What if I didn't take my ally rez?

Another vote for skipping the rez. They can be handy powers, but they tend to be a low priority in just about every set which has them. I teamed almost exclusively when I was levelling up my Empath. I did take Resurrect on that character, but it was easily my most seldom-used power from the primary.

You'll run into the odd team wipe as you play, but in those cases you won't be able to rez everybody in as little time as it would take to go to the hospital anyway, so don't worry about them. As everyone else has said, the occasional defeat here and there is easily fixed with a couple of awakens. Carry a few of them around with you if you like, but don't worry about anybody giving you grief over not having the power.

I doubt I'd take mine either on my new MM, except that it's Howling Twilight and therefore extremely useful even when soloing. Since MMs are, according to Castle, meant to fill a similar role to Tankers, you'd officially be doing a better job if you didn't let your teammates die in the first place, thus making ally-only rez powers a much lower priority. On my OTHER new MM (that hasn't been made yet) I don't think I'll take it, since he's fire secondary.

Optional; nice, but not necessary.

I always* take my rezzes, but it never bothers me if someone skips theirs.

*Well, most of the time. I took it, and vengeance, out of my Pain corrs Mo build for obvious reasons.

If I have room for a rez power, I take it. If I don't, I don't and I don't worry about it. Any power that requires your team to die is of limited value to me, especially when combining insps to make awakens/bounce backs is so very easy to do.

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Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

My Plant/Emp doesn't have it, or Absorb Pain. No-one has ever complained at all. And I play exclusively on PuGs with her. There were more appealing options for her so I took them instead.*

My Fire/Rad controller also skipped Mutate initially. But took it as his "throw away" power on my second respec (previous entries were Bonfire and Smoke).

Howling Twilight isn't a rez, it's am AOE Stun and Debuff, which has the unfortunate side effect of bringing people back from the dead *(I've taken it on my MM and my Dark/Sonic defender and tend to use it as a backup mez or for AVs).*

I don't take it on my thugs/poison MM or my earth/thermal troller.

Nobody complains and I mostly team.

A) defeat is a lot less likely these days

B) combining insps makes the ally rez redundant

C) it really doesn't take long to get back from the hospital if all else fails

In fact it seems to me the best things the Devs could do would be to add an optional power at that level - an either/or choice.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

If you really never team, then don't bother. If you do team, but only do so infrequently, you can still do without. You might get some raised eyebrows once in a while, but that's it. If we were at 30+, I was dead, and you were playing a character with access to a rez but hadn't taken it, I'd probably grumble with mild annoyance at the screen... and then I'd combine inspirations to make an Awaken once the fighting was over, and we'd continue on our merry way without a second thought. Unless you're in one of those rare situations where the rez is consistently the difference between survival and teamwipe, this shouldn't really become an issue. And if someone throws a hissyfit over it anyway, that's probably your first hint that this is a team you don't want to be on. City of Heroes isn't such a difficult game that a few 'sub-optimal' power choices makes a team unworkable.

Unless you're heavy into IOs, just make a second build for teams where the rez is desirable.

Personally, I always take my resurrect powers, though I usually don't take them until the mid-to-late 20s. They're great power picks - really useful with just the base slot, meaning that I get two free slots to put in powers that actually do want them and don't need to worry about underslotting them as I plan out my build.

On the general assumption that you have the right and ability to take and skip whatever powers you want... well, yes. That's obviously true. But it's also obviously true that other people can and will make assumptions about your intelligence and skill level based around this. You can't control what people think of your choices for the same reason that they can't control your choices. Whether that bothers you or not will depend on the thickness of your skin.

"What if I didn't take my ally rez?"


They can damn well use a wakie.

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More to the point, it isn't your responsibility to compensate for your teammate's shortcomings. If you're playing a set with an ally rez power, you probably have more than one way of keeping them alive in the first place. If that fails it doesn't fall to you to get them back into the fight.

My attitude on this stems from the attitude I see a lot from players toward Empathy characters.

Basically: "WTF?! How could you let me die like that?! You're a crappy healer!"

The fact that they died 2 floors above the empath and were the only one on the team up there never seems to register with them. Those people seem to think that because there is an Empath on the team they can play as stupid as they want and not worry about it, because it's the healer's fault if they die.

Whereas a lot of Empathy characters are genuinely stupid, and deserving of the treatmen they get.

ibt?

And back to the subject. The only ally rez I ever take is Howling Twilight and I don't take it as a rez. I take it as an attack that has a side effect of rezzing.

I wouldn't worry too much about it: not taking your rez is hardly like being "that guy" who didn't take SB or TT: Maneuvers. 90% of the time you can just make do with crafting a wakie if someone drops.

Now that said I personally always like to fit the ally rez in my builds eventually, but that is because I build with TF runs in mind, where AV slug-fests and the need to keep the team constantly moving is more desired.

Isn't there like a day job temp that gives you an ally rez anyway?

Now I feel sad. Why doesn't anyone ever specifically bait ME? I have plenty of topics I can rant about... The closest I've come was Leo_G unintentionally referencing a concept argument we'd had before

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.