It's a sad day...

It's a sad day when my reformed WoW friend who's starting to get into CoH actually tells me that he wants to solo instead of duoing because I'm too good at support and he wants to know how good he actually is on his own.

Playing Defenders, I've been turned down by my RL friend because I'm too good at support!

I guess I'm too sexy with Defenders to team.

This is semi-related...I am making a Tanker with sets I haven't used before, and trying to get a feel for how well the mitigation works. It seems like almost everyone I team with wants to cast those Tarot card buffs on me (from the Magic Pack). I'm not opposed to buffs, and for some reason full-strength buffs don't bother me as much. It's like the major buffs are so clearly overwhelming I can just assume my good performance is getting a lot of help from the buffs, but the little buffs confuse me as to what's due to the buff and what's due to my build. So currently I want to avoid the small buffs while learning how well the build works, if that makes any sense.

Sometimes it gets embarassing turning them down, so sometimes I type a long sentence into chat and let the accept/reject countdown expire while I type, rather than verbally turn it down.

I can see where your friend is coming from wanting to push his/her toon to the limit and there's no other way really. I still team a fair bit but mostly for TFs and stuff like that.

That's what we call "working yourself out of a job". I've actually done that in real life. I was so good at my job and I worked so hard at it that they laid me off because there was no more work to do that couldn't be done with a smaller staff. I know for a fact that *I* caused this, because for the last month or so I would have very little to do at work because there wasn't enough work in my department for 3 people anymore.

So they cut me, because I'd done TOO much work.

I completely understood his reasoning, it's still just really funny to me.

Thats the life of a Defender.. We make the game too easy for everybody else.. yet the game is hard enough for us on our own.

Shouldn't be a problem, 8 man spawns of +4s will push your friend to his limits even with your support

I do the exact same thing. Even leaving teams when i reach certain levels/powers to go off and solo for a bit.

Just team with him, but only use your blasts. And also as mentioned, as issue 16 is going live today, TILL NOON before we can get on GRRRRRR (9:18 am right now....) You can raise your difficulty to suit you both teamed.

Ugh, 12:35 and the servers STILL aren't up GRRR i have to get ready for work in a minute here. Got up early to play all day before work and i can't play for one dang minute! Come on devs start these updates earlier!

Just get on... it said it was down like 5 hours ago and I just logged in anyhow and found them up.