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Originally Posted by KaliMagdalene

Sands of Mu got me killed the other day, because I accidentally hit it instead of Siphon Life...but yeah.

Originally Posted by PHlRE

nice lousy attempt of passive-aggressiveness. The only "name-calling" you can accuse me of is calling you a "n00b". Well, isnt THAT obvious? Isnt that the whole reason why you started this thread, and EVERY n00b that starts this very same thread? Im not sure how you can complain about something that is obviously factual, and what you define yourself within this thread in your own words.

Im not really impressed by your "claimed" track record, which really doesnt matter at all. Going back to the reason this very thread even exists (yet again). Clarification, just for your Pride's sake since you felt you needed to state your record - Yes, i think you're a Def n00b. No, i didnt mean for it to sound like you're a n00b altogether. Yes, i figured you've played other AT's before - well, its safe to assume if you got a 50 in something, you're gonna have a 50 in something else too and more....

Anyways, and yes - i did share a good few things to you. Become a Corruptor or plz click on my Sonic Attack Chain thread.....
Umm, did YOU read and listen?

More information/knowledge for you.....
*READ THROUGH THE DEFENDER'S FORUM TO EDJUMACATE YOURSELF!!!!
its there for a fracking reason.....

*If you did, you'd learn from MANY others how to amplify a Defender's damage (ie - using -Resist debuffs that MOST defender primaries have, also Ancillary power buffs, Assault [which Defenders get & give the highest damage buff from]).

If still quite confuzzled about all this - ive realized you cant squeeze blood out of a lemon. And if you feel a Defender is a lemon, you obviously cant either. And if you need to see the BIG numbers and data for proof, ya know, its not too late to click on this....
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=195250

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

I find it hilarious that the term is considered insulting now. If you refer to someone as a negro you are being degrading, but refering to them as being black is acceptable.

It's hilarious because the two words mean the exact same thing. "Negro" is the Spanish word for the color black, which is where the term originated from in the first place. So if you call someone a negro, you are calling them black. Which, generally speaking, they are. The other N word is offensive, largely because it is a perversion of an actual word, specifically intended to be degrading. It has no place in the language because it was never a real word.

For the record, I am not racist or prejudiced in any way shape or form. I just think it's funny that a word that is synonymous with an accepted term in a different language is considered offensive. I don't use it myself, but there is nothing wrong with the word, in and of itself, just with the stigma attached to it. I also don't use African-American largely because not all dark skinned people of African descent live in America, so they are by definition NOT African American. The only people who are truly African-American are African immigrants who are now American citizens. If they were born and raised in America, they are Americans, simple as that, skin color is irrelevant and not an indication of nationality.

Also,if you see a swastika nowadays you immediately think of persecution and intolerance. Very few people realize that it was originally a symbol of peace and harmony that was perverted by the Nazis for their own ends. They apparently figured that using a symbol associated with good things would blind people to their true intentions, and it didn't work. So, now a symbol that was originaly a good thing is irrevocably tied to one of the most evil and distasteful things to ever occur in our history. The Maltese cross is another thing they took, which most people know as an Iron cross. It doesn't really mean what people usually think it does.

(the original swastika was the other way around, when the Nazis adopted it they reversed it. I'm not even entirely sure if "swastika" is the corerect name for it, or just what the Nazis called it, someone better versed in history than I will have to answer that)

Just a couple prime examples of perception being more powerful than truth.

Originally Posted by KaliMagdalene

What does mating have to do with what she said?

Originally Posted by Lucretia_MacEvil

I'm going to make an effort to merge the OP's topic with the other topic that mysteriously popped up in this thread.

On teams, I usually have no problem with being referred to according to the gender of my character, since they're all female and so am I (this was a decision I made on purpose to avoid the kind of confusion that could result from me playing a male character). However, since this is a computer game, and since computer games have a higher percentage of male players than female players, I occasionally run into someone insisting that I'm a guy, even after I tell them I'm not.

Why do they do this? They don't know me in RL, so how would they know? I'm around my dad and my brother more than my mom (even though we all live in the same house), so sometimes I "sound" like a guy. I'm also fairly into sci-fi movies and books (although not the military sci-fi books), which leads some to dispute my proclaimed gender (there are several other facts that would "rule against" my femininity, but I don't want this post to be my usual wall of text). I've had several people conclude that I'm a gay guy, and even one who was sure that I "used to be a guy". This gives me endless headaches when it happens, and usually leads to me leaving the team.

So please, if someone corrects your use of their gender-specific pronoun when you're on a team with them, use what they want you to. Don't insist that they're not what they say they are. You just end up looking like a jerk.

Originally Posted by Calash

Video of my grandma watching you play the game while doing an in-game recording of the event with three independent witnesses from separate computers located in CT, WA, and MA. While that is running I want pics ever 3 seconds with statements from my lawyer, therapist, and hair stylist that they can confirm the authenticity of the actions or it didn't happen.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Exactly the kind of comment I'd expect from a poster whose name written backwards is "he"

Originally Posted by brophog02

Completing the mission is the expected behavior of this game. This isn't a matter of ettiquette. 99.999999999% of the time you will complete the mission. It is only that one farming mission that you wouldn't click the glowies.


