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Peacebringers!

I'm new, so my list isn't that long.

1. Peacebringer.
2. Defender.
3. Tank
4. Blaster.
5. Anything else. Haven't played Scrapper or Controller, and I've only one run villain and found Mercy Island too dingy to want to stay in or go past.

Thanks. I think I'll be OK with slots in a bit with my biform.

Also, I found global channels, including one for Kheldians, but it looks like nobody uses it. Is it actually that empty or am I just missing everyone?

I finally got my heroside Epics unlocked (I don't think I'll ever get there villainside, it's so dreary there.) I'd played with someone who had a Peacebringer and it looked like a lot of fun. They seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Surprisingly I even got the name Skywriter for her. With all the white trails behind as you fly around, it seemed to fit. I figured someone would have snagged it before. It seems so obvious!

I'm only at levle 10 with her but I already think she's going to be my main for a while. (She seems lucky, too. Already got a knockback protection recipe just fighting.) But looking at what's coming, this looks like it's going to be a bit tricky to get built up. I don't really want "A build" but are there good guides to start with that are pretty recent? And is staying Human and Nova reasonable or am I going to be gimped without the tank form? I played a blaster and a defender mostly before, so it looks like it would be most like what I'm used to.

Wow. So is this where I get the "In my day, we had to walk naked thirty miles to school in ten feet of snow uphill both ways" speech?

Seriously. It's not like being able to detoggle this or even use inspirations would suddenly turn my Corruptor ten times more dangerous. And yes, the AI *IS* that bad. "Repeatedly tap W" *isn't any better.* That's not a solution. At best, it's an irritating band aid. The Fact it's being suggested and that others are mentioning it should be fairly obvious something's broken.

This game's over seven years old, why is this even needed? Are follows that new?

And to answer some other questions:

• I didn't have stealth (I think I said that already.)
• I didn't get killed. I got out of the stun finally, detoggled the stupid power and knocked the ambush back so I had time to heal and fight back.
• It wasn't a tip mission. It was a patron mission for ghost widow. (One of the ones after 45.) But I've run into this Artificial Stupidity before, quite a lot.
• Yes, they DO fall behind and go stupid with sprint. And without it. Which is why I used walk.
• Normally I DO detoggle walk - as soon as I see NPC ambush text. I'm not a moron as some of you oh-so-perfect players seem to want to imply. I had zero time to with this ambush.

Seriously, what's with the hate for this? Are mere mortals not welcome in here? It would seem to be a simple request to be able to detoggle this. Or, like someone else said, let me combine inspirations. "It's an RP power" - yeah, so what? This doesn't make me invulnerable, it doesn't make my defense jump up to 50000%, it doesn't boost my damage, it doesn't give mez protection - and on top of it, even if it DID do those things, I'm asking to be able to turn it OFF!

And I know not everyone's coming down on this. It's not even people disagreeing that's surprising me. I can deal with that, it's what forums are for. It's the vehemence of, basically, "Well, you were stupid!" and the lack of any REAL reason for this to not be done other than "That's the way it is," I guess.

Give me a GOOD reason and I'll be happy to consider it. "You're stupid" and "It's an RP power" aren't good reasons. I'm not asking to attack while walking. I'm asking to DETOGGLE it WHEN I WANT TO. Even if I still can't do anything else after.

Right. So I'm having to escort a hostage. After having them decide, thanks to the twitchy AI and/or pathing, to examine the random shiny bits off to the side and get lost for the umpteenth time, to just toggle walk on and have them follow me.

So we get an ambush of Malta and their wonderful stun grenades. Right on top of me.

(No, I normally wouldn't use walk here, but was because of the lousy AI. And yes, if I had time, I'd have shut Walk off when I saw the NPC speech. But there was literally NO time to react.)

So there I am, walk still toggled, and stunned. No problem, just create another breakfree since I'd used several already - except I can't because of walk. And I can't detoggle walk because I'm stunned.

Let me be blunt. That's pants-on-head stupid not to be able to DEtoggle a power. Especially Walk, which locks everything else out. (You can't use or combine inspirs.)

Can we PLEASE be allowed to detoggle Walk when stunned? I'm assuming it's the same way with being held, too, but I wasn't going to stick around to find out. While we're at it, can we fix the AI so it's slightly better than a braindead monkey and give them a little more speed to keep up with us even when we're not using travel powers?

How is this combo, without spending billions on IOs? It sounds interesting to me (I know it doesn't have AOEs in the armor which seems to be what everyone wants to pair it with, but I have a character in mind this sounds like it fits.) Is it any good, is it painful to play, is it one I'll sleepwalk through missions with?

Why do people even worry about this?

Nobody's kicked me from a team for playing my blaster. Just play and have fun. When it's not fun, stop paying and uninstall.

I want to mess around with Architect, but other than some stuff for me and a few friends, it seems pointless. Anything I do will be buried under farms or wind up back on page 30.

I know my stuff's not great. I haven't done this long. I don't even have anything published right now, I just make something, mess around then unpublish since there are so few slots while I figure this out. But when I do decide I want something out there, how will I actually get it played? Having it ignored would just be discouraging.

Possibly me, just because of time. With occasional jumps to vip when I have more free time.