Matakoshi

So are we gonna try making a second team? half an hour left and while i'll be around i might go and help some friends if i'm not sure of getting on the team. I'd love to do it, though...

Grats, dude! never teamed with you, but i've teamed with Archy a lot. He has a tendancy to kick me in the shins when i'm not looking, the little beggar.

Welldone, dude.

Just thought i'd drop a quick post to say grats to everyone too. For the most part, it went really well. Welldone everyone.

I was meaning that after the initial team making we do things separately.

I might be able to get another Scrapper to come along. Its his favourite TF.

If everyone's cool for starting at 9pm then count me in!

Thanks, dude.

Triple 50-ding last night! For Tankk Man (stone tanker), his second, for Freedom (blaster, not sure primary, sorry. ) and Nursi (emp defender) their first. Big grats, guys!!!

You may know Tankk Man better as K Man.

I dunno how long it takes but i can make it about 9pm tonight, won't be able to make tomorrow or saturday, though.

thank you to those of you who read the title of this thread. Seems like most peoples replies have been off-topic.

grats to you Psygon.

Damn, knew i shoulda checked this earlier. Stick me on the reserves list, please. emp/rad defender.

But as we now have 6 reserves, why not make 2 TF-teams? we've got 14 of us. we could even have a competition to see who finished 1st.

I don't know about other empaths, but i find that fort and AB are recharging 90% of the time when i'm teamed cos i always try to cast them on members of the team that need it. on small teams, CM is always on as well. If its a large team where keeping CM on everyone is hard if not impossible i try to make sure that any other support players (ie trollers and defs) always have CM. I'm well aware of the buffing side of empathy, i have been one for about 9 months now, this thread was a simple question about the healing badges, which anyone can get...

Sorry, i went off on one a bit. Cos i love my empath defender so much.

I've teamed with a kinetics defender, and a rad defender, and think i've teamed with a dark defender too. tbh, whilst i felt a lot safer having the defender around, i still felt safer with an empath behind me, but i'm still in the 20s. Plus, i really hate Speed Boost, cos i always find i overshoot the target etc and just generally can't use it very well, so whenever a kinetics defender is on the team i politely ask them not to give me SB.

in general i love defenders or any variety (except those fools who try to turn them into blasters. i don't quite see how they manage cos even slotted with damage you still do sod all), but i felt like everyone was knocking empathy. sorry.

dude, that came across as very harsh, like you're saying i'm stupid cos i heal a lot. hope i just mis-read you....

This isn't a discussion about the buffing nature of empaths in higher levels, it was merely a question asking people if they have these badges. no need to get so angry about it. I love the empathy powerset (have all empathy powers), and if someone asks i say I'm an Empath, not a healer. it was a simple question asking if people knew anyone with these badges.

I've been on both sides of an Empath, both being the Empath and being the one healed. My 50 is an emp defender, and i've joined teams where they weren't that bothered about me, and left them with the team sorry to see me leave saying "now we need to find another healer". From what i'm picking up for a lot of the tankers who have posted here, you don't really seem to understand much about empaths, or haven't teamed with good ones. My buffs kick [censored]. RA/Regen Aura are so powerful when i cast them on the team fighting an AV the other day, neither the health bars nor end bars of ANY of the characters even moved until the troller got 1-shotted as a result of the AV using Nova. Empaths rock. IMO defenders are the best AT in the game. As a tanker who's nearly 30, i LOVE teaming with Empaths. I never feel safter than knowing that theres someone in the team who can (and will) keep my health at full/safe. Even if they can't give me endurance back, they can keep me alive long enough for me to stop attacking/switch off toggles and stand there to recover it. Hell, even my dark/dark def SG friend i met at lvl 16 (and i still team with today) used to say things like "wheres my healer?" when i logged on or joined the team.

As a lvl 22 regen scrapper, i still love empaths. I love Empaths with everyone. Its not always safe to have the whole team grouped together so that transferance can hit everyone, or something like that. having the range of Heal Other, as well as Healing Aura is great. and i can remember joining a team where we were getting confused/held all the time cos we had no one to CM us.

Empaths rock. Anyone who thinks they're useless in the high levels is wrong, they just haven't teamed with good ones.

sorry, rant over.

I'm just wondering how many of you have any of these badges, or how many of you know people who have any of these. I've looked on CityInfoTerminal and the stats on there, and theres 15 people who claim to have Empath, and 16 who claim to have Medicine Man. (I'm the only one who has Medicine Man but not Empath. ). I've not seen any other defenders/trollers going around with Medicine Man as their badge title (i dunno about you lot, but i'm damn proud of having that badge. ), and i've certainly not seen anyone with Empath....

Yeah, i'll be up for that. I'm still looking to do all the TFs for the badges, and if nothing else TFs are kinda fun. I'll ask Blast as i'll probably see him tonight online, if he doesn't see this 1st.

Edit: Just realised i'm not free this saturday, nor really this friday night. should be about Sunday, though......

Hmmm, super-pets. its gonna be fun. I might have to enter PvP combat for a bit just so i can have some fun with friends in RV. twill be amusing. lets hope the pets we have are tougher than the Paladin. fought that with my lvl 29 tanker and about 3 others the other day. we totally whipped him.

I'm really sorry i missed it, guys, something came up and i had to be out Friday night. Good to see you got some great photos, though. I'll be at the next one, if there is one.

Heh, not my fault if you choose to enter a PvP zone without the best AT around. (i'm joking, IMO defenders rock, but its entirely up to the style you play as to which AT is the best. some people are amazing with trollers but [censored] with scrappers and vice versa. )

Heh. Mine is almost exactly the same except my face/hair and i now have a lovely blue aura.

Stalkers aren't so hard to find. 2 CMs do the trick. theres a few other things i've noticed in my (short) time in PvP zones that i'm sure others have noticed. I want to bring my fire tanker in and see if any stalker manages to AS me when i've got Blazing Aura on (which is 99% of the time. ). Could play nasty tricks on stalkers too......heh, you'd think i was a villain with all the nasty tricks i think up at times.

I'm there.

And can i suggest that we all wear our first costumes? the number one slot. provided we haven't changed them all, i reckon it'd be cool to get us all looking more or less the same as we did when we first rolled our toons.

Yeah, i'm in. We need to show that Jelly whos boss. Besides, need to try out my new Hami-outfit.

Well, i have to say that the attitude was only that bad on Tuesday night. maybe it was cos there was so many villains there they thought they'd be able to take on anyone and win, i don't know. We were there again last night going for the badge, at first with just 3 of us, later going up to 6. at no point at all was there any abuse of broadcast thrown at anyone, only a "any heros here?" to which we just replied "theres a few of us about....". There were about 2 stalkers in there, and they attacked us once. we beat them, they left us alone. They could obviously tell that we weren't interested in PvP, but were ready and willing to hold our own if we got attacked. They didn't even send comments like "cowards hiding at your base" or anything. But again, that was Bloody Bay. we were tempted to go to Siren's Call for some proper action, but decided against it. we were too tired anyhoo.

Yeah, i guess you're right. I tend to manage to avoid them in pve though.

Glad its not just me whose had these experiences in both CoH/V and other games.

damn, just remembered i'm not free tomorrow night. so unless we start earlier and finish it tonight i won't be able to help.