Transhade

I applaud Rigel for acknowleding that his pereference as opposed to the general healer hate that gets placed on most competent empathy defenders.

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Oh, I don't know if I'd say that, Luminara. I've been skimming this thread for a while now, and it has indeed been quite painful.

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All we need is a well placed statement to get the lock in. Then your pain will end.

+regen heals. This is the hind leg of the horse. AB also regens. That is the tail.

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They'll care when non-Empaths don't get teams red-side.

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You're kidding... right?

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I was, but back when CoV was coming out much was made about the fact that red-side didn't have a dedicated h34l0r (Therm was consolation prize...). Of course, now Corrs (and MMs) have Pain Dom, so it's less of an issue... but I'm still curious to see how many Empaths will cross over.

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My guess will be almost non but the solo build ones because teaming is sparse enough as is already.

How to Ressurect the Dead Horse:

I just love how people try to say empathy is a set for noobs when there are just as many bad players playing other ATs out there.

Of course this is easliy proven by the number of people complaining about all the broadcasts that people make looking for healers. I doubt any of them making the the broadcasts are made by people playing an empathy set.

Then you mix the people who overact to people braodcasting looking for healers.

Lastly, sprinkle a person who is a bad player playing the empathy set and poof the dead horse lives again.

There is nothing wrong with the set now, why try and change it.

Re arranging the order does not mean someone will change thier playstyle either.

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That's kind of an interesting point.

You don't really see too many heals beyond Tier 3 that aren't in a Defense set.

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How many ATs don't use their Tier 1,2 & 3 powers at level 50?

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If people weren't so deluded into thinking a healer is needed to survive in this game, then we wouldn't have this problem. A good stormy, with or without O2 Boost, far outperforms an average empath.

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this pretty much sums it up.

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And a good empath far out performs an average stormy.

Healing is definitley not required. Some people prefer different powers but I would figure the majority of people broadcasting for healers aren't aware that all defenders primaries are capable.

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Good Empaths do far less healing than buffing. At least that's been my experience when teaming with good Empaths. i've been on teams with mediocre to bad Empaths that quit because the buffs and debuffs from other team members made healing largely unneeded beyond patching up minor damage. Many of them had taken the Medicine pool in place of non-healing powers like Fortitude, Adrenaline Boost and Clear Mind. Others has some of those powers but would only use them after repeated requests.

i've also teamed with good Empaths who would toss Clear Mind on debuffers when fighting mezzing opponents, throw Fortitude on any teammate who tended to receive extra aggro and generally supported the team by buffing those who needed it and tossing out a heal when required. They didn't sulk and eventually quit when they had no reason to generate green numbers, instead they helped turn the team into a juggernaut.

Empathy in the hands of a good player is not primarily a healing set by the mid levels.

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Empathy is a set that has heals as well as the ras and fort and ab and even res!. The team compostion will dictate the amount of heals that will get thrown around along with the particpation of the person playing the empathy set.

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Guide:

Use Vidiotmaps printouts and hit every single explore badge whilst in SGmode.


It really is that simple.

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One hell of a guide too!

PvP in this game leaves alot to be desired plus it seems to be heading toward extinction of late as the last 3 pvp zones I was in were empty.

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PuGs are more often just fine, in my experience, than not. In fact, this is why I figured he was kidding, because Corruptors and Empathy Defenders have been "competing" (if you want to call it that) for teams in the co-op zones for quite some time now and I, at least, have had no difficulty whatsoever joining an obscene number of PuG ITFs on my Corruptors. Never been told, "Sorry, we're looking for an Emp Def."

Not even once.

I don't know if "No one cares", as Transhade put it near the top of this thread, but certainly not enough people care to make an issue out of the presence or absence of Empaths.

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While I am one of the few that people that don't take a passive aggressive hate on empathy set, there is no must have AT. I concur that your statment probably is more accurate, not enough people care to make an issue out of it.

RP a mashocist empathy defender and the problem is solved.

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If people weren't so deluded into thinking a healer is needed to survive in this game, then we wouldn't have this problem. A good stormy, with or without O2 Boost, far outperforms an average empath.

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this pretty much sums it up.

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And a good empath far out performs an average stormy.

Healing is definitley not required. Some people prefer different powers but I would figure the majority of people broadcasting for healers aren't aware that all defenders primaries are capable.

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Thanks, very helpful.

As for this:

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Also, please don't identify yourself as a "healer" or fall under the false assumption that heals are the best form of team support available to a Defender.

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Don't recall doing that, but thanks for the reminder? Just wondering why some other folks' heal powers were stronger than mine.

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People get snobbish when you discuss healing. It is pretty comical.

I like the addition of ranged for melee.

More filler there.

All my villains will go hero unless there are some needless penalties to suck the fun out of life.

I didn't take hasten on my bs/da for two reasons, mobs die fast already and the end crash can hurt.

Welcome Back, I remember you.

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Im wondering how people feel about the fairness of the rating system for the arcs?
Do you think that people who rate your arcs (a 0-5), should have their global name attached so you know who gave you what?
Or is it fair the way it is right now?
The reason I ask this is, a friend of mine who has a seemingly well liked arc (Kept a consistent 4 stars through about 40 plays or so), got a "0" rating while he was online.
He knew this because he saw that it had been rated and went to claim tickets, and there were none. (now granted something could have happened, but there was no feedback left regardless).
Now that got us into a debate, that I thought might be a great topic for here.
So do you feel its fair that when a player stars your arc, but does not leave feedback, you don't know who it was?
Or is it fair like it is now?
I personally see both sides of the story, and would like to see what others thoughts are on the rating system as it stands right now.
Discuss....

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Rating system is a waste of time.

I agree short arcs will get more play. I think this is a direct result of the TF mechinism. I really have no idea why they had to make you be on a task force to run the missions but I see people not wanting to waste time quitting tfs and reforming them if they do one mission and feel the arc is not worth playing. If you could just drop the mission arc and remain teamed, you would have a better chance the team would do longer arcs in my opinion.

Steel Canyon inside the university. Think the guy' name is montague or something close. He is all in black and to your 2 o'clock upon entering the university.

One good way to avoid farms is to avoid auto sk missions. The majority of the farms appeared to have that as a feature.

I have a general disinterest in MA mostly due to the limited UI search features. I think alot of people mentally thought the down time between missions would decrease but for the most part I noted it has taken longer searching for arcs that fit in the time frame you want to invest in a mission, that do or do not have AVs, that auto sk (bad feature IMO) or not, etc.

Wasn't there a comment about not being able to recive a bonus higher than the number of tickets earned in a mission?