St_Angelius

Ok, I've just got another negative rep, this time for this very thread, and again because of spelling, like nobody ever makes typos… gah. Even goes as far as demanding that I never post again.... yeah, like that's gonna happen!

Well, whoever you are, give me as much negative rep as you like because I will continue to "hurt your sensibilities".

EDIT- Makes me wonder whether these people realise that they could be dealing with someone with learning difficulties or some sort of mental impairment, however small it may be!

Hmmmmmmm, I've just recieved my second rep, this time, a negative one, the contents? Disparaging my grasp of the english language because of some missed capitals and a typo in this post. I re-read the post it was repped for, and it wasn't that bad, my spelling was mostly fine, my grammer may have been lacking greatly, but no worse than a lot of posts I've read on this board. And it read fine, the sentances made sence, and the people who replied to it seemed to understand me fine.

I just hope the pedant has gone through, even just that thread, and neg repped everyone that made a typo. As has been said... oh the things that set some people off to give negative reps!

Oh well, *stuff* happens!

My main/First 50 in an energy/energy/force blaster and the only yime i've been kicked from a team was after a blind invite, and not for KB, the 3 members in the team views my info, and critiqued my build (bare in mind was only in my teens/early 20's level wise at the time and still working out what worked well and fitted thematically) with comments like why "no BU & Aim?", "Why sprint and hurdle?" and "Why no melee attacks?" The kick when i replied that i was building thematically and hadn't got to fitting those in yet... meh!

Apart from that i've had a few friendly jibes for SG teams that have "Had a plan" and proposed tying me up and leaving me at the mish entrance. KB, i have learnt is a efect that needs a lot of thought, and a KB heavy toon needs to be micromanaged, by the player and not the team that is, so as to make the KB beneficial as much as posible. Yes moving around to position effectively can result in lower DPS , but positioning mean you can make all your damage, and KB, count, I won't go into specifics of how to do that, as it's all been said many times already in this thread. But KB used well can be fun and effective, My SG started up a "Super Storm" Team, and though i didn't get on it, due to some off line time, i hear they had great fun rounding up whole maps and keeping them on thier back while they died... would love to have seen it!

It is about time this power description was updated, both in game and in guides like the wiki and tomax, Power Boost DOES NOT improve KB i respeced this into my NRG/NRG blaster aand just have not been a**ed to respec it out yet!

Just been chating to a friend who got thier 24 month vet badge last night and decided to check up on what comes with it as it's only a few months off for me now.

Now though i'm looking forward to the vet titals and the fre toon slot (Just in time for GR? I hope so!!) the vet power, Base Teleporter seems a bit redundant to me. Most of my toon now start with being parked at the base portal for the bonus pres for my SG, but once you gain the BP badge and the patrol XP badge you gain the Rapid Response Member Badge/Trouble Maker accolade and along with it charges for day job base teleporter, which works exactly like the vet reward one, but with half the recharge time.

So, is it worth it? Yes, it means you have to earn charges for it, but that takes almost no effort. should it be replaced, and if so, with what?

Heya guys, now, i'll start off by making the poin that i am a tanker n00b but i am determined to get one past it's teen (hopefully eventually to 50) and my lastest is a Fire/Fire tank. so i was wondering if you nice people could help me out, maybe even make some build sugestions for me. I'd like to keep the PBAoE's in there, and also have fly (for thematic reasons rather than anything practical) even though i know fly isn't that great for tanks. would prefer it to be more defensive than offensive but still pack a nice punch. I've gone through a few pages here and don't see much about fire tanks so any help is greatly apreciated

the problem here is the BBC and the rest of the adult community who view the use of the word Gay to mean lame have failed to witness it's evolution to mean such. just because it's it is used by some of the younger generations now who are unaware of it's derivation/evolution and just use it because they are following the words used but their older peers doesn't take away the negative branding of the word. I'm only in my mid 30's yet I remember when the word used in the context of "That's lame" It didn't mean it was just lame, but that it was "Very homosexual like, and therefor lame". No matter how many people forget the usage in the past doesn't negate that past. Hence the continuing rows over what now are only allowed to be called "Golly's" I'm sure plenty of brits remember what they were called, and the rows over non arfo-carribean actors "Blacking up" For stage and screen roles, even though no-one bats an eye when black actors like eddie murphy and the waynes brothers "White up" for roles.

The only time that Gay as a synonym for lame will be accecptable is when it's use as a derogatory term for a member of the homosexual community has been totally and utterly wiped out!

I've not posted to this thread for a while now, but i have been folowing it and would like to say 2 things.

First, the beginning of this tread seems to be sooo long ago now that all the people who have said "there is no discrimination against LGBT players on the euro servers need to re-read some of those old post... it exists, has been atested to by a fair few people. it may not be frequent, but it does exist.

Second, the whole "stright acting" debate has completely boggled my mind. it is just another example of people reading things into word that simply are not there. Some people, GLBT too it seems, seem to think that all LGBT people act the same, or at least should. not true. they seem to think that if a LGBT person is described in such a way is repressing their natural urges to act in a mostly incorrect stereotypical maner... not true. the perpose as used here, and as i have only ever heard it used, it to mean "Not behaving in a sterotypical maner". so with what has been said by the people who have been opposed to this phase have said then shannon's sentance of...

