Murphy's Law: City of Correlaries

You play one of your 50s, like you always do, and join a team doing lower-level missions.

As you blithely travel, like you always do, to the team's location, you are instakilled.

"What the...? Oh yeah, I'm level 25 now."

--NT

Some of these are actually cases of Gumperson's Law which is, in effect, when the open parking space is on the other side of the street.
A similar law known to missile mankind is Fettridge's Law. Fettridge's Law goes into effect when you call friends over to watch your dog do his trick and he does nothing. Or when you go to a doctor for a sore knee that miraculously feels better minutes before the doctor enters the room. Also the cigarette you ground out under heel causes a forrest fire but you can't start a fire in the fireplace even with lighter fluid.

While both of these laws are akin to Murphey's, they are seperate and distinct.

"Another Computer Virus? WHY?! I have ten already! They're valueless! I'm a blaster, I don't need RechRedux cause I have twenty attacks! And not only that, my character's a ROBOT! God damnit!"

No matter what origin you pick, 9 out of 10 enhancements you find will be incompatible with you. (I.E. If you run a Magic Origin, you'll only find Technology, Natural, and Science Enhancements. You might even find Mutation if you're lucky, but I doubt it...)

Your Inventory will fill up with useless crap about 5 minutes after you clean it out a bit.

If you have the default Keymaps, there is a very good chance that you will accidentally manage to pop ALL OF YOUR INSPIRATIONS while trying to attack after popping a Revive.

There is always that one mob that will immediately turn it's attention away from everyone else to beat on the poor guy who just tried to use a revive...

If you are on Nerva, are below level 30, and are running newspaper missions, 9/10 times said mission will be in the Cave on Granny Bedlam's Island. (That Cave Map is the Devil's Spawn, especially since my toon is 8 feet tall, so the camera doesn't work properly...))

Whenever you are on a global channel, you will type in a request of some sort. At the very same moment 10 other people hit their enter button for whatever they are talking about, and drown your scroll instantly

The statement commonly called "Murphy's Law" is actually Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives. How it got mixed up with Murphy's Law, I don't know, but the real Murphy's Law is; "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way".

With that said, here's a fun list of my Finagle's Law-related experiences:

• The Tank Freak will always self-rez when you've forgotten that they do that.
• There is always another Sapper.
• If you hold off on using your Tier Nine godmode when fighting an Elite Boss or Archvillain, it'll be too late by the time you decide you need it.
• Strength of Will wears off exactly two seconds before you can use that final attack to kill Ghost Widow solo. Every. Single. Time.
• There are more Trolls around the corner.
• When there's only one enemy left, only your AoEs will be recharged.
• Your powers with Knockback will never shove an enemy through a hole in the map geometry where you can't attack it and it can't get out. Until you're fighting the last enemy in a kill-all mission.
• There's another spawn in the layer-cake cave. Always.
• If you think a Rikti spawn doesn't have a Communications Officer, you're not looking hard enough.

This one seems worse on low level toons, but does happen a lot:

No matter what build you're using, the enhancers that drop will be for power types you don't have.

Brutes getting Hold enhancers for example.

The moment after you hit Aim, Buildup, Power Boost, etc, you will be knocked back and possibly stunned.

If you have a non Praetorian mission in Peregrine with a notoriously hard Elite Boss/AV(e.g. Nosferatu) the mission will be on Monster Island

Oh god. Tanker rezzes. I remember distinctly the first time this happened to me and my dark melee regen scrapper.. It was an actual BOSS tanker, and it took every inspiration I had, and I dropped him... ohhh.. with about 4 hp left. Standing there going 'wow'.. I hear 'creackkle'.. and I have enough time to say 'oh crap' before I dead-ed. Loved it!

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Originally Posted by Bitt_Player The statement commonly called "Murphy's Law" is actually Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives. How it got mixed up with Murphy's Law, I don't know, but the real Murphy's Law is; "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way". With that said, here's a fun list of my Finagle's Law-related experiences: The Tank Freak will always self-rez when you've forgotten that they do that. There is always another Sapper. If you hold off on using your Tier Nine godmode when fighting an Elite Boss or Archvillain, it'll be too late by the time you decide you need it. Strength of Will wears off exactly two seconds before you can use that final attack to kill Ghost Widow solo. Every. Single. Time. There are more Trolls around the corner. When there's only one enemy left, only your AoEs will be recharged. Your powers with Knockback will never shove an enemy through a hole in the map geometry where you can't attack it and it can't get out. Until you're fighting the last enemy in a kill-all mission. There's another spawn in the layer-cake cave. Always. If you think a Rikti spawn doesn't have a Communications Officer, you're not looking hard enough.

Someone else on your team will get a purple drop before you, if you even get a purple. Especially true on SF/TFs.

good luck D.B.B.

A heal targeting you will always execute .00001 seconds after you've recieved the final killing blow.

If a heal does hit you in time to save you from certain death, it will always be after you have consumed at least two greens.

Your protector bots will always heal your assault bot at the exact moment you pop Repair. One or all of your bots will die within the next 5 seconds afterwards.

You will never have a CaB when you need one. Never.

Master Illusionists will always be invincable at the exact moment you execute your nuke, a mez, or an otherwise lethal blow. After this, your death is usually instantaneous.

Your tohit capped Twilight Grasp/Transfusion will only miss when someone on the team really needs the heal.