insomniac

I only team with awesome people that don't need some kind of pet "crutch" to hold them up! People that depend on pets are wimpy and cruel!

See what I did there? Now if they kick you they look wimpy AND cruel!

Freakin Verifying Files!

Now if you'd said "Bubblers" are redundant.... well that I can kind've see. 3 or 4 people on a league with the right incarnate power slotted can make a bubbler feel dang silly.

How to be a not-bored empath on a Trial:

Step 1: Open the Trial window... wow 16 to 24+ green and blue bars!
Step 1.5: BLAST BLAST BLAST!!!
Step 2: Try to drop your RA's in a really big group to get as many people
as possible (duh, I know, but just on the off chance someone doesn't)
Step 2.5: BLAST BLAST BLAST!!!
Step 3: Try to keep the entire league's green bars full... that level 50+1 blaster that's hanging back GETS AMBUSHED! Heal Him! NOW BEFORE HE DI--- er... REZ HIM!
Step 3.5 BLAST BLAST BLAST
Step 4: OK, if any tanks are taking damage fort them.. next fort the damage dealers (preferably blasty types that'll benefit from the +defense AND the +damage)
Step 4.5 BLAST BLAST BLAST
Step 5: Is ANYBODY running out of blue? If the arey are then AB them!
Step 5.5 BLAST BLAST BLAST


ADVANCED TRICKS:
1.) Look at the powersets on the league and give AB to the toons that will benifit the most. For example: AB the other Empath before AB-ing the Katana/Willpower scrapper.
2.) Use your secondary wisely. Too much to go into here but Ice - Sleet Storm can be used to clear away a mob attacking a squishie.. Sonic has great debuffs on a defender.. target electrical blasts through a kinetic for extra -endurance

INSANE TRICKS:
1.) Is everyone on the league Clear Minded? Can you stack clear minds on that tank with 3 rings in the BAF?
2.) GET the LEADERSHIP POOL! The bonuses are insane for a defender and even adding a whopping +to hit can benefit the league peeps that are only +0 or +1. (Plus you can put the fire control proc in there for MOAR damage)

Final Thoughts:
Being a good empath is a song that is not often sung or appreciated. You don't have mega special effects and I suppose it is possible to be on a tricked out league where everyone is soft capped and has no endurance issues. But look at it this way, even if you just throw three Fortitudes and two ABs out at a time, your still increasing damage for the team by (arguably) MORE than adding an extra blaster to a team... and that's before taking into account your own blasts!

Final Final Thoughts:
There are some trials already (like keyes) where empaths can make a HUGE difference if they're played well (Heal the time stopped league mates... HEAL!). Who knows what the future will bring, but I'm sure your empath will always be welcome! I've seen leagues say "Can you switch to a not stalker?" or "OMG Not another mastermind" but I've NEVER seen a league say "Too many empaths, this won't work!"


Ok, I've loaded the update! time to play! If you've read this far I don't really care because I'm just killing time while the game loaded! : P

I'd love to see "flashback" of the week that gave a special reward, similiar to the Weekly Task/Strike force.

It's REALLY easy to skip over content while leveling and even the "old" ouroboros only Task Forces can be fun. It'd be great to see ecouragment to run some of the old arcs and TFs instead of respec trials and iTrials.

Lots of heros have no idea that a hero can go fight a sky scraper size giant jade spider and lots of villians miss the chance to go to hell and destroy a soul forever!

Just a suggestion. I'm tough enough to take it if you hate the idea or it's technically not feasible for some technical reason. Also, please forgive me if this was suggested already and I missed it.

*hides*

I don't usually post on this board unless I have a question, but:

Many thanks to the Empire of the Damned (led by Animus Vorador) and to The Illusion Base (led by Midnight's Illusions) for hosting Rikti Raids and selflessly bringing their level 50s out during double XP weekend!

Hip Hip HURRAH!

Well two votes for Soul Mastery! Fire makes more sense thematically but I have to say the Soul Mastery Shield probably beats the fire mastery Rez. (Espically for a mastermind... A self Rez on a mastermind?)

Plus you can NEVER have too many tentacles! Especially weird albino tentacles!

I have a thugs/thermal mastermind that just hit lvl 41. What Epic or Patron pool would you recommend and why?

Also I'm sad that Beast Mastery isn't available... but I'd rather they got it right then released it too soon!

Thank you so much you two! I made it farther along.

for some reason the fireworkflare still doesn't work though. "/e fireworkflare" just causes me to say fireworkflare in local space.


I tried fireworkflare, fireworkrocketflare, fireworksrocketflare... ah well. No flare bind/macro for me!

the binds I ended up with...

/bind i, e fireworkbloom
/bind o, e fireworksparkle


But that's enough to spam fireworks during cutscenes! Yay! My teammates will love me on the next ITF!

Sorry if this is a dumb newbie question... I did try a search but my search-fu is weak.

How do you make a macro to shoot firework if you foolishly spent points to buy the holiday pack?

I've tried:

/e "fireworks - rocket flare"
/em "fireworks - rocket flare"
/em "rocket flare"
/em "fireworks-rocketflare"

Nothing works! it's very sad.