Minotaur

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The problem is that for every player that uses KB well, there are probably the best part of 100 that don't. Having seen a stormie basically "hurriherd" pretty much every mob that wasn't in the middle of a big room on a sister psyche into a corner and keep it there, it can be great. My experience just says most of the time it isn't. I just happen to mainly play toons that suffer badly from scatter. It's also no fun as a troller to have somebody scatter a tightly packed mob just as you cast the AoE immob that was going to keep them there. Oh, they're all outside the tank's taunt aura and mad at me for the ongoing DoT from the immob.

You should have seen the PLd {self censored} FF/nrg defender that it turned out had never played other than with the friends that PLd him into the low 40s. He had a build with no ally bubbles and a nice set of repels plus the NRG KBs. We were amused when he got himself terminated 3 times with AoE KB, less amused when he caused 2 teamwipes (despite a bit of friendly advice) and then he got kicked.

Total team wipes are rare these days with fully IOd out tanks and scrappers and softcapped squishies, but if you play with squishies below the defence softcap, you do still see some "squishywipes" if not team wipes.

So fun for you is not actually accomplishing anything, playing with your friends because everybody else boots you for messing up their game, and running back from the hospital unless you run at -1.

What I was talking about is not being super efficient, it's simple good manners on teams and not messing up other peoples' game experience. I actually physically couldn't play a melee toon on a team with you. Why ? I use tab/follow a fair bit for targeting, and my target constantly flying across the screen causing jerky motion of my toon gives me a violent headache after a few minutes. A little I can cope with so ST KB is not an issue, but constant AoE KB = quit team for me and not for reasons of efficiency.

AoE KB has got so many other toons killed in my experience, that I avoid it unless it can be used safely/constructively. This means I VERY rarely use it. If you get the dark tank killed because you took a situation he had under control and punted all the mobs he was going to heal off out of range (similar situation with ice tanks and their endurance, toggle dropping because some idiot knocked everything out of EA is not fun), that can be a teamwipe, and all because you want to have your fun, how selfish.

Watching a claws/invul scrapper use their cone KB to knock a load of mobs out of invincibilty then get terminated when they all got up and shot him when much of his defence had fallen off was another funny.

Is that for the WII ?

Frisbee controller and chasing across the living room trashing it trying to catch the thing conjures up a whole load of amusing images

Every other set has at least 2 plus the T9, and only energy has just the 2 where one has this level of KB, with KB being energy's "thing" anyway.

Not true at all, I will not play the set if the new power has massive KB. I've used dark blast in the past using the two other AoEs and omitting torrent, but it's just not going to be a functional set without picking the new power. DB is not a set you use for rewards per minute, others pump out more damage, it's a control heavy blast set, and spreading mobs out in a control heavy set is a disaster particularly given that I suspect people will choose secondaries with it that will like the mobs close together.

I know VERY few decent players that regard AoE KB as more of a benefit than a hindrance in a general team setting (there are some niche situations where it's useful). It just tends to get people killed and frustrate people whose AoEs were aimed at 10-16 targets and only hit 3.

Solo it has its uses, but the big problem is that while making one of 3 AoEs in a set situational is not a huge problem, making one of 2 situational is.

I was so disappointed that after "Fistful of arrows", there wasn't a later power called "For a few arrows more".

So I have to have various toons with different levels of "incarnateness" to be able to sensibly team with my friends who still need alphas, or just not use the powers I've spent hours acquiring ? Part of the issue is that there is no incentive to run say an ITF at +3 (yes you get minimal extra cash, but that's not really important) which would sort out some of the problems we experienced.

If you got slightly better chances of shards or drops from 53s than 50s, and in the later stages of incarnates had a difficulty slider that went up beyond +4, then maybe normal content wouldn't be something totally trivial done as fast as possible.

Also check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeqhY...eature=related

I couldn't find a suitable link to the studio performance (which IMO is much better than the live ones up on youtube) but "Freedom knows my name" by Melanie would do.

Don't know if it's been fixed, but if you were level 29 with team leader level 30 and levelled to 30, it always killed the pets as although you were 29, it treated you as SKd to 29, and losing the SK killed the pets.

Didn't we see exactly that in one of the broadcasts, although I doubt we'll see it again after Tunnel rat did something to him/it that demanded its surgical removal ...

I believe it has the upside that their attack speed can't be debuffed either.

Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor is another song with the name in which is inspired by Poe's fall of the house of Usher.

It also only shows servers with spaces, so fill a few with level 1s, my list only had the 4 ex euro servers on it as I'd filled all the US ones

It was meant as a "don't be put off from doing it again if you don't get that many people"