Silencer7

Okay, good point. Let me change my definition a little bit.

Maybe if the technology in question is something unique or wildly out of the ordinary, that is what denotes a tech hero. So, Iron Man and War Machine (and Black Scorpion) are tech characters, because they use outlandish tech that's not available to most people. But an SoA or an assault rifle/DP blaster could still be natural, because the technology they're using is pretty run of the mill.

Which still puts Batman in a grey area, but oh well.

edit: also, the fantastic four were all pretty obvious science origins.

As if I couldn't throw the same argument right back at you. The entire foundation of what you're saying seems to be that receiving an unsolicited tell is annoying, and that therefore anyone who sends a knowingly unsolicited tell becomes "rude."

The first half of that construction is ridiculous because receiving a tell has none of the social connotations or physical awkwardness of any of the analogies people have tried to use. Receiving a tell doesn't place any burden on you to do anything at all, either literally or in the social context of the game. That is why it is different than, say, a co-worker who you are obligated to act cordially toward inviting themselves along on an outing.

Okay, so you came up with one, great. Fortunately we don't have the ability to punch each other through the internet yet, so it's sort of irrelevant.

Really, this entire conversation turns on the idea that a team is somehow a "private space," which is ridiculous on its face given how the majority of teams form in this game (by public invite to relative strangers.) The only comparison anyone has mentioned that I think even comes close is pickup sports, and there are probably holes to poke in that, too.

I also love this idea that it's always rude to ask for something that hasn't been explicitly offered.

Manners depend completely on context; 'good manners are good manners' is a ridiculous statement. I doubt you can come up with any action (or lack of) at all that isn't alternatively "good" or "bad" depending on the situation or culture.

What people in this thread are doing is trying to draw specious analogies between the real world and a MMO, so that they can modify others' behavior in a way that is preferable to them.

This whole thing about "entering a private space" is a shibboleth, because no one's "entering" a "private space" by sending you a tell. They are asking permission to enter something that can only very tenuously be called a private space. They can't "invite themselves" or even "knock on the window" or whatever other garbage analogies people have come up with. All they can do is ask to be included.

It doesn't matter at all if there is an "implicit invitation" or not to join a team, because this hypothetical person sending you a tell isn't joining the team under their own power. They are asking you whether or not your team is inviting more members.

The reason MMOs are different as a social space ought to be obvious; the entire attraction of playing one is to play with other people. So it makes sense that people assume that other people playing an MMO want to play with other people to (especially in this particular MMO, with its emphasis on team play.) The only way it makes any sense to consider the question "does your team have any more room" rude is if you consider any unsolicited communication rude. And given that MMOs are mostly played by collections of strangers forming ad hoc groups, considering any unsolicited communication rude would leave you feeling very lonely.

As you may or may not be aware, "rude" depends on the context and what the expectation is in a particular situation. In this particular example, the comparison is nonsensical because sitting in a cab in traffic is a completely different situation than playing a MMO.

And it's not rude to ask someone politely to split a cab anyway.

I like how people are trying to construct all these ridiculous real-world scenarios in an attempt to make receiving a tell a bigger deal than it is. Someone running into traffic to knock on the window of a moving cab is comparable to someone sending you a tell? Really?

It hasn't happened to me very many times, but I've never been offended by someone asking if they could split the cab. Nor do I think it's rude.

You don't want more people on your team. Awesome, don't invite any more people. If someone sending you an otherwise reasonable tell asking if you have more room is offensive or annoying, you need to grow some thicker skin.

I thought that some issues ago the animations were changed to play out within the set animation time of the power? I know that sometimes I'll observe aim shot or executioner's shot register their damage before the animation actually even finishes, because the powers take so long to go off.

I guess I could be misremembering though.

My personal feeling is that as long as you can live with being in melee, DP probably beats archery. Bullet rain does slightly more native damage than explosive arrow (empty clips and fistful are the same.) Hail of bullets does more damage than RoA, but RoA's up more often, so the comparison there is going to depend a lot on your team and what buffs you have. Most importantly, DP gets to shift some of its damage away from lethal.

End crashes aren't a huge deal, but they result in lost DPS time. Even on my fire/elec, I wind up losing time to crashes, because I'm out of blues or there's nothing left to use power sink on, or because the inferno recovery debuff keeps me from going full speed even if I can fill my end bar.

Also just in terms of gameplay, I'm much more likely to use a crashless nuke on 4-5 enemies and get the damage out of it than I am to use a long-recharge nuke with a crash. In practice I use RoA and HoB practically on cooldown; with inferno, I pick my spots.