MustachioedMan

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I was on my FF/Energy defender, when bam, invite outta no where. No tell, no broadcast on my part, just a blind invite. Well, my Defender was feelin' mighty lonely, so I accept. I get on the team:

1 Stone/Stone tank
1 Katana/Regen scrapper
Myself
1 Claws/SR Scrapper
2 Blasters (I forget their powers)
and one more scrapper (I forget his powers as well)

We're all around level 15, and we enter the mish to find, to our dismay, level 18's! Whats more, its only at the front. Deeper inside they turn to 19s. After a few jokes about how the stone tank can outrun the bad guys (he had rooted on), I bubble everybody, and the madness begins.

Never before have I seen so many reds/purples decimated.

The tank did his job, jumping in and holdin the aggro. I don't know how he lived, but he managed to stay about yellow without immediate doom. The scrappers scrapped to and fro, blasters a blasting, and I was throwin the knockback on to the bosses, keeping them trapped in the corner and constantly trying to stand back up. In about 30 minutes we cleared the mish, and everybody leveled up atleast once, some twice. We kept doing missions against purples, and finally when some yellows appear, the lowest members on the team (The tank and myself) scoff at their lowly nature. Everyone on the team global friended each other, and we all still play together, in an unofficial SG. As someone who has a serious case of altitis, I've seen alot of good and bad ones, but the above was my favorite.

The whole tone of the thread is horrible, but I got a good analogy to PvP and people with their builds.

Earlier tonight I was messing about on one of my Alts, a level 12 FF/NRG defender (Zomg, but controllers are so much better! anyway). It was a team of 8, a few scrappers, a healer, and 2 blasters. One of the blasters will be named "Girl". After buffing everybody, I throw up my dispersion bubble. Girl is in awe of its size. We enter the mission, and Girl runs headfirst into battle with her blaster, and immediately face plants.

This happens many times, and Girl begins to become furious with the mission, the team, but most of all my dispersion shield!

"Its a waste of a power and worthless and stupid" (Exact quote)

To which I replied: "But you are a blaster. Stay out of melee unless you're a blapper, and you won't die so fast"

Girl: "Yea, whatever, its just stupid"

Me: "Watch, this time stay within the bubble and you won't die. If you die, I'll personally run all the way to Atlas park and buy you an awaken."

So she complies, and suprise suprise, she didn't die. Do you know why? It isn't because my bubble is the absolute sphere of safeness, but because I kept back the entire time. So why the story? The bubble represents PVP. Everybody is pissed off at it for not getting what they expected. Alot of the angry people expected absolute pwnage, and are pissed off they have to alter their build to take in to account the other types of players that exist.

This is called having a weakness, and I'm tired of hearing people moaning about how they get beat up by other people due to said weakness. "But why do I have to have a weakness, those are for losers, stalkers don't have weaknesses when they destroy me. Lets nerf stalkers!" Instead of calling the Nerf card, maybe we should analyze the weaknesses in our build and compensate for them, if we're so enthralled in PvP that losing every now and again ruines our lives.

Moral of the story is:

Don't be a "Girl" in PvP (No sexism intended, its just the example name I used). Man up (No pun intended) to your weakness and either fix them, or give up PvP.

Besides, you can't get XP from PvP....