SinisterDirge

If a picture is worth one thousand words... How many drinks should that really be?

I don't play emp because it is completely useless to me solo. I don't always have time, or the attention span(kids) to be a completely reliable team member. Therefore I build my toons to be able to solo. There is more to it than that, but that will have to suffice.

My support toons tend to be debuffers. Mostly because the same powers I use solo tend to be effective while teamed as well, and I don't need to adjust my play style severely in order to achieve that effectiveness.

So until I can self target, there will be at least one less buffer in the game.

I don't think you need to worry about that. You were possibly baited anyway. A toon is a tool, only as usefull as the person behind it. He may as well have asked if hammers are skilled.

That is where the nod of respect comes in.


Alternately I have met terribly unskilled players who couldn't build a toon to save their lives or tell right from left, yet they were awesome teammates because they brought fun to the team.

Point being a good teammate does not mean a skilled player. I know you already know that, but just thought it worth mentioning.

I want to preface this by saying I respect you as a player, and as a poster here. I am not trying to attack you at all.

I think the quoted point of view is very exclusionary. You didn't ask what makes a good teammate. You also didn't ask everyone to guess what Thirty-Seven thinks skill is.

Someone who only door sits and absorbs xp is clearly not using any skill, but the one defeating the spawns set for much higher than average are. Even if it boils only down to smart inspiration usage.

It is no different than someone who takes 6+ hours to solo an AV. If you can't see how that persons tenacity alone, nevermind their reaction speed, situational awareness and ability to adapt on the fly could help out a team even if the feat itself is arguably useless in a teaming environment that is your loss.

I will close by saying that some of the most skilled players I know farm/power level. They don't just farm and pl. They lead very successful leagues and task forces. They also have the patience to teach what they have learned about the game to others. You shouldn't discount their skill just because they do something you are biased against.

Try these options.

P.S. I was a new player once, I figured it out. Am pretty sure you were new at one point too... Also, I find that championing the new player while deriding those with less ability are quite contrasting points of view.

Sure, remove the animation. However, since you are apparently looking for something that is a more true representation of life, the endurance should cost more, and there should be a defence debuff.

When you miss, you still excert at least the same amount of energy, yet need to spend more in order to compensate for the miss. Often that same compensation leaves one open to counterattack.

No. I am sure that this will make me one of those you deride, however, there is enough **** happening on the screen these days, no need to add a sequence of buttons to press in order to drop my mez.

It's a direct consequence of how powerfull we have become. However, maybe if there weren't so many patches and crap that I need to look out for, I could pay attention enough to pick out a sequence of buttons I need to push in order to drop mez.

Since they are all easily avoided though, I have to admit I am confused as to why these mechanics are too much a pain to avoid, yet you want to make things more complicated for dropping mez.

It's not like the tank has to drop aggro entirely in order to avoid a nova fist or anything... They can still tank the big bad for the 5 seconds he is not in melee right up its ***.

If they were completely unavoidable, I could maybe see your point of view.

You are welcome.

Well, as I pm'ed Goat last night there are 4 damage procs available in the hold sets, plus the lockdown proc which is a no brainer. That gives poison a single proc advantage over traps. Yes you can slot the -res proc there, but poison has no shortage of -res as it is.

I agree that it is nice to be able to stack poisons pgt, as opposed to just having permanent pgt with traps.

I will say that I always value -regen over -recovery.

I don't understand why they are different to begin with.

I haven't done the math, so I may be way off base, but I prefer the massive and permable regen debuff and a couple procs going off to a massive recovery debuff(I assume it is permable, but don't have access to mids atm) and a few procs going off...

Again, I could be wrong, but I don't feel like poison has that much a leg up here...

To each his own. I would rather throw that play money at a traps toon.

So only better if you want to proc it out. Other than that, traps version is better? Is it just me, or is that not really better?

This. Mine is resist capped vrs all types but toxic and def softcapped to s/l/e/ne

Of course, that means you are in granite.

With the +resist ato for tankers, and the upcoming changes to resist set bonuses, I am pretty sure a few more tanker sets will be able to cap exotic to their sets resists.

That is my understanding. Was just saying that for pulling purposes, all you need is a hit heck to get the mob to notice you and act accordingly.

Personally, I prefer to pull with fireball but ymmv.

Actually, you are right. I should have made that distinction. I am pretty sure for pulling purposes, you don't need any accuracy for confront. If I remember correctly, as long as it makes a to hit check, it is effectively pulled. You might want to slot some accuracy if actually planing to use the taunt aspect to pull a mob off a player though, and as stated, enjoy it while you can.

You need a very, very high accuracy to pull bosses and such.

Also, in my experience(though it has been awhile) often the rest of the spawn will follow the yoinked mob.

Challenge is IMO, a much more controllable pull.

Cough*tornado, lightning storm.*cough.