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I wrote a long review of the numbers in the Brute forum semi-recently. The overall conclusion was: not really. There isn't enough -Recharge in any of the melee sets for this to be a serious concern. So even if Dark Armor and Electric Armors didn't exist, Ice Armor and Spines really shouldn't be an issue.

Basically this. The "Paladin" class so to speak. Sort of covered by epic ATs, but I don't consider the epic ATs to be very thematically flexible. I envision such an AT with a mixed armor/buff/debuff set paired with an Assault set or Melee set.

While I think Sleet is very useful, I would generally disagree about it making mobs useless. It certainly helps, but I would never count on Sleet by itself to neuter mobs.

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's what got me. In fact it almost seems like the character had slotted the alpha before and it got removed somehow. I ran an Apex TF with him yesterday and didn't notice any special debuff (although I did run with 7 Corruptors...) I was halfway through Khan when I noticed it was unslotted, and nothing I did would let me slot, even logging in and out of the game. I assumed it was connected to Ourobus just because I could only slot it after warping from Ouro to Atlas. I also tried equipping it on a mission map during the TF and couldn't. Maybe it has something to do with PBAoE attack auras triggering the "power recently triggered" code? The character does pretty much permenantly run Arctic Air, although it had been off for 15 minutes or more when all of this happened.

Everyone hates that Peacebringer.

(However, you haven't really hated him until you're an Electric Controller. Hurray for knocking everything out of the -endurance aura, knockdown chain, and range of contagious confusion, while simultaneously robbing me of an easy source of endurance and regen).

To clarify, Nerve does work here. Alpha Boosts are not actually globals. They're like an invisible 7th slot in your powers with an extra enhancement in them, that happens to be partially immune to ED. It does make calculation confusing, but luckily the Mids guys are on top of it!

It was explained to me that it is basically any power that has an enhanceable Resistance component. Force Field actually does have Resistance (to Toxic damage and to endurance drain) but you can't enhance them, so Power Boost still works. My understanding isn't perfect, but basically I believe there is a programing connection between global Resistance buffs and global damage buffs that would basically cause Resistance shields to max out every time you cast them with Build Up active that causes the issue. But I could be describing the situation incorrectly.

Which would make sense if I had been in combat or had more than one alpha slot to switch between.

Can the tornados jump? I've been wrecked by them before but noticed that while standing on the ledge that splits down the center Grandville while S was on the main floor that they never hit me. Although that character also has capped Ranged defense, or I could have just been too far away (altho I wasn't that far).

I don't disbelieve you, but it's a claim about a much broader subject that I can't explore too fully in the confines of a discussion about CoHs team features. Where I mainly disagree with you is that anyone who is an "introvert" would automatically not like teaming in City of Heroes. Some people who like it here may hate it elsewhere and be lukewarm about it somewhere else. Every type of interaction isn't weighted the same. Sometimes the interpretation of interactions even varies within the same game (e.g. "I like teaming but not with this group of jerks" or "I normally hate Task Forces but this one went great because no one died.")

As it happens, I am a teacher of adults, and I agree that there are some people who are very uncomfortable with group activities and the like. The flip side of this is that my company sells Myers Briggs type stuff and I think it's mostly astrology. The Skeptic's Dictionary has an excellent entry about MB here: http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

I feel you are making a claim about psychology that is unnecessary to support your point. I agree with you that a sizable number of people probably do not enjoy teaming. However, I do not necessarily support your assertion that it is because they are hard wired to feel this way.

Teaming experiences are not identical game to game. Some people who love teaming in CoH may hate it in other games. The way the game is implemented has a huge effect on the acceptance rate of team-based activities as a whole. I don't think you could boil it down to something as simple as "introverts" versus "extroverts."

Using myself as an example, I am someone who is uncomfortable with open conflict (my board persona notwithstanding). I like to team in games where the activity is cooperative, basically pretty easy, and clearly demonstrates that you are always better off adding and including more players, because if reasonably well played, they can't drag the group down.

However, put me in an environment where there is PVP and I instantly shut down. I want no interaction of that kind whatsoever. Not only am I uncomfortable with the open hostility often displayed by PVP players, I suck at PVP. In 15 years of video gaming I don't think I have emerged victorious from a PVP encounter even one time.

However again, for about 7 years I role-played in a text-based game as a temperamental, country Cleric who moved to the big city and became its patron and protector. At some point during the saga of the game, a group of PVPers began holding arena matches in the city's cemetery. My character and several other Clerics were appalled, and took to preaching at them (they had an obvious tendency to die, and less obvious tendency to show up as mouthy corpses demanding that my character resurrect them). My character was attacked a couple of times by people who were upset about his insolence, but somehow it never became uncomfortable to me.

Meanwhile, teaming as such in that game was not that great. Because it was text based it was just too hard to see what was going on a lot of the time, so most of us soloed. On the flip side, there was a skill called Teaching that all Clerics needed, and you got it by being around other players who were willing to teach you (or you teach them). So we spent a lot of time around each other outside of combat. Sometimes talking, sometimes practicing other skills, sometimes gossiping about "deaders" who gave bad tips. And some Clerics would learn their Teaching without saying much at all, just using the rest of us as a means to an end, maybe roleplaying it as being "shy" or maybe not bothering.