And in that case, it is clearly the responsibility of the holder to state that anomoly. No one is going to play every mission in this game without taking the steps to complete it just because of a few farmers like to hoard their 'soon to be added timed' missions.

Actual etiquette examples that come up constantly:

Letting the tank do his job. Don't throw immobs until he grabs aggro. Don't throw AOEs til he has aggro. It takes him 2 seconds to grab all of the aggro in a nice neat pile, so give him that courtesy.

Tanks letting their teammates do their jobs. Don't take a nicely placed mob and string them out 50 feet just because you feel like taunting. It is OK to jump in that pack. You have an entire team supporting you. Get in there and grab aggro and it will all be over soon.

Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning

So should I feel that it should be just as easy for a team of 8 scrappers to finish a MoSTF as it is for a team of 8 controllers, or 8 defenders? Should I feel that AV's should die just as fast with a team of 8 blasters
as it would on a team of 8 tankers? Seriously. It's an MMO. There's going to be some combinations better at somethings. Get used to it. Mez protection isn't an I win button. It doesn't automatically mean scrappers can solo x8 missions. All it means is that they don't have much to worry about solo, but in my experience, there isn't much anyone has to worry about solo. So what if a scrapper does it faster? Why does that matter? If you're a defender you bring more to a team. Does that mean a scrapper need to be team oriented too?

Holy crap! A solo oriented AT solos better than team oriented AT's! Whatever shall I do?

Mez protection isn't an I win button and no, I'm not sharing.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Right, because only certain players have access to melee ATs. I'll remind you, you're the same person that asked how a Blaster without a hard control deals with mezz. Which was hilarious.

Originally Posted by PennyPA

I can't but read this as only "I want an I win button".

Originally Posted by Dispari

Is that any different than the 8-man soloist melees you mentioned?

Originally Posted by Dispari

I'd be down for a melee/IO nerf, right after they change the fact that team-oriented ATs with non-passive status protection are capable of soloing larger spawns more quickly than any melee AT, and capable of soloing AVs and GMs much more easily.

Something's getting lost in the equation here if people are saying melee ATs are too good because a select few with awesome builds can do things like face x8 spawns, when squishy ATs, who some people in this thread say are too difficult to play solo, can do that and much more.

Originally Posted by LordXenite

Originally Posted by Nightphall

To each his own I suppose......

Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed

The main argument in the artical seems to be a sequel should be made because the game is 5 and half years old. Thats it.

Wonder why WoW isn't on the list.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

What part of "melee toons cannot function without passive mez protection" is so hard to understand?

It is always preferable to avoid the damage rather than take it. Would you rather take 100 damage, or none at all? Anyone with sense would say none at all....that's exactly how much a competently played controller will take in a solo situation.

Sure, a tank can get beaten silly all day long and walk away fine. A controller can handle the same mob without even getting their tights dirty.

So, who's the better hero? The guy who took a beating with a smile? Or the guy who never even got touched?

Oh, and the idea of taking passive protection form melee ATs and giving them defiance? That is the STUPIDEST idea I've heard yet in this thread.

Oh, I can use my tier 1 and 2 attacks? How the HELL does that help me when I'm getting chain mezzed from 50 frigging feet away?!?

Originally Posted by MrQuizzles

What if both of those things? What if you had Rad Emissions yet still had to run into melee?

Many Defenders/Corruptors live in melee, anyways. It's also worth noting that I'd love a Melee/Debuff AT.



Mostly, though, I just wish that enemies had been made "difficult" through other means. That's really all I want.

Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning

Then scrappers and tankers who aren't defense (as opposed to resist ro regen based) based in this system become completely neutered solo. Especially scrappers go from strong solo to very weak solo because they don't have two powersets with tools to deal with mezzing opponents. So now we have a situation where squishies who all usually do much better than scrappers on a team because of their multiplicative effect, or just because they do SO much more damage (blasters) solo just as well as scrappers do, and in many cases a damn sight better.

How is that balanced?

Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint

and this is the statement that shows you know nothing of mezzes. give squishies a little mez then up the mez capability of the enemies. you do realize that by doing this it trivializes the mez protection you just gave squishies correct?

give up already. the devs will NEVER change the game to suit 1 or 2 people who have decided not to change their tactics when playing on squishy toons.

Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning

Having played an FF controller on LGTF, and a traps defender on LGTF, the only thing that ever happens to me is that I get slept, which makes sense, I have a sleep hole. What doesn't happen? I don't get stunned, held, or immoblized. That's with mag 4 protection. Mag 4 (and probably mag 3) is enough to deal with the majority of the mez in a solo situation. I can only think of a handful on enemies that overwhelm it and the ones that do tend to overwhelm scrapper protection as well.
And the scrapper and the tanker? They're expected in a team situation to absorb something like 95% of the damage between them AND they're accompanying mezzes. That's why their mez protection is so high.

Originally Posted by LostHalo

So instead of having to deal with challenges, it's less boring to fight threatless mobs and have no danger in encounters.
Okay. You're either trying way too hard to be a caricature or there literally is no hope with you.


But because I love feeding the cycle...
Let's define the reverse: What do you want out of a challenge? In specific terms, no platitudes.

Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm

Yayyy. I may or may not quit depending on if you can fix this within 2 weeks. Don't pull another CoP