The thankless Defender

Dark's always been one of my favorite Defender sets since my Dark/Dark Def back in Beta. Later on he was converted to a Corruptor, but I agree, you certainly get no attention. I don't really mind though, in fact, my Dark/Dark actually never spoke at first, (he's a robot) and eventually I would have him say, at the most, "This unit is just following its programming" or the like when thanked.

I have a story similar to Biospark's, though. I'd gotten into a PUG doing an outdoor mission, and was just following along doing my job. Which is basically holding down foes with Tentacles and debuffing them and then blasting away, since this was the Corruptor version. At one point, however, the pulls got out of control, and the tanking Brute went down. There were cries of "RUN!" and most folks started falling.

I ran straight into the middle of the group and started herding them, getting them back into my Darkest Night. I didn't have my rez yet (I think I was maybe 20 at the time, didn't have Fearsome Stare either) but could hold the aggro by firing off Twilight Grasp constantly. (Which I had never even used prior to that point since no one was taking any damage) After I locked everything down with a couple of cycles of Tentacles and Night Fall, the Brute realized he could rez himself and rejoined the fray. I hit him with a Twilight Grasp to make sure he was back up to speed and we cleaned up the spawn.

I only got one reaction, which was "Wow."

The only compliment I hope to hear when I'm on a team is "nice costume!"

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I think some of you have mistaken this thread as a whine fest. I don't like to do that whole thing. When I posted the thread of course I know there would be some opposition to a degree. BUT you can't say that you play on a team and you never once thought to yourself, "Man, I was doing my thing back there an no one noticed." I'm not saying I should be the one getting all the praises and parades and stuff, but sometimes when THEY (not you because you would NEVER do that) single out one person on the team for a kudos it's like....didn't that scrapper just AoE the hell out of that mob? Didn't that blaster do some serious blastage? And I was talking in particular about Dark/. I was pointing out how underrated it was. If you thought I wanted a pity party then save it. In general I wanted basically say "Dark Miasma is a beast? Why don't more people notice?" I hate it when you have a few party poopers who misinterpret some statements and turn it around to be something it really wasn't.

SRS BZNS rite here!

Siiiiigh. This thread has taken a turn for the worst. As they often do in these forums. I should've known.

Well, the more veteran players usually know what's up, even if they don't say thanks per se. They're usually the ones who say, "Yay a dark!" when I join.

I say that all the time.

Seriously, I do. Case in point: I ran a Katie Hannon TF a few months back on Champion. It was a group I hadn't done too much with before - they put out a call for people to play in a static team and it sounded like fun so I signed up. Anyway, I was tanking for them and we had a pickup person who was offering to play either a Dark or an Empath and didn't seem to really much mind which. I immediately pushed for the Dark. A teammate of mine from the static group was perplexed and asked me why.

I explained, in brief, about all that Dark brings to a team. That added to the fact that we already had an Empath on board made it an easy choice from my perspective, but she didn't seem convinced.

After one of the best, smoothest Katies I'd done to date (the only person to die was me when the witches sapped me on some of the Mary ambushes), she wasn't so dubious any more about the wisdom of including a Dark def.

Personally, I agree with Phire. I understand that getting recognition for doing something good is nice and when other people on your team are getting praise but you aren't it can get you down a little, but it seems to me like you have this need to show off and act like you're the sole reason the team you're on is doing so well, which might be true, but it's still a pretty crummy attitude to have. There's no I in TEAM after all

And ceasing to do anything just to show the team how vital you are not only seems petty to me, but downright immature. My point is, if YOU know you're doing a good job then that's all that should really matter, right? Don't put so much value into the opinions of people you don't know over the internet. All that does is get you worked up and telling people to "go F themselves"