More stupid Drive-By Buffers!

Since I'm the one that mentioned SB crashes:

I play on a two-year old computer that was state-of-the-art when purchased. 3 Gig dual-core processor, 2.75GB RAM, nVidia 9300 GE video card.

My computer is not old, it is not slow, it is not broken. It is only City of Heroes that gives me any issues.

two things, 1)most drive by buffers buff and leave giving you no time to say anything back. sometimes you dont even get a name because your doing something.

2)just because a buffer believes he's helping doesnt mean he actually is! i want your buffs in a team(never SB) i dont want your buffs when im in oro or at the market or in the univ. people that think that buffing is good, random buff everyone. that thinking needs to go away. times change, buffers mindsets should too!

No, Emberly, he's right. Just because C is a constant doesn't mean that it isn't C'c interaction with B that is causing the problem. It does Not logically follow that the problem is B. It may be Strongly Suggested, but it is not true by necessity.

I cant believe this! some rude rude RUDE person kept following me around yesterday and I kept getting hit with this double xp ray. It made my level skyrocket to 50 in just 12 minutes, no matter what I killed, It just leveled me, I still cant believe how rude and thoughtless someone could be to use that power on me. Its so aggrivate to me that everywhere I go someone wants to touch the hem of my garment and it just pisses me off! The only thing worse than that is when someone puts ice sheilds on me during a costume contest, I mean come on! Whomp whomp whompwhomp whomp... whomp whomp whomp...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCC7mFH0NBI

quote from Sno Globe

I think I got the context quite well. Wendy seems intent on telling Forbin what exactly is wrong with his build and then proceeds to berate him for it. She goes further and tells him to delete the character "so he can create a better one." Better for who? Well it would be better for her play style, but maybe not for his. I know I've built my empath without some of the powers she has insisted are "needed" and it has done very well over the years (both solo and on teams).

Like I said, I don't need anyone to tell me how to build my characters. Because I don't build generic characters, I know that my play style will not mesh with hers. So I want to be proactive by not teaming with her in the first place.

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No I think you don't. My point was Forbin said he was putting together a build with EMP and planning to only take Healing Aura. There have been multiple threads on these forums an player's guides, Planners, etc showing that of all the powers Empathy has that is the least effective especially at higher levels. Heal Other does more tham twice the amount of actual healing and I have used it numerous times to keep a Stone Tanker alive and battling against an AV. Recovery and Regen Auras not only help the team they also help the player himself .. something almost no other buffing set does. MY POINT was why take EMP at all if you aren't planning to use it? Hey he has some PvP build in mind where he never plans to use that character for anything else FINE. He should still take the Regen and Recovery Auras to aid himself in healing and recovering end faster. Whatever else he want's to do is his business but there have also been threads here claiing that Empathy sucks mainly because there are way too many players out there with it that don't have a clue what they are doing.

And no this doesn't just apply to EMP. You like custome builds fine... Do you ever lead teams? I am sure you do. Okay you invite a tank and after about the third mob, with the team taking huge amounts of damage, you check the tankers build and discover, in the learly 40 levels, he doesn't have Taunt. In fact his so called strategy seems to be run it, stir everythuing up, and then run away bringing the entire mob rushing toward the team reay to destroy anything that moves. When you ask the tank why he doesn't have Tant his reply is " Oh this is a concept build and Taunt just doesn't fut my idea for my character." ... I was on that team against Malta and the team leaders reply was .. "Yeah well a Tank that can't tank isn't part on MY concept either." and then he kicked the guy. I teamed with a KIN that the Stone Tank leaing invited and we soon discovered had no SB or Increased Density. His reason "Well they don't help me when I solo soI just didn't bother with them." Once again Poof the player was gone. You want to call that COOKIE CUTTER Fine but if a player is going to run around advertising in broadcast "LFT" and I am a KIN! There are certain things teams assume you will bring to that team to HELP. If you don't have them . in most cases you are viewed as being there just to spam XP and will, over and over, find yourself back on the street LFTing. People love Rad/Rad when fighting a Giant Monster or takng on a tough AV for the debuff it brings.. don't bother to take them and you just disappointed 7 other players and made their job a whole lot tougher.

Oh and since it seems you play on Triumph and I play on Virtue RELAX I think we can safely assume we will never see one another in game. Frankly if you showed up with some strange build that was minus the powers that can actually help a team the friends I play with with kick you so fast you'd been outside wondering what new weapon the villains had that could do it. I solo and team and thanks to dul builds and plenty of influence I actually have build set up for each including ones with Empathy. If I am soloing why waste a power selection on Heal Other, Resurrect, CM. or Fortitude? I can't use them on myself so I take powers that can. When I put together a TEAM build I not only take those I enhance them to maximize their strength and make them recharge faster. I have NO idea what you do and fortunately sounds like I never have to find out.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I have told countless players there is no ONE way to play this game and be succesful. If it works for you and it isn't hurting anyone else then it's a perfectly acceptable way to play the game. You like custome builds and somehow make that work for you fine. I like to team and gear my builds, including attack, to providing as much help to the teams I join as possible. I have had Team leaders send me tells at the end of a mission or a Task Force thanking me for the good job I did. That was on a Pick up Group not my usual group of friends I play with when they are available. I have seen multiple posts here where you have spent a considerable amount of time quoting anyone who has an opinion you disagree with so you can comment on how wrong they are and, in your opinion only, why you are right. Sort of seems to me like you have the attitude that YOUR way is the only one that can possibly be right and we all must be insane for not seeing that.

This thread is about Drive by Buffing. If anyone bothered to read my first two posts I agree completely that buffing me, or anyone else, while I am in Wentworths, at the Trainer, or in a Store is completely useless and some what annoying. Teleporting some hapless player to the top of a building and dropping them or TPing them into a huge mob they stand no chance of defeating is grieving. Me seeing a player that's practically dead and facing a mob about to send him or her to the hospital .. and dropping down to heal them, buff them so they recovery end and health, faster, CM (if needed against that mob) and Fort to bost their ability to survive and earn XP instead of heading to the hospital is not. There is not a GM in this game that will ever disagree with that statement. I am not hurting anyone I am helping them. The argument that Patrol XP makes healing unnecessary is flawed at best... The less Patrol XP I have to use to remove debt the more I have available to earn XP at 150% instead of 100% so if I keep you out of the hospital and on the street I am helping you level faster. I will continue to do exactly what I have been doing for almost 50 months in game and since it bothers you so much .. I have 40 characters on Virtue, over the 2 accounts I pay for, so you stay on Triumph and I will stay right here with my friends and you can die and work on debt till your hearts content. And before you even start to post it NO I am NOT telling you that you are not allowed on Virtue so don't even bother pulling that one little statement out and turning it around so you can claim I am telling you what to do.

Wendy, please, less words. I agree with many of your points but my eyes are bleeding.