"I've got friends who are L, G and B in RL and they're all straight acting so that you wouldn't know unless ya ask them."

would have to read...

"I've got friends who are L, G and B in RL and they do not behave in the sterotypical maner that the majority of the population believe all L, G and B people to behave in so that you wouldn't know unless ya ask them."

Rediculous huh? It's like bin men (refuse collector to our US cousins) being called Excess waste managment and disposal agents. using too many words to describe a simple concept that can be done in just a few. And i do say this from a position on the LGBT spectrum, as anyone who have read the earlier posts in this thread will realise. I Act in a way that is concidered the way that only straight people act, because that is who i am, i would act this way wether i was G, B, T or S (not L as i am male). I feel no need to act in a certain way to overtly express my sexual orientation because anyone, no mater what thier sexual orientation is, thinks i should act. I am not repressing anything as i have no desire to act that way. I know people that do, and am fine with it, but that isn't me, and i find it more deflamatory for a G person to put down someone whom people concider as to be "Straight acting" Than anyone one saying a G person is "Straight acting".

So from reading this thread i am now thinking of changing my stance on not wanting to join a LGBT SG, and if anyone decides to form an SG or VG on union (My defiant slot are all fulll right now and can't bring meself to delete any) please let me know as i already have come up with a tank or brute that i could join with!

Well, i can assure you i'm not a bad empath, i may not be the best one out there and i have never claimed to be. but i made a toon to do a job and so far it is doing that job well, as one of my fellow SG mate has just confirmed for me, refering to the team we were in last night when he went suicidal and pulled the aggro from the ice/fire tank and lost nearly a full hp bar in the blink of an eye, then regained it just as fast!

I also care not a bit for praise, I don't play, ot build characters for that reason either. I prefer to build support characters that do their job well enough that you don't even realise when they have done a job.

Clawsandeffect, yes, i accept what you are saying, and that you weren't attacking my play style per say, where as Cavatina clearly has twice now, that is what has got me so PO'ed.

Teleport and SS for me are taken purely as filler powers as with 4 pools used already i see no other powers to take to fill what i see as my primary role with this toon.

When i first created it i tried to balence the primary and secondary powers more, and to be honest, could not do it.. the attacks did so little damage that there was no point fireing them off most of the time and my heals and buffs suffered because of it. so i simply decided to stick to my primary role as i saw it with this toon, and that was healing and buffing and to be as good at it as i could be.

And yet again Cavatina is making assumptions based on 0 facts. I never once have said i am too busy spamming heals like mad to make up for a "useless" team. I am buffing, attacking with me def debuff powers occasionally and keeping my end at a respectable level so i have enough if any player gets into a spot of hot water. but no, Cavatina would prefer to pack my build out with much weaker versions of a blasters attacks, drain my end so that when someone accidently pulls another mob ot 2 that start ripping into the team i don't have enough end to cast my significantly weaker and slower to cast heals in order to keep them alive.

But then, Cavatina must be able to solo invincible mishes without taking a single point of damage because they are that much of a better player than i am.

I am sorry... being told my play style with one of my 30 or so toons is invalid without the player ever having seen me play really makes my blood boil!

I do attack targets, when everyone is buffed up and i feel i won't take aggro for doing so, but that is mainly to apply the def debuff to the higher ranked mobs. but having a low damage rating myself i see my attacks having very little impact on the targets, so i would rather keep my attentions fixed on what i can do. Attacking drains my end, which, as i have already stated, when recov aura isn't in effect my leadership toggles prevent any end gain as i have no room in the build for stamina, so attacking too much mean i won't have the end needed for heals and buff when they are needed. I haven't played my empath for a few months till last night, as a few of my other alts had really captured my imagination, so getting back on it last night i found myself perfoming a real ballencing act, i had fun, the players in my teams had fun and i did my job as effectively as i could, which yes, did mean attacking sometimes, but with lots of stuns and holds flying round meant lots of clear minds as well as the usual buffs.

I found it fun relearning how to use the toon, like turning off sprint when i wasn't moving because it would make my end plumet, and thanx to hero stats keeping a close eye on buff timers to make sure those who needed fort etc never went without it.

I have played some in some teams where i have needed to be sk'ed on some of my toons and have felt like i am doing nothing but soaking up xp, and i didn't like it, so with all my toon, including my empath, i make sure i am contributing somehow all the time.


Oh.... and even if i wasn't doing all that i could still hardly be classed as not contributing... I could turn off all my leadership toggle and see how long you can go without needing my help.... i don't mind, i'd not have to worry about my end so much then.

Hmmmmmm, i've just thought... will the non server specific boards be merged.. like say, the players guide forum.... if so i have realised my oru badge guide will likely become redundant as there is another guide over there which comes to a lot of the same conclusions though presented in different manners (And no i didn't just blind copy it!!! I did a lot of research work on it in game!)

Also, there are dev posts that were dulicated both here and over there with thier own sets of replies... what'll happen to those?

not guilty... didn't touch the title!