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As a support toon I spend a lot of time bubbling teams that are not part of my main league team. I get to fire off an attack here and there, but truthfully I do not get the returns that others get in the trials because it's based on enemies eliminated as far as I can tell.

Which seems sort of something that they will have to tweak out.

In another super hero game that will go without mention, but is not on a console, and sucked a lot, healers or support would never get rewards because rewards be based on the number of things you damaged and not the contribution to the team.

That game is free to play now because it needed a mass overhaul because of such things.

Okie. So Im running normal task forces and some of these trials.

There is something really odd happening on virtue. Really odd.

I actually was on a ITF, and watched two people mow the the content with judgement, and these are not AOE AT's.

People were upset with the lack of proliferation in the last issue. My question is do we need it anymore?

Technically the well powers almost seem as though they take away from others niches. Tanks can now, FF people, Heal and res people, AOE people, debuff people, summon pets and even hold enemies.

In fact all of the AT's out there are now technically able to do everything, although they can do their normal job the same, but they have everyone elses powers.

In comix when a toon gets that much power, usually they are killed off because technically the writers run out of things that they can throw at them.

Examples

Dark Pheonix (The main one that Spings to mind really)
Braniac (In his/her many incaranation)
Superman
Selene the Black Queen (Died a few times actually but she always comes back)
Morgan Le Fay
Zvesda Dynysta (Russian avengers enemy who when she used her powers threatened to destroy the universe all the time with each use)
Siena Blaze (Spelling might be off) who did the same thing as Zvesda Above...like she was a clone

There are tons more who have met the meat grinder of comix or depowered in some way because of this type of issue.

My concern is that when you offer so much power, that normal content becomes a happy sailboat ride with the occasional self inflicted suicide to allow for vengeance...so that the tank can res them with their new found rez power, it seems to cheapen part of the experience.

My concern is if CoX developers just put baby in the corner.

Really now, what can you throw at people? If one toon becomes godly enough does the development of the game need to change for them? Or does the game need to still focus on lowbies and newbies who don;t have that power.

Does all content need to shift?

I witnessed this in my ITF last evening.

LF2M. Need Tank and Judgment!

Need Judgment? Need it? Thats like yelling that you need heals when you have a sonic reser a bubbler and a TA on the same team. NEED it?

Im just saying, is this the path of the game now?

Robots can love. I saw it sort of in Blade Runner? That other movie with that kid who sees dead people who played a robot? It's not a far out concept in comix. I mean, if robots can hate things, why can't they love things. Robocop loved his wife didn't he?

Marvel had many robots who fell in love. Vision fell in love with the Scarlet Witch, and she loved him too.

In Praetoria, robots were being programmed with the minds of Psi users which would make them somewhat human.

Maybe Nightstar has the mind of a Psi in her who happened to like lip stick?

In that sense Babage uses Psi powers? Psi powers coming from a mind of some type would sort of indicate that he must be able to tap into the minds of others with his own mind resulting in the damage he causes.

It also says in a load screen somewhere.

Praetorian Clockworks have a weakness that betrays their origin? Could it be love? Does love betray their origin?

Is love...maybe the weakness of all of us deep down inside?

*Checks the careing meter*

Yup...It's love.

LOVE!

It's one to grow on.

I did them. I think I have done them 3 times. Well Lambda, but truthfully never have run the other. I really don't want to run them again. Sure the rewards are shiny, but I don't find them fun.

My build is fine, and enjoyable, but faceplanting every 5 seconds is boring to me. Not because I suck, but because pretty much everyone seems to faceplant all the time. Blasters, Scrappers, Controllers, defenders, anything thats not a tank really.

I litterally need to fly around, bubble everyone and then just Personal Forcefield myself the entire battle. Otherwise Im pretty dead.

After doing these a few times. Well, I have conceded that these trials are AT driven.

These are not niche trials...they are DPS/Tank and Healing jobs.

I stopped finding it a[[ealing when I relized that there is not place for me in these trials.

Im leveling up something else in order to participate, but my much beloved Grav/FF/Psi offers nothing. And though there is nothing wrong with her, I just realize that what makes her special does not occure in a league format.

Sure I can bubble, but they are tissue

I see no reason to quit the game. People "NEED" to remember that this is new content, and as such there will be things to work out, and people who love the trials will do them and that the original content is still available in the fashion it always was.

Now I sort of rage quit..not really, but I did leave when AE entertainment came in because for about a month or so the chance to get on a team was replaced by farms and it seemed to crawl.

Right now the servers are populated with 50's, because the trials are new, and teaming can be a litte sticky right now because people are doing the new content.

The same was said about Praet when it arrived and people felt that the original content was being neglected and it was harder to get sewer teams etc. But that didn't last, and I imagine this wont either.

While, League is a challenge for me, because Im a bubbler controller, and really feel that I serve absolutely no purpose on the Lambda trial, considdering I can't hold anything, or worse, my shields seem to do nothing at all, leaving me as just a filler for the League. It sort of makes me feel lack lustre about the league content.

Thats not a statement of adaptability on my part. It's a statement that while I love the challenge, My creation, which is usually beneficial for a team just cannot do these trials, but can't find normal teams at the moment either.

Again. It's too early to tell if this is a mistake, but I have noticed that the content would appeal to some more than others based entirely on the AT type. Thats the part I find annoying.

I didn't read anything here. Because I wanted to give my pure oppinion.

People are calling it a raid, and even though it has nothing to do with a PVP element or against other players of a different alignment/guild/faction etc, it takes into considderation larger formation battles that have been popular...and unpopular in other games.

It deal with mass numbers and as a result has the feel of something larger than the normal 8 man team and the enemies are amped up as to create a challenge on a higher level.

It feels like a raid because it lags like a raid.

It feels like a raid because it's chaos like many raids.

It feels like a raid because the rewards are beyond the norm.

Our raids...or TF's are at least story driven, which makes them stick with the feel of CoX...when you get a cut scene or a plot, making it Comic-Esque, but once those elements are finished, it's about using the amount of people you have to manage the mission objectives.

Now Ill read the rest to see how others think of it.

These are new. These can be frustrating. Especially because it really does change the playstyle the game was designed around, and so people are going to have to take the time to learn it, and work with larger groups.

My concern with it is the League Window. It's not intuitive at all. It's almost designed to focus on a group of 8, that you are teamed with, and not generally the entire League.

For example, if you are joining your league and you are say, a group of controllers, the instict you have is to follow the brighter green arrows on the map, or those who you can target, and this is not effective at all.

It's new, so I imagine that there will be changes to something I find clunky, but thats my main complaint, is that your ability to control the team renders it's self sort of chaotic. The League Leader, if you are not direclty on his team is very difficult to work with and follow, as are his mates.

Now I cant use Ventrillo because of hearing impairment, but it generally almost seems like it has become neccessary at this earlier part of the League challenges to coordinate groups of 24 or even 16. I have been even declined to join a group who needed 4 people because I did not have access to a tool that I could not use anyways. Which reminds me of AOC and WoW (I have not played WoW though) where this non-game feature becomes almost a need.

When adding this type of content, which will be fun with more practice, there needs to be more attention to the interface that one uses to manage things. This is most noticeable with support toons of any type, but each team lead is having issues holding onto the structure of a team, mainly because the general League Window is sort of messy.

I am looking forward to learning more about the trials and playing them through, as I like the concept, but like anything new that is introduced, it will never be perfect from the start, and bugs, glitches, etc will eventually have to be worked through, whether by experience of players, but more than likely the intervention of development.

I seem to think Cardiac is really the only Alpha. I mean...the "only".

Even though I considder myself a decent slotter, my Grav/FF/Psi (Used to be fire) gets buy further using Cardiac.

My defender, Emp/Psi who should be using Spiritual in my oppinion, can't solo without heavy end loss so Ill have to build one Cardiac and one Spiritual.

So far though. Cardiac seems overall best for any toon ever! It's the only Alpha that really benefits almost every AT.

Others may disagree, but if you are Ioing, and slotting etc, Cardiac allows for more possibilites period when it comes to becoming more inventive with slotting.

On your build, it is your best option.

Wow. Wentworths was on fire! My Auctions!!!!

Ok. We definately all need to protect the world now! A world without shopping is not a world I can live in.

Good Trailer

Oh by the way, I was watching Electric Playground and they had a segment on CoX. It was well done.

It's funny that this did not go furthat than it should have. Not because it is spectacular as a topic, but because I found the information valuable.

I always run dispursion bubble. Sleeps hit me...when they get off, and a simple sleep is very Kryptonite to me.

Knowing how to defend your controller or defender during those moments seems...well...important to share.

Unless of course you are one of those people who thinks they dont need those types and then rage when the "Healer" or buffer can't do anything to help them.

Either way. To pose the question that the OP had. How can support best serve a team, during TF's or even reg missions?

Seriously...preople who are new to an AT will benifit from this. Blasters, Defenders, Corrs, Doms and Controllers all face this issue.

Most suggestions have been good, but surely there are other techniques that would offer more protection or even offer more stability to these toons.

Id write a guide...but it would be my oppinion, and I feel that if I spend the time doing it, that the feedback of players would help me make a beginners guide to control defense...and defenders...As I sort of feel they suffer from the same lot in life.

I did decide to go Cardiac. Mainly because running Manuevers, Dispursion bubble, and Fire Armor were really taxing me out. Now I can safely toggle and be happy. I specced out of tuff and Weave only because I am FF and well my defenses are pretty solid on it's own.

However Cardiac allows me to spam more attacks and such, which I find really helpfull considdering my controls are solid, it allows me to focus on my offense more, not just relying on my defense. Which I am enjoying. I feel better than a Dom now!