. There have been times on normal teams when my Dark Defender was kicked because I was Dark and not Empath. Not for a TF, I mean just normal teaming!

However, usually the team lead will tell you what will need to be done and the team should help you along.

Heck, I remember when it was getting bad enough (it was just before the lockout of tells/email) that I started getting porn spam!

And not just your typical porn, I'm meaning CHILD PORN!

Or, I think it was. It was in such garbled Engrish that it was hard to understand, but it included words like '14yo' and 'you happy lot see' (or something similar).

I sent a petition with the global name, what it said and immediately deleted the e-mail.

And this was after I had gotten a dozen plus normal porn spam in e-mail. I never would have thought that superhero pedophilia was a big enough market to go to such lengths.

Of all the speed TFs I've been on (not a large number, but there's been many), I've never exactly been able to 'keep up' with the majority of the rest, but I've never lagged behind to an extreme or sat at the doors.

Most of the team did what they knew what had to be done and a few stuck with everyone else that wasn't as quick as the real speeders. Just one of those 'unspoken strategies' that just happen as people play.

From my experience, most teams will understand if you're not as quick as the master runners who know exactly what is where and when and help you keep going as fast as you can. More so when you let them know you're not the fastest or strongest but willing to give it your all.

That part is very true. I myself like a little of ether at different times.

Just last week during my bi-weekly D&D (well, Pathfinder) game, my team came across a single lost damsel in distress. A very beautiful one at that. We all were very happy to help her, and traveled with her to her village to help. Before we got there, we had to set camp.

Turns out the beautiful lady was a Succubus. Our group is level 7 (of 20) and facing something like a demon isn't much of a surprise, but would be taxing without the right equipment. She hit hard, was hard to hit, and worse has DR 10/-, meaning that no matter what we hit her with, 10 points of that damage would be just ignored (unless we had cold iron or holy weaponry....which we didn't). The fight was long, difficult, but OH so much fun!

But there are times where I want to steamroll something. That's when Dynasty Warriors comes in. Even before a character gets half-way to max level or strongest weapons, you can take down HORDES of soldiers with no real threat to you. Swing your spear and kill half a dozen soldiers, swing it again, kill the rest and nearly kill their captain! Heck, in Dynasty Warriors 4, Lu Bu, the biggest strongest guy in the land and That One Boss and is SO POWERFUL he TAUNTS someone they just DIE! Normally, you use the taunt to make the enemies lose their guard, letting you attack them before they can block again. But not Lu Bu. His taunt does that AND causes damage, and when he's strong enough and the enemy is injured, they will simply die on the spot.

There are times where it's gratifying to be able to kill waves upon waves of enemies and come out without even dirt on your armor.

And in the mini-McDs found inside Walmart, other stores and malls. Those places are always packed by people of all ages and sizes.

Or they are whenever I check to see if it's un-busy enough to grab a dollar burger.

Reminds me of the EULA Adobe Photoshop has. It says you can't say 'That image was photoshopped! I can see the pixels.' You have to say "That image was enhanced with Adobe Registered Trademark Photoshop Registered Trademark, I can see the pixels."

And yes, according to that info, you have to include 'Registered Trademark' in the sentence.

It does depend on the game.

An example would be the Dynasty Warriors series, you always start underpowered, but by the time you get half-way through the character's levels/weapons/items, you become grossly OVER powered and can wipe the floor with anything and everything you face, even LuBu.

The game series has always been only a moderate success here in the states, but it's been a HUGE hit back in Japan and seems to be keeping its hit status there.

These remind of "Jack's Vision" way back when. Where '3 Minions or 1 Lt=1 Player' and you were gonna need a few inspirations for it. Wanted to fight more than that? You'd need a whole LOT of inspirations or a small team of 2-3. Wanted to fight a single Boss class? You'd need a team of at least 5, and it'd be a rough fight. An Elite Boss? You'll want a full team of 8 to take that guy on. And an AV? Well, you're going to need a specially picked full team of 8 to even have a chance!

One time years ago, a friend of mine and her team of 8 was taking on Tyrant. Couldn't even dent his HP one bit and they had a Rad/Rad Defender with them. It got to the point that people would quit the team (but not exit the mish) and more people would be invited. By the time they had almost 15 people beating on him and his HP wasn't moving, they figured on calling it quits.

Granted, yes that ONE instance was thanks to a typo in an AV's regen rate (someone moved a decimal point the wrong way) but one has to wonder if that was something Jack would have wanted to fit his 'vision'.

I think it did, yeah.

As for the OP, which powersets and ATs work with SOs?

The answer is actually very complicated.

It's all of them.

Hard to fathom, but it's true.

Reminds me of this one guy on Justice years ago. Had a toon "H Potter" and was a dead on costume of Harry Potter.

This was, this guy was a vulgar jerk to any and everyone who told him he was breaking the rules.

'You know copy toons are against the rules.'
"YOU ****! **** you you **** faced ******* *******! I have every RIGHT to be this ******* character and if you don't believe me I'll ******* break you down in the arena! Bring it you piece of ****!"

Somehow I doubted that JK Rowling plays our game or has that kind of attitude.

I petitioned him every time I saw him for like 6 months straight. Never got Generic'd, or if he did he renamed/rerolled or something every time. Hadn't bothered to look him up in a long time and don't plan to do so.

And considering the EULA, they're not owed anything.

Especially with A and B ending with
"You agree that NC Interactive will not be liable for any interruption of the Service, delay or failure to perform resulting from any causes whatsoever."

While it was nice to get updates on what was going on, those wanting something in return for the outage won't get anything, and there were a LOT of people on the CoH Facebook page demanding monetary refunds/added time for the lost hours and such.

The Daleks of Doctor Who could fit that description, if only partially. They honestly believe the UNIVERSE would be a better place if all life but pure Daleks were left. Even impure Daleks willingly kill themselves to help further that goal.

Didn't the Devs say that was the original design for fighting Hami? I faintly remember a post about it saying something to the effect of:

"Yeah, the original idea we had when designing it was you let the Yellow Dawn happen, then pull Hami into a corner to continue the fight."

followed with

"And no, we've never been able to do it that way ourselves."

That in and of itself is an Appeal to Accomplishment fallacy. You don't need to be skilled or active in a field to criticize someone's actions in that field.
If you did, nobody BUT politicians and former politicians could say anything about the government, only police and former police could say beating up a helpless suspect is wrong and only chefs could say a burned meal is bad cooking.
While those who are not trained in a field may not know every finite detail required to work in the criticized field, and sometimes knowing some of those details can explain how some things are done, one can see where errors are made when they're glaringly obvious.

An example would be the leader of one BAF I was on. He was micromanaging everyone to the point of ludicrous. When fighting Nightstar, she was pulled to the court like he asked. That's fine, it's one of the usual spots to fight her.

But he insisted that she be pulled to a specific SPOT on the court. And I don't mean 'close to the edge Siege is pulled from' kind, I mean 'Get her on the exact corner of the court and grass!' and when she was some 20 feet away from it his requested corner? "STOP ATTACKING! She's NOT on the corner yet! Pull her closer! She needs to be STANDING ON THE CORNER"

And then he wondered why people stopped following his orders.

That reminds me of a guy I knew years ago. We were part of a small group of friends that at least knew of each other, and we all gave our own little (lack of?) talent for the fandom we were part of.

One of my friends of this was an artist, and the guy I was talking about would do nothing BUT point out everything that was wrong about every single picture my artist friend would draw to the point that my artist friend didn't want to post any artwork he did. The guy didn't even understand why, even after a half-dozen of us explained it to him.

See, he figured that any praise is worthless. Praise is automatically assumed by everyone for everything, and so you shouldn't even say it because praise doesn't improve anything. He even mentioned he didn't understand why things like game reviews gave positive grades since, again, the praise is worthless.

Granted, that's not what's going on here, but it just reminded me of the guy...who I can't remember his name now.

That was incredible!

Quick, say we'll get free Incarnate components!

*looks*

Say it.

*looks sadly*

Say IT!

*weeps*

That makes me wanna try that with my Ranger in Pathfinder.

HAH! A friend of mine did that for his toon, a little mouse hero.

As for the OP. Your GF is an experienced FPS-er, so I'd say get her to try an Assault Rifle Blaster. Devices would be a fitting secondary, and go well with the basics of FPS-ing style play.

Another thing you could do, if you're gonna roll up a new toon to team with her, make an Assault Rifle Defender with maybe Empathy, Dark or (for concept) Traps. This would let you stick within the familiar circle of FPS Support (think your Engineer to her Soldier from Team Fortress 2) which would hopefully ease her into the MMO world.

One thing that can also help, to a point, is the camera. When I was getting a buddy of mine introduced to CoH, I had him press B to zoom the camera to first person, if only to help him get acquainted to the game's movement. It DID suck when enemies were behind him and such, but it at least helped him familiarize him to the controls since he was an FPSer and not a 3rd Person gamer. He grew out of using the first person camera (thankfully), and it worked out well as a crutch to get him started.

/em Kneel

OH Great and powerful Steve! What do you want?