Oedipus_Tex

That's a great guide. Thanks for the link.

Her bio is very understated and extremely well written. Great job. A lot of people would have gone for shock value on this but I think this is an excellent portrayal of a character.

Speaking of hyperbole. IMO if my marriage and career are at risk over my opinion of an online superhero video game I've got problems soloing a GM won't solve.

Hyperbole much.

What did you expect? "You solo'd a GM? Can I like... be your boyfriend?"

I enjoy the game because it is fun but being "impressed" by what other players do to GMs with a build devoted to soloing GMs doesn't really enter the radar.

But I'm sometimes impressed by a cool costume.

[EDIT: A few changes to structure to avoid sounding curt. Not sure I succeeded but it's better than the two word reply I started with. Still a little weirded out that I was asked "why I even play the game."]

Not sure I agree, but I have no direct experience with it.

If the proc fired once every 12 seconds, I'd be getting the equivalent of a 100% Regen boost (Players regen 5% of their total HP every 12 seconds). I don't fire the power that often, but once every 24 seconds is pretty reasonable. That's equal to a 50% Regen boost. Of course there will be power uses where it doesn't proc at all.

Someone also said that they thought the proc could only fire once per power use. I'm not sure this is correct. I'm hoping someone with experience with the proc can answer that--otherwise I may be able to try it out on the test server. There are definitely procs that fire multiple times per each enemy. The core example is the sister proc to the Chance of Self Heal, the Theft of Essence: Chance for +Endurance, which definitely fires per enemy hit, not one time per power use.

A little more background please?

Ok that made me LOL. I didn't think of it as an insult.

I'm still not going to go into detail about the specific situation where I most recently got killed, because that was not the intent of this thread. This is not the first time I've gotten into an Ouro arc only to run into an elite boss I couldn't/didn't want to handle. The reason I'm not going to go into detail here is that the minute I do this thread is going to turn into a "ohhh well just suck that mission is so easy etc etc" bashing session. It already veered pretty heavily in that direction based on the one or two sentences of information I've provided.

When I stated that elite bosses are "designed to be impossible" for some characters I thought this was literally true. It has always been my assumption such enemies were actually designed with the intent of requiring a team, and the fact that we can solo them anyway was more a game balance issue than the result of deliberate design strategy. From the sound of things that's not actually the case, although that doesn't increase my desire to deal with them on the type of characters I tend to play. Acquiring powers normally reserved for the hardest task forces in the game to get through a surprise encounters in a mission arc is not something I'm interested in doing. In any case, from I can gather from reading about it it appears a Shivan wouldn't have been an option anyway, because it requires a mission and when on Ouro arcs you can't take them. I would have had to known ahead of time and brought the power along.

That said, like you, I'm not interested in continuing to argue. I can see how we misunderstood each other. Hand accepted.

I'd love this, but I don't know if they'd go for it due to Ouro sometimes giving out merit awards. Though what had occurred to me in the past is that it would be great if we never "outgrew" contacts, and if we accepted a mission from them but were "too high" for it, we'd be exemped to the proper level range using the same mechanics the AE does but only when playing that mission. (Right now we are exemped to the level of the person who owns the mission, not the mission itself--this would exemp everyone to the level of the mish and then increase the enemy difficulty from that base). That would be a dream solution, really.

I think this sums it up pretty well actually. Even though I do have a decent-ish understanding of game mechanics I haven't spent a lot of timing soloing. My first toon was an Earth/Thermal, second was Ice/Therm, and my main (this character) is a Mind/Cold. I have always played this game for the PUGing, have never had a character who could hold his or her own in the damage department, and for the most part have simply run Task Forces and radio teams. When I do solo, mostly due to team inavailability, it's radio missions because their difficulty level is easy to predict.

Now we did just get one major improvement to the game for players like me and that is the ability to abandon missions. I can't tell you what a huge relief that is. That's because with character who struggle to deal enough damage to take out a regular boss, elite bosses have long been my bane. I was too hasty in calling them "impossible." What they really are is just "incredibly irritating" for me. The difficulty gap between a regular boss and an elite one is extreme. Getting to the end of a mission and finding out the guy I'm supposed to kill is an elite boss was always a huge let down. And then I was stuck with the mission in my que. So for two years I pretty much didn't do any solo content at all, except for the aforementioned radio missions.

I really don't think I'm asking for anything too extreme here. I don't care that I suck at fighting elite bosses and despite what some people have tried to claim have never said I want to be able to solo them. This is not a competition for me. I just want to a tool to help me avoid them altogether. They are the opposite of fun. As is gathering up a massive pool of temporary resources to deal with something the character is natively unequiped to handle.

I have no idea what you are talking about and it's apparent neither do you. I'm sorry for being so feisty but did you even read the title of this thread, my original post, or any follow up leading up to this statement? Again not interested in a personal conflict with you since we are all just players in a video game, but since you're going out of your way to start an argument over something that I never requested I'm going to meet you eye to eye. Please read the title of the thread before you make further accusations about what was requested.