Panzerwaffen

Absolutely! Don't leave out other zones. I've almost filled entire teams with players recruited from other zones, especially at low levels.

Nothing wrong with venting..

While this is true, there are plenty of players on the other servers as well. None of the servers are "dead", as some might claim.

Not this tired old silliness again.. Yes, I have been on servers other than Freedom/Virtue lately. In fact, I am on one every day. And I have zero issues on my "ghost town" server, Protector, forming or joining teams.

What are you trying to say here? Your post makes almost no sense.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=188805

Nah! Solo Posi is fun!

Too late. The party has already been flipped and is now too expensive to get into.

Those darn evil marketeers! If it wasn't for them there would be purples for all to be had, every player would get a magic rainbow pony and candy gumdrops would rain from the sky.

And to be honest, the kb in buckshot isn't really that bad. I routinely use a Full-Auto, Flamethrower, Buckshot chain on my AR/EM, and it has never been a significant problem.

There is no knockback in Full-Auto, Flamethrower or Psychic Scream. Skip M30, which doesn't mesh well with all the cone attacks anyway, and Buckshot, and you will have no knockback issues.

Please don't say I made a claim that I never did. What I do specifically take issue with is the claim that "You can achieve the Master badges with any team makeup."

And to respond more directly to your comment about what I allegedly 'claimed': Generally the burden of proof lies with the person who states something is true or possible, not the other way around. There would be no burden on me to prove something is impossible, even if I had originally made that statement.

However, seeing as how an all scrapper STF run on Test, made up of scrapper forum regulars, who would generally be regarded as among the most experienced and most knowledgeable scrapper players out there resulted in 121 deaths, when a Master run requires ZERO, I am going to remain skeptical that it is even possible.

I stand firmly by my assertion that the claim that a team of any makeup can successfully complete a Master TF run is false. It does not require a cookie cutter exact team build, but certain things must be taken into account and planned for. For example, on an STF, there must be some plan and tactic for dealing with Ghost Widow's Soul Storm and Dark Regeneration. There are various ways to approach this, but there still has to be a specific plan for it on a Master run.

Remember, I'm the kind of player that will take anything for any TF in the game. I have never said "we need a tank/healer/troller". I avoid teams like that. I have, in fact, quit teams with that attitude. When Issue 15 went live, I started a team to run the Kahn TF within 20 minutes of the servers going up and went with the first 7 players to respond. Some of the best times I have had on TF's were with teams that didn't fit the expected mold. All that flies out the window when talking about No Temp/No Death Master runs.

Everyone always says Fire when it comes to blaster AOE, but in reality Fire has less AOE ability than either Archery or Assault Rifle.

Speaking as someone who will take the first 7 people to form any TF team in the game, and actively avoids teams that say "We need a...", I'm going to call shenanigans on this. Prove me wrong. Show me an all blaster MoSTF. Heck, show me an all scrapper MoSTF.

Master teams don't need to follow an exact cookie cutter format, but the team composition does need to be balanced a fair bit better than other content.

That's generally a very good philosophy and one I embrace wholeheartedly, however when talking about Master attempts on TF's, whether STF, LRSF or the new ones, completely disregarding team composition and powersets is pretty much setting the team up for failure before even starting.