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By Aether_Crash,
Posted on: 2009-10-13 05:34 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Gemini Brute: The Brute is a strong choice for a Gemini player. The main reason is the Fury bar. Not that the Gemini Player is obsessed with keeping the bar high… But the existence of the Fury bar is an excuse they can use for constantly running to the next spawn when the team is screaming “end rest” and “regroup!” The Gemini Brute needs constant stimulation or they grow bored and start considering swapping over to their Scrapper or Tank. If you team with a Gemini Brute get used to hearing “Sorry guys… but my Fury bar was maxed and I reeeeeeally wanted to take advantage of that… umm… anyone got a spare wakie?”
Fits me to a T. Though it has taken him almost to 50 this way so far. Who needs endrest, I've got Consume!

 

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Pisces

Strengths: Compassionate, Adaptable, Accepting, Devoted, Imaginative
Weaknesses: Oversensitive, Indecisive, Self-Pitying, Lazy, Escapist

Playstyle: Aaahhh… The Pisces Player, affectionately known as “Mat” to the rest of the playing community; as in “wipe your feet on the Mat before you enter the mission.” The main weakness of the Pisces Player is their desire to please combined with laziness and a bone-deep surety that whatever independent action they take will have a hidden flaw in it somewhere leads the Pisces Player to let everyone else make their decisions for them. You will next to never see a Pisces Player running solo and if they do they will often spend several minutes prior to such efforts Broadcasting a series of questions about how best to handle any eventualities. While on teams the Pisces most frequent chat comment is “Whatever you guys want is fine with me.”
As I Pisces I most vehemently protest against this depiction!

And seeing as I have:
1 Fire/Dev Blaster
1 Mind/Emp Controller
1 Emp/Psy Defender
1 DM/Regen Scrapper
1 DB/WP Scrapper
1 Inv/SS Tanker
1 Triform PB
1 Triform WS

1 SS/Inv Brute
1 Rad Blast/Therm Corruptor
1 Plant/Thorn Dominator
1 Fire/Psy Dominator
1 Necro/Poison Mastermind
1 NiB/SR Stalker
1 SoA (Crab)
1 WoA (Night Widow)

Who are all at level 50, I can honestly say I play nothing like what you describe. So I say: phoey on your list Sir, phoey!

Rabbits & Hares:Blue (Mind/Emp Controller)Maroon (Rad/Thermal Corruptor)and one of each AT all at 50
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as a virgo, its practically 100% correct. i hate brutes, love trollers and masterminds, and stalker is my favorite AT.

the only thing that i could say is missing is a description of dominators, which i guess could imply that we tend to ignore the AT <.< >.>

Chat Handle: @Aether Crash -- Guardian
Heroes:
Zkorva the Exiled (50) , Squallshot Maiyamin, Aether Crash, Vhogge the Skyshaper

Villains: Katsuo Tentei (50), Lumilian Dhosan, The Cobalt Tempest, Executioner Adan

 

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as a virgo, its practically 100% correct. i hate brutes, love trollers and masterminds, and stalker is my favorite AT.

the only thing that i could say is missing is a description of dominators, which i guess could imply that we tend to ignore the AT <.< >.>
Ack! Thanks for the head's up... I'm not sure if forgetfulness is a weakness of Scorpios but I AM sure that temporary insanity is a strength... so we'll just blame it on that.

Oh... and Fix'd the glaring omission.

My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

 

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I'm not sure if forgetfulness is a weakness of Scorpios but I AM sure that temporary insanity is a strength... so we'll just blame it on that.
I'd call it 'tunnel vision/intense focus', myself. Unless a Virgo pissed you off lately, maybe, and it was Scorpio-vengeance kicking in?

 

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Sagittarius

Strengths: Independent, Cheerful, Spontaneous, Idealistic
Weaknesses: Thoughtless, Naïve, Stubborn

Playstyle: Sagittarius Players have been described as “knowing what they want” or “aware of when to leave a bad situation before it gets worse.” Other, less charitable, souls have described them as “ticking time bombs” and “elitist diva snobs.” Neither is really entirely true although both sides have points in their favor as well. Sagittarius Players are simply independent and well capable of playing any AT solo. Being idealists they also know exactly what they want out of a gaming experience. They don’t join teams to deal with drama or someone else’s problems. They came to play and have fun. Because they also have a tendency to be thoughtless and see no point in wasting time explaining themselves to the people who ticked them off in the first place, Sagittarius Players are quite likely to simply quit a team with no warning, often in the middle of missions.

Sagittarius Blaster: Sagittarius Blasters have a great time hovering on the outside of the team and taking potshots into the chaotic melee. What they DON’T enjoy are teams lacking control or an experienced Tank. There’s nothing a Sagittarius Blaster likes less than to discover that every enemy in the spawn is coming straight for them after they use their AoE. Such events, or constant badgering by team mates that “pulling is for wimps… we can take ‘em… let’s just rush in!” are likely to result in spontaneous team quitting. Solo Blasters don’t mind the aggro so much and are likely to laugh like loons as they blast the heck out the spawn then back away picking off the ones stupid enough to pursue. A happy solo Sagittarius Blaster sounds a great deal like Daffy Duck.
Oh man, this is so dead on.

 

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I'm a scorpio and this is scary accurate <.<

Volt Sentinel Reference

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but lightning does the work.

 

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Leo Scrapper: The Leo Scrapper has all the advantages of the Brute without that pesky Fury bar to worry about. Leos love the mass slaughter potential of the AT while their team dutifully follows them around ooh-ing and aah-ing in appreciation and awe. A warning to those playing with the Leo Scrapper: Ooh-ing and Aah-ing is NOT a good idea. There is a base 5% chance adjusted by +2% per ooh and +2.2% per aah that a Leo Scrapper will enter a berserker like state at the adulation and aggro everything on the mission map in a glorious screaming charge. This is checked every 5 minutes. The main problem is that the Leo Scrapper wants an audience so if his team doesn’t follow he’s more than happy to bring the show back to them. Solo Leo Scrappers are also susceptible to the disease “Difficulty Creep” mentioned in the Leo Brute section.


Have you been watching me play?



I can neither confirm nor deny that I am guilty of anything resembling this, however I can say that I am familiar with the tendency depicted and.. that... I mean... that is to say... you see...



It's me.

The 'ooh-ahh' percentage seems to be a little higher for me, too.

Test Subject 42 - lvl 50 Sp/DA Scrapper
Oku No Te - lvl 50 MA/SR Scrapper
Borg Master - lvl 24 Bots/traps MM
Pinnacle

Nyghtfyre - lvl 50 DM/SR Scrapper
Champion

 

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I'm a Scorpio; add me to the chorus of "dead on". Except the Mastermind and Tanker descriptions (I don't play with proper, Tanker-like behavior at all - not even on my Tankers; it's just not for me), that's pretty much exactly how I play. Only with less mania and more precision killing of things.

And I too am a motormouth jokester in-game. Good thing I type fast, or else I would probably die a lot more. My teammates probably would too, but their experience is of course secondary to mine.

Storm Summoning is great because it makes you better than everyone else in the game. - Camma

Knockback is mitigation. It won't be removed just because meleers ***** and moan. - Chaos Creator

 

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Are you saying that my horoscope list is not thoroughly and meticulously researched and ratified?! Are you daring to insinuate that any aspect of it may actually be WRONG?!


Heh.
Actually, I'd say you've managed to produce something pretty much in line with virtually every horoscope ever made, so kudos to you on that.

Also, apparently I'm a killjoy for being so opposite to your predictions of me. At least, that's what my -rep says. Clearly, my dry wit does not convey through these magical interwebs. Perhaps more smilies?

My story arcs: #2370- Noah Reborn, #18672- The Clockwork War, #31490- Easy Money

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Not bad at all.

Double check Cancer: Blaster though. Blasters don't get trick arrow.

"the reason there are so many sarcastic pvpers is we already had a better version of pvp taken away from us to appease bad players. Back then we chuckled at how bad players came here and whined. If we knew that was the actual voice devs would listen to instead of informed, educated players we probably would have been bigger dicks back then." -ConFlict

 

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I'm a Libra, I love Materminds, but do hate the fact we can't fully customize the pets. I don't spend ages in the tailor, but I do spend ages trying to think of a name. But not everyone is the same. You half right for me. Kudos for writing all that out Steelclaw! I almost think this should get a sticky!

 

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Playstyle: Aaahhh… The Pisces Player, affectionately known as “Mat” to the rest of the playing community; as in “wipe your feet on the Mat before you enter the mission.” The main weakness of the Pisces Player is their desire to please combined with laziness and a bone-deep surety that whatever independent action they take will have a hidden flaw in it somewhere leads the Pisces Player to let everyone else make their decisions for them. You will next to never see a Pisces Player running solo and if they do they will often spend several minutes prior to such efforts Broadcasting a series of questions about how best to handle any eventualities. While on teams the Pisces most frequent chat comment is “Whatever you guys want is fine with me.”
As anyone that has ever run with me can most likely tell you, this isn't really anywhere near the Pisces player, though, you were really asking for it when you made it out as if every Pisces were the "mat". Emphasizing the negative self-reflective properties of Pisces without considering the positive (thanks to intense self reflection and consideration of errors, the Pisces is much more likely to do a large amount of effort to optimize a character, in order to minimize any potential problems) as well as emphasizing all of the other negatives without giving any real considerations for the positives was just asking for indignation from the Pisces.

A more fair view would assign the Pisces as the type to fill any role needed while within a team and express their indecisiveness by never sticking with a single archetype (seeing as 2 of the Pisces here both have rather full and varied stables of 50s). A Pisces on a Blaster would be considerate and wait until enemies are hit with -KB powers before letting loose with Energy Blast. The Pisces Scrapper enters Scrapperlock only when it seems like the team doesn't have need of his services. The Tanker Pisces would wait until everything is ready before herding everything and most likely be apologetic at any failings (re: "I should have noticed that loose agro. My bad. Sorry about that."). Etc.

Besides, we're a water sign: while we may like to flow around whatever tries to beat us most of the time, if you agitate us enough, we'll turn into a violent churning maelstrom of doom the likes of which you've never seen and destroy you, your friends, your family, and even your dog. We're touchy like that.

 

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Notice it is only us Pisces that take exception to your list (Fictional to be sure, but your research of keywords snared the essence of each sign even if it weren't intentional). Well, I won't play that game. Pisces are some of the most diverse individuals in the pantheon, and as such, there is little on these lists that does not apply to us at one point or another no matter the sign. Regardless of the protests (which stem directly from the fact that we are Pisces, and hate to have our personalities displayed lest they enfeeble the mystique we like to pretend we have.) You did in fact staple the moose right in the sack with this. There will be plenty of Pisces that will disagree with me, but to be frank, we tend to draw on all other signs for our own though we do all tend towards the same bent. We just happen to be the quirkiest lot about there, so you never truly know what to get from each chocolate-coated fish... We could be Herring, we could be Halibut, we could be Red Snapper, we could be Mahi Mahi, but one undeniable fact is this...

We are fish. Deal with it. That smell is us, but you will never know for sure. We are slippery, elusive, and will intentionally do just the opposite of what is expected of us for the sole (<~ like that?) pleasure of watching peoples brains break.

See?

Astrology isn't hard... It is just guesswork wrapped up in pretty words.



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