Super Boost: Excuse for bad manners?

If I ever joined a team where a Kinetic said "Ask for SB and then thank me for it" then I could not hit the "quit team" button fast enough.

On the flip side, I have no tolerance, when playing a kin, for the "sb plz" crowd either.

The exception to my "don't thank buffers" rule is Emps with AB. I'm a downright butt-kisser to them, sending tells expressing my appreciation.

I don't attack enemies until my team asks me to AND thanks me for the damage I've inflicted on them.

See, I just toss SB out as needed. I can see bubbles that significantly increase the teams survival and can turn a meh team into steamrollers, but SB is annoying to put out, doesn't last very long, and doesn't do as much for survival. The recharge buff is nice, yes, but most teams don't need it. A well built character shouldn't be dependent on an outside buff to be capable of performing whatever task it is they are made to do.

I see SB as a recovery buff, and I will toss it out when someone's end is running out, unless they specifically ask that I don't. Even then, I toss out a disclaimer that in the event that we are fighting an AV or GM or some such, if blue is running out or the DPS isn't enough, I will toss it out. Most folks don't do much moving around during those fights, so the +speed won't really be a problem that outweighs the increase in DPS from the +recharge, as well as the fact that folks can keep going longer with better recovery.

A character that can't benefit from either +speed, +recharge, +recovery or all three is more often an indication of not pushing the envelope hard enough than of having a good build, in my experience.

I can empathise with it being a tedious buff to keep up for some players and I think not using it 100% of the time because one feels it is tedious is a valid reason. However, to try to legitimise restraint in using it by claiming it's not as good as it really is is rather silly considering the overwhelming amount of evidence that shows otherwise.

Instead of making the buff last longer, why not make it a toggle aura? Then it's fire-and-forget, but only if your team is within maybe 60 yards of you, like the leadership auras? It would still be limited without being such an utter pain to manage every 2 minutes.

I personally dont like to play and try to avoid power sets like Kinetics and Empathy because of the rude behavior iv seen other players use agenst the player with that set.

Iv seen a Empathy get kicked from a team I was on before because it couldnt keep the entire 8 man team alive on a +4 Mission.Iv also seen way to many people on a Kin get yelled at for not giving out a Speed Boost the moment it dropped on another player.

Bottom Line for me.I dislike playing a power set that people belive is the end all and only way to play the game.I also wont make a character if it cant solo a 8 man mission by its self with just SOs.

I find the rudest people in the game to be those who suck without the best buffs or heals in the game.They perfer to blame you for there issues.

My code of conduct for sb is as follows:
Keep asking for it annoyingly, you get none. And I tell people when theyve brought it to this point.

I never sb in the middle of a fight. Ask for sb in the middle of the fight, see rule one.

I sb on transition, its not hard to notice either. See those 2 guys that just zoomed by you on their way to the next mob? Thats because they stayed close enough to me to get hit by the sb bug. They may not have been the first to jump out of the old mob towards the next, but their patience obviously payed off.

If you stayed next to me and said thanks after I tossed you the sb, Im likely to look for your name first on the next round of applications.

I rarely ever have trouble keeping a granite sb'd up because of point 3. They suck at mob transitions (unless they know whats up with tp) so its usually easy to hit em with it. I have only ran into one conflict with a stoner and it was because of point 2. Dude continuously asked for sb mid fight after I told him it wasnt gonna happen, and he was being a ***** about it, so I quit the team. Not 5 minutes later I had tells coming from half the team asking if they could cruise with me.

I realize how big of a deal SB is, especially with stoners, and so I try to toss it out as much as my sanity allows. However, my plant/kin is a busy toon, and I have more important things going on than sb'ing the team, so if it becomes a problem I cut em off.

To the OP: having people ask for sb like little children would get on my nerves, from either side of the situation. However, if you let it be known its that way from the start, theres not much room for complaining from anyone. So yeah...let it be known.

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To the OP: If you're going to make a team-oriented character, why in the world would you demand that others on the team have to ask you to actually use your team-oriented powers or you won't do it? That's downright silly and to be honest more than a little rude on your part.

When I'm on my tank I don't expect to be asked to take the alpha or hold the mobs' attention. I do it because I rolled a tank. Conversely, when I'm on my /Kin controller I don't expect people to have to ask me to use my /kin powers. I knew when I made a /kin that being a one on a large team would be very hectic. I have only myself to blame if I don't like it.

Would it be reasonable for an empath to demand the same as you for every single heal or buff they cast? If not, then why? I'd love to know where this double standard came from.

No big deal OP, I don't ever ask for speedboost, having played a Kin to the cap and hated every second of the set. I would just assume you were yet another worthless fire/kin who had never learned to play with a team. Functionally, you're indistinguishable from such a character if you demand that everyone say please and thank you for your buffs.

I guess what I am trying to say behind the snark is that you should use your damned buffs unless asked not to, not withhold your buffs like some petulant baby until everyone kowtows to your ego and fulfills your petty need to feel important in a superhero video game.

I thank the blasters and scrappers for killing everything after each spawn...

when people say "thanks" when I use buffs on them on my cold/therm/kin I say "for what?" at which point they say for the buffs, and I say, "I'm just using my powers, same as you"

People that need to be thanked for buffing are worse than people that don't buff at all.

As a kin on a team, I play like SB is the most important thing I can do. Fulcrum shift is #2, and transference has its importance in especially long fights. When we are really rolling, I don't even cast my imps, usually. I rarely do anything but SB and FS. People keep saying how their toons are "busy" doing lots of things, and I have to wonder what you could be doing that is more game-changing than SB+FS? Sure, I could drop some Fire Cages for some minuscule DoT, or I could keep SB on the scrapper so his HUGE single damage attack comes back quicker. Most times, teamwide DPS is MUCH higher if I don't attack.

I've found that many kins get very annoyed when I ask for SB. I usually just make a statement that I would like SB, and leave it at that unless I see other team members getting it when I'm not.