Memphis_Bill

Hint, look at the top of the boards.
No, not "multiple tanks." Not "need healers." Just a team that's even nearly halfway competent. Something it sounds like you have never run across.

Appropriate, given the typo in the title.

*snort* The more you insist you need "healers" the less seriously I take you. Especially insisting you need two. Give me debuffers, give me controllers, give me enough damage going out. I've run my *fire tank,* not particularly IOd, in the late 30s in a full team of mid-40s fighting very purple carnies. Smart pulling, use of taunt for close spawns, buffs, debuffs... not "ZOMG you need 2 h33lrz!" (To point out the obvious, no I wasn't tanking +7-+8, I was SK'd (pre-SSK,) but my SK was low enough and they were buffed enough to be quite purple.)

Lived just fine, thanks. Think I died once in that entire map (city with the little "carnie park" on one side) when we got a *second* full spawn a bit too close aggroed.

"Blood stains on the floors." Riiiight. We have three possibilities here. You're wrong, you've been playing with imbeciles, or I am a tanking god. And if you say the third's the case, I'm going to laugh even more, because even *I* wouldn't say that. Hell, I know D3 Defenders that can out-tank tanks.... without "zomg where are the healers!" Yes, full team, +levels. (pre-current-difficulty changes, pre-IOs.) No "healers."

Edit: Yes, there are VERY SPECIFIC situations you want "tank with emp support" - old Hami tanking, for instance. But as a general rule? No.

And a tank without either buff? I'll never call a buff "useless," as I'm better off WITH it than without it.

Says the person saying "you need the right mix of powersets." Something that, oh, hasn't ever been true.

... right. So if they get hit, they get hit for less. That would be awful... wait, no.
*insert "h34l0r" here*
Which is called "position yourself better," not "stupid useless smelly knockback!"
No, you won't, if people actually work together instead of having a "team" made up of multiple people soloing.
So incredibly wrong. God would need a radio telescope to see the faintest glimmer of "right" from just how wrong this is. A set of players that pays the least bit of attention will, frankly, make "which powerset do you have" irrelevant. And players that don't pay attention? Still irrelevant, because they won't be using the tools at their disposal very well to begin with. You don't need a "holy trinity" or any other "must have" mix of powersets here.

At level 8, it's far more useful (Madness mages start at level 5, for instance) as not even all the melee are going to have their mez protection powers - which often come in at 12 or later. Far better to hit CM and let them grab a green than *not* have it and have several mezzed teammates. I would *never* suggest putting this off. Yes, even as a "selfish emp," as teammates that are keeping the enemies occupied keep you alive.

Personally, I've emped just fine with dropping (or never taking) Absorb Pain. Empathy's also nice for dual builds, if you want a solo build, as there are a few skippable powers. (HO, AP, CM, Fort - though I'd take fort if you were doing a solo non-mind controller build, for use on the pet.)

Adding a /this to this.

I've had three drop in two missions. And I've gone months without seeing one - granted, I don't play the 50s continually, but when I was doing my "one of everything to 50," I was in range often enough you'd expect me to see them.

Gah. Knew that. Had Siren's in mind from a prior discussion.

There are a (very) few things that Hami-os still cover that IOs don't. However, IOs open up a lot of possibilities. 35+, the generic IOs (damage, etc.) are stronger than SOs, and of course don't expire. Set IOs, even when not of the same set, can be mix-and-matched to be stronger than the same attributes of SOs. (Used to have a guide bookmarked for it - search player guides for "cheapskate," think you'll find it.)

Yes to a set. No to them always being a set of 6. They can be from 3-6 enhancements. And you can only fit one of a certain type in a slot (for instance, Crushing Impact Dam/Acc can be the ONLY Crushing Impact Dam/Acc in the power. You can put the others from Crushing Impact in, or, say, a Mako's Bite Dam/Acc in there - the second would be an example of "frankenslotting.")

Yes. See the wiki, "weapon customization" I believe.

Possible to get them still, yes. Right now, everyone's basicallly SK'd to whoever has the star (or ex'd beneath them) - just as a quick and dirty explanation.

Yes, but reduced IIRC.
Shivans - Zone "minigame" in Siren's Call. 5 use pet.
Nukes - "minigame" from Warburg. Both are PVP zones.
Relatively easy to get, as the PVP zones aren't exactly active. I have some explanation (again, see sig) in the PVE'ers PVP guide.
You're going to love my signature. Mini guide to combat attributes moniotor.

I know you didn't. They USED to have various penalties when introduced (I3.) They USED to not have their inherent stay through form changes. Voids and Quantums USED to be a threat instead of "Hey, look, more XP for me!" People remember that, unfortunately. Now, the only issue they have, really, is slot crunch as a multiform - and that's offset by IOs and frankenslotting.

As far as future epics, latest word we had was "nothing in the works right now." Prior concepts and their status? *points to sig* last word we have, go through EAT at Posi's in the sig.

Um, not exactly. Read the lore. (And there's a handy dandy guide right in my sig.)

Peacebringers are normal Kheldians. The powers granted are the same as any normal Kheldian (not Nictus - and Warshades are essentially rebel Nictus) would have in that relationship.

Nictus, however, are not science for the reason you give. They were Kheldians undertook experiements on extending their lifespans which altered them enough to be a new sort of being - the Nictus. Has nothing to do with being forcibly implanted. That bit was purely one scheme the Nictus on Earth had to try to start a takeover. The Nictus and the Peacebringers, frankly, want to wipe each other out - though the Nictus can use them to live off of (see: Cosmotron arc.) Warshades are Nictus who have turned their backs on the Nictus side of the war and are now fighting against them to stop them.

(And to whoever was saying Khelds suck, all I can say is "lol.")

And yet, those same casual PVP players (and I'm throwing myself in there, as I have no PVP builds, belong to no PVP SGs, and only PVP occasionally) can still manage to hold an entire zone (when busy, pre-I13 rules.)

Four corruptors. We held Siren's against *determined* opposition for over half an hour.

PVP in this game has really centered around *teams.* 1v1? It's doable, with some builds, absolutely. However, get a team together, covering each others weaknesses and reinforcing the strengths - and teleport? Pre-13, Sturdies, defense (as it still requires tohit,) some powersets could just ignore it (Energy aura - spent lots of time laughing at people who tried to teleport me over and over on my EM/EA brute) and, I *believe,* ID from Kinetics, among other powers. There were a number of counters.

But you do need enough people interested to *form* those teams.

All of this. Some of us *do* actually care about all that text.

Why, it's true. They've been nerfed to... well, sleeping-kitten levels for quite some time.