Ochosi

I'm looking for for two names in particular:

Social Anxiety
Aestus

@Social Anxiety is my global, and my first ever toon was named such. Unfortunately I deleted him and lost the name by the time I realized the mistake.

Anyway, I'd be willing to trade and/or buy either of the names.

Names I'm willing to trade:

Flow
Duel
Pistol Star
Saguaro
Highbinder

Yeah, I'm the Trick Arrower friend that TheWhiteLady here was talking about. Sit friends, and let me tell you a tale of sorrow and triumph...

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When I moved servers from Pinnacle to Champion, I knew I wanted my first character on there to be different, something you rarely see. Trick Arrow fit the bill. After stalling on a concept for a while and fumbling with the name, Ochosi was born.

After a couple levels I was invited to a sewer team and readily accepted. The first thing that popped up in the Team channel was “good we got a healer”. Keep in mind, at this point I had still not had any experience with the R U Helar mindset. I told him nope, sorry, no heals here. His response was “why”. So here I was brand new character, new to the set, having to explain why I have no heals. Now imagine that every other team I was in. Yeah.

Levels 8-15 were the worst. The Hollows levels. Most of the time I would be asked if I healed, and when I told them I couldn’t they just didn’t respond. I tried in vain to explain that debuffs can be a lot more helpful than heal-spams, but it usually fell on deaf ears. One time in particular I remember joining a Frostfire mission, then later when the team wiped, a couple guys flipped out at me because I wasn’t doing my job and keeping people healed. I remember one of them said “the only good def is healer”. I was booted shortly after. Later I found out the Kin on the team was booted as well. Ridiculous.

Once I hit level 26, things started to change. Ignorance was replaced by curiosity. The quiet lil’ TA that flung arrows from the back line became a beast with a vicious power. Oil Slick. Occasionally I would be asked about healing, but I was usually invited anyway. These are the true players. These are the people that make up the core of this game. It was very nice to join a team to a flurry of “Trick Arrow? Cool!” or “ooh, never played with a TA before!” as opposed to “where r ur heals” and “TA is teh gimp”. People were genuinely curious to see the set for themselves instead of hearing through the grapevine that some powerset they’ve never even seen before is crap and taking that as fact. I gained a lot of friends in this period, and Trick Arrow was finally getting the respect it very much deserves.

It wasn’t until I hit 45 and strolled into Eden that the cold slap of ignorance greeted me once more, though in a different (and maybe a bit off-topic) way. The extremely few TA Defenders that actually stuck it out to that level got thrown in with Blasters to just be generic damage dealers. Single-target attacks only, I was told. Good thing I took some otherwise I’d have had to sit it out completely. I felt so totally worthless. Only once did I run a Hami. After that I decided I’d never run another, but this new one is sounding quite promising.

So I went back doing what I do best. Missions. I cruised to 50 with no problems and joined the elite few who had the patience and understanding to take a Trick Arrow Defender to 50.

Luckily I had a good set of friends for support, the kind to help you out in any rough patch. For that I am very, very grateful. Without them Ochosi would still be sitting somewhere around 15, of not deleted.

So yes, the road is rough, and yes, that “delete” button does look tempting at times, but it generally gets better.

At least in the eyes of a Trick Arrower.

-Ochosi


And don't listen to her about her emp/sonic. She's a darn good Empathy Defender and she knows it

Following the link you posted in my topic (Ice/Dark or Dark/Cold) brought me to this guide.

It's been very helpful to me with the planning of my toon, and so far this is a great set.

Thanks!