What if I didn't take my ally rez?

Also the fact that if your a Deubuffing or Hold build, do you really wanna deselect the NPC your fighting and waste that minute or two it takes for the idiot on the other end to hit accept (Not calling all dead people idiots, but it happens) I've wasted rezzes before because someone walked away after they died or isn't paying attention when my Debuff powers coulda been used somewhere else, so the one character I have with rez, enless you ask for it I aint using it!

Wow. Wakies (even with break frees and blues) are no replacement for an in combat rez. It's just delusional to think that a player who has easy access to an in combat rez power is doing just as much for his/her team by carrying around an awaken. Those are high quality powers which should not be skipped unless you don't team or really need the power choices elsewhere.

edit: Also, there is a lot of blame being cast at misc. dead person who needs a rez. Players die a lot, even (if not especially) good ones. Let's not pretend that only a bad/negligent player hugs the dirt now and then. Especially those of us who like a challenge.

Quit dying. Pop your insps or use them to craft a wakie, your call. Power choice is my call.

Jer

I keep putting off taking my rez in favor of powers that will keep you from dying in the first place. If you do die, use an awaken, I will cast mez protection and a heal on you.

I took Fallout before my rez on my rads, because they are both villains and blowing up my teammates' corpses is too much fun.

They're handy powers to have if you team a lot, but for someone who spends more time solo, an ally rez power is quite skippable.

Of course, with the ability to switch builds you can have a solo build all IOed out and then a secondary build for the odd team session with the ally rez and just slotted with SOs.

Except for Howling Twilight, I never take rezes. There's always something better available. And I seldom team, so unless they add the ability to rez pets it's of little use anyway.

No matter what support set we're looking at, I rank the Ally Rez at or near the bottom of the priority list. A teammate has the option to take one and skipped it? Doesn't bother me for an instant.

Death in this game is just not that big of a deal. Awakens are incredibly easy to get. Travel powers trivialize the return from the hospital, if it's necessary. The only real penalty for dying is Debt (and even that barely counts), and Rez powers don't do anything to it. It's not like in FFXI, where there were no self-Rez powers, your Home Point Crystal was often 20-40 minutes away by the fastest travel methods the game offered, and depending on the tier of Resurrect spell you could eliminate 10-75% of the EXP Penalty you'd just taken. In that game, yeah, if your Red Mage or White Mage skipped their Resurrect spell it was the kind of thing that ended teams and expanded blacklists. In this game? Death is overcome too easily on my own for me to expect anyone else to waste a power slot taking care of it.

Also, on the subject of the Rez + Something Else powers... very rarely do I find that the dead guy is in a convenient location to get any real value out of the Rez-Nuke or Rez-Mez or whatever. And picking up Recall Friend for corpse-carrying would mean TWO powers wasted on a trick I wasn't that enthusiastic about in the first place.

Edit: Howling Twilight is, of course, the exception. But I've never deliberately used it as a Rez. I think there have been some dead folks around a couple of the times I've used it as a Mez + Debuff, but that was purely coincidental. Paying attention to the Rez potential in HT would feel like slotting my Katana Scrapper's attacks for Defense Debuff instead of Damage.

The only rez I take on any toon is howling twilight on dark miasmas. Too bad it's usually down whenever someone actually needs a rez, since I mainly use it for debuffing/random stuns.

(For some reason I didn't bother to read the thread. Everyone and their grandmother had already mentioned it >.>)

How do I feel about it?

"We have dual builds." That's how I feel about it. If your concern is "I prefer having some other power for soloing," hey, fine. Put it in your solo build. Skip as many team powers as you want there. But at least consider the second build that's a bit heavier on support if you plan on any decent amount of teaming. For instance, I have /Thermal, /Empathy, /FF and /Sonic builds that are VERY empty when it comes to the secondary ... on my solo build. The primary gives up some offense (and concept) to fit more team-friendly powers in.

Not saying it's "necessary" - I skip it as well at times (on some rad emission, poison, etc. characters) especially since we can combine insps - but I do point it out.

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Sam,

Dont worry...

Just play with what gives you fun. The Rezzes arent unskippable. Actually, I do believe that there is only one of then that is really amazing... HT. My Dark Defender rarelly has it ready when a team mate dies (if that happens), because I use it A LOT as a weapon (even 6-slotted it!).

Just have fun, dear... have fun!

If any team your on sucks enough to not have an awaken inspiration between the WHOLE team, then they don't deserve to be rezzed if they die.

with the three of a kind inspire thing, rezzes arent as needed as before(nor were they ever absolutely NEEDED) but on bigger events, it is nie to be able to pop people back up..less pressure on a mm, as their focus really is about the added power of the pets. a defender might catch some complaints, but not many, the mindset really isnt particularly strong for ally rezzes being needed. though i have noticed when i whip out an ally rez, they are appreciated.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I was once asked how I could skip my team mate rez on my ILL/RAD (never on my RAD/DP), and my reply was...

"You don't ask for a RAD/ for their rez power"

And Sam, I think the reason the rez's don't work on the pets, is because they can't answer yes/no to the "do you want to rez". It's only my guess though. Could be a different reason entirely.

Despite having a level 50 mercs/poison, I am not the world's biggest fan of */poison. Aside from having one completely broken power (that stupid trap), I think it's mal-designed. But that being said...

I think it'd be an excellent idea for you to take the ally rez. At level 49. Probably not before, though, because it makes far more sense for you to load up on powers that actually help your team kill enemies and powers that help your team not die. Given a choice between taking the ally rez and Leadership powers, it's not even close, for example. I could even make a case for taking Tough before the ally rez, if it keeps you up and healing, keeps your minions fighting, longer. I could make a case for taking Provoke earlier than the ally rez, making it easier for you to tankermind for the team when things go south.

But there are two level 45-50 bits of content, already, where it's a big hairy deal if somebody goes to the hospital: the Hamidon raid and the Barracuda strike force. If somebody hosp's out of a full Hamidon raid, they probably don't get back into the zone. If somebody hosp's out of the Barracuda SF in the last mission, they lose the temp power that they need to have to complete the mission, and can't get it back.

But before then? Skip it. Take stuff that's more useful more